• Haunting and dark literary fiction with a horror/speculative premise

  • Funny upmarket/crossover fiction with complicated female protagonists (often in jeopardy)

  • Books that are likely to be categorised as ‘Weird Lit’,  where we get inside the heads of unsavoury and slightly disturbed protagonists

  • A novel that considers identity and otherness from a unique angle

  • An atmospheric gothic fantasy  (especially keen to see a unique and inventive magic system)

  • East or South Asian mythology-inspired fantasy (ideally from a UK-based author)