Deep Down (2023) Imogen West-Knights "I am in awe of this genius debut novel. A brilliant page-turner - I also wanted to pause every few paragraphs and read aloud as a treat for whoever happened to be sitting next to me. West-Knights is a masterful, hilarious and humane story-teller."
Cursed Bread (2023) Sophie Mackintosh "Her writing is so sleek, the characters mysterious and yet indelible - a taut, seductive, thrilling gem of a novel."
Wet Paint (2022) Chloë Ashby "In this poised, heartfelt debut, Ashby paints a raw, richly-detailed portrait of untethered youth, friendship and suppressed grief."
Seven Steeples (2022) Sara Baume "A triumph....I was utterly charmed by the gentle rhythms and precision of this intricately wrought existential inventory."
White on White (2021) Ayşegül Savaş "A deeply humane, quietly devastating, mesmerisingly beautiful masterpiece."
Something New Under the Sun (2021) Alexandra Kleeman "An immense achievement. A masterful and merciless skewering of our times, rendered with such grace I couldn't put it down."
Assembly (2021) Natasha Brown "Assembly is brilliant. Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway meets Citizen by Claudia Rankine. Natasha Brown’s ability to slide between the tiniest, most telling detail and the edifice of history, the assemblage of so many lives in so many times and places, is as breathtakingly graceful as it is mercilessly true."
Highway Blue (2021) Ailsa McFarlane "Hypnotic, stylish, and cinematic, Highway Blue holds you captive, like a blues song or incantation."
Catch the Rabbit (2021) Lana Bastašić "A confident, carefully-drawn portrait of female friendship in the fall-out of war. Bastašic has an eye for telling details which capture characters and readers alike."
Open Water (2021) Caleb Azumah Nelson "Open Water has a delicate, painterly quality while packing a real emotional punch. Caleb Azumah Nelson is a real talent."
The Harpy (2020) Megan Hunter "Reading The Harpy I was utterly spellbound. Her dark humour and pointillist prose puts her in league with Lydia Davis and Jenny Offil."
The Wild Laughter (2020) Caoilinn Hughes "The Wild Laughter is painfully smart, comically brilliant and boldly subversive. Hughes makes her subject matter entirely her own while providing a lacerating look at the world we live in."
