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**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW** 'A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam.' ALI SMITH 'A writer we should be delirious to have as a contemporary.' INDEPENDENT The new novel from the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author Helen Oyeyemi. Oyeyemi treats you to a kaleidoscopic weekend...

**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021** LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2002 'One scarcely dares breathe while reading it for fear of breaking the enchantment' The Times _______________ On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from...

**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**'A careful and heartfelt exploration of the way memory inevitably consoles and disappoints us'and Sunday Times'Beautifully written and pleasurable ... The work of a maestro'and Guardian'An absorbing novel about abandonment and loss'and Daily Telegraph___________________________________Early one...

**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**An extraordinary depiction of the life of an immigrant, as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to EnglandDear Catherine,and he began.and Here I...

**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**Vehement, comic and shrewd, Abdulrazak Gurnah's first novel is an unwavering contemplation of East African coastal lifePoverty and depravity wreak havoc on Hassan Omar's family. Amid great hardship he decides to escape.The arrival of Independence...

*HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR THE 2021 CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD**and She's a murderer.and Everyone knows she killed Stuart Rees - why else would his dead body be found in her shed?So now Tabitha is in prison, awaiting trial.and Coming back to the remote coastal village...

**In development for the screen with Neal Street Productions**'THE MOST ORIGINAL CRIME NOVEL YOU'LL READ THIS YEAR' CLARE MACKINTOSH'THIS HAS TO BE A STRONG CONTENDER FOR CRIME DEBUT OF THE YEAR' T. M. LOGANIn the UK, someone is reported missing every 90 seconds.Just gone....

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SOMETIMES THE ONE WHO LOVES YOU IS THE ONE WHO HURTS YOU THE MOST.Lily hasn't always had it easy, but that's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She's come a long way from the small town in Maine where...

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*A CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY NOVEL* Your best friend is getting married. You're going to be her bridesmaid so you have a lot to deal with - the hen party, pre-wedding nerves, your dress, the men . . . So many men. And you...

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*FEATURING THE CHARACTERS YOU LOVED IN THE BOOKISH LIFE OF NINA HILL!* From the author of The Bookish Life of Nina Hill comes a story about friends who become our chosen family, proving that, even as adults, we all need help from time time....

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*Now a major Sky original production*THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL ANDand SUNDAY TIMESand BESTSELLER.and A Discovery of Witchesand is the first in the must-have, must-read ALL SOULS trilogy.It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of...

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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2023**An award-winning poet explodes the notion of translation, showing us the poem in a supple, malleable form'Formally inventive, rich in aslant borrowings, unafraid of visual and textual experiment, it is an exhilarating debut'and Guardian________________________________The...

*The #1and Sunday Timesand Bestseller**Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021**A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick*'A master craftsman.' Margaret Atwood'A delicate, haunting story'and The Washington Post'Ishiguro is a remarkable novelist' Neil Gaiman'This is a novel for fans ofand Never Let Me Go . . .and...

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. .Gautam Joshi is thirty years old, with a job in a call centre that his parentsthink is just one step up from unemployment and in a relationship that hisgirlfriend Michelle thinks is going nowhere. But Gautam loves his world.He makes more money than...

?Tabish Khair is the author of three critically acclaimed novelsThe Bus Stopped (2004), Filming: A Love Story (2007), and The Thing about Thugs (2010)and several poetry collections.

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Five years ago, Charlotte O'Keefe had everything she could want: a loving husband, a wonderful daughter and another child on the way.But when Willow was born with brittle bone disease, this perfect life shattered before her eyes. Now, as the years have gone by...

`A shocking account of extreme violence and its complicated after-effects. It is a vivid and unsettling novel filled with surprises and insights' Ian McGuire, bestselling author of The North Water 'A heart-breaking and heart-stopping new novel; a dark Northern noir that moves at breakneck...

1) Sultry Days On a sultry, rainy Bombay day Nisha, an impressionable teenager, meets God in the college canteen and falls in love with his ragged, bearded looks and crude, streetwise manners. God patronizingly accepts her into his 'group' and it is in this...

1. Read this book. 2. On reaching the final page, you may experience an urgent need to read it all over again. 3. Check your friends have read it. 4. NOW YOU ARE FREE TO TALK TO THEM ABOUT IT ENDLESSLY

100 Ideas that Changed Street Style is a look-by-look dissection of the key ideas that changed the way we dress - from the middle of the 20th century to the present day - explaining the most iconic items of clothing and how they were...

13 haunting tales perfect for fans of the bestselling author, R. L. Stine, of the Goosebumps series.Turn the pages if you dare. . . . In this collection of thirteen fabulously chilling stories from thirteen true masters of suspense, including fiveand New York Timesand...

15 short stories from young women Bangladeshi authors including: Shabnam Nadiya, Abeer Hoque, Tisa Muhaddes, Muniza Manzur, Shazia Omar, Sabrina Fatima Ahmed, Alizeh Ahmed, Iffat Nawaz and others... Daring, edgy and experimental stories looking at the experiences of contemporary life.

Relatable, heartbreaking, and real, this is a story of resilience--the perfect novel for readers of powerful contemporary fiction likeand Girl in Piecesand andand Every Last Word.Before, I was a million things. Now I'm only one. The Burned Girl.Ava Lee has lost everything there is...

1860s San Francisco. The Gold Rush has ended; the Civil War threatens to tear apart the country. The bards of the moment are the Bohemians: a young Mark Twain, fleeing the draft and seeking adventure; literary golden boy Bret Harte; struggling gay poet Charles...

1929. George and Serena Pemberton arrive in the wilds of the North Carolina mountains to build a life together in a rural logging town. Unlike any woman the timber empire has ever seen, Serena oversees crews, hunts rattlesnakes and saves her husband's life in...

1946, Texarkana: a town on the border of Texas and Arkansas. Disgraced New York reporter Charlie Yates has been sent to cover the story of a spate of brutal murders - young couples who've been slaughtered at a local date spot. Charlie finds himself...

1978 and two 14-year-old white boys are creating dubious art by using a hacksaw to cut multiple quarters into pieces. A child who's just bought ice cream from a Mr. Softee truck witnesses a daylight sidewalk shooting in 1979. At another time, a couple...

1994, rural China: Twelve-year-old Chen Di loves and protects her long-awaited little brother, but when she witnesses an unforgettable scene with her aunties and the authorities, everything she thought she knew about her community is ripped away from her.2002, Shanghai: A gutsy young aikido-practising...

2008. The California desert. A four-year-old autistic boy, Raj Matharu, disappears in the wilderness, plunging his wealthy New York parents into the surreal public hell of a media witch-hunt. But the desert is inexplicable and miraculous, and the Matharus' fate is bound up with...

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries...