“A gloriously mad extrapolation”: Nicola Barker’s Goldsmiths Prize-winning novel H(A)PPY
Barker brilliantly evokes a blood-sucked future with therapy-speak language and typographical disruption.
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Goldsmiths Prize shortlist 2017: the New Statesman’s author Q&As
We spoke to the six authors shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, which rewards the most innovative fiction.
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Nicola Barker: “I’m a niche writer and see no harm in it. I like niches”
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Gwendoline Riley: “Human beings are incorrigible. This is a source of humour and pain”
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