Contemporary fiction – English, Publishing and Creative Writing at City

Tadgh Ahern

An anxious narrator confronts heat, memory, and fear, revealing how small moments expose overwhelming inner turmoil

An immigrant’s bakery job becomes a battleground for survival, humour, and belonging

She longs for a home she can shutter against a corrupt world, and wash the blood from her hands. A literary thriller with echoes of Tana French

Victory comes at a tremendous personal cost for Mr O after he gets Lapite registered in camp

A coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the youth-led climate movement in London

Doctor, Doctor is an intimate portrayal of the life of a new NHS doctor, and how the job breaks him

Seeking escape from a directionless life, a young man finds purpose, and devastation, in the wild Sierra Nevada Mountains

Revenant is a tumultuous coming-of-age ghost story following two teenagers as they navigate grief, loss, love, and friendship in the 1990s

A valedictorian facing life beyond graduation falls for his teacher who faces life behind bars

When Jake’s double life as a money laundering grifter is threatened, he gambles his freedom on a final audacious con