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Claire-Louise Bennett

‘Month after month I ruefully drop the most perfect shade of red down the toilet and flush it away.’

An excerpt from Claire-Louise Bennett’s forthcoming novel.

An As-Yet-Undiscovered Land Mammal

Mariana Leky

An excerpt from Mariana Leky’s What You Can See From Here.

Licked Clean

Sammy Wright

From Test Signal: Northern Anthology of New Writers.

Guard / Dear Katherine

Akwaeke Emezi

An excerpt from Akwaeke Emezi’s Dear Senthuran: a Black spirit memoir.

Have You Met Husband?

Amy Silverberg

‘It was new, that heat coming off of him, a person seeing you naked and wanting to see you again, the next day, clothed. It was definitely the beginning of something.’

New fiction from Amy Silverberg.

Ceremony of Innocence

Madeleine Bunting

A journalist receives a troubling call about a friend in this excerpt from Madeleine Bunting’s new novel Ceremony of Innocence.

Fertile Soil

Katerina Gibson

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize for the Pacific region.

Gororau (Borderlands)

Elizabeth O’Connor

‘Tad took down any picture of Mam the week after she died. He said they would bring bad luck to the house.’

A story set in rural Wales.

Unbury Our Dead with Song

Mũkoma Wa Ngũgĩ

A Kenyan journalist falls in love with the Tizita, popularly called Ethiopian blues, in this extract from Mũkoma Wa Ngũgĩ’s new novel.

The Disappearance of Mumma Dell

Roland Watson-Grant

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize for the region of the Caribbean

Comrade Aeon’s Field Guide to Bangkok

Emma Larkin

‘Comrade Aeon had been changed by his years in the jungle.’

Upper Extremity

Claire Luchette

From Claire Luchette, author of Agatha of Little Neon.

My Father’s Lover Was Never the Stepdad I Wanted Him to Be

Isabel Waidner

A letter to footballer Justin Fashanu – excerpted from Isabel Waidner’s novel Sterling Karat Gold.