New Voices Spotlight

Join us as we celebrate some of this year’s hottest debut fiction.

Eden Mckenzie-Goddard's Smallie is an exhilarating and expansive tale of a family thrown into collision with the Windrush scandal, while Divya Maniar's After Care is a piercing exploration of consumerism, the attention economy and the addictive nature of online fame.

Rebecca Perry’s Booker Prize-longlisted May We Feed the King is a startlingly original story of a curator of a royal palace drawn into the life of its one-time occupant and Monika Radojevic’s Strangerland is a soaring, emotionally rich story about the power of love to transcend languages, borders and time.

They talk to Coco Khan about becoming a novelist in 2026, the stories they’ve chosen to tell and what the future holds.

There is a book signing after this event.