The Republic of Consciousness Prize Longlist 2024
Selected by the Bookshop
The Republic of Consciousness Prize celebrates outstanding literary fiction published by small presses in the UK and Ireland. The prize is open to fiction in all forms – novels, short stories, works in translation – and the prize money is split between all the shortlisted presses and writers. This year’s shortlist will be announced on 11 March, with the winner revealed on 17 April.
From the publisher:
Translated by Laura Garmeson & Sophie Lewiswith an afterword by Tice Cin‘Full of originality and lyricism … it’s a punch to the stomach, in the best sense. At times dark, at times vibrating with hope in every…
From the publisher:
When seven-year-old Jedza witnesses a tragic incident involving a train and the death of his close boyhood friend in his hometown Miner's Drift, he is convinced that his life is haunted. Now in his mid-20s, Jedza is a down-and-out…
From the publisher:
Translated by Zoë PerryAnimals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated corner of Brazil.In a landscape worthy of Cormac McCarthy, the river runs septic with blood. Edgar Wilson makes…
From the publisher:
The debut fiction collection from an inimitable critic, Truth & Dare is a deeply personal and fantastical ride through gender, trauma, queerness, science, history, and religion.Cornish mermaids take to the football pitch to protest…
From the publisher:
Translated by Douglas SuttleIn outrageous, daring prose, Ventura Ametller tells the story of a young boy as he lives through the build-up to and outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Blending fact and fiction, legend and history, Summa Kaotica…
From the publisher:
Translated by Peter SherwoodKrisztina Tóth's first substantial work in prose after four volumes of remarkable verse, consists of fifteen beautifully written and highly sensual short stories. Most are narrated with poetic intensity…
From the publisher:
Translated from the French by Lorna Scott FoxWinner of the 2021 Goncourt du Premier romanRural Iraq, during the war against the ‘Islamic State’. A pregnancy out of wedlock seals a young girl’s fate. Before and after death,…
From the publisher:
Translated from Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer RussellA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 IN TIME MAGAZINE , LITHUB, AND THE MILLIONSWINNER OF THE POLITIKEN LITERATURE PRIZEFrom the acclaimed author of The…
From the publisher:
Translated by Jim & Ella DingleyThe 100 tales in The Zekameron are based on the 14th century Decameron, but Znak is closer to Beckett than to Boccaccio. Banality and brutality vie with the human ability to…
From the publisher:
Translated by Morgan GilesA multi-generational, multilingual epic by the National Book Award Winner and bestselling author and translator of Tokyo Ueno StationIn 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, Lee Woo-Cheol was a running prodigy and a…
Latest booklists
Latest booklists
