FICTION & CRIME PAPERBACKS
Freshwater Akwaeke Emezi Ada has always been an unusual girl. Prone to violent fits of anger and grief, she increasingly appears to be peopled by volatile and contradictory spirits. But when Ada heads to college in America, a traumatic event crystallises the spirits into something more powerful. As Ada fades into the background, these selves seize control of her, moving her life in a dark and dangerous direction. ‘Sheer perfection: sexy, sensual, spiritual, wise. One of the most dazzling debuts I’ve ever read.’ Taiye Selasi, author of Ghana Must Go ‘A startling debut novel.’ New Yorker ‘Ground-shaking . . . It is a battle for a body and a soul, and the stakes are high.’ Paris Review
FICTION & CRIME PAPERBACKS
The Expedition to the Baobab Tree Wilma Stockenström A young slave girl, lost in the woods, takes refuge in the hollow of a baobab tree. There, she reflects upon her life's journey, telling her story to the baobab itself. This powerful fable, translated from Wilma Stockenström’s original Afrikaans by Nobel Prize-winner J. M. Coetzee, is a remarkable portrait of dislocation and empowerment. It is also a brilliant insight into Coetzee’s craft as a writer. ‘A mysterious marvel, telling a dreamlike tale of pleasure and boundless pain . . . J. M. Coetzee’s translation from the original Afrikaans is marvellous.’ Guardian ‘Coetzee’s tightly paced, restrained rendering of a complex text gives due weight to every word. It should ensure that Stockenström’s compelling picture of suffering and loss becomes a classic in English as well as Afrikaans.’ Times Literary Supplement
The Fountain in the Forest Tony White
City Without Stars Tim Baker
Don’t Skip Out on Me Willy Vlautin
Consent Leo Benedictus
When a brutally murdered man is found in a Covent Garden theatre, Detective Sergeant Rex King becomes obsessed with the case. But as Rex explores the crime, he finds himself confronting his own secret history instead.
In Ciudad Real, Mexico, a war between rival cartels is erupting, and hundreds of sweatshop workers are being murdered. As his police superiors start shutting down his investigation, Detective Fuentes suspects that his colleagues are on the payroll of the narco kingpin, El Santo. And when the name of the saintly orphan-rescuer Padre Márcio keeps surfacing, Fuentes begins to realise how deep the cover-up goes . . .
Meet Horace Hopper, a twentyone-year-old farm hand in Nevada, who works for Mr Reese and his wife, the nearest thing he’s had to a family in years.
Frances is bright, young and single, enjoying life and her burgeoning career in the big city.
Moving from Holborn Police Station to an abandoned village in rural 1980s France, The Fountain in the Forest is both a thrilling crime mystery and a dizzyingly unique novel of unparalleled ambition. ‘Rich and riveting.’ Guardian ‘Fascinating, beautifully written and really original.’ Literary Review ‘A gripping police procedural . . . Sets the author and his readers a bracingly high bar.’ Times Literary Supplement
‘Too gripping to put down.’ Sunday Express ‘One of those books that just won’t let you go – not when you’re reading it and not for a long time afterwards.’ Stav Sherez, author of A Dark Redemption and The Intrusions ‘A tense, fast-paced thriller, its short, sharp chapters pulling no punches and sparing no gruesome detail.’ Thriller Books Journal
But Horace dreams of bigger things, and heads south to reinvent himself as a boxer. Does he have what it takes to succeed? And at what cost, both to himself and to those he’s left behind? ‘Magnificent. Willy Vlautin is now one of America’s great writers.’ Roddy Doyle ‘[Vlautin] is the literary version of a Neil Young or a Tom Petty, bearing a ragged standard for empathy, compassion and decency.’ Irish Times
But after attracting the attentions of a stranger, her life begins to unravel from the inside out. A seductive novel of power and complicity, Consent shows us just how vulnerable we are to the will of others – people we may not even know . . . ‘Enormously compelling.’ Observer ‘A fascinating, disturbing and original thriller.’ Sophie Hannah ‘[A] page-turner . . . Consent is thought-provoking as well as shocking.’ Metro
‘Horace’s search for identity and meaning amid the white noise of urban life feels like a curiously relevant tale for us all.’ Guardian
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