📚✨ VoW 2025 English Fiction Longlist ✨📚

This year’s English Fiction longlist invites readers into powerful worlds of imagination, landscape, memory, conflict, and longing. These novels traverse landscapes both real and mythical, offering stories that stay with you long after the final page.

🌿 The Longlist: 🔹 Border Crossers — Bhaskar Roy (published by Hachette) 🔹 From Pashas to Pokemon — Maaria Sayed (published by Vishwakarma) 🔹 General Firebrand and His Red Atlas — Tathagata Bhattacharya (published by Seagull) 🔹 Hill Songs of Love and Longing — Bijoya Sawian (published by While Falcon) 🔹 Into the Forest — Avtar Singh (published by Westland) 🔹 Island — Sujit Saraf (published by Speaking Tiger) 🔹 Never Never Land — Namita Gokhale (published by Speaking Tiger) 🔹 Rosarita — Anita Desai (published by PanMacmillan) 🔹 Swallowing the Sun — Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri (published by Aleph) 🔹 The Scent of Himalayas — Mona Verma (published by Readomania)

✨ These novels remind us of fiction’s power to transport, challenge, and heal.Which of these titles are you most excited to explore? Let us know in the comments!

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