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Claire Keegan

Foster

A summer of care staged as rescue, ending in a child carrying a measure her own family need never meet.

Keith Ridgway

Dooneen

A wounded man writes from a cliff-cut room as Dublin’s housing uprising ends in massacre and contested record.

Marlon James

The Disappearers

A rehearsal room in 1988 Kingston becomes the site of an attack whose aftermath spreads through aliases, testimony, revenge and return.

Albert Camus

The Fall

A lawyer in an Amsterdam bar turns confession into control, using guilt to build a private court no listener can leave untouched.

David Diop

At Night All Blood is Black

A failed mercy killing repeated on strangers as restitution, ending in an act the army's procedure cannot absorb.

Rozie Kelly

Kingfisher

A debut novel follows a writer’s affair with an older woman, turning desire, illness and care into a question of who controls the record.

Karl Ove Knausgård

Arendal

One night failing to get home. Thirty years failing to get anywhere further.

Nelio Biedermann

Lázár

A Hungarian family learns to survive through concealment, then enters a century that turns concealment into policy.

Gore Vidal

Palimpsest

A memoir organises a life as social evidence, placing wit, rank and sexual candour under the pressure of what the argument cannot contain: the grief that outlasts every performance of detachment.

Erinrose Mager

Hot Fruit

Orphanage origins, family objects, meals and fables shape lives built around beginnings that cannot be securely known.

Alex Hyde

Exhibition

A photographer watches her own images sell as a dead woman's self-portraits. The question is which of them made the work.