Co Down schoolboy, 16, longlisted for major non-fiction book prize

Dara McAnulty’s book Diary Of A Young Naturalist has been longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction/PA)

A 16-year-old has become the youngest person to be longlisted for a £50,000 book prize.

Diary Of A Young Naturalist begins in spring and “chronicles the turning” of Dara McAnulty’s world.