Fiction

A Flaw in the Design
Nathan Oates
An ingenious thriller about a father having to adopt his nephew, despite having reason to believe he is a psychopath

Love Me Tender
Constance Debré
A provocative and fierce novel about motherhood, self-discovery and defiance

The Green Man of Eshwood Hall
Jacob Kerr
Beautifully written and bone-chilling folk-horror published at Halloween

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

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

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

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

Harrow
Joy Williams
A fresh, powerful story of surviving ecological disaster and solidarity between the generations by a giant of American literature