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The best fiction to read this year —New Statesman Our 25 most anticipated fiction books for 2026 —Shortlist Magazine My Bags Are Big, a darkly comic satire of wealth, reinvention, and regret – set against the surreal backdrop of Dubai. ‘Is it merely a long con? Is Bitcoin just a mighty payday, or have I gatecrashed one of the great moments of history? Up there with the enslavement of fire, the invention of writing, the power of flight. A moment everyone will be pointing to for thousands of years, as long as there are people to point. And Dan was there. Bitcoin rulz okay?’ With Fischer’s trademark wit, philosophical flair, and scathing insight into the absurdities of modern life, My Bags Are Big is a brilliant satire of masculinity, memory, and the costs of pretending you’ve moved on.

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In an ever-changing world, some people can be relied upon to remain fully themselves. Fischer, who is just a few years older than his narrator, made a literary splash in the 90s with novels including The Thought Gang, a surreal caper about a philosopher turned bank robber. Thirty years on, he has conceived another renegade chancer; the storytelling is zippier here, and the absurdism slightly dialled down, but the jaunty voice and cynical, compulsively wisecracking comic sensibility are unchanged. -- Houman Barekat * The Guardian * If you long for that far-off time when novels were prepared to be hilariously funny, vulgar, caustic, wildly politically incorrect and highly improbable you are going to love My Bags Are Big. Tibor Fischer has always been happy to write against the pieties of the age, whatever they might be. -- Ian Sansom * The Spectator * My Bags Are Big, a scorchingly funny tale set in the world of cryptocurrency. -- Chris Harvey * The Telegraph * My Bags Are Big is a taut book that needs to be read at least twice … Like crypto itself, Dan is an enigma – and a truly enjoyable one to try to solve. -- Kyle Wyatt * TLS * THE BEST NEW FICTION Crackling with quips, [Tibor Fischer’s] new novel follows a widowed Bitcoin trader in Dubai, recalling the sexual shenanigans and dodgy deals of his rackety salad days in south London. A knockabout satire with a nice line in wry self-deflation. -- Anthony Cummins * Mail on Sunday * 10 new fiction books to kickstart your 2026 reading list The novel clips along … in large part down to Dan’s hustle-propelled, crime-adjacent life story and a cast of eccentric characters with delicious names. -- Sophie Charara * Shortlist * The book’s underlying point is timeless: Money never fixes meaning. It just strips away the excuses. -- Cory Klippsten * X.com * Vulgar and irreverent ... part life biography, part perverted fantasy. He has me bent over in laughter more than once. * Stacker News *

The book’s underlying point is timeless: Money never fixes meaning. It just strips away the excuses. -- Cory Klippsten * X.com * My Bags Are Big, a scorchingly funny tale set in the world of cryptocurrency. -- Chris Harvey * The Telegraph *

The book’s underlying point is timeless: Money never fixes meaning. It just strips away the excuses. -- Cory Klippsten * X.com *

Author Information

Tibor Fischer was born in London in 1959. He is the author of Under the Frog, which won the Betty Trask Award and was a finalist for the Booker Prize. In 1993, he was named by Granta as one of the Best of Young British Novelists.

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