Best of Young British Novelists 2023 ‘I followed him onto the dancefloor and he put his hands on my hips as if he’d known me for at least an hour.’ – Gunk
Best of Young British Novelists 2023 ‘She rings a tiny cymbal over your body. She says, The experience is finished now.’ – Best Last Minute Spa Deal for Under £40
Best of Young British Novelists 2023 ‘Without waiting for me she removes her white shirt. Each button a piece of my own spine, undone.’ – Mrs S
Best of Young British Novelists 2023 ‘I don’t remember his face, nor him as a whole.’ – Kweku
Best of Young British Novelists 2023 ‘If Wales win tonight, everything will turn out okay.’ – Wales
Best of Young British Novelists 2023 ‘He was grumpy in a way that I enjoyed. It reassured me that he was easily displeased – he was discerning, I thought.’ – Circles
Best of Young British Novelists 2023 ‘The monstrous years of my late teens lay lined up alongside the rest of my life like bullets in a gun.’ – Theories of Care
Best of Young British Novelists 2023 ‘I register that phrase with pleasure, my brother.’ – A Note in the Margin
Best of Young British Novelists 2023 ‘We were sent to Wakeley Boarding School aged eight for Year Five and stayed on until Year Twenty.’ – Ivor
Best of Young British Novelists 2023 ‘The other islands in the archipelago had their active volcanoes; now we had the men.’ – Strangers at the Port
Best of Young British Novelists 2023 ‘There was to be an exhibition. There were lots of pictures like his, apparently – of waiters, pastry cooks, valets, bellboys.’ – The Room Service Waiter
Best of Young British Novelists 2023 ‘I could hear the sea, and I could hear my own name.’ – She's Always Hungry
Best of Young British Novelists 2023 ‘I knew that Dominic had cheated on me. I couldn’t tell you when, or who, or how many times, but I was certain that he had.’ – Doubtful Sound
Best of Young British Novelists 2023 ‘She boils her sentences down to high-sucrose sweeties and calibrates her tone for maximum engagement.’ – Universality
