Overview
- The six finalists are We Pretty Pieces of Flesh (Colwill Brown), The Catch (Yrsa Daley-Ward), Helm (Sarah Hall), The Expansion Project (Ben Pester), Nova Scotia House (Charlie Porter) and We Live Here Now (C. D. Rose).
- Chair Amy Sackville leads judges Mark Haddon, Simon Okotie and Megan Nolan, who praised the selections as “slippery, genre-defying, vibrant, witty and profound.”
- Four shortlisted authors are first-time novelists: Colwill Brown, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Charlie Porter and Ben Pester.
- Penguin Random House imprints account for four of the six titles, reflecting the publisher’s dominance on this year’s list.
- The £10,000 award, which recognises fiction that pushes the novel form, will name its winner at Foyles in London on 5 November.