Three debut novels are among the six works shortlisted for the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize. The £10,000 award, run in association with the New Statesman, celebrates fiction from Britain and Ireland that “breaks the mould and extends the possibilities of the novel form”. The books are:
- All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles (Galley Beggar)
- Tell by Jonathan Buckley (Fitzcarraldo)
- Parade by Rachel Cusk (Faber & Faber)
- Choice by Neel Mukherjee (Atlantic)
- Spent Light by Lara Pawson (CB Editions)
- Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking by Han Smith (John Murray)
“Wildly different and yet unified by a restless curiosity about form, the shortlist for the Goldsmiths Prize 2024 demonstrates how the novel never stays still, always searching for new ways to tell stories that matter,” said Abigail Shinn, the chair of judges and lecturer in early modern literature at Goldsmiths University. Joining Shinn on the judging panel are Sara Baume, author of three novels – two of which were shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize – Xiaolu Guo, memoirist, novelist and film-maker whose work has been shortlisted for both the Goldsmiths and Orwell Prizes, and Lola Seaton, associate editor at New Left Review and New Statesman contributing writer.
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