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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026 'The funniest and smartest novel I've read in a while' ZADIE SMITH 'Black Bag made me laugh aloud dozens and dozens of times . . . I loved its inventive originality and its ambition: it is very powerfully worth your time' KATHERINE RUNDELL 'Ya gotta read...

Emily should be happy. She has a nice husband (even if they rarely speak to each other, let alone sleep in the same bed), two little boys she loves (even if a full night’s sleep is a distant memory)—and now, a brand-new house in which they can live out all of the bourgeois fantasies she knows she should be ashamed of. But still she aches for something more. Enter Alathea and Elliott, their new neighbours, and also parents of two young boys. Alathea is intimidatingly confident and beautiful, but also disarmingly open and friendly. 

An out-of-work actor accepts the role of a lifetime—sitting soundlessly in a lecture theater, zipped into a large leather bag—to aid a professor’s psychological experiment. What could possibly go wrong? In Luke Kennard’s audacious new novel, a penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a...

Read by the author, Luke Kennard ‘Kennard’s distinctive voice – surreal, funny, anxious, always overthinking, and cringingly self-deprecating – has made him one of the most widely liked and imitated British poets’ – Tristram Fane Saunders, TLS None of the Old Testament prophets were...

LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE What’s standing between you and success? What do you do with a generation who’ve had everything, but still can’t grow up? Welcome to The Transition. While taking part in The Transition you and your partner will spend six months living under the...