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Winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2018Jay Bernard’s extraordinary debut is a fearlessly original exploration of the black British archive: an enquiry ...

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‘A poet of extraordinary range and ambition . . . convincing in both the grand gesture and the reverent contemplation of a humble plate of eggs’ The New York Times ...

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A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western culture—by one of its greatest exponents

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A timely queer protest novel set in the drag ball community of New York City, from a Green Carnation Prize-shortlisted author

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The friends become intimate as they wait together for the Lord to return to their very own Garden of Eden and to begin with the signs all seem to signal that finally Dilys ...

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An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honour – available for pre-order now ‘One of the best writers in the world ...

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This immersive, accessible and thought-provoking book takes the reader on a journey – from Los Angeles to Istanbul, via London, Stockholm and Belgrade – to explore the ...

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THE EXTRAORDINARY #1 BESTSELLER – a word-of-mouth literary phenomenon ‘Do not read this book in public: it will make you cry’ Anne Enright ‘Unsparing, formidable, ...

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a transcendant, transporting experience’ Observer’A full-throttle blast of storytelling mastery’ Max PorterA newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane ...

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In her new novel, Christina Hesselholdt delves into the world of the enigmatic American photographer, Vivian Maier (1926-2009), whose unique photographic body of work only ...

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“Isabel Waidner will save the nation & save our souls.” —Joanna Walsh

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Over the course of several years, Simon Armitage has written hundreds of poems for various projects, commissions, collaborations and events, which stand outside of his ...

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Transposing Virginia Woolf’s Orlando to 90s San Francisco, this novel of transgender metamorphosis is a wild, sexy, funny and moving story of living on the edge.

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Compelling memoir of the UK’s leading human rights lawyer. Both funny and personal, it follows on from his best selling memoir The Justice Game, bringing Robertson’s ...

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The bestselling author of The Beauty Myth, Vagina and The End of America illuminates a dramatic history – how the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 led to a maelstrom, with ...

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An Observer Hottest-Tipped Debut Novelist of 2019 and Elle One To Watch‘I think this is the best debut fiction I’ve ever read... If you like David Nicholls, Tessa Hadley, ...

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Frank, conversational and suffused with a dry humour, this book is a record of poet and novelist Lieke Marsman’s diagnosis, events and thoughts of having bone cancer. An ...

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Teeming with life and crackling with energy – a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood ‘There is an astonishing uniqueness to all Bernardine Evaristo’s ...

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The Doll Factory, the debut novel by Elizabeth Macneal, is a story of art, obsession and possession set in Victorian London.

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A beautiful, stunningly ambitious tale of endurance, identity, and memory, for fans of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko and Georgia Hunter’s We Were the Lucky Ones.

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Gathering the best of her first five collections, a ‘sexy, cerebral and romantic’ introduction to one of the US’s most charismatic and original poets Loose-limbed, ...

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To Throw Away Unopened is a fearless dissection of one woman’s obsession with the truth – the truth about family, power, and her identity as a rebel and outsider.

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The stories of Berlin are the stories BUILT ON SAND; a novel offering a portrait of a city three decades on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the legacy of that history in ...

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Spanning five centuries, this is a darkly gothic thriller about murderous obsession and one girl’s longing to fly free.

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‘A smart, funny and well-written take-down of modern showbiz’ ELIZABETH DAYCult heroine Zawe Ashton brings us a unique look at life, work and the absurdities of ...

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It was 11pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped would be forever.

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What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, ...

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Sometimes you just have to think of England. It may be embarrassing, it may be awful, but it exists. Max Porter’s Lanny – his second novel – is partly about an idea of ...

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One of my parents’ favourite Soviet films is called Autumn Marathon. Its main character, an academic translator, is living a double life. Out of divided loyalties rather ...

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SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR MOJO BOOK OF THE YEAR In 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could ...

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A poignant story of three young adults trying to make a future for themselves in war-torn Damascus

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The debut novel from Adam Scovell (Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange) MOTHLIGHT is an uncanny story of grief, memory and the price of obsession, steeped in dusty ...

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But when punk rock arrives and the hard edge of the decade starts to reveal its true paranoid colours, Sammy finds himself increasingly isolated, especially after bizarre and ...

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Henry Banks, a brilliant but narcissistic young actor, is prepared to go to any length for a role, to capitalise on his successes in television drama by securing the lead in ...

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The year 2036; in a broken, post-Federal America, ex-Marine Frank Dubois journeys from LA to Detroit to find redemption. In present day Hollywood, a British film director hustles ...

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NOCILLA LAB is the third volume in the celebrated Nocilla Trilogy by Agustin Fernandez Mallo, translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead.