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Similar categories in Ali Smith's Public Library and Other Stories book and Sophie Ward's Love and Other Thought Experiments

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"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"

-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

Similar categories in Graeme Macrae Burnet's Case Study book and Sophie Ward's Love and Other Thought Experiments

• literary fiction
• novels
• fiction
• contemporary

"Forget about meaning’, he said. ‘Life’s not about meaning, it’s about experience."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

"It is impossible to walk behind someone on a narrow cliff path without the idea of shoving them over the edge crossing one’s mind."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

"To be in another country, speaking another language, was to be another person, and in being another person I felt for the first time that I was myself."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

"Her handbag, he said, was found on the scene. I made a mental note to carry out a thorough spring clean of contents of my own bag before throwing myself in front of any trains."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea book and Sophie Ward's Love and Other Thought Experiments

• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

Similar categories in Max Porter's Shy book and Sophie Ward's Love and Other Thought Experiments

• literary fiction
• novels
• fiction
• contemporary

"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."

-Max Porter, Shy

"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."

-Max Porter, Shy

"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"

-Max Porter, Shy

"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"

-Max Porter, Shy

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Sophie Ward's Love and Other Thought Experiments

• literary fiction
• adult
• fiction
• contemporary

"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

Similar categories in NoViolet Bulawayo's Glory book and Sophie Ward's Love and Other Thought Experiments

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

"The dead are not dead, glory to the ancestors!"

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

"And today they'll call the thing all sort of queer names, I've even heard it called a genocide. But I myself call it service."

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

"Words not only mattered but they were power. Words were muti. Words were weapons. Words were magic. Words were church. Words were wealth. Words were life."

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

"If I don't write, then who will I blame when I wake up one day to find myself in the belly of a crocodile that calls itself History, that devours the stories of everyone else and goes on to speak for…"

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

Similar categories in Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow's All the Little Bird-Hearts book and Sophie Ward's Love and Other Thought Experiments

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult

Similar categories in Sarah Bernstein's Study for Obedience book and Sophie Ward's Love and Other Thought Experiments

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• fiction
• contemporary
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• adult

"I try always to be good."

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

Similar categories in Effie Black's In Defence of the Act book and Sophie Ward's Love and Other Thought Experiments

• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

"Anorexia is a secretive disease, it fed on Beth's stories of conquering her past demons."

-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act

"Sharing is the currency of friendship, perhaps everywhere, but especially at university."

-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act

"We speak until our mouths ache. I won't remember what we speak about, but I'll be certain it was deep. We are both terribly deep."

-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act

Similar categories in Robin Robertson's The Long Take book and Sophie Ward's Love and Other Thought Experiments

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• fiction
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Similar categories in Chetna Maroo's Western Lane book and Sophie Ward's Love and Other Thought Experiments

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Similar categories in Martin MacInnes's In Ascension book and Sophie Ward's Love and Other Thought Experiments

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• adult

"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Sophie Ward's Love and Other Thought Experiments

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• science fiction
• novels
• adult

"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Similar categories in Avni Doshi's Burnt Sugar book and Sophie Ward's Love and Other Thought Experiments

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult

"Ma naps on the sofa, and for a moment I can imagine what she’ll look like when she dies, when her face slackens and the air abandons her lungs. Around her are objects, papers, photo frames filled wit…"

-Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar

Similar categories in Sophie Ward's Love and Other Thought Experiments book and Sophie Ward's Love and Other Thought Experiments

• literary fiction
• lgbt
• philosophy
• short stories
• fiction
• contemporary
• science fiction
• novels
• adult
• queer

Similar categories in Tsitsi Dangarembga's This Mournable Body book and Sophie Ward's Love and Other Thought Experiments

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• novels
• fiction
• contemporary

"How, with all your education, do you come to be more needy than your mother?"

-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body

"What we heard all the time is that you were not working. That's what was said, that that degree of yours was just a piece of paper sitting, silently rotting."

-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body

"You begin to suspect that Cousin-Brother-in-Law and Nyasha are not being honest, that they found each other because neither possesses the hardiness success requires, so they have dressed discourageme…"

-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body

"Christine has that layer under her skin that cuts off her outside from her inside and allows no communication between the person she once believed she could be and the person she has in fact become. …"

-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body

Similar categories in Pedro Lemebel's A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays (Penguin Classics) book and Sophie Ward's Love and Other Thought Experiments

• literary fiction
• short stories
• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Rachel Cusk's The Temporary book and Sophie Ward's Love and Other Thought Experiments

• literary fiction
• novels
• fiction
• contemporary

"She almost looked forward to its cleansing. Afterwards she would begin again."

-Rachel Cusk, The Temporary