The Goldsmiths Prize 2024
Selected by the Bookshop
The Goldsmiths Prize celebrates daring fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form. This year’s winner will be announced on 6 November.
From the publisher:
Henry Nash has hauled his way from a working class childhood in Bradford, through an undergraduate degree at Oxford, and into adulthood and an academic elite. But still, he can't escape his anger. As the world - and men in particular -…
From the publisher:
Curtis Doyle, a self-made businessman and art collector, has vanished from his palatial home in the Scottish Highlands. In the wake of his disappearance, the woman who worked as his gardener is being interviewed for a possible film about…
Recommended by Victoria
‘This is philosophical fiction at its peak. Parade contains four long chapters that interweave the lives of four different artists – all called G, two men, two women – with the life of the first-person narrator and her husband. Like the characteristic covers, Cusk’s prose is clean and deceptively simple while asking some of the most difficult existential questions: what does it mean to create (produce?) art? Is it anything like creating (producing?) a child? Do the answers to those questions differ depending on whether you are a man or a woman? (Parade’s answer is surely ‘yes’, but in interesting ways.) If we are creations (products?) of our own parents, what do we owe them? In true Cusk fashion, Parade is a novel in which the action is pared down to moments that could be life-changing, if only we recognised them as such.’
From the publisher:
‘A brilliant, bleak moral maze of a novel‘ Guardian‘Dazzling… by turns comic, lyrical and heartbreaking’ Monica Ali‘Profound and beautiful’ Paul Murray, author of The Bee Sting‘A…
From the publisher:
A woman contemplates her hand-me-down toaster and suddenly the whole world erupts into her kitchen, in all its brutality and loveliness: global networks of resource extraction and forced labour, technologies of industrial murder, histories…
From the publisher:
An experimental, daring debut about a young woman who comes of age in a town that is reckoning with its past, for readers of Milkman and A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing.'Kaleidoscopic and beguiling . . . A singular and…
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