We Are Made of Diamond Stuff

*We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff* is an innovative and critically British novel, taking issue with the dream of national belonging. Set on the Isle of Wight, a small island off the south coast of England, it collides literary aesthetics with contemporary working class cultures and attitudes (B.S. Johnson and Reebok classics), works with themes of empire, embodiment and resistance, and interrogates autobiographical material including the queer migrant experience.

Prize history

• Goldsmiths Prize

  2019

  Shortlist