GHOST DRIVER
The Queen Mary Small Press Prize Winner 2026
Malory walks home after an ordinarily gruelling night out, having escaped the company of her associates. Something ripples in the darkness. The shape of a figure. So begins a chain of events with the texture of dream plasma. A story of persecution mania. Professional ignominy. A sudden disappearance. The terror of seeing oneself too clearly…
Part horror story, part tragicomic nightmare, Ghost Driver is a slim shudder of a novel about a woman who has taken every wrong turn available to her.
Ghost Driver is shape-shifting gem powered by an effortlessly hip voice that crackles with restless energy.
Stu Hennigan, judge for the Queen Mary small press fiction prize 2026
Addictively morbid, comic and discomfortingly familiar. I am obsessed.
Daisy LaFarge, author of Paul (2024)
THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING
Nell Osborne’s Thank You For Everything is a collection of poems, appointments, wiggle rooms, self-help guides, dialogue scraps, and misery chambers. It skewers the idea of the ‘poet’s voice’ with drab ease, and then skewers that. By turns oblique, seductive, and silly, here is a melancomic portrait of existence in 2024/5.
Luke Roberts, author of Bad Omens (2026)
Nell Osborne makes wisdom blush and wit look like slapstick, and it all seems possible, scuffed and crude and stinging.
