LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR (DISCOVER) 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS PRIZE 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2023AN OBSERVER BES...

They began to arrive at the cove at the centre of which sat 3000 year-old Baobab surrounded by hundreds of plants and animals from across the planet. At edge of the cove lay Ocean in a bay filled with marine representatives from every ocean and sea on Earth. They had all come to tell the human the story of the most ancient discipline known to humankind, Yoga.As Eagle landed on Baobab, she turned to the Human, who looked up at her and said, “Eagle, nearly all of nature is here, I......

Roshni Goyate, Sharan Hunjan, Sheena Patel and Sunnah Khan are four writers that make up the talented collective 4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE and bring their radical, polyphonic performance style to bear on a series of individual pamphlets that still resonate with their collaborative force. Each author's discreet publication is a stand-alone work, published as a set of poetry and prose pamphlets, highlighting the daring, brilliant writing that characterises both the group and each individual au...

AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVEL OF 2022 I'M A FAN tells the story of an unnamed narrator's involvement in a seemingly unequal romantic relationship. With a clear and unforgiving eye, Sheena Patel makes startling connections between power struggles at the heart of human relationships to those in the wider world, offering a devastating critique of social media, access and patriarchal systems.

“A fast, fizzing cherry bomb of a debut” (The Observer [UK]) about power, intimacy, and the internetI stalk a woman on the internet who is sleeping with the same man as I am.Sheena Patel’s incandescent first novel begins with the unnamed narrator describing her involvement in a seemingly unequal romantic relationship. With a clear and unforgiving eye, she dissects the behavior of all involved, herself included, and makes startling connecti...

What price would you pay for love? Esther Williams is thirty and single. She has been nowhere, done nothing, loved no one except her recently deceased grandfather. Her life is one of routine and order, following the same pattern week after week. That is, until she meets Raymond Banks. Raymond is unassuming but insistent, and each conversation with him brings Esther further out of her shell. He alters her awareness of the world, and their budding love is soon cemented with a proposal. For t...