On Stage
The Bookshop
Sunday
4:20 pm
Liz Allan: In Bloom
In Bloom follows four fatherless girls in a dying Australian coastal town, told in a ferocious collective ‘we’ that crackles with teenage indignation, in the tradition of The Virgin Suicides; named an Observer Best Debut Novel of 2026.
Latitude loved: the propulsive ‘we’ of the girls’ raw voice irresistible
Sufiyaan Salam: Wimmy Road Boyz
Wimmy Road Boyz follows three brown boys on a surreal night on Manchester’s Curry Mile; winner of the Merky Books New Writers’ Prize, the Guardian called Salam ‘a standard bearer for a new generation of literary novelists.’
Latitude loved: this shows the changing face and form of ‘literary’.