Isaac

A powerful coming-of-age story for our times, interrogating masculinity and queerness in the digital age as well as offering a fresh take on desire and intimacy, adolescent obsession and dangerous first love. ...

So vivid and real, it brought a thousand memories rushing back... I loved the sheer power of Isaac's emotions, overwhelming him - that lovely, awful, endless battle, asking of your boyfriend: who are you? Which is really asking: who am I?

A wryly honest tale... It stirred bittersweet memories of wanting to astonish the world even while hating the skin I was in. Garner is clearly one to watch

Garner's impressive debut novel, bold and unflinching, asks how we project different identities onto those whom we love - or think we do

Garner's writing is so wrenchingly tender that it will remind you of glorious (or otherwise) moments from your own misspent youth... One of 2024's most captivating and evocative debut novels

A luminous and beautiful debut about coming-of-age in London today. An instant queer classic

Curtis Garner is the author of the ‘instant queer classic’ Isaac, which was published in 2024 to critical acclaim. He was born in Cornwall in 1996 and moved to London when he was eighteen to study Creative Writing and English Literature. He graduated in 2017 and has been working in publishing since. In 2020 he also received an MA with Distinction from Manchester Writing School, where much of Isaac was written. In his spare time he reviews novels on Instagram (@queer_novels). Orange is his second novel.