Yara Rodrigues Fowler is a writer from South London. Her first novel, Stubborn Archivist, was longlisted for the Desmond Elliot and Dylan Thomas Prizes and shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2019. there are more things was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022 and the Goldsmiths Prize 2022. Yara is also a part-time organiser.
'there are more things is a vivid and expansive novel of
sisterhood, love and connection. Reading it is a true experience of
joy, and of hope'
*Sophie Mackintosh, author of THE WATER CURE*
'A serious accomplishment from a talented writer with a gloriously
untethered style'
*Sunday Times*
there are more things builds on the formal innovation of Yara
Rodrigues Fowler's first novel in a blistering collage of
revolution, sisterhood and joy. Set between contemporary Britain
and Brazil's military dictatorship, this book explores the forces
outside of ourselves that bind us together and wrench us apart. Her
work is honest about political and personal losses, yet strung with
light and hope. She reminds us of the power we hold in our
individual bodies and the potency of collective strength. there are
more things illuminates the societal structures that ensnare us and
captures the exuberance and heartache in longing for a better
world
*Jessica Andrews, author of SALTWATER*
A lyrical celebration, and mourning, of women driven to and
empowered by activism and community engagement . . . Yara Rodrigues
Fowler depicts agitation and revolution as a combination of
personal and shared moments, filled with hope, loss, loneliness and
love
*TLS*
Gripping. Yara writes about London like no other and she made me
fall in love with the city all over again. A lyrical, relatable and
fiercely intelligent tale of first loves, friendships, family and
politics told with generosity, skill and compassion.'
*Zeba Talkhani, author of MY PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY*
typically magnificent from a unique writer
*Musa Okwonga*
An empowering, lyrical and radical book about friendship, protest
movements, community and the power of standing up for what you
believe in. Yara once again rips up what we consider to be a novel
and pushes the form forward in an exciting and readable way
*Nikesh Shukla*
there are more things is it's own thing. Situated closely and
confidently in the idioms of people navigating a politics that feel
true and nuanced, with it's own theory of translating experience,
intergenerational histories, place and language.There is a wit too
to this book that feels like a wink of familiarity in a pub,
discussing the next best thing over a sticking counter. In a crisp
and astute poetics, Yara makes music of the warm breath between
people
*Tice Cin, author of KEEPING THE HOUSE*
there are more things is a book about freedom and solidarity and
joy. It will make you yearn for freedom and believe in more and
deeper possibilities than you ever thought possible. Yara Rodrigues
Fowler brilliantly brings to life lives lived freely and fully. I
couldn't put it down
*Amelia Horgan, author of LOST IN WORK*
A novel as a stack of polaroids, whose every day moments are
saturated with the love, pain and grief women carry across
generations and political movements, there are more things is a
beautiful, unusual and vital novel, seeking and forging powerful
connections across time
*Preti Taneja*
An ambitious and important novel from one of the UK's most talented
young writers. The book gathers so much into its complex strands,
from the nature of exile and uprootedness to friendship it takes us
to Brazil and circles us back to the precarity of London living
experienced by so many today. It gives us a window into lives so
often dismissed and ignored. Fowler's female characters are so
sensitively drawn... This is a talented writer who has written
something both moving and complex
*Mona Arshi*
Written with a painful tenderness, Yara's book pours generously
like honey and sticks uncomfortably around questions of home,
family, and love. A beautiful and heart aching testament of
sisterhood and collectivity, Yara's second novel is a gift to spend
time with, a book to tread delicately through
*Liv Wynter*
Yara Rodrigues Fowler is an urgently important and captivating
voice. there are more things kept me enchanted from the first
page
*Vincent Bevins*
a phenomenal story of two women, revolution, and finding a place in
the world. A book of epic scope & intricate detail. Stunning
*Katie Hale, author of MY NAME IS MONSTER*
full of the emancipatory and radical potential of joy
*Keiran Goddard*
there are more things is an exquisite story of love and revolution,
friendship and heartbreak, language and history, beautifully told
and so powerfully felt. This is a transportative and captivating
novel - I truly felt as though I lived and breathed among its pages
and will be thinking about it for a very long time. Yara Rodrigues
Fowler is an outstanding writer and this is a truly brilliant
literary and political achievement
*Lucia Osbourne-Crowley*
A stirring portrait of the legacy of violence . . . experimental
and evocative . . . While the themes that this novel tackles are
harrowing, they are handled with the most delicate and deft touch.
Issues like queerness, casual racism, the anxiety of being in a
foreign land and the pressure of being grateful for being allowed
the same opportunities as a white person are sensitively depicted
in Fowler's vivid prose
*Irish Times*
A large-hearted novel of sisterhood and resistance
*New Statesman*
Reignited my mind and my passion. It is a glorious, poetic,
expansive feat that traverses sisterhood, and love, and revolution
and home, and the bravery it takes to question what oppresses
*Bolu Babalola*
This is a vibrant, sensual, olfactory modern novel that celebrates
kinship, food, music, mixed heritage, the rhythms of the city,
political and sexual awakenings. Formally experimental, but never
forbiddingly so, it is a seductive, propulsive read
*The Times*
A political novel rooted in power and cemented in hope
*The Skinny, Books of the Year 2022*
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