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We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff (Shortlisted, The Goldsmiths Prize 2019)

A 36-year-old queer working-class migrant arrives on the Isle of Wight and gets a job with best friend Shae in a trashy hotel with an absent boss and equally hard to pin down wages. Attempts to gain citizenship amidst the Brexit chaos are constantly thwarted, UKIP supporters lurk on street corners, and an alcoholic parent Read More

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Slip of a Fish (Shortlisted, The Goldsmiths Prize 2019)

Amy Arnold’s novel Slip of a Fish is an exuberant exploration into whether language can be trusted to convey meaning; the protagonist, Ash, collects words as a way of coping with the confusion they cause her, whilst Arnold’s own inventive literary styling gradually exposes this complex inner mind to readers. Abbott says there’s no need, Read More

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The Man Who Saw Everything (Shortlisted, The Goldsmiths Prize 2019)

The Man Who Saw Everything is Deborah Levy’s seventh novel and her third, along with Swimming Home and Hot Milk to be nominated for the Man Booker Prize. Levy has also written plays and short stories, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. The novel’s protagonist, Saul Adler, narrates two separate incidents Read More

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Good Day? (Shortlisted, The Goldsmiths Prize 2019)

Twenty four years of marriage and two children might make everyday conversations mundane, unless the object of these discussions is somebody else’s life. Following an unnamed couple, Main documents their lives through short dialogues, each beginning with ‘Good day?’. It quickly becomes apparent that both parties are hiding more than they would be willing to Read More

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The Porpoise (Shortlisted, The Goldsmiths Prize 2019)

Mark Haddon is best known for his 2003 bestseller, The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-time. The Porpoise is his fifth novel for adults and it begins with a tragic accident; a light aircraft collides with a grain silo. Philippe, a wealthy businessman loses his pregnant wife in the crash, but his baby Read More

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The Hope Fault

‘No earth move, no jolt, just empty whisper’. Not all fault lines cause violent eruptions. Often the plates do not collide but slowly shift, causing imperceptible change, yet over time, creating powerful new landscapes with small movements. Tracy Farr’s elegant and pensive novel, The Hope Fault, honours the force of the fault lines that run Read More

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West

Carys Davies has been honing her short form craft for many years, with two collections of short stories to her name and a slew of impressive writing credits that include the 2015 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and the Royal Society of Literature’s V.S. Pritchett Prize. It should be no surprise then that her Read More

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Where the Bridge Lies

At its simplest, established writer Frank Woods’ debut novel Where the Bridge Lies is a melodramatic detective story. It features revelatory deathbed confessions, long-lost relatives, a femme fatale, a mysterious commune and even an investigative journalist for a protagonist. But beneath this sensationalist exterior lies a deeper rumination on time, trauma and the ties that Read More

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THE GOOSE MISTRESS

The Goose Mistress: A Dark Love Story is Conner McAleese’s debut novel. He lives in Dundee and studied History, and Writing Practice and Study at the University of Dundee. Eva Braun is a historical figure – you either know who she was or you have never heard of her. It was the same during her Read More

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As the Women Lay Dreaming

With this moving and poetic novel, full of the rhythms of Gaelic and Doric, Donald Murray has created both a memorial and a song of love, grief and lament, reflected in the windswept landscapes of the Isle of Lewis. Narrated by Alasdair Cruikshank, retired Glasgow art teacher, grandson of Tormod Morrison, a fictional survivor of Read More

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