The audiobook of Claire Carroll‘s debut short story collection, The Unreliable Nature Writer, has been featured in Spotify’s Best of the Year So Far campaign. Picked for the Best Fiction of 2024 playlist, alongside bestselling authors such as Colm Tóibín, Emily Henry and Stephen King, you can listen to The Unreliable Nature Writer and learn more about Spotify’s top audiobooks here.

In a grand mansion, a woman recounts a dream of social stability and home ownership to a bizarre tribunal who will determine her future.

At a campsite, ordinary families swarm to pass their sweltering summer holiday – and just off the coast, the rich and powerful enjoy a different kind of holiday from static cruise ships.

In suburbia, a woman, a beloved wife and mother, begins an affair with the humanoid robot her husband has brought home.

In this debut collection of short stories, Claire Carroll plunges us into darkly funny visions of a near future, where late capitalism, climate anxiety and personal loss intersect.

Prefer a hard copy? The Unreliable Nature Writer was published in paperback by Scratch books last month. Get yours here or, better, via your local bookshop or Bookshop.org.

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