Sodden Downstream, is in the running again with his new novel,
Sprigs.
Bug Week & Other Stories.
Fiction category convenor of judges Kiran Dass said the qualities the four shortlisted works had in common were “craft, nuance, urgent storytelling, rage against injustice, and new perspectives”.
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Set in Nazi Germany,
Remote Sympathy explores the attractions and evils of obliviousness.
Nothing to See explores life in the era of surveillance capitalism and the increasingly thin line between reality and simulation.
Sprigs takes on violence, racism and toxic masculinity in the context of an all-boys’ school, while
Bug Week’s stories touch on subjects including male entitlement and death.