17th July 2026

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A Healthy Appetite

Katie Huttlestone

Drawing on the author’s experiences of chronic illness and disability, this darkly comic and unsettling novel asks what price we are willing to pay for survival. Longlisted for both the Lucy Cavendish Prize for Fiction and the Blue Pencil Agency Pitch Prize.

Dead Ink Books, £10.99, 13 August 2026, 9781917792264

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Natasha Onwuemezi

Natasha Onwuemezi

Tasha Onwuemezi is associate editor of The Bookseller and a freelance writer and editor.

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