THE PISCES (LONGLISTED, 2019 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION)

Melissa Broder is an accomplished poet, essayist and columnist. The Pisces is her first novel and it ventures between the realms of history, myth and the personal traumas that her protagonist faces: men, relationships and sexual encounters. The protagonist, Lucy, is a PhD student in Arizona studying the work of the Ancient Greek poet, Sappho. Read More

HOME FIRE (WINNER, 2018 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION)

Kamila Shamsie’s seventh novel is a modern-day retelling of Sophocles’ Antigone. Though most of her novels have been decidedly international in flavour, Home Fire is a wholly British Greek tragedy. The complexities of incest and the law of god have been traded for the complexities of morality and the rule of state. A novel of Read More