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'A politically engaged, urgently plotted coming-of-age thriller with a wicked satirical streak' Anthony Cummins, Observer'A brilliant dissection of race, identity, masculinity and extremism' Monica Ali'Heart-breaking . . .captures modern times in the…
Whether you're an avid gamer, a Twitch subscriber, or just an incidental Subway Surfer, video games have changed the way you interact with the world, and have been part of our lives for over fifty years. Critical Hits is a celebration of play and playfulness,…
'Alison is a haunting book, complex and intimate. Lizzy Stewart has written and drawn the aches and confusions of love and growing up with immense skill' Posy SimmondsAlison is newly married, barely twenty and struggling to find her place in the world.…
'A classy thriller that will appeal to fans of Leila Slimani's Lullaby... A hot holiday read' Sunday Times'A superb debut novel... Anyone who enjoyed The White Lotus will love Thomas's scalpel-sharp skewering of the mores and idiocies of the idle rich'…
Slang is the language of pop culture, low culture, street culture, underground movements and secret societies; depending on your point of view, it is a badge of honour, a sign of identity or a dangerous assault on the values of polite society. Of all…
THE WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 COSTA NOVEL AWARD Sunday Times bestseller 'One of the most memorable historical novels of the past decade' Sunday Times London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life…
In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung's totalitarian regime. Smuggled out of North Korea and set for publication around the world in 2017, The…
The Book of Disquiet is one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. Written over the course of Fernando Pessoa's life, it was first published in 1982, pieced together from the thousands of individual manuscript pages left behind…
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL AND THE ROGERS WRITERS TRUST FICTION PRIZENew York Times Top Ten Book of the Year 2018When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation,…
'Simon Rich is outrageously, lavishly gifted'- Caitlin Moran'Simon Rich is the funniest writer alive'- Matt Haig'How fabulously funny'- Lauren Laverne'One of my favourite authors'- B J NovakFrom a bitter tell-all by a horse who made a man famous and…
'Devil-may-care daring and biting humour . . .Think Rachel Cusk's autofiction on skunk and OxyContin and you're in the right ballpark' The Times'In a literary culture swamped by clenched, worthy fiction and the writer as activist, her satirist's misanthropy…
'A beautiful little novel about books, history, ambition and the importance of literature.' Nick Hornby'Truly potent ... Adimi confronts us with episodes that are simply never spoken of in France' The New York Times Book ReviewIn 1936, a young dreamer…
'Alison is Posy Simmonds meets Edward Bawden - and really, what higher praise could there be?' ObserverSubtle and deliciously complicated, this is a big book on big subjects, but lightly, elegantly done. I loved it' Tessa Hadley, author of Free LoveAlison…
*PRE-ORDER KAREN JOY FOWLER'S NEW NOVEL, BOOTH, TODAY*Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014The Million Copy Best-SellerRosemary's young, just at college, and she's decided not to tell anyone a thing about her family. So we're not going to tell you…