The Given World is set in a rural community in the fictional village of Lower Eodham, in the Welm Valley in southern England. It’s set in a modern-feeling world, albeit one in which an unnamed (but very Climate Crisis-y) threat is more imminently looming. Its chapters take turns in offering the perspective of a range of characters who make up the village, each dealing with their own personal issues, from tragedies to minor conflicts, alongside Harrison’s documenting of the unravelling of the social and environmental constructs that held the village and its community together.

Treacle Walker is a short and highly distinctive novel. In it, a young boy call Joseph Coppock, in recovery from illness and suffering from a lazy eye, has an encounter with the titular rag-and-bone man, with whom he makes a trade of his dirty pyjamas and an old lamb bone, receiving in return an empty jar of medicine and a donkey stone. In its few pages, Joseph encounters a naked ‘bog man’ named Thin Amren, sees characters from his Knockout comic leap off the page and join him in a reality-bending adventure involving mirrors and marbles, communes with cuckoos and learns via a visit to an optician that he sees different realities through his good and bad eyes.