2024 Young Writer Award
All Cara wants is to be happy again. Three years after her brother took his life, though, feeling happy still feels wrong—until she goes to college. But when shadows start moving independently from their owners, she’s the only one that not only sees it—but also understands their warning.
After her best friend proposes to her at her sister's wedding, an autistic woman runs away to Zakynthos, Greece and, through organising a local festival, learns that she'll need both her head and heart to navigate the island and her choices.
‘AMARIS’ is an Artistic Research novel that illustrates my method of reflective fictional autobiography as a means for achieving self realisation. Ultimately I investigated what would it do to my consciousness and sense of self if I lived purely for the sake of story?
When new laws threaten the safety of mages in Luiavera, assassin Alyx Dellavor will do anything to protect her magic-wielding best friend. Even if that means playing wife to a man she framed for murder and assassinating one of the leaders of her country at the year’s most important political event.
Tyler, a disenfranchised American expat, is trying to survive his first-year teaching in the Korean Hagwon system. As his self-isolating, culture-shock induced depression gets worse, however, he will need to draw on new resources to manage his deteriorating mental condition.
Arwen, a frost witch, is persuaded by a letter to quest for a long-forgotten artefact. But her companions have stronger motivations for taking the prize. Will her frigid heart thaw? Or will she slit their throats while they sleep? Who is the mysterious figure pulling the strings behind the scenes?
A misguided student of theology named Cassandra has disturbed a sleeping Titan. As the Old One’s swarm of malevolent gods now unleash upon the world, it will be left to Cassandra to wield the powers of eternity as she attempts to save those she loves.
In the Vei’jah Empire, years are the highest form of currency—and the gods-gifted agents of the White Court are both the tellers and the bank. When an agent questions the White Court’s motives and flees seeking answers, she is forced to work alongside rebels who would sooner see her dead.
Since outgrowing her orphanage, Caderina has crafted a strict plan to create the family she never had. So when a dream reveals a parallel world ruled by a Dreamer Lord and in need of a hero, she ignores the call to action. Both earth and the dreamworld, however, have their own plans for the orphan.
When Mikael discovers a set of letters from his grandmother’s past, he knows this is his chance to finally get something right. But with Ada’s secret stretching across three continents, a war and a hand-written novel, he soon realises that the truth isn’t always so easy to find...
One British and one American exchange student meet at university, fall in love, then struggle to maintain their relationship against the trials of long-distance and disconnection. Will it survive?
Thea’s big sister Ronnie always has her back – until she goes to uni. When Ronnie’s health starts to slide, it’s up to Thea to find the truth. But with falling in love with the new girl at school, she must face her own secrets as well as solving her sister's.
Jake Harper, a stranger passing through the seemingly idyllic village of Little Comberton, is ensnared within a time loop. To escape, he must overthrow the malevolent Dream Reaper contorting his worst nightmares into reality.
When a boy's mother is kidnapped by the church, he teams up with a witch to get her back.
Ash, a phoenix, migrates through Earth millions of years ago, unravelling the truth of our fragmented mythology and history. But he discovers a new kind of animal enslaving creatures beneath the ground. Can the phoenixes prevail in a war against the first race of men?
