Isabel Waidner

• May-2017
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"I'm besotted with this beguiling, hilarious, rollocking, language-metamorphosing novel. The future of the queer avant-garde is safe with Isabel Waidner."
Olivia Laing

Gaudy Bauble stages a glittering world populated by GoldSeXUal StatuEt...

• Jan-2018
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"If there were a literary avant-garde that were relevant now, it would be what the queers and their allies are doing, at the intersections, across disciplines. This avant-garde would be inclusive, racially and culturally diverse, migrants galore, ...

• Jan-2019
• / Literary
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2019We 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 collid...

• Jun-2021
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Like Franz Kafka’s The Trial for the post-truth era, at once “surreal, polemical, and fun” (The Telegraph).Sterling Beckenbauer is plunged into a terrifying and nonsensical world one morning when they are attacked, then unfairly arrested, in th...

• Aug-2023
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A novel that celebrates radical queer survival and gleefully takes a hammer to false notions of successThis is the story of Corey Fah, a writer who has hit the literary jackpot: their novel has just won the prize for the Fictionalization of Social Ev...

• Jun-2026
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A short, profoundly intelligent novel about two strangers who swap lives to find new ones: a story of aspiration, ambition, and the possibility of radical newness.Aubrey Lewis and Lindsey Korine are adrift. Aubrey (widower, perma-subletter, retired a...