Biography & Memoir

Alison
Lizzy Stewart
A visually stunning and beautifully written debut graphic novel of love, life and art

Queen K
Sarah Thomas
A suspenseful and Ripleyesque debut about a private tutor who discovers the dark world behind Russian wealth

Sanderson’s Isle
James Clarke
A man searches for a stolen child through swinging London and the Lake District in the psychedelic 1960s

Chorus
Rebecca Kauffman
Chorus follows seven siblings through the decades after their mother's untimely death, a shocking bereavement which shapes the course of their li…

The Geometer Lobachevsky
Adrian Duncan
An inventive and original Irish writer arrives at the Tuskar Rock list on a wave of prize listings and critical prestige

An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life
Paul Dalla Rosa
A story collection that perfectly captures life in the internet age

The Cherry Robbers
Sarai Walker
'First they get married, then they get buried' … you can run from a family curse, but you can't hide forever

The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3
Kira Yarmysh
A powerful prison story that renews a grand Russian tradition of fabulist existential uncertainty

Prostitute Laundry
Charlotte Shane
A taboo-breaking and radically honest account of love, friendship and sex work

Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors
Aravind Jayan
A scandalous video.A humiliated family.And a brother stuck in the middle.

The Long Answer
Anna Hogeland
A young woman gathers intimate stories about pregnancy, motherhood, and the nature of female relationships, in this profound and provocative novel.

We Move
Gurnaik Johal
A debut brimful of the music and movement of multicultural London, to stand besides White Teeth, Brick Lane and The Buddha of Suburbia

BOOTH
Karen Joy Fowler
A major new novel from million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Cold Nights of Childhood
Tezer Özlü
A lyrical autofictional account of the author's fight to survive depression and carve out her own path in 1950s and 60s Istanbul

Mona
Pola Oloixarac
The brilliant and provocative UK debut of a Latin American star of world literature

Haruko/Love Poems
June Jordan
Searingly beautiful poems about compassion, resistance and desire by an iconic Black American activist and writer

I Came All This Way to Meet You
Jami Attenberg
A fierce, and funny memoir of how the New York Times-bestselling author embraced her creativity – and how it saved her

A Loving, Faithful Animal
Josephine Rowe
A vivid, panoramic novel about the everyday wounds inflicted on battlefields both far away and at home

A Sabbatical in Leipzig: Shortlisted for the 2021 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year
Adrian Duncan
'Duncan brings a new way of seeing to the world of prose' Irish Times