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The Goldsmiths Prize Shortlist 2022

Selected by the Bookshop


This year’s selection of the most daring fiction around has been announced! 

From the publisher:
A teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, knowing with perfect certainty that nothing would ever come out again.…

From the publisher:
The mountain remained, unclimbed, for the first year that they lived there. Bell and Sigh, a couple in the infancy of their relationship, cut themselves off from friends and family. They turn their backs on a city divided by scores of…

From the publisher:
'Original, memorable, shimmering' Sarah Moss'Extraordinary, kaleidoscopic' Daisy JohnsonToday I might trace the rungs of her larynx or tap at her trachea like the bones of a xylophone . . .Something gleeful and malevolent is moving in Lia's…

From the publisher:
‘A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam.’ – Ali SmithThe hugely anticipated new novel from the beloved authorPeaces is the story of Otto and Xavier Shin, a couple who embark on a mysterious train journey…

From the publisher:
Edinburgh, 2014. Two writer friends, Damaris and Oliver Pablo, escape London, the city that killed his brother. They spend their days trying to get to the library, bickering over their tanking bitcoin, failing to write or resist the…

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