Hold your hand out for twelve of the best.

So many new writers, so little time.  So where do you start?  Well why not let those lovely peeps on the Culture Show give you a hand?

These are the twelve début novelists selected for the Culture Show special that was broadcast earlier this month (you can probably still get it on catch-up - unless you're reading this in the dim and distant future - where have you been?)
 

The list which comprises seven female authors and five male was picked by a panel comprising Alex Clark, critic and broadcaster, Janet Lee, editor of  "The Culture Show" and novelists Helen Oyeyemi and Sam Leith.

• David Abbott - The Upright Piano Player

• Jenn Ashworth - A Kind of Intimacy

• Ned Beauman - Boxer Beetle

• Deborah Kay Davies - True Things About Me

• Samantha Harvey - The Wilderness

• Adam Haslett - Union Atlantic 

• Rebecca Hunt - Mr Chartwell 

• Stephen Kelman - Pigeon English

• Jim Powell - The Breaking of Eggs

• Anna Richards - Little Gods

• Eleanor Thom - In The Tin-Kin 

• Evie Wyld - After the Fire, A Still Small Voice

And do we have them in stock?  We surely do (well most of them).  Just click on the title to check their availability.

And the two little tinkers we don't currently have, will be added to stock as soon as possible.

And now they have been, or at least they're on-order.  Don't they look smart in their new underlined blueness?  Bless.