2021
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A Ghost in the Throat
Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Tramp Press
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A Little Devil in America
Hanif Abdurraqib
Penguin Press
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Come Join Our Disease
Sam Byers
Faber
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Luckenbooth
Jenni Fagan
William Heinemann
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Mrs Death Misses Death
Salena Godden
Canongate
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Sea State
Tabitha Lasley
HarperCollins
2020
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Notes Made While Falling
Jenn Ashworth
Goldsmiths Press
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Rainbow Milk
Paul Mendez
Little, Brown Book Group
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Motherwell
Deborah Orr
Orion Publishing Group
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This Is Not Propaganda
Peter Pomerantsev
Faber & Faber
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My Name Is Why
Lemn Sissay
Canongate Books
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Three Women
Lisa Taddeo
Bloomsbury Publishing
2019
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For the Good Times
David Keenan
Faber
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Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo
Hamish Hamilton
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Heads of the Colored People
Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Chatto & Windus
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Lanny
Max Porter
Faber
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The Silence of the Girls
Pat Barker
Penguin
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This Brutal House
Niven Govinden
Dialogue
2018
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Census
Jesse Ball
Granta Books
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H(a)ppy
Nicola Barker
William Heinemann
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In Our Mad and Furious City
Guy Gunaratne
Tinder Press
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Crudo
Olivia Laing
Pan Macmillan/Picador
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The Cost of Living
Deborah Levy
Hamish Hamilton
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I’ll be Gone in the Dark
Michelle McNamara
Faber & Faber
2017
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Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
Kapka Kassabova
(Granta Books)
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This is Memorial Device
David Keenan
(Faber & Faber)
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The Long Drop
Denise Mina
(Harvill Secker)
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This is the Place to Be
Lara Pawson
(CB Editions)
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First Love
Gwendoline Riley
(Granta Books)
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Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile
Adelle Stripe
(Wrecking Ball Press)
2016
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A Woman on the Edge of Time
Jeremy Gavron
(Scribe)
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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Olivia Laing
(Canongate)
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Eileen
Ottessa Moshfegh
(Jonathan Cape)
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Anatomy of a Soldier
Harry Parker
(Faber and Faber)
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All That Man Is
David Szalay
(Jonathan Cape)
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And the Sun Shines Now: How Hillsborough and the Premier League Changed Britain
Adrian Tempany
(Faber and Faber)
2015
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In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile
Dan Davies
(Quercus)
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Midland
Honor Gavin
(Penned in the Margins)
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Noon Tide Toll
Romesh Gunesekera
(Granta Books)
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Original Rockers
Richard King
(Faber & Faber)
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Nothing is True and Everything is Possible
Peter Pomerantsev
(Faber & Faber)
2014
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The Valley
Richard Benson
(Bloomsbury)
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The Kills
Richard House
(Picador)
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The Wake
Paul Kingsnorth
(Unbound)
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The Trip to Echo Spring
Olivia Laing
(Canongate)
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American Interior
Gruff Rhys
(Hamish Hamilton)
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The Free
Willy Vlautin
(Faber & Faber)
2013
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How I Killed Margaret Thatcher
Anthony Cartwright
(Tindal Street Press)
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The Footballer Who Could Fly
Duncan Hamilton
(Century)
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People Who Eat Darkness
Richard Lloyd Parry
(Jonathan Cape)
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Pig Iron
Benjamin Myers
(Blue Moose Books)
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Myra, Beyond Saddleworth
Jean Rafferty
(Wild Wolf Publishing)