| It won the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book Award, Caribbean and Canada Region, and was longlisted for the 2007 IMPAC Award. |
| The 2015 longlisted authors come from nine countries, with the highest numbers from Lebanon and Egypt. |
| Linda's most recent novel, Still Here, was longlisted for the Booker Prize. |
| Shalimar was longlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize but then inexplicably excluded from the shortlist. |
| The novel was longlisted for the Booker Prize when it was released, and remains a cult classic. |
| In 2017 his story 'Murder and its Motives' was longlisted for the CWA Short Story Dagger. |
