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
Best of Young British Novelists 2023 ‘She has been ten for a month and she does not like it. She carries the weight of her extra digit like a chain-mail vest.’ – The Hair Baby
Best of Young British Novelists 2023 ‘I didn’t think she was happy; I thought she was in love, but I didn’t know what that told me, if it told me anything.’ – A Certain King
Best of Young British Novelists 2023 ‘There’s this paradoxical nostalgia where even though yi suffered, yi miss it.’ – The Cloud Factory