Spoilt Creatures : An Observer Best Debut of 2024 - 'compelling, cultish and utterly feral' Alice Slater by Amy Twigg

Spoilt Creatures : An Observer Best Debut of 2024 - 'compelling, cultish and utterly feral' Alice Slater by Amy TwiggAn Observer top ten best new novelist for 2024An LRB Book of the Week'The most talked about debut of 2024' Stylist'A simmering debut, heady with the righteousness of female rage'Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies'Lush and dreamlike a sweltering novel, where the sunlight pulses with nightmarish dread'Colin Walsh, author of Kala'This lusciously verdant novel is rich in grit and dirt, in sensuality and oblivion'Lara Williams, author of Supper

When a group of schoolboys are stranded on a desert island

Politics On the Edge is his story of the challenges

A captivating and romantic ripping yarn' E L James'Intelligent and off-the-wall

After gaining a grasp of the basics

His political activism sees him exiled from Earth to Kiln’s extrasolar labour camp

I cannot wait for more

he is carried away to sea to be sold into slavery in the Carolinas

he realises his words are all mixed up

rippling influence is felt by all in his wake - affirms his reputation at the forefront of contemporary poetry

Exploring classic themes of loyalty

Both the setting and the story are exquisite

SARTs and Navtex