Luke Kennard Book order (chronological)

In Luke Kennard’s audacious new novel, a penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a job working for Dr. Blend, a university professor who is conducting a psychological experiment. How will Dr. Blend’s students react to someone zipped into an oversized bag, sitting at the back of the lecture hall over a series of Fall lectures? The role, eagerly accepted, soon has unexpected consequences. A professor of post-humanism develops research questions of her own—in particular, can you love someone secreted away inside a black bag?—and the actor’s childhood friend forms a vision for monetizing this new situation . . . A warped campus novel, an investigation into the crisis of masculinity, and an off-kilter love story, Black Bag is a firework of a blazingly funny and profoundly humane.

The fifty poets included are: Paul Asta, Charlie Baylis, Daniel Bennett, Niall Bourke, Alan Buckley, Jo Burns, Jenna Clake, Simon Collings, Elaine Cosgrove, Anne Cousins, Harriet Creelman, Thomas Crompton, Emma Danes, Susannah Dickey, Edward Doegar, Charlotte Eichler, Ken Evans, Adele Fraser, Andrew F. Giles, Maeve Henry, Robin Houghton, Antony Huen, Majella Kelly, Anna Kisby, Joe Lines, John McGhee, Simon Middleton, Jessica Mookherjee, Daniella Moritz, Emma Must, Paul Nash, Jack Nicholls, Richard O’Brien, Elizabeth O’Connell-Thompson, Geraldine O’Kane, Matthew Paul, James Peake, Rachel Piercey, Lauren Pope, Jody Porter, Samuel Prince, Matthew Rice, Samantha Roden, Sarah Sibley, Luke Smith, Jayne Stanton, James Trevelyan, Deborah Turnbull, Carolyn Waudby, and Kate Wise.

Black Mirror meets David Nicholls in this dark and funny novel about love in dystopian times LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE FOR FICTION Karl has let his debts get wildly out of control and, in desperation, has sort of semi-accidentally committed credit-card fraud. Now he could have to go to prison, so when he and his wife Genevieve are instead offered a place on a mysterious self-improvement scheme called The Transition, they agree. It's only six months, after all, and at first all it requires is that they give up their credit cards and move into the spare room of their 'mentors', Janna and Stu, who seem perfectly lovely . . . 'A total page-turner' Nathan Filer , author of The Shock of the Fall 'The sort of book that has you walking blindly through seven lanes of traffic with your face pressed obliviously to the page' The Times 'Very funny, compassionate and scathing. Just the ticket for fans of Jonathan Coe' Laline Paull, author of The Bees 'Richly enjoyable, tenderly devastating' Guardian