Kingfisher

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ISBN: 9781916812352

Shortlisted for the 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction

Rozie Kelly

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English

Saraband
10 February 2026

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction: special features

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*Shortlisted, Women's Prize for Fiction 2026
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An electrifying debut novel about grief, power and desire

and the tangles in between that make up a life.

When a creative writing academic becomes infatuated with his colleague

the poet

his fascination soon begins to threaten his relationship with his partner, Michael. Michael is beautiful. Michael is safe. But the poet is everything he isn't; she has everything he wants. While he writes about steel and sex, she dreams about the movements of swallows. While he tends to his budding career, she writes from her big, white house in the woods.

Meanwhile, his homophobic and spiteful mother

who cast a shadow over his childhood

is continuing to make his life difficult. As he is pulled back and forth between these two different worlds, his fixation on the poet, his Kingfisher, grows into something more powerful. She becomes his sole focus. He is hypnotised.

But when simultaneous illnesses threaten to destroy the precarious reality he clings to, he's forced to question what he can and cannot take from someone.

By: Rozie Kelly
Imprint: Saraband
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781916812352
ISBN 10: 191681235X
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 10 February 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rozie Kelly is a prose writer based in West Yorkshire, England. After reading English Literature and Creative Writing she now works for the Arvon Foundation, hosting creative writing courses. She was shortlisted for the PFD Queer Fiction Prize 2023 and is one of the eight participants in the inaugural Prototype Development Programme, which offers extended support and career development to emerging writers and artists. She won the 2024 NorthBound Book Award for Kingfisher, her debut novel.

Reviews for Kingfisher: Shortlisted for the 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction

'A special novel — lyrical, bold and intimate — by a writer with enormous talent who has an exciting future.' -- Will Mackie, New Writing North 'A strikingly original voice.' -- Maya Caspari 'An immaculately crafted novel … [a] distinctive new voice and … compelling characters.' -- Adam Farrer 'A beautifully rendered novel exploring the psychology of relationships, whose fresh voice, stylistic flair and keen observational insight stunned me, as a fellow writer, with a curious mixture of admiration and envy.' -- Shaun Wilson