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The Goldsmiths Prize 2025

Selected by the Bookshop


The Goldsmiths Prize was established in 2013 to reward fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form. This year's winner will be announced on 5 November.

From the publisher:
A gut-punch novel of girlhood in early noughties Yorkshire from a blazing new voice'Blistering, brilliant, savage and smart' EIMEAR McBRIDE'Unforgettable...a wondrous, luminous novel' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH'Brilliant and original on…

From the publisher:
Award-winning author, Yrsa Daley-Ward’s stylishly intriguing and experimental debut novel exploring family, fate and female fantasies.‘Totally original, entirely compelling and astonishingly well crafted, The…

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A wondrous, elemental novel from ‘a writer of show-stopping genius’ (Guardian).Helm is a ferocious, mischievous wind — a subject of folklore and wonder, who has blasted the sublime landscape of the Eden Valley since the…

From the publisher:
Plans for the expansion of the Capmeadow Business Park are in full swing – its mission is to become the greatest business park in the region. Tom Crowley, a mid-level employee, loses his daughter at ‘bring your daughter to work…

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‘A work of genius’ Philip Hoare‘One of the best things I’ve read in many many years’ Hilton AlsA story of loss and grief, sex and love, and refusing to relinquish dreamsHe said he would understand if it was too…

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When a famous conceptual artist's installation project suddenly vanishes, the sinister aftershocks radiate outwards through twelve people who were involved in the project, changing all of their lives, and launching them on a crazy-quilt…

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