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From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an enchanting and haunting Christmas short story**Named a book to look out for in 2024 by the Sunday Times, Guardian and BBC****A small…
'Highly original, deeply moving, simultaneously delicate yet hard hitting' Claire Kilroy'Brilliant, provocative, and darkly funny' Sarah Dunn'Unique, refreshing and revelatory ... Reads the zeitgeist perfectly' Helen Cullen'Intriguing, fresh, and satisfyingly…
This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, dreaming of better futures. It is about Leiya, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the factory floor.…
'A magnificent, sweeping epic' JENNIFER SAINT, Sunday Times-bestselling author of ARIADNE'Shannon is simply a master of the genre' C. S. PACAT, New York Times-bestselling author of DARK RISE'A tremendous triumph' LONDON SHAH, award-winning author of…
STANFORDS BOOK OF THE MONTH - JANUARY 2023'Nothing less than a guided tour of the human soul' Elizabeth Gilbert'In elegant and ecstatic prose, Pico Iyer uncovers our wonderful capacity for hope' Katherine MayOne of our most perceptive travel writers…
From the author of The Night Rainbow: a poignant, mysterious and unforgettable story of love, and of the happy endings we conceive for ourselvesWhat I want is something that makes me feel alive. Joy, passion, despair, something to remember or something…
'An immensely talented young writer ... Her fearlessness renews one's faith in the power of literature' George Saunders, author of Lincoln in he Bardo, winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize Something has happened to Peach. It hurts to walk but she staggers…
A revelatory narrative charting the lives and works of legendary authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism 'The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts,' the American author Willa…
Every day, President Obama received ten thousand letters from ordinary American citizens. Every night, he read ten of them before going to bed. This is the story of how they shaped his presidency.Together they reveal the diary of a nation.In To Obama,…
One family's adventures in LSD: the brilliantly strange new novel from the mind of `one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today' (Lionel Shriver)It is Harvard in the early 1960s. Just off campus, Dr Timothy…
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER`A book that blazes, glitters and cuts to the heart of who we are. I'm not sure that a book can do much more' SUNDAY TIMES`I will probably re-read it every year of my life'…
'This book! Swedish, confessional, shockingly honest about desire, love, loss. I've read it twice now and can't stop thinking about Carolina. Utterly compulsive' MARIAN KEYESBrutally candid.The most compelling book I ve read in years THE TIMESQuite simply…
'Unmissable ... Incredible' STYLIST Amazing ... I read it in one sitting, completely swept up in Ana s fragmented narrative' EMMA HEALEY 'Dark, riveting, powerful' ELIZABETH DAY One of our most original writers.Sarah has almost created…
'The powerful new voice of her generation'The Times'Funny, nuanced and wonderful' Jon Ronson'A book that had me hollering, nodding and questioning at the same time' Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie'Funny, educational, enlightening . . .Way ahead…
A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work, from the origins of life on Earth to our ever-more automated present, that challenges some of our deepest assumptions about who we are. The work we do brings us meaning, moulds our values,…
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE A page-turner with the authority of history PHILIPPA GREGORY As gripping as a novel. An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read SARAH WATERS A wonderful book about the world…
History has not been kind to Himalaya. Empires have collided here, cultures clashed. Buddhist India claimed it from the south, Islam put down roots in its western approaches, Mongols and Manchus rode in from the north, and, from the east, China continues…
The witty, improbably propulsive rom-com you didn't know you were waiting for' ELIF BATUMAN Razor sharp and very funny on the cult of modern dating' PANDORA SYKES So good. I couldn't stop reading it' NICK HORNBY Cult Classic makes an uproarious time…
'GROUNDBREAKING . . .THIS IS GOING TO BE ONE OF THE BIG BOOKS OF 2022' STYLIST 'ELECTRIFYING . . .MARKS THE INTRODUCTION OF A REMARKABLE NEW TALENT' OPRAH DAILY 'A SCORCHING, INCREDIBLY READABLE BOOK . . .LEILA MOTTLEY…
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'The new Game of Thrones' Stylist'Puts Samantha Shannon in the same league as Robin Hobb and George R.R. Martin. Shannon is a master of dragons' StarburstEpic fantasy with added dragons.A blockbuster Guardian,…