Six “bold and original new voices” have made the shortlist for the inaugural Waterstones debut fiction prize.
The list, voted for by booksellers from Waterstones, includes Sequoia Nagamatsu’s “extraordinary” science fiction novel How High We Go in the Dark, Eloghosa Osunde’s “bold and beautiful mix of folklore and realism”, Vagabonds!, and Tara M Stringfellow’s celebration of Black womanhood, Memphis.