Jenni Fagan, Benjamin Markovits and Helen Oyeyemi, three of Granta's recent `20 under 40', are joined by critic and novelist, Will Eaves and Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize winner, Cynan Jones on the 2017 shortlist.

Now celebrating its fifteenth year, the BBC Award is one of the most prestigious for a single short story, with previous alumni including Zadie Smith, Hilary Mantel and Mark Haddon.

The BBC NSSA is one of the most prestigious prizes for a single short story, with the winning author receiving GBP15,000, and four further shortlisted authors GBP600 each.

The second book in this epic fantasy trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Maniye has been named Champion of her people - but there are doubts within her clan, even as war looms on the horizon.

Captain Seeker is back in London, on the trail of an assassin preparing to strike at the heart of Oliver Cromwell's Republic

The Beautiful and Damned is a devastating portrait of a generation of wealthy young Americans who struggle to find meaning and happiness, told through the lives of Anthony Patch and Gloria Gilbert. This is the novel that confirmed Fitzgerald's status as the most celebrated young American writer of the Twenties.

As a TV crime reporter, she'll go to any length to get the latest scoop. But when a twisted serial killer starts using her to gain the publicity he craves, Eve must decide how far she's willing to go - and how close she'll let him get .

An intense and sizzling novel seething with betrayal and political upheaval from the Booker Prize-winning author.

From the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, The Beautiful Visit is the first novel from one of the most beloved British writers, Elizabeth Jane Howard.

A No. 1 international bestseller, The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem is a dazzling novel of mothers and daughters, stories told and untold, and the ties that bind four generations of women.

The central story in this book tells of an upright man resisting the temptations of easy bribes and easy satisfactions and winning for his honesty nothing but scorn.

Above all - and perhaps this is the hardest thing they face - they must journey to find each other again. Moving, powerful, compassionate and beautifully written, The Beekeeper of Aleppo is a testament to the triumph of the human spirit.

This atmospheric novel of family secrets, first published in 1964, is by a winner of the CWA Diamond Dagger.

Picked as a 2025 Observer Best New Novelist, the highly anticipated debut from one of the most exciting voices in contemporary fiction.

From master of suspense Joseph Kanon, author of the bestsellers Istanbul Passage and Leaving Berlin, an espionage thriller set at the height of the Cold War, when a captured American who has spied for the KGB is swapped by the British for some German students and returns to East Berlin needing to know who arranged his release and what they want from him.

The unforgettable and gorgeously redemptive new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of My Name is Leon and The Best of Everything

A collection of the best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories featuring his famous detective