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Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist 2022

Filthy Animals

Filthy Animals

Brandon Taylor

A hotly charged new work of fiction from the Booker Prize shortlisted author of Real Life.

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The Sweetness of Water

The Sweetness of Water

Nathan Harris

A powerful American debut set during the Civil War and portraying life after slavery in the vein of Washington Black and Homegoing

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Open Water

Open Water

Caleb Azumah Nelson

A stunning first novel about two young Black artists in London falling in and out of love by a new literary virtuoso, and finalist for the BBC Short Story Award, twenty-six-year old writer and photographer Caleb Azumah Nelson

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Auguries of a Minor God

Auguries of a Minor God

Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe

The debut collection of poetry from a virtuosic, compassionate new voice.

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A Passage North

A Passage North

Anuk Arudpragasam

From a prize winning Sri Lankan author, a story of age and youth, loss and survival that builds into a magisterial reckoning with mortality.

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