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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 9h

#GoldsmithsPrize2015 judge, @simonokotie.bsky.social, on Yrsa Daley-Ward's 'extraordinary shape-shifting, genre-defying work of fiction'

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 2d

#GoldsmithsPrize2025 Chair of Judges, Amy Sackville, on the six 'genuinely novel novels' on this year's fab shortlist.

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PGC Books @pgcbooks.bsky.social · 5d

Nova Scotia House by Charlie Porter, available from Nightboat Books / PGC in Canada later this month, has been shortlisted for @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social!

www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

The cover of Nova Scotia House by Charlie Porter, Nightboat Books ISBN 9781643622002 (on-sale October 31 2025 via PGC Books in Canada)

Nova Scotia House takes us to the heart of a relationship, a community and an era, both a love story and a lament.

In this profound meditation on grief, Johnny looks back at his relationship with his life partner, Jerry, after his AIDS-related death. When they met, nearly thirty years ago, Johnny was 19, Jerry was 45. They made a life on their own terms in Jerry's flat: 1, Nova Scotia House. Johnny is still there today-but Jerry is gone, and so is the world they knew.

Intimate, visionary, and profoundly original-as well as raw, hot, and hilarious- Nova Scotia House marks the debut of a vibrant new voice in contemporary fiction.

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Ben Pester @benpester.bsky.social · 5d

What a list to be on! Very happy about this. @grantabooks.bsky.social
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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 6d

We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlist.

Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists!

Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

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Jason Arthur @jasonarthur.bsky.social · 5d

@goldsmithsprize.bsky.social judge Megan Nolan on @benpester.bsky.social's The Expansion Project:

'A magnificently destabilising rendering of work life which is both familiar and totally foreign...Disturbing, funny and deeply odd, this is a novel for the ages, but especially ours'

Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 6d

We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlist.

Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists!

Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 5d

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The Goldsmiths Prize 2025 celebrates new perspectives

Four first-time novelists are among the six writers shortlisted for the £10,000 award for fiction that “breaks the mould”.

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Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 5d

A shortlist to get excited about - isn't that what we want from a prize?

Huge congratulations @benpester.bsky.social @cdrose.bsky.social Sarah Hall Colwill Brown (who's had a very good week!) Yrsa Daley-Ward & Charlie Porter

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 5d

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Sarah Hall and Charlie Porter among writers on ‘genre-defying’ Goldsmiths prize shortlist

The £10,000 award, whose judges include Mark Haddon and Megan Nolan, recognises ‘mould-breaking’ fiction

www.theguardian.com

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 5d

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Goldsmiths Prize 2025 shortlist revealed

The shortlist for the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize has been revealed, which 'explore a wide range of themes and perspectives'.

www.thebookseller.com

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 6d

Delighted to see C.D. Rose’s We Live Here Now has been shortlisted for the @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social:

John Self @john-self.bsky.social · Jul 26

Missing ships, missing artworks, missing persons… I loved CD Rose’s new novel We Live Here Now, which has echoes of M John Harrison, JG Ballard, Tom McCarthy and … Martin Amis, but is also thoroughly and delightfully its own thing.

Me in today’s Telegraph:

Page of Daily Telegraph with my review of CD Rose’s novel. Sorry, it’s too long to ALT text, but I loved the book and recommend it to you…

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 6d

Yes @benpester.bsky.social truly amazing and well deserved news❤️

Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 6d

We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlist.

Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists!

Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

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Berthold Schoene @profberty.bsky.social · 5d

Blown over (!) by HELM. (Porter’s is next.) I love this Prize which rediscovers the novel afresh every year.

Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 6d

We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlist.

Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists!

Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 5d

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Sarah Hall and Charlie Porter among writers on ‘genre-defying’ Goldsmiths prize shortlist

The £10,000 award, whose judges include Mark Haddon and Megan Nolan, recognises ‘mould-breaking’ fiction

www.theguardian.com

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 6d

We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlist.

Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists!

Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 7d

🥁 The excitement mounts!

📣 Our 2025 shortlist will be revealed tomorrow around 9pm 🔥

Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 13d

Our '25 judges, @simonokotie.bsky.social Amy Sackville (Chair) & Mark Haddon together @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social to decide this year's shortlist! Megan Nolan joining virtually.

Announcement next Thursday, 2nd October around 9pm! 🔥

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 13d

Our '25 judges, @simonokotie.bsky.social Amy Sackville (Chair) & Mark Haddon together @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social to decide this year's shortlist! Megan Nolan joining virtually.

Announcement next Thursday, 2nd October around 9pm! 🔥

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Isabel Waidner @waidner.bsky.social · 19d

My new novel, AS IF, has a cover. Out from Hamish Hamilton on 26th Feb 2026, and later in the year from FSG in the US.

As of now you can preorder via your usual bookshop or your library—thank you! x

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 20d

Delighted that the audiobook version of All My Precious Madness, read by Paul Hilton and produced by @spiracleaudiobooks.bsky.social has been shortlisted for a Speakie in the best fiction audiobook category: www.thebookseller.com/news/the-bri...

The British Audio Awards shortlists revealed for inaugural year

The shortlists for the inaugural year of The British Audio Awards, also known as The Speakies, have been revealed and include industry names such as Hamza Yassin, AF Steadman, and Dr Rangan Chatterjee...

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · Sep 4

📚Twenty Writers, One Bookshop📚

A special podcast marking the paperback of The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews 🎉
Hear George Saunders, Rachel Cusk, Marlon James & more in conversation.
Listen now: pod.fo/e/32461e
Signed copy: www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/the-sh...
@canongate.co.uk

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · Sep 4

📣 We're just 4 wks away from the #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlist announcement!

Chair of Judges, Amy Sackville, will reveal the list @southbankcentre.bsky.social after the @newstatesman.com Goldsmiths Prize Lecture on 2/10

🎟️ £5 discount code: NOVEL5OFF

👉 www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/geo...

Geoff Dyer: Why the Novel Matters | Southbank Centre

www.southbankcentre.co.uk

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · Sep 2

Tix for Geoff Dyer: Why the Novel Matters 👇
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£5 discount with this code: Novel5OFF

Geoff Dyer: Why the Novel Matters | Southbank Centre

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · Sep 2

'If you're experimenting with things, you're always writing against the culture'

Goldsmiths Prize 2017 winner Nicola Barker talks to @tanjilrashid.bsky.social about piecing the novel back together again after H(A)PPY, and much else . . .

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Author Nicola Barker:

Podcast Episode · The New Statesman: politics and culture · 30/08/2025 · 38m

podcasts.apple.com

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · Aug 28

📣 Announcing this year's @newstatesman.com / Goldsmiths Prize lecture!

Geoff Dyer: Why the Novel Matters

The prize-winning writer delivers this year’s lecture, asking whether the novel is still ’the one bright book of life’.

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · Aug 28

📣 Announcing this year's @newstatesman.com / Goldsmiths Prize lecture!

Geoff Dyer: Why the Novel Matters

📅 Thursday 2 October, 7.30pm
📍Queen Elizabeth Hall, London SE1
🎟️ Tix from southbankcentre.co.uk

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · Jul 30

Happy 90th Birthday to the Penguin paperback! 🎉 🎂

On this day in 1935 @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social published their first 10 paperbacks.

Here's a gem from July 1942 (no. 381) #PaperbackBookDay

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · Jul 29

Congratulations all, and especially to the ever-inventive, @jcbuckley.bsky.social!

The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · Jul 29

We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 longlist – 13 books ‘all alive with great characters and narrative surprises’.

Huge congratulations to the authors who make up this year's Booker Dozen.

➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025

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