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Glow
Ned Beauman
‘Growing up, you got so used to all your secrets being sad or shameful that you came to assume they were, like alkyl halides, intrinsically neurotoxic, and now he had learned for the first time that they weren’t.’
Anwar Gets Everything
Tahmima Anam
‘Two ways a man can go here, in the direction of God or the direction of believing there is nothing up there but a sun that will kill you whether you pray five times or not.’
Soon and in Our Days
Naomi Alderman
‘It is not often, even in Hendon, that one witnesses a miracle.’
Filsan
Nadifa Mohamed
‘Silence takes the place of all these words and her loneliness remains as dense and close as a shadow.’
After the Hedland
Evie Wyld
‘I feel the pull of being alone, of answering to no one, the safety of being unknown and far away.’
Driver
Taiye Selasi
‘I am the full-time driver here. I am not going to kill my employers. I have read that drivers do that now.’
Slow Motion
Adam Thirlwell
‘It really wasn’t normal for me to wake up and not know how I got there. A normal pastime for me was to be intent on mathematical problems, or models of voting patterns in different democratic states.’
A World Intact
Adam Foulds
‘His life, unexciting as it may have been so far, was still a detailed, complicated thing.’
You Don’t Have To Live Like This
Benjamin Markovits
‘It felt like everything that had happened to me in college, everything I had learned to be comfortable with, had produced this jerk standing naked in the water, splashing his best friend’s girlfriend in the chest.’
Tomorrow
Joanna Kavenna
‘She was living as herself, in herself, without ever thinking about what that meant.’
