Goldsmiths Prize 2025

The Goldsmiths Prize was established in 2013 to celebrate the qualities of creative daring associated with the College and to reward fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form.

Updated October 21, 2025
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We Pretty Pieces of Flesh
Brown, Colwill.
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize "This lacerating, exhilarating debut novel . . . manages to be both boisterous and bleak, life-enhancing and life-denying, familiar and yet wholly original. It feels essential. You will probably read nothing else like...
The catch : a novel
Daley-Ward, Yrsa
Paper Book
Twin sisters Clara and Dempsey have always struggled to relate, their familial bond severed after their mother vanished into the Thames. As infants they were adopted into different families, Clara sent to live with a successful, upper-class couple, and Dempsey with a sullen, unaffectionate city...
Helm
Hall, Sarah (Author).
Paper Book
'Vital, fierce and free.' Financial Times 'Incandescently good.' Sarah Perry 'Pulsing with life and lyricism.' Spectator 'Fiercely exuberant.' Observer 'Delightfully playful.' Andrew Miller 'A truly...
The Expansion Project
Pester, Ben.
A dizzying, haunted satire of the late-capitalist workplace in which nothing is quite what it seems.
We Live Here Now
Rose, C. D.
When a famous conceptual artist's installation project suddenly vanishes, the sinister aftershocks radiate outwards through twelve people who were involved in the project, changing all of their lives, and launching them on a crazy-quilt trajectory that will end with them all together at one final,...
Nova Scotia House: A Novel
Porter, Charlie.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 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,...

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