“A star is born. Where has she come from?” said chair of judges, poet and previous winner Sinéad Morrissey. “I don’t know her personally, I hadn’t read her in magazines or anywhere else before. She has not come through the usual creative-writing, pamphlet route. She has just arrived, and it is breathtaking. I couldn’t be more delighted if I had won it myself.”

Winner of the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize

Tessa Hadley’s latest collection, winner of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize.

Winner of the Polari first novel award.

Winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize.