The Unreliable Nature Writer, the debut short story collection from White Review Short Story Prize shortlistee Claire Carroll, has been selected as one of Spotify’s “Best Audiobooks of 2024 So Far” in Australia and New Zealand. To view the full list, see the image below, or Spotify users from Australia and New Zealand can follow this link.

Praised by BBC National Short Story Award-winner Saba Sams (Send Nudes) as “ominous yet deeply tender, surreal yet undeniable”, The Unreliable Nature Writer is out now.

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.

The Unreliable Nature Writer is out now. Grab your paperback copy here or, better, via your local bookshop or Bookshop.org.

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