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FICTION & CRIME

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KAZUO ISHIGURO was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His eight previous works of fiction have been translated into over fifty languages and have earned him many honours around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize.

Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro

Light Perpetual Francis Spufford

From the bestselling, Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel that asks: what does it mean to love?

From the bestselling, prize-winning author of Golden Hill, a novel of the miraculous, the everlasting and the everyday.

This is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change for ever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans.

A German rocket incinerates a South London householdgoods store and five young lives are atomised in an instant.

A thrilling feat of world-building, a novel of exquisite tenderness and impeccable restraint, Klara and the Sun is a magnificent achievement and an international literary event.

‘A master craftsman.’ Margaret Atwood ‘Ishiguro is a remarkable novelist.’ Neil Gaiman

A tragedy.

But what is lost is not just the children’s present existence.

It’s all the futures they won’t get to have. All the would-be’s, might-be’s and could-be’s of the decades to come.

Light Perpetual lets run an alternative reel of time, resurrecting five souls to live through the extraordinary, unimaginable changes of the bustling immensity of twentieth-century London. Ingenious and profound, full of warmth and beauty, it is a sweeping and intimate celebration of the gift of life.

‘Just wonderful.’ Jan Morris, praise for Golden Hill ‘Francis Spufford has one of the most original minds in contemporary literature.’ Nick Hornby

02/03/2021 HB | 9780571364879 | 320pp | £20.00

FRANCIS SPUFFORD’s debut novel, Golden Hill, won the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Rathbones Folio Prize, the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award and the British Book Awards Debut Novel of the Year. He teaches at Goldsmiths College.

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LEONE ROSS was born in England and grew up in Jamaica. Her first novel, All the Blood Is Red, was longlisted for the Orange Prize and her first short-story collection, Come Let Us Sing Anyway, was longlisted for the Jhalak Prize and shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize in 2018. She is a senior lecturer in creative writing at Roehampton University in London and a senior fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.

This One Sky Day Leone Ross

Second Place Rachel Cusk

A sensual meditation on the nature of love and addiction, this dazzling and incisive novel satirises postcolonial society and celebrates oddness.

From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline.

Dawn breaks across the archipelago of Popisho. The world is stirring awake again, each resident with their own list of things to do: A wedding feast to conjure and cook.

An infidelity to investigate.

A lost soul to set free.

As the sun rises, two star-crossed lovers try to find their way back to one another across this single day. When night falls, all have been given a gift, and many are no longer the same.

The sky is pink, and some wonder if it will ever be blue again.

A woman invites a famed artist to visit the remote coastal region where she lives, in the belief that his vision will penetrate the mystery of her life and landscape. His provocative presence provides the frame for a study of female fate and male privilege, of the geometries of human relationships and of the struggle to live morally. With its examination of the possibility that art can both save and destroy us, Second Place is deeply affirming of the human soul, while grappling with its darkest demons.

RACHEL CUSK is the author of the Outline trilogy, the essay collection Coventry, three memoirs and several other novels. She was chosen as one of Granta’s 2003 Best Young British Novelists. She has been shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize three times, most recently for Kudos.

Praise for the Outline trilogy: ‘A landmark in twenty-first-century English literature.’

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REBECCA WATSON is Assistant Arts Editor at the Financial Times. Her work has been published in the Times Literary Supplement and Granta. In 2018, she was shortlisted for the White Review Short Story Prize.

little scratch Rebecca Watson

A Crooked Tree Una Mannion

Literature at its freshest – the virtuosic and powerfully affecting debut by a thrilling new British talent.

This is the story of Libby and her siblings over one long hot summer, and how one decision can have terrible unintended consequences . . .

little scratch tells the story of a day in the life of an unnamed young woman. She wakes up, goes to work. She watches the clock and checks her phone. Underneath this monotony, there’s something else going on; something under her skin.

In a voice that is at once fierce, profound and delicate, the protagonist relays what it takes to travel that single trajectory: from morning to night. Along the way – every minute – ideas about sex, violence, survival and comedy intertwine. The result is a fearless and unforgettable work of fiction. ‘little scratch is a story that is urgent. It is a story that needs to be told.’ Meena Kandasamy

Rage. That’s the feeling engulfing the car as Ellen’s mother swerves over to the hard-shoulder and orders her daughter out onto the roadside. Ignoring the protests of her other children, she accelerates away, leaving Ellen standing on the gravel verge in her school pinafore and knee socks as the light fades.

What would you do as you watch your little sister getting smaller in the rear-view window? How far would you be willing to go to help her? The Gallagher children are going to find out.

This moment is the beginning of a summer that will change everything.

UNA MANNION was born in Philadelphia and lives in County Sligo, Ireland. She has won numerous prizes for her work including the Hennessy Emerging Poetry Award and the Doolin, Cúirt, Allingham and Ambit shortstory prizes. Her work has been published in the Irish Times, the Lonely Crowd, Crannóg and Bare Fiction. She edits the Cormorant, a broadsheet of prose and poetry. A Crooked Tree is her debut novel.

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‘Reads like the cinders settling in the air after an explosion . . . daring and completely readable.’ Colin Barrett

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KRISTEN LEPIONKA is the author of The Last Place You Look (2017), winner of the Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel; What You Want to See (2018); and The Stories You Tell (2019). She lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her partner and two cats.

Once You Go This Far Kristen Lepionka

Hurdy Gurdy Christopher Wilson

You know Reacher, Rebus and Grace. Now meet Roxane Weary . . .

A bitingly funny historical novel, following Brother Diggory on a journey through fourteenth-century England.

Following the death of her cop father, PI Roxane Weary is getting tired of the hangovers, of fighting with her ex-girlfriend and of avoiding her mother. So when she’s asked to investigate a suspicious death, she delves into the case with her usual stubborn determination.

Pulling her far from home and into an insular and controlling evangelical community, the case might be bigger than Roxane can handle alone. Is it too late, or too dangerous, to call on the people she needs?

‘Read Kristen Lepionka, whom I think of as writing “alt-PI” novels. Doing for the next generation what Paretsky, Muller and Grafton did for us.’ Val McDermid

It is the year of our Lord 1349 and it is the season of the plague. Novice friar Brother Diggory, now sixteen, has lived in the monastery of the Order of Saint Odo at Whye since his eighth birthday. But his life is about to change. The sickness is creeping ever closer and the monks must attend to the victims. When Brother Diggory is nominated to tend to those afflicted, he realises he is about to meet the plague and that it is more powerful than him. What he doesn’t realise is that encountering an illness and understanding it are two quite different things . . .

CHRISTOPHER WILSON’s novels include Gallimauf’s Gospel, Baa, Blueglass, Mischief, Fou, The Wurd, The Ballad of Lee Cotton, Nookie and, most recently, The Zoo (2017), which was shortlisted for the HWA Gold Crown Award. His work has been translated into several languages, adapted for the stage, longlisted for the Booker Prize and twice shortlisted for the Whitbread Fiction Prize. He lives in North London.

‘A gift for creating compelling outsiders resonates throughout Christopher Wilson’s novels.’ Observer

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PAUL KINGSNORTH’s debut novel, The Wake, won the 2014 Gordon Burn Prize and the Bookseller Book of the Year Award, as well as being longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Folio Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize, and shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. Beast, the second book in his Buckmaster trilogy, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Encore Award 2017.

18/02/2021 HB | 9780571322107 | 416pp | £16.99

Alexandria Paul Kingsnorth

Temporary Hilary Leichter

The visionary final novel in the iconic Buckmaster trilogy – a timely and seminal portrait of climate apocalypse.

The cult American hit – ‘Alice in Wonderland set in the gig economy’ (New York Times).

One thousand years from now, the inhabitants of a small island – a group no larger than an extended family – are living in a postcivilised world. They are perhaps the Earth’s only human survivors.

But lurking outside their isolated community is a figure in red, an emissary from another way of life: a virtual place of refuge and security, of escape from the dangers of a newly wild world. The visitor calls it Alexandria.

‘There is nothing more personal than doing your job’. So goes the motto of the Temporary, as she takes job after job (twentythree in total), in search of steadiness, belonging, and something to call her own. Aided by her bespoke agency and a cast of boyfriends (eighteen, in fact) – each allotted their own task (the handy boyfriend, the culinary boyfriend, the real estate boyfriend) – she is happy to fill in for any of us: for the chairman of the board, a ghost, a murderer, a mother. Even for you, and for me.

A work of radical and matchless imagination, Paul Kingsnorth’s new novel is a mythical, polyphonic drama driven by elemental themes: of community versus the self, the mind versus the body, machine over man; whether to put your faith in the present or the future. Set on the far side of the climate apocalypse, Alexandria completes the Buckmaster trilogy, which began with Kingsnorth’s prize-winning The Wake.

‘Like Robert Macfarlane rewritten by Cormac McCarthy.’

Telegraph

HILARY LEICHTER has been published in the New York Times, n+1, the New Yorker, the Cut, and Conjunctions. She teaches writing at Columbia University and has been awarded fellowships from the Folger Shakespeare Library and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Wild, hopeful, infinitely sad and infinitely funny, Temporary is the smartest, most humane story of what it is to work and live, here and now.

‘A narrative so deliciously allusive and disarmingly literal that this reader kept thinking maximum glee had been attained, only for the glee to somehow grow even more maximal just a few sentences later.’ Helen Oyeyemi

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JAKUTA ALIKAVAZOVIC is a French writer of Bosnian and Montenegrin origins. She was a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome in 2013–14. Her debut novel, Corps Volatils (2008), won the Prix Goncourt for best first novel. She teaches at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University and lives in Paris.

Night As It Falls Jakuta Alikavazovic

The House Uptown Melissa Ginsburg

From the translator of David Foster Wallace and Ben Lerner, a novel rich in ideas about identity, class and contemporary anxiety.

Fourteen-year-old Ava has already lived through every child’s worst nightmare - and now she must try to survive in a strange house of secrets.

Paul, a student who works as a night guard in a hotel to make ends meet, is absorbed by Amelia, the young woman who rents Room 313. Everything about her is a mystery: where she goes, who she meets – and where she comes from.

After the sudden death of her mother, Ava finds herself headed cross-country to live with the only relative she has left. But Lane, her grandmother, doesn’t seem to have much room in her heart for a teenage girl. The only other person who comes around is Lane’s assistant, Oliver, who’s dealing with issues of his own.

Paul and Amelia become lovers, inextricably entangled with each other, but their intense relationship is ill-fated. One day, Amelia disappears. Unknown to Paul, she has gone to Sarajevo in search of her mother, to uncover the links between her personal history and the enduring flashpoint of trauma in Europe’s history.

Night As It Falls is a novel written on a knife’s edge and establishes a virtuosic and blazing literary voice.

‘A rare, powerful and solar talent.’ Le Monde

04/02/2021 HB | 9780571342266 | 288pp | £12.99

As the summer goes on, Ava begins to get a sense that something is very wrong in her grandmother’s house. Is Lane losing her mind? Could the danger lie with Oliver? Or, is there something darker in their past, something which could come back to destroy them all?

‘Gripping, poetic and utterly mesmerising. Melissa Ginsburg gracefully navigates the lyricism of loss, the grit of hope [and] the sensuality of excess.’

Emma Jane Unsworth, on Sunset City

MELISSA GINSBURG was born and raised in Houston and attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the author of the poetry collection Dear Weather Ghost and two poetry chapbooks, Arbor and Double Blind. She teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Mississippi.

Sunset City, her debut novel, was nominated for the John Creasey Dagger, was a Mail on Sunday Thriller of the Week and was described by Laura Wilson in the Guardian as ‘sexy, boozy, poignant and funny’.

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PETER SWANSON’s novels include The Girl With a Clock for a Heart, nominated for a LA Times book award; The Kind Worth Killing, a Richard and Judy pick and the iBooks store’s thriller of the year in 2015; and, most recently, Rules for Perfect Murders. He lives with his wife and cat in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Every Vow You Break Peter Swanson The twisty – and twisted – new thriller from the master of suspense, Peter Swanson.

After a whirlwind, fairytale romance, Abigail Baskin marries freshly minted Silicon Valley millionaire Bruce Lamb.

For their honeymoon, he whisks her away to an exclusive retreat at a friend’s resort off the Maine coast on Heart Pond Island. But once there, Abigail’s perfect new life threatens to crash down around her as she recognises one of their fellow guests as the good-looking, charismatic stranger who weeks earlier had seduced her at her own Bachelorette party . . . ‘[Swanson is] in the ranks of the killer elite alongside Tana French and Gillian Flynn. He’s the real deal.’ Joe Hill

Come Join Our Disease Sam Byers A profound and politically resonant novel about resistance, radicalism and redemption – from the author of Perfidious Albion.

Maya is homeless. When her site is razed by ruthless authorities, she’s detained. But then, Maya is given a lifeline, a chance to re-enter society. A tech company – angling to raise its philanthropic profile – offers her a job and a flat. There’s one caveat: Maya must document her progress on Instagram, to show that anyone can be peaceful, productive, perfect.

Yet Maya realises that sickness is a kind of revolution. Why be healthy when you could be happy? With other outcasts, Maya starts a movement: billboards promoting wellness are defaced and her media feed is flooded with obscene images. Suddenly, questions arise about the forces unleashed: liberation and madness, protest and anarchy, rebellion and chaos . . .

SAM BYERS’s writing has appeared in Granta, the New York Times and the Times Literary Supplement. His debut novel, Idiopathy, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize and was the winner of a Betty Trask Award.

His second novel, Perfidious Albion, was longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and shortlisted for the Encore Prize.

Praise for Perfidious Albion: ‘The Martin Amis’s Money of our times.’ David Baddiel 18/03/2021

‘A mordant, needle-sharp satire.’ Jonathan Coe

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ALAA AL ASWANY is the author of three previous novels, including The Yacoubian Building, which has sold over one million copies worldwide and was the bestselling novel in the Arab world for over five years.

In 2016, he was appointed a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France.

The Republic of False Truths Alaa Al Aswany

A Lonely Man Chris Power

‘An amazing portrait of fanaticism and cynicism among Egyptian powermongers.’ André Aciman

The first novel by the acclaimed author of Mothers – a distilled work of fiction about the multiplicity inside us all.

General Alwany is a pious man who loves his family. He also tortures and kills enemies of the state.

Under the regime of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt is gripped by cronyism, religious hypocrisy and the oppressive military.

Now, however, the regime faces its greatest crisis. The idealistic young from different backgrounds – engineers, teachers, medical students and, among them, the general’s daughter – have come together to challenge the status quo. Euphoria mounts as Mubarak is toppled, love blossoms across class divides, but then the general and his friends mount a devastating counter-attack.

With its vivid cast of characters, The Republic of False Truths offers a deeply moving and passionate fictional account of the trauma of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.

01/04/2021 HB | 9780571347599 | 464pp | £16.99

‘Al Aswany is a voice worth hearing from a country of which we know far too little.’ Sunday Times

Robert is a struggling writer living in Berlin with his wife and two young daughters. In a bookshop one night, he meets Patrick, an enigmatic stranger with a sensational story to tell: a ghostwriter for a Russian oligarch, recently found hanged, who is now being followed. But is he really in danger? Patrick’s life strikes Robert as a fabrication, but a magnetic one that begins to obsess him. He decides to use Patrick, and his story.

An elegant and atmospheric twist on the cat-and-mouse narrative, A Lonely Man is a novel of shadows, of the search for identity and the elastic nature of truth. As his association with Patrick hurtles towards tragedy, Robert must decide: are actual events the only things that give a story life, and are some stories too dangerous to tell?

‘An extraordinarily unshowy craftsman.’ Melissa Harrison ‘Chris Power’s quiet yet compelling touch is reminiscent of Alice Munro and Peter Stamm.’ Yiyun Li

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CHRIS POWER is the author of Mothers, which was longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize in 2019.

He has been published in the Stinging Fly, the Dublin Review and the White Review. Power is the judge for the BBC National Short Story Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize.

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ALAFAIR BURKE is a New York Times bestselling author of fourteen novels including The Better Sister, The Wife, and The Ex, which was nominated for the Edgar Award for best novel.

She also co-authored the bestselling Under Suspicion series with Mary Higgins Clark.

A former prosecutor, she now teaches criminal law and lives in Manhattan and East Hampton.

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The Girl She Was Alafair Burke The past refuses to be forgotten in this gripping new thriller from the author of The Wife and The Better Sister.

She calls herself Hope Miller, but she has no idea who she actually is.

Fourteen years ago, she was found, thrown from an overturned vehicle, with no clue to her identity. Hope eventually started a new life, but never recovered her past.

Now she’s missing. The only lead is a drop of blood connected to a notorious Kansas murderer. With nowhere else to turn, Hope’s best friend, Lindsay Kelly, calls NYPD homicide detective Ellie Hatcher – a woman with her own complicated history and links to the Kansas case.

In pursuit of answers, three women search for the truth beneath long-buried secrets. And when their searches converge, what they find will upend everything they’ve ever known.

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‘In the style of Harlan Coben and Linwood Barclay . . .

Burke knows how to keep her readers guessing.’ Guardian

The Anthill Julianne Pachico An intoxicatingly vibrant debut novel that boasts unparalleled narrative flair – and an unforgettable excavation of imagination, love and loss.

Lina returns to Colombia after twenty years away. Sent to England after her mother’s death when she was eight, she’s searching for the person who can tell her what’s happened in the time that has passed. Matty – Lina’s childhood confidant, her best friend – now runs a refuge called The Anthill for the street kids of Medellín. But her long-anticipated reunion with him is struck by tension. Memory is fallible, and Linda discovers that everyone has a version of the past that is very, very different.

JULIANNE PACHICO grew up in Cali, Colombia. She is a graduate of both the MA and PhD in creative writing at the University of East Anglia, where she currently teaches on the creative writing MA. In 2017 Pachico was shortlisted for the Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award.

A propulsive literary tour de force, The Anthill explores what we choose to do with inherited and self-created identity. It’s a searing and affecting depiction of redemption – for a person and for a country – in the wake of trauma.

‘Brilliant and feverishly imaginative.’ Sharlene Teo

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‘Seriously impressive.’ Claire Adam

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LUCY CALDWELL is the author of three novels, one shortstory collection and several stage plays and radio dramas.

Her awards include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright, a Fiction Uncovered Award and a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

In 2019, she edited Being Various, the latest volume in the ongoing Faber series of New Irish Short Stories.

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Intimacies Lucy Caldwell

Boys Don’t Cry Fíona Scarlett

‘Precise and beautifully controlled fictions but with strange, wild energies pulsing along just beneath the surface. A tremendous collection.’ Kevin Barry

The heart-breaking story of two brothers – and how one of them will face growing up without the other.

Intimacies exquisitely charts the steps and missteps of young women trying to find their place in the world. From a Belfast student ordering illegal drugs online to end an unwanted pregnancy to a young mother’s brush with mortality; from a Christmas Eve walking the city-centre streets when everything seems possible to a night flight from Canada that could change a life irrevocably; these are stories of love, loss and exile, of new beginnings and lives lived away from ‘home’.

Taking in, too, the lives of other women who could be guiding lights – from Monica Lewinsky to Caroline Norton to Sinéad O’Connor – Intimacies offers keenly felt and revealing insights into the heartbreak and hope of modern life.

‘Heart-stoppingly good. Lucy Caldwell is a masterful writer.’

Lisa McGee, writer of Derry Girls

Joe is seventeen, a gifted artist and a brilliant older brother to twelve-year-old Finn. They live with their ma and da in a Dublin tower block called Bojaxhiu or The Jax. It’s not an easy place to be a kid, especially when your father, Frank, is the muscle for the notorious gang leader Dessie ‘The Badger’ Murphy. But whether it’s day trips to the beach or drawing secret sketches, Joe works hard to show Finn life beyond the battered concrete yard below their flat.

FÍONA SCARLETT is a primary school teacher and holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow as well as a Masters in Early Childhood Education. She was recently awarded the Denis O’Driscoll Literary Bursary and is an active member of the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin. Boys Don’t Cry is her debut novel.

Joe is determined not to become like his da. But when Finn falls ill, Joe finds his convictions harder to cling to. With his father now in prison, his mother submerged in her grief and his relationships with friends and classmates crumbling, Joe has to figure out how to survive without becoming what the world around him expects him to be.

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STAN PARISH is the former Editor-in-Chief of the Future of Everything at the Wall Street Journal and the author of the novel Down the Shore.

His writing has appeared in in GQ, Esquire, Surface, the New York Times, and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. He holds a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and lives in Los Angeles.

Love and Theft Stan Parish This stylish, high-stakes crime thriller asks: what price would you put on a second chance?

When Alex Cassidy and Diane Alison meet by chance at a party in Princeton, New Jersey, there are instant sparks. Both are single parents living in wealthy suburbia, independent, highly competent and seemingly settled in their lives. She runs a successful catering business. He’s part of a crew that robs banks, casinos and jewellery stores around the world. Neither realises that their lives have overlapped before, or that their shared history and burgeoning relationship will come to threaten everything they love. As Alex prepares for one final, daunting job, he discovers that he’s not the only one with secrets – and that both of them are playing for the highest stakes imaginable.

‘A breathless adventure both starry-eyed and coolblooded, both charming and diabolical.’ A. J. Finn, author of the number-one bestseller The Woman in the Window

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The Night Always Comes Willy Vlautin Set over two days and two nights, the story of one woman’s resilience in the face of opportunism, greed and ever-narrowing choices.

Between looking after her brother, working two low-paid jobs and trying to take part-time college classes, Lynette is dangerously tired. Every penny she’s earned for years, she’s put into savings, trying to scrape together enough to take out a mortgage on the house she rents with her mother. Finally becoming a homeowner in their rapidly gentrifying Portland neighbourhood could offer Lynette the kind of freedoms she’s never had. But, when the plan is derailed, Lynette must embark on a desperate odyssey of hope and anguish.

Written with all Willy Vlautin’s characteristic and heartwrenching empathy, The Night Always Comes holds up a mirror to a society that leaves too many people only a step away from falling between the cracks.

‘The straightforward beauty of Vlautin’s writing, and the tender care he shows his characters, turns a story of struggle into indispensable reading.’ Ann Patchett

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WILLY VLAUTIN is the author of five novels, including The Motel Life; Lean on Pete, which was shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and made into an acclaimed film

by Andrew Haigh; and Don’t Skip Out on Me, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Vlautin lives outside Portland, Oregon, and is the founding member of the bands Richmond Fontaine and The Delines.

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NATSUKO IMAMURA was born in Hiroshima, Japan, in 1980.

Her fiction has won various prestigious Japanese literary prizes, including the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Mishima Yukio Prize and the Akutagawa Prize. She lives in Osaka with her husband and daughter.

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The Woman in the Purple Skirt Natsuko Imamura

Tokyo Redux David Peace

Clever, bewildering and darkly comic, The Woman in the Purple Skirt is the tale of two women whose lives are set to become terribly entwined.

Based on a real unsolved case from 1940s Japan, a brutal and compelling novel from one of our most original writers.

I suppose what I’m trying to say is that I’ve been wanting to become the friend of the Woman in the Purple Skirt for a very long time . . .

Tokyo, July 1949. President Shimoyama, Head of the National Railways of Japan, goes missing. American detective Harry Sweeney leads the investigation.

The Woman in the Purple Skirt seems to live in a world of her own. Each afternoon, she sits on the same park bench, eating a pastry and ignoring the local children who make a game of trying to get her attention.

She may not know it, but the Woman in the Purple Skirt is being watched. Someone is following her, always perched just out of sight, monitoring which buses she takes, what she eats, whom she speaks to. But this invisible observer isn’t a stalker – no, it’s much more complicated than that.

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Some men go mad, some men go missing . . .

Fifteen years later, the city prepares for the 1964 Olympics and the global spotlight. Hideki Murota, a private investigator, is given a case that forces him to confront a crime he’s been hiding from.

Some men do both . . .

Over twenty years on, late 1988. The Emperor Showa is dying; Donald Reichenbach, an ageing American, sits drinking by the Shinobazu Pond in Ueno, knowing the final reckoning of the greatest mystery of the Showa Era is down to him.

‘A writer of such immense talent and power.’ The Times

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DAVID PEACE – named in 2003 as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists – was born and brought up in Yorkshire. He is the author of ten previous novels, including the Red Riding Quartet, which was adapted for television

by Channel 4 in 2009; GB84, which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; The Damned Utd; Red or Dead, which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and, most recently, Patient X. He lives in Tokyo.

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Rules for Perfect Murders Peter Swanson

The Rapture Claire McGlasson

If you want to get away with murder, play by the rules.

Dilys Barltrop is a devoted member of The Panacea Society, a cult populated almost entirely by virtuous single women. When she strikes up a friendship with Grace – a new recruit – God finally seems to be smiling upon her. But soon Dilys will have to learn the true cost of absolute devotion . . .

Malcolm Kershaw finds himself at the heart of an investigation – as an FBI agent believes someone may be re-enacting each of the murders Kershaw listed in a blog post of his ‘favourite murders’ in classic crime fiction.

Can the killer be stopped before they get away with eight perfect murders?

‘Poignant.’ Sunday Times ‘Gripping.’ Metro

‘An ingenious game of cat-and-mouse.’ The Times

‘Fascinating.’ The Times

‘Never less than enthralling.’ Daily Mail ‘Tremendously enjoyable.’ Sunday Mirror

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A Thousand Moons Sebastian Barry

Love After Love Ingrid Persaud

‘The sequel to the acclaimed Days Without End revisits John Cole, Thomas McNulty and the Native American orphan Winona, now scraping together a precarious living in Tennessee after the civil war. This time it is Winona’s story: another brutal and thrilling account of violence and shifting identities, told with powerful immediacy.’ Guardian

‘A stellar debut novel . . . Great books about love, like this one, feel like precious and impossible gifts. Persaud shows us the importance of allowing people into our lives who will squeeze us when we need it, rub our backs, offer us a drink, pick us up from the airport. Through her characters, she teaches us, as Walcott did: ‘You will love again the stranger who was your self.’” New York Times Book Review

‘Prose this good is a kind of enchantment, transcending the constructs that are supposed to define us.’ Observer

‘Unforgettable.’ Marlon James ‘A captivating interrogation of love in all its forms.’

Sara Collins, Guardian

‘A richly poetic read.’ Sunday Times

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From the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Meet Juniper Song, an underemployed, twenty-something, Raymond-Chandler-loving, Korean American woman from downtown L.A.

In a beautiful new design, three reissued novels from Nicola Upson’s beloved Josephine Tey Series

An Expert in Murder Follow Her Home

Beware Beware

Dead Soon Enough

When a friend asks Song to carry out surveillance on his father, she figures she doesn’t have anything better to do – plus she gets to indulge her Philip Marlowe fantasies. But barely half a day into playing private eye, someone has knocked her unconscious and left a dead body in the trunk of her car . . .

When a New York artist hires Song to keep an eye on her long-distance boyfriend in LA, Song has no problem tailing the guy – until a panicked late-night phone call has her racing to the iconic Roosevelt Hotel. There, in the aftermath of a wild party in its top-floor suite, she finds only two people left: the boyfriend and a Hollywood legend.

Only one of them is still alive.

Rubina Gasparian, Song’s latest client, is worried about her cousin, who just happens to be carrying her baby as a surrogate. Something tells Song she’s been hired to do more than follow a heavily pregnant twenty-six-year-old around LA. Soon enough, she finds herself caught in the dangerous underbelly of one of LA’s biggest immigrant communities.

‘Compelling from first to last page.’ Denise Mina ‘Nathanael West and Raymond Chandler would be proud.’ Los Angeles Times

It is 1934 and celebrated crime writer Josephine Tey is on her way to London to see her hit West End play – but her trip is interrupted by the grisly murder of a young train passenger. The police are convinced that the killing is connected to Tey, and that in the flamboyant theatre world lurks a ruthless killer . . .

‘Highly original and elegantly written.’ P. D. James ‘An ingenious concept, beautifully realised.’

Reginald Hill ‘Upson’s plot is cunning and skilfully recreates 1930s theatreland . . . Entertaining stuff.’ Observer

Fear in the Sunlight The Death of Lucy Kyte Summer, 1936. Josephine joins her friends in the holiday village of Portmeirion to celebrate her fortieth birthday and to sign a deal with Alfred Hitchcock to film one of her novels. But the celebratory atmosphere turns darker, and a young woman is found brutally murdered. As fear and suspicion escalate another of the guests is savagely killed . . .

‘A smart, playful pleasure in an increasingly adventurous series.’ Financial Times ‘Upson’s choice of sleuth was a masterstroke . . . A novel that charms until the dagger strikes.’ Independent on Sunday

‘This is prime L.A. noir with a feminist slant.’ Booklist

When Josephine inherits a remote Suffolk cottage from her godmother, it comes full of secrets. The Red Barn murder, committed nearly a century before, still casts a shadow, and no one in the village admits to knowing Lucy Kyte, a mysterious beneficiary of her godmother’s will. As Josephine settles into the house, she discovers that something dark has a hold on the community . . .

‘So well-crafted, so engaging and so genuinely creepy.’

Sydney Morning Herald ‘A seductive mystery . . . A haunting, thrilling story [in] a classy and compelling series.’

Lancaster Guardian

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Strange Hotel Eimear McBride A woman occupies a succession of hotel rooms. There, amid the open suitcases, the matchbooks, cigarettes, keys and roomservice wine, she will negotiate with memory, with the men she sometimes meets and with what it might mean to return home.

‘Powerful . . . truly a living and breathing thing.’

Financial Times ‘McBride is on blistering form.’ Sinéad Gleeson ‘Nothing else feels so fresh, so radically new.’

Garth Greenwell

This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga Longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize.

‘A sublime reckoning with the young, sparkling Tambu by her wry, adult self, and by a young postcolonial nation with the betrayal of its convictions. Three decades on, Dangarembga has written another classic.’ Guardian ‘A subtle and intelligent novel that dissects Zimbabwe’s political malaise through the crisis of one woman’s personality.’ Times Literary Supplement

Low Jeet Thayil

Lady in the Lake Laura Lippman

Following the death of his wife, Dominic Ullis escapes to Bombay in search of oblivion.

So begins a glorious weekend of misadventure as he tours the city, from its sleek hideaways of high-capital to the filthy streets, encountering a cast with their own stories to tell.

A stunning, multi-voiced, period piece – tackling race, gender politics and the volatility of mid 1960s America – from the author of Sunburn.

‘A novel of our times . . . beautifully written, intelligent and gripping,’ Spectator ‘Low carries the reader along with pace and exuberance.

The themes might hail from the depths, but reading it elicits a peculiar high.’

Observer

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‘Haunting . . . extraordinary.’

Stephen King, New York Times

Mouthpieces Eimear McBride

‘Lippman is such a skilful writer, her narrative flitting between perspectives to bring 1960s Baltimore, a world of racial tensions and sexual inequality, to vivid life.’

Observer

Three fictional fragments of female experience, from a writer of surpassing power and originality.

‘A writer for whom language is an end, not a means, a beginning not an end.’ Jeanette Winterson

‘As exhilarating as it is unputdownable.’ AnOther

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The Death of Vivek Oji Akwaeke Emezi A celebration of the innocence and optimism of youth, as a family struggle to understand their child, just as he learns to recognise himself. This astonishing novel shares with us a Nigerian childhood that challenges expectations and has touched all who embrace it.

‘Electrifying.’ O Magazine ‘Vividly written and deeply affecting.’ Kirkus ‘An outstanding and original talent.’ Psychologies

Zed Joanna Kavenna The latest in domestic tech should have predicted that businessman George Mann was about to murder his family. But instead it crashes and leads to the wrong man being caught and punished.

Has digital giant Beetle’s ubiquitous tech been hacked, or is something even more sinister going on?

‘One of the cleverest books you’ll read this year.’ Daily Telegraph ‘Extremely funny.’ Spectator

Meanwhile in Dopamine City DBC Pierre

The Sun on My Head Geovani Martins

From the Man Booker Prizewinning author of Vernon God Little, the story of a hapless father, trying to raise his kids in the digital wildlands of now.

The bestselling literary sensation from Brazil – scorching stories of masculinity, corruption, guilt, poverty and resilience.

‘Pierre’s high-risk prose explores and expands the cartoonish, taboo-busting outer edges of literary possibility.’ Independent ‘If any novelist can collate the killing irony of what is happening around us it is DBC Pierre.’ Alan Warner

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‘A blaze of heat, love and risk that will leave you reeling.’

DBC Pierre

Collected Stories Hanif Kureishi

‘Mindblowing.’ Chico Buarque

Provocative, erotic, tender, bitingly funny and humane – a collection of scintillating short fiction from one of Britain’s most acclaimed writers.

‘An extraordinary writer.’

Misha Glenny

‘No one else casts such a shrewd and gimlet eye on contemporary life.’ William Boyd ‘The stories in this outstanding collection are to be read not once, but many times.’ Helen Dunmore, The Times

‘A work of delirious genius.’

Guardian

‘Demonstrates fiction’s ability to articulate complexities that no amount of newsprint can pin down.’ Hari Kunzru, Financial Times

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Lose yourself in the intoxicating world of the legendary Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990).

Lawrence Durrell was the author of celebrated novels including his bestselling fictional masterpiece The Alexandria Quartet, inspired by a wartime sojourn in Egypt and now reissued with high-profile new forewords by fans including André Aciman, Elif Shafak, William Boyd, and Alaa Al Aswany.

He was one of the most admired travel writers of all time: an island chronicler, and poet of Cyprus, Greece, Southern France, and Corfu, where Durrell lived with his family – as remembered by his brother Gerald in My Family and Other Animals and later filmed as The Durrells in Corfu.

Prepare to fall in love with one of the most magical writers of the twentieth century.

‘Dazzlingly exuberant in style and vision, reckless in ambition . . . Superb.’ Observer (on The Alexandria Quartet) ‘Lushly beautiful . . . His style glows . . . One of the most important works of our time.’

New York Times Book Review (on The Alexandria Quartet) ‘A richly characteristic bouillabaisse by our last great garlicky master of the vanishing Mediterranean.’

Richard Holmes (on Caesar’s Vast Ghost)

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Clea 06/05/2021 PB | 9780571356034 £9.99 World ex USA

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White Eagles Over Serbia 03/06/2021 PB | 978057136243 £9.99 World ex USA

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Bitter Lemons of Cyprus 01/07/2021 PB | 9780571362363 £9.99 UK C/Wealth + Can, EU

Reflections on a Marine Venus 01/07/2021 PB | 9780571362394 £9.99 UK C/Wealth + Can, EU

The Dark Labyrinth 03/06/2021 PB | 9780571362462 £9.99 UK C/W Inc CA Open EU

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Caesar’s Vast Ghost 01/07/2021 PB | 9780571362370 £9.99 World ex USA

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ARTHUR MATHEWS co-wrote Father Ted with Graham Linehan and his other credits include: The Fast Show; Armstrong and Miller; Catherine Tate; The Tracy Ulman Show; Toast of London and the 2019 BBC TV show The Road to Brexit.

The Cummings Files: CONFIDENTIAL Thoughts, Ideas, Actions by Dominic Cummings

Access All Areas

Arthur Mathews

An urgent, actionable manifesto that will dramatically shift the debate around diversity and the media.

Found in an abandoned backpack, this collection of diaries, blog posts, Post-its and notes to self offers valuable insight into the Cummings brain . . .

During a time of momentous events in Britain (Brexit, a general election, the COVID-19 pandemic) the government’s chief adviser has been writing down his thoughts.

These include: • the full story of those trips to Durham (where he destroyed his Russian diaries from 1995); • what happens when you hit Michael Gove over the head with a pencil; • insight into the Prime Minister’s obsession with hoovers; And much, much more . . .

The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond

Lenny Henry & Marcus Ryder Have you ever been in a business meeting and thought: these people do not look like me?

Have you watched TV and wondered why far too often it fails to reflect your reality?

Lenny Henry goes on a journey to find out why so many of us feel excluded in society and, more importantly, what we can do about it.

Sir LENNY HENRY is one of Britain’s most celebrated comedians, as well as a writer, radio DJ, TV presenter, cofounder of Comic Relief and award-winning actor.

MARCUS RYDER has over twenty-five years of experience working in the media and is a leader on the issue of diversity in the media.

Joining forces with the former chair of the Royal Television Society’s diversity committee, Marcus Ryder, Henry draws on decades of media experience to reveal why current diversity initiatives are failing, and presents solutions on how we can create a better society, culminating in an eight-point Manifesto urging a fight for real change.

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TIMOTHY CAULFIELD is a Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy, a Professor in the Faculty of Law and the School of Public Health and Research Director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta. He is the author of The Science of Celebrity and hosts the Netflix series A User’s Guide to Cheating Death.

Relax A User’s Guide to Life in the Age of Anxiety Timothy Caulfield

Having and Being Had Eula Biss

A liberating and scientifically informed guide to overcoming the anxiety that permeates modern life.

An incisive and personal reckoning with the intricacies of money, class and capitalism, from a consistently surprising writer.

Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day?

Are office meetings actually worth the time they take up?

Am I spending enough time with my children?

Should I worry about binge-watching TV? What time should I go to bed?

And breathe . . .

Every day we make, and worry about, a thousand big and little decisions. But too often our decisions are dictated by concerns or beliefs about our world that simply aren’t true. Public health expert Timothy Caulfield shows how these misperceptions unnecessarily stress us out and cause us to waste time and money.

Relax reveals a science-informed way forward and aims to put our minds at ease.

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‘Masterfully, and humorously . . . provides much needed sanity in a world of claims run amok . . . I devoured it.’ Daniel Levitin, author of The Organized Mind 44

‘My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts,’ Eula Biss writes, ‘the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after.’ Having just purchased her first home, she now embarks on a roguish and risky self-audit of the value system she has bought into. The result is a radical interrogation of work, leisure, and capitalism. Playfully ranging from IKEA to Beyoncé to Pokemon, across bars and laundromats and universities, she asks: ‘In what have we invested?’

EULA BISS is an award-winning essayist and author. Her previous book, On Immunity (2014), was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review. In 2010, she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism for Notes from No Man’s Land.

‘A major achievement.’ Claudia Rankine ‘A probing tour of capitalism and class that sidesteps posturing and jargon in favor of clarity, humility, and incitement.’ Maggie Nelson ‘In this witty, genre-bending book, Eula Biss smashes the taboo against talking about money with exhilarating results.’ Jenny Offill

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KATHLEEN LE RICHE’s much-loved cookbooks were published by Faber from the 1950s onwards.

BEE WILSON is a prize-winning food writer and historian.

Her books include Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat and, most recently, First Bite: How We Learn to Eat.

Cooking Alone Kathleen Le Riche ‘For those who wish to and those who must find solace in solitude’: The Career Woman (who buys a chicken as a treat); The Old Lady (who feeds her menagerie of pets); The Bedsitter (who experiments with gadgets); The Schoolboy Moocher (who wallows in grapes); The Bachelor (who learns to stockpile food).

Cooking Alone (1954) is a delicious miniature compendium of tales inspired by a cast of eccentric solitary characters. Brimming with entertaining anecdotes, recipes and top tips, this is a witty, charming guide to the single life. Reissued with a new foreword

by Bee Wilson, this is a hymn to the pleasures of dining solo.

‘Every servantless man and woman should read her.’ Truth ‘A clever book, and amusing too. Somebody ought to bestow its author’s name upon a sauce.’

Belfast News Letter

07/01/2021

Britain Alone The Path from Suez to Brexit

Philip Stephens A magisterial and profoundly perceptive survey of Britain’s post-war role on the global stage.

From Anthony Eden’s ill-judged foray in Suez – which strained American relations almost to breaking point – to David Cameron’s EU referendum, award-winning journalist Philip Stephens paints a fascinating portrait of a nation attempting to reconcile its waning power with past glories. Drawing on exclusive interviews with senior politicians and diplomats as well as original government papers, Britain Alone is a vivid, intimate account of an island European in its geography, yet global in its outlook, and of a nation struggling to admit it is no longer a great power. It is an indispensable guide to how we arrived at the state we’re in.

‘Required reading for anyone aspiring to be either Chancellor or Prime Minister.’ Kit McMahon, London Review of Books (on Politics and the Pound)

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PHILIP STEPHENS is an award-winning journalist. As Chief Political Commentator at the Financial Times and head of the publication’s Editorial Board, he has had unique access to foreign policymakers across the world. He is the author of Politics and the Pound and Tony Blair.

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ANDRÉ ACIMAN is the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name, Out of Egypt, Eight White Nights, False Papers, Alibis, Harvard Square, Enigma Variations, and most recently Find Me, now out in paperback. He is the editor of The Proust Project and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives with his wife in Manhattan.

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Homo Irrealis Essays

André Aciman The bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with this collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works.

In Homo Irrealis André Aciman explores what the present tense means to artists who cannot grasp the here and now. Irrealis is not about the present, or the past, or the future, but about what might have been but never was – but could in theory still happen.

From meditations on subway poetry and the temporal resonances of an empty Italian street, to considerations of the lives and work of Sigmund Freud, Constantine Cavafy, W. G. Sebald, John Sloan, Éric Rohmer, Marcel Proust, and Fernando Pessoa, and portraits of cities such as Alexandria and St Petersburg, Homo Irrealis is a deep reflection of the imagination’s power to shape our memories under time’s seemingly intractable hold.

Psycho-Logical Dean Burnett An engaging, enlightening primer on mental health, from the bestselling author of The Idiot Brain.

One in four people experience a mental health problem each year, with depression and anxiety alone afflicting over 500 million people.

Why are these conditions so widespread? What is it about modern life that has such an impact on our mental health?

And why is there still so much confusion and stigma around these issues?

In Psycho-Logical, Dean Burnett sets out to answer these questions and more. Drawing on extensive scientific research, along with revealing insights from those who deal with mental health issues on a daily basis, the result is an expertly written and extremely accessible primer on how and why these problems arise, and what we can do to tackle them.

‘Funny, wise and absolutely fascinating.’

Adam Kay on The Happy Brain

DEAN BURNETT is a neuroscientist, blogger, sometimes-comedian and author. He lives in Cardiff, and is currently an honorary research associate at the Cardiff University School of Psychology. His previous books, The Idiot Brain and The Happy Brain, were international bestsellers published in over twenty countries.

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JACQUELINE ROSE is one of the world’s leading feminist literary and cultural critics.

She is the co-director of the Birkbeck Institute of Humanities, co-founder of Independent Jewish Voices, and is a British Academy fellow.

Her writing has appeared in many publications, including the London Review of Books and the Guardian.

On Violence and On Violence Against Women Jacqueline Rose A blazing, provocative study of violence from the peerless feminist critic.

Why has violence, and especially violence against women, become so much more prominent and visible across the world?

Jacqueline Rose tracks today’s violence – historic and intimate, public and private – as it spreads throughout the social fabric, offering a new account of violence in our time. What obscene pleasure in violence do so many male leaders of the Western world unleash in their supporters? Is violence always gendered and if so, always in the same way? What is required of the human mind when it grants itself permission to enact violence?

This timely, urgent, book is an agitation against injustice, a challenge to radical feminism and a meaningful call to action.

‘Rose has no peer among critics of her generation.’

Edward Said

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‘A model of what a public intellectual should be.’

Slavoj Žižek

Conflicted Ian Leslie Life-altering lessons from the forefront of communication science.

What is the secret of happy relationships?

How do companies build collaborative cultures?

What lies behind some of the greatest scientific and creative breakthroughs?

The surprising answer is: conflict.

Conflicted draws essential lessons on how to disagree well from world-class experts in highly charged, adversarial conversations: interrogators, hostage negotiators, divorce mediators and addiction counsellors. It draws on a wealth of examples of remarkably productive disagreements, from the invention of the aeroplane to the success of The Beatles, together with fascinating insights from social psychology and anthropology.

IAN LESLIE is a journalist and writer who counsels business leaders on communication science. His writing has been featured in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the New Statesman and by the BBC. He is the author of Born Liars and Curious, and co-presents the podcast Polarised, exploring the politics of division. @mrianleslie

Whether it’s at work, at home, or in public, confronting our differences is the only way to make the most of them. Conflicted is about how to do that successfully.

‘Important and hugely enjoyable . . . deeply fascinating.’

Oliver Burkeman, author of The Antidote (on Curious)

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JACKIE KAY is a Scottish poet and novelist, and she is the National Poet of Scotland. The recipient of numerous prizes, she was also twice shortlisted for the Scottish Book of the Year Award. She is currently Chancellor of the University of Salford, and divides her time between Glasgow and Manchester. @JackieKayPoet

Bessie Smith Jackie Kay Scotland’s National Poet brings to life the tempestuous story of the greatest blues singer who ever lived.

Bessie Smith – singer, icon, pioneer – was born in Tennessee in 1894. Orphaned by nine, she sang on street corners before becoming a big name in travelling shows. In 1923 she made her first record for a new start-up: Columbia Records. Launched into stardom, Smith’s life was notoriously difficult. She drank pints of ‘bathtub gin’, got in violent fights, spent huge sums of money and had passionate affairs with men and women. She once single-handedly fought off a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.

As a young black girl growing up in Glasgow, Jackie Kay found in Bessie someone to idolise and with whom she could identify.

In this definitive book Kay mixes biography, fiction, poetry and prose to create an enthralling account of an extraordinary life. ‘[Jackie Kay] offers the most vivid evocation of Bessie Smith I have ever read.’ Ian Carr, BBC Music

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We Own This City A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City

Justin Fenton In his debut book, the Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter adds to the line of classic true crime writing with the true story of ‘one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation’ (New York Times).

A crime reporter for the Baltimore Sun, JUSTIN FENTON was part of the Pulitzer Prizenominated staff recognised for their coverage of the Baltimore riots that followed the death of Freddie Gray. This is his first book.

Baltimore, 2015. As riots threatened to erupt across the city, with people demanding justice for Freddie Gray, drug and violent crime were surging. For years, Sergeant Wayne Jenkins and his team of plain-clothed officers – the Gun Trace Task Force – had been the city’s lauded and decorated heroes. But all the while they were stealing drugs and money and gaming the system. Because who would believe the dealers, the smugglers or even law-abiding citizens over the word of the city’s elite task force?

Now, in light of their spectacular trial of late 2018, and in a work of astounding reportage and painstaking self-discovery, Justin Fenton has pieced together a shocking story of systemic corruption.

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MOLLY McCULLY BROWN is the author of The Virginia State Colony For Epileptics and Feebleminded (Persea Books, 2017), which won the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize and was named a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2017. Her poems and essays have appeared in Tin House, Crazyhorse, The New York Times, Pleiades, Ninth Letter, Blackbird, and elsewhere.

Places I’ve Taken My Body Molly McCully Brown

Hello, Mum Polly Dunbar

This metaphysical, intimate and visceral essay collection is stunning in its insight and suffused with optimism.

Fantastically funny, wise and charming motherhood sketches from the award-winning illustrator.

Molly McCully Brown constellates the subjects that define her inside and out: a disabled and conspicuous body, a religious conversion, a missing twin, a life in poetry. As she does, she depicts vividly for us not only her own life but a striking array of sites and topics, among them Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the world’s oldest anatomical theatre, eugenics, and Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University. Throughout, she offers us the gift of her exquisite sentences, woven together in consideration, always, of what it means to be human: flawed, potent, feeling.

‘Go away, I’m busy writing about the beauty of motherhood.’

Molly McCully Brown is the Rebecca Solnit of the body.

Polly Dunbar records her experience of motherhood in sketches and shares them on her popular Instagram account.

She captures like no one else how just a single day with children can be exasperating, soul-bending, mind-numbing, exhilarating and everything in between.

Hello, Mum collects together her sketches from the shock and awe of the baby days and the delight and terror of the toddler years, to the arrival of a baby brother and all the sibling rivalry that entails. It is a book full of heart and humour and, ultimately, a celebration of parenthood and childhood imagination.

‘Polly’s sketches capture beautifully those moments with your very young children . . . Tender, funny, sometimes heartbreaking snapshots of motherhood.’ Shappi Khorsandi

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POLLY DUNBAR is one of the most well-known illustrators working in the UK today. Polly’s bestselling book, Penguin, won numerous awards including the BookTrust Early Years Award, the Nestlé Silver Children’s Book Prize and the Red House Children’s Book of the Year Award and it was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal.

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MATTHEW WILLIAMS is Professor of Criminology at Cardiff University. He is the director of ‘HateLab’, a global hub that monitors and counters hate crime and online hate speech. He advises and has conducted research for the Home Office, the US Department of Justice, Facebook and Google. @MattLWilliams

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The Science of Hate How prejudice becomes hate and what we can do to stop it Matthew Williams A world-leading criminologist explores the tipping point between prejudice and hate crime.

As a Professor of Criminology with over twenty years of experience, Matthew Williams is uniquely qualified to address the pressing questions of our times: are our brains wired to hate?

Do divisive political leaders polarise communities? Why has the COVID-19 pandemic increased hate against the Chinese, Jews, and Muslims? Why do police murders of black men, like George Floyd, make the hate crime problem worse? What part have social media giants played in modern genocide?

Williams shows how evolution and biology predispose humans to favour the ‘in-group’ and how financial meltdowns, global pandemics, AI and sporting events can create the conditions for hateful behaviour. He talks to perpetrators and victims, brain scientists and psychologists and makes use of the most cuttingedge scientific tools to reveal the science behind hate.

The Devil You Know Gwen Adshead with Eileen Horne Indelible insights into the minds of violent offenders from one of Britain’s pioneering forensic psychiatrists.

How can we understand evil? Dr Gwen Adshead has spent thirty years providing therapy inside secure hospitals and prisons. Whatever her patient’s crime, from serial homicide to stalking, arson to child abuse, her aim is to help them to change their minds.

Case by case, she takes us into the room with people we would normally flinch from as ‘monsters’. Through recounting the therapeutic process and the life stories of her patients, Adshead sheds light on the possibility of recovery. She questions our notions of evil and passionately argues for the prioritisation of mental health services. The Devil You Know is about thinking the unthinkable and about putting words to the unspeakable.

Above all, it is a vital and compassionate book about our shared humanity.

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Dr. GWEN ADSHEAD is a forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist. She has worked at Broadmoor for over twenty years and was honoured with the President’s Medal for services to psychiatry in 2013. To share what she has learned, in a joint exercise in empathy, she has collaborated with the author and dramatist Eileen Horne.

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BOB STANLEY is the author of Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop, and has written for the Guardian, The Times, NME and The Face. He is a founding member of the group Saint Etienne.

TESSA NORTON is a writer and artist, and has written for various publications including Tribune and The Wire. Her work has been presented at galleries including Wysing Arts Centre, Liverpool Biennial and The Tetley.

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Finding the Raga

The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall

An Improvisation on Indian Music

Bob Stanley & Tessa Norton

Amit Chaudhuri

The definitive book about the world of Mark E. Smith and The Fall, featuring unseen essays, artwork and material.

A revelatory and very personal exploration of Indian classical music.

Over the course of their prolific forty-year career The Fall were consistently one of Britain’s most influential and unique groups, with notoriously opaque frontman Mark E. Smith hailed as one of its sharpest lyricists. Following his death in 2018, there was an outpouring of tributes from a surprising spectrum of admirers.

By turns essay, memoir and cultural study, Finding the Raga is Amit Chaudhuri’s singular account of his discovery of, and enduring passion for, North Indian music: an ancient, evolving tradition whose principles and practices will alter the reader’s notion of what music might – and can – be.

With contributions from the likes of Adelle Stripe and Ian Penman, alongside never-seen artwork, photographs and handwritten material, Bob Stanley and Tessa Norton unpack the strangely fascinating landscape of The Fall. Illuminating their reference points, lyrical concerns and influences – from horror fiction to contemporary dance – Excavate cements their worldview as a vital contribution to British culture.

Tracing the music’s development, Finding the Raga dwells on its most distinctive and mysterious characteristics: its extraordinary approach to time, language and silence; its embrace of confoundment; and its ethos of evocation over representation. The result is a strange gift of a book, for musicians and music lovers, and for any creative mind in search of diverse and transforming inspiration.

‘Mark E. Smith provided me with an alternative education, looping me into Camus, and Arthur Machen, and William Blake, and Can, and dub and old garage punk and rock’n’roll.’

Stewart Lee

‘Chaudhuri’s languorous, elliptical, beautiful prose is impressively impossible to put in any category at all.’

Salman Rushdie

AMIT CHAUDHURI is the award-winning author of seven novels, including Friend of My Youth, as well as three books of essays, two of poems and a collection of short stories.

He is a recorded performer in the Indian classical vocal tradition and a composer of experimental works, and he was previously a guitarist and songwriter in the American folk music style.

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LAURA LIPPMAN’s novels have won many crime fiction prizes, including the Edgar, Anthony and Agatha Awards.

Sunburn (2018), her second consecutive novel to win the eDunnit Award at Crimefest, was also nominated for the CWA Gold Dagger Award and was a Waterstones Book of the Month. Her most recent novel, Lady in the Lake (2019), featured in numerous Best of the Year Lists.

My Life as a Villainess Essays

Laura Lippman I had been creating villains on the page for about seven years when I finally became one.

Laura Lippman’s first job in journalism was as a rookie reporter in Waco, Texas. Two decades later she left her first husband, quit the newspaper business, and became a full-time novelist.

Her fiction has always centred on complicated women, paying unique attention to the intricacies of their flaws, their vulnerability, and their empowerment. Now, finally, Lippman has turned her gimlet eye on a new subject: herself.

In this, her first collection of essays, Lippman gives us a brilliant, candid portrait of an unapologetically flawed life. Childhood, friendships, influences, becoming a mother in later life – Lippman’s inspiring life stories are at once specific and universal.

‘An unflinching chronicler of life in America right now.’

Gillian Flynn

This Rare Spirit The Life of Charlotte Mew Julia Copus The first comprehensive biography of this highly original poet and short-story writer, following the 150th anniversary of her birth.

Charlotte Mew (1869–1928) was regarded as one of the ‘boldest and most compassionate’ (TLS) writers of her age by her contemporaries. She has since been largely neglected, but her star is beginning to rise again. This is the first comprehensive biography, from cradle to grave.

Growing up in Bloomsbury, Mew was an intriguing blend of New Woman and stalwart Victorian. Her poems speak to us strongly today, in these strangely mixed times of exposure and seclusion: they reveal the agony of an isolated being, forced to keep secret the tragedies of her personal life while simultaneously being propelled by her work into the public arena. Julia Copus sensitively reveals how Mew transfigured that very private suffering into an art of universal resonance.

‘The greatest living poetess.’ Virginia Woolf

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JULIA COPUS’s fourth poetry collection, Girlhood, and her selection of Charlotte Mew’s poetry and prose were both published in 2019 by Faber.

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‘She just knows humanity – one of the rarest things in the world.’ Walter de la Mare

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CHARLOTTE MEW was an English short-story writer and poet. The Farmer’s Bride (1916) was her only book to be published in her lifetime; on the strength of it, she was awarded a Civil List pension.

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RICHARD THOMPSON is a musician best known for his work in the folk rock group Fairport Convention. Rolling Stone named him as one of the Top 20 Guitarists of All Time, he has received several Lifetime Achievement Awards and he was awarded an OBE in 2011.

Beeswing

Teenage

Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice, 1967–75

The Creation of Youth 1875-1945

Richard Thompson

Jon Savage

The autobiography of the legendary co-founder of Fairport Convention.

A reissue of Jon Savage’s landmark cultural history of youth, with a new introduction from the author.

Richard Thompson came of age at an extraordinary moment in British culture. It was 1967 and popular music was reflecting a wide range of influences. In the midst of this musical awakening, eighteen-year-old Thompson co-founded the legendary and seminal folk rock group Fairport Convention.

One of David Bowie’s Top 100 Must Read books and the inspiration behind the film Teenage, directed by Matt Wolf and narrated by Ben Whishaw, this is the acclaimed history of the century and a half of ferment, folly and angst that resulted in the arrival of ‘the teenager’ in 1945. Ringing with music, from Ragtime to Swing, Teenage roams London, New York, Paris and Berlin with hooligans and Apaches; explores free love and eternal youth; and meets flappers and zootsuiters, the unemployed and the Lost Generation. Meanwhile the stories come fast and furious, comic, poignant, painfully moving.

Going back to his childhood and reflecting on this heady period of personal creative intensity, Thompson details life on the road, his relationship with bandmate Sandy Denny, playing alongside Jimi Hendrix and Nick Drake, a devastating car crash, his partnership with his ex-wife Linda and his personal spiritual journey.

Beeswing is the intimate memoir of a British musical legend.

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‘Thompson could be said to be an English Dylan – only in some ways he’s even better than that.’ Guardian

JON SAVAGE is a bestselling author, broadcaster and journalist. His books include England’s Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock, 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded and the top ten bestseller This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral History.

This new edition will be published alongside reissues of Savage classics England’s Dreaming and 1966.

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Being You The Inside Story of Your Inner Universe Anil Seth

A Stinging Delight A Memoir David Storey

This radical theory of consciousness challenges our understanding of humanity itself.

A powerful memoir by an extraordinary literary figure: rugby player, artist, acclaimed playwright and Booker Prize winning novelist.

Consciousness is the great unsolved mystery in our scientific understanding of the brain. Somewhere, somehow, inscribed in the brain is everything that makes you you. But how do we grasp what happens in the brain to turn mere electrical impulses into the vast range of perceptions, thoughts and emotions we feel?

Anil Seth charts the developments in our understanding of consciousness, revealing radical breakthroughs that transform the way we think about the self. Drawing on original research and interdisciplinary collaborations, Being You puts forward a revolutionary framework of how we experience the world and our place within it.

‘Anil Seth thinks clearly and sharply on one of the hardest problems of science and philosophy, cutting through the weeds with a scientist’s mind and a storyteller’s skill.’

Adam Rutherford

The third son of a coalminer, David Storey takes us from his tough upbringing in Wakefield, to being ‘sold’ to Leeds Rugby League Club, to his escape to the Slade School of Art and his life in post-war London, where he taught in seventeen deprived East End schools. He documents the childhood death of his eldest brother, addressing much of the memoir to him and exploring how this relates to his own sometimes paralysing depression. And yet, a prolific and celebrated writer, he recalls heady spells in New York, close relationships in the theatre with Jocelyn Herbert, Ralph Richardson and Lindsay Anderson, early success with This Sporting Life, and winning the Booker Prize for his novel Saville.

DAVID STOREY was born in Wakefield in 1933. He studied at the Slade School of Art. He wrote fifteen plays and eleven novels. His many prizes include the Macmillan Fiction Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Faber Memorial Prize and, in 1976, the Booker Prize for Saville. He died in 2017.

‘A Chekhov of the North.’ Guardian ‘The leading novelist of his generation.’ Daily Telegraph

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‘David Storey is our best, most original and satisfying playwright.’ Lindsay Anderson

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You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone

The Faber Book of Mexican Cinema

The Biography of Nico

Updated Edition

Jennifer Otter-Bickerdike

Jason Wood

A myth-shattering biography of one of rock’s most underestimated creative forces.

Nearly two decades ago, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro ripped through cinemas across the world, announcing the arrival of Mexican cinema.

Over the course of her life, Nico was an ever-evolving myth, an enigma that escaped definition. Though she is remembered for contributions to The Velvet Underground & Nico, she is often overlooked, while fellow Velvets Lou Reed and John Cale are hailed as icons.

Defying the sexist casting of Nico’s life as the tragedy of a beautiful woman losing her youth and fame, You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone cements her legacy as one of the most vital artists of her time, inspiring a generation of luminaries including Björk, Morrissey and Iggy Pop. Containing over a hundred new interviews and rare archival material, this is the Nico biography we have been waiting for.

‘You know, it influenced us all, to have such a bold delivery of bold songs by a female.’ Patti Smith, on Nico ‘What I have in common with Nico is the understanding of her furious frustration at not being recognised.’ Marianne Faithfull 66

Recently, these film-makers have taken awards ceremonies by storm with films such as Gravity, Roma, The Shape of Water, Birdman and The Revenant. Featuring extensive interviews with key figures, Jason Wood traces these successes back to the key historical films of the Mexican film canon, charting the sociopolitical, individual and creative forces that helped give birth to it.

JASON WOOD has over twenty years’ experience in the film industry. He is currently the Creative Director of Film & Culture at HOME and was formerly the Director of Programming at Curzon Cinemas and Programming Manager at Picturehouse. He is the author of ten published works on cinema.

This revised edition of The Faber Book of Mexican Cinema brings this astounding story up to date and profiles the next generation waiting in the wings.

‘It’s the breadth of access which makes this book so vital and so engaging, with pleasingly cine-literate ramblings from del Toro, Cuarón and Carlos Reygadas, to name but a few.’

Time Out

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My Mess Is a Bit of a Life Georgia Pritchett

Where the Wild Dads Went Katie Blackburn

This memoir, from the multi-award-winning comedy writer, is an utterly joyful reflection on living – and sometimes thriving (sometimes not) – with anxiety.

A charming and hilarious tribute to the children’s classic, revised and republished in time for Father’s Day.

From worrying about the monsters under her bed as a child (Were they comfy enough?) to embracing womanhood (One way of knowing you have crossed from girlhood to womanhood is that men stop furtively masturbating at you from bushes and start shouting things at you from cars), to becoming a mother (Birth is a beautiful thing. If your idea of beauty is a tractor pulling a combine harvester out of your vagina), Georgia Pritchett’s memoir takes us through a life lived anxiously. Filled with warmth and humour, insight and honesty, it is a brilliant meditation on how to live with worry.

In this touching nod to Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, a tired and emotional dad finds himself drifting off to the place where the Wild Dads went. In a riot of headbanging, air guitar and dad-dancing he finds himself at the centre of a great escape, but soon he begins to miss the place he left behind . . .

In this tropical reissue, the Wild Dads travel much further afield to a beautiful island paradise with brand new illustrations by Sholto Walker. This little book is the perfect gift for new dads – or any parent who’s ever wanted to run away from it all.

KATIE BLACKBURN is the author of Where the Wild Mums Are, which sold over 100,000 copies. The first edition of Where the Wild Dads Went sold over 25,000 copies.

SHOLTO WALKER has been an artist and illustrator for 25 years. His award-winning work has gained him an international reputation.

Reissued in time for Father’s Day. ‘A brilliantly funny tribute to a true children’s classic and a perfect gift.’ The Book People, on Where the Wild Mums Are

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Square Haunting

The Stubborn Light of Things

Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars

A Nature Diary

Francesca Wade

Melissa Harrison

A spellbinding biography of five exceptional, trailblazing women who each found themselves in Mecklenburgh Square, on the radical fringes of interwar Bloomsbury: modernist poet H.B., detective novelist Dorothy L. Sayers, classicist Jane Harrison, economic historian Eileen Power, and writer and publisher Virginia Woolf.

As much at home exploring the city as rural Suffolk, this diary – compiled from Melissa Harrison’s beloved ‘Nature Notebook’ column in The Times – maps her joyful engagement with the natural world and demonstrates how we must first learn to see, and then act to preserve, the beauty we have on our doorsteps – no matter where we live.

‘A beautiful and deeply moving book.’ Sally Rooney

‘A writer of great gifts.’ Robert Macfarlane

‘Outstanding. I’ll be recommending this all year.’

Sarah Bakewell

‘A nature writer if ever there was one.’ Ali Smith ‘Looking through Melissa Harrison’s eyes provides a new way of seeing.’ Literary Review

‘Elegant, erudite and absorbing . . . a startling original debut.’ Frances Wilson 07/01/2021

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The Double X Economy

Who Am I, Again?

Lenny Henry

The Epic Potential of Empowering Women

Professor Linda Scott

You might think you know Lenny Henry. Think again.

Professor Linda Scott describes both the shocking gender inequalities built into the global economy and the collective power of women that could be harnessed to turn these around and combat humankind’s most pressing social, financial and environmental problems – for everyone. Provocative, accessible and game-changing, The Double X Economy is at once an expert analysis and an urgent call to action.

‘Moving, powerful and very funny.’ Mail on Sunday ‘A raw, touching memoir.’ Guardian ‘Witty, charming and engagingly self-aware.’ i newspaper, Books of the Year

‘A compelling and actionable case for unleashing women’s economic power.’ Melinda Gates ‘In a world where so many of us stick safely to criticising the status quo, it’s heartening to read someone willing to offer viable solutions.’ Caroline Criado-Perez, Observer 04/03/2021 PB | 9780571337576 | 512pp | £10.99 UK C/Wealth + EU ex Can

‘A rallying cry for global female equality . . . curiously exhilarating . . . brisk, no-nonsense.’ Gabby Hinsliff, Guardian, Book of the Day

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The Universe Speaks in Numbers How Modern Maths Reveals Nature’s Deepest Secrets

Graham Farmelo A groundbreaking exploration of how the interplay of physics and mathematics has enriched our understanding of the universe. Moving from the Enlightenment to the breakthroughs of Einstein and Dirac, to the work of contemporary scientists shedding light on each other’s disciplines, Graham Farmelo shows how this relationship has redefined reality as we know it.

‘I am overcome with admiration for its range and profundity . . . an amazing achievement.’ Michael Frayn ‘A wonderful book.’ Tom Stoppard ‘Fascinating and elegantly written.’ Manjit Kumar, Guardian

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Shakespeare in a Divided America James Shapiro Shakespeare’s position as England’s national poet is unquestionable. But Shakespeare has long held an essential place in American culture too. Why, though, would a proudly independent republic embrace England’s greatest writer? Especially when his works enact so many of America’s darkest nightmares: interracial marriage, crossdressing, same-sex love and assassination? Shapiro leads us to fascinating answers and startling stories.

‘One of the greatest living scholars of the Bard.’

The Times ‘Best Books of 2020’ ‘Right on the money . . . timely and resonant.’

Robert McCrum, Observer

Fried & Justified Hits, Myths, Break-Ups and Breakdowns in the Record Business 1978-98

Mick Houghton The three acts that illustrious music publicist Mick Houghton is most closely identified with are Echo & the Bunnymen, Julian Cope, and the KLF. As confidant and co-conspirator, he navigated the minefield of rivalries and contrasting fortunes which make Fried & Justified such a candid, amusing and insightful picture of an exciting and inspirational period for music.

‘As parallel histories of the UK alternative scene go, this one leaves them all behind.’ Uncut ‘An engaging, even epochal, book.’ Mojo ‘Entertaining . . . recalls twenty heady years at the centre of the British music business.’ FT

Folk Song in England Steve Roud Folk Song in England is a landmark celebration of English folk music and its lasting legacy. Acclaimed folklorist Steve Roud draws on an unprecedented range of sources to present an intricate social history through the ages. Highly absorbing and impeccably researched, this book gives a sonorous voice to England’s musical past. ‘[A] monumental history of the English folk story.’

Kathryn Hughes, Guardian ‘A fascinating tour d’horizon of folk song.’ The Economist

The Accidental Countryside

Thinking Again Jan Morris

Hidden Havens for Britain’s Wildlife

The author of classics such as Venice and Trieste casts her eye over modern life – from her daily thousand paces to the wonders of the natural world, and from the vagaries of old age to the beauty of youth, she once again displays her determined belief in embracing life and creativity – all kindness and marmalade.

Stephen Moss The fascinating and remarkably uplifting story of how Britain’s wildlife has co-opted our manmade landscape – from Iron Age earthworks to glimmering skyscrapers – to create teeming havens of (un)natural beauty.

‘Energetic and uplifting.’

Jonathan Drummond, TLS ‘Delightful.’ Caspar Henderson, Spectator ‘An intriguing natural history story.’ BBC Wildlife

‘There won’t be a better or more important book about English folk song in any of our lifetimes.’

Stephen Hunt, fRoots

‘Morris’ writing is just as elegant and erudite, and her mind just as supple, playful, curious, rigorous, humorous and surprising as ever.’

New York Times ‘Both a deep dive into the charming and erudite mind of Morris, now 93, and also a moving meditation on just what it means to be old.’

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The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth Francis Wilson Traditionally presented as a spinster, virgin or saint, Dorothy Wordsworth was an exceptional woman. She was the poet’s beloved sister: his aide, muse and reader.

But she was also a talented writer herself, recording life at Grasmere in her journals.

Reissued to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Dorothy’s birth, Frances Wilson’s classic biography restores her voice for a new generation.

‘Genius . . . Its own kind of heaven.’ New York Times ‘A most beautiful, deep – and humble – study of incredibly complex people.’ Oliver Sacks ‘Gripping . . . A startling reading of this enigmatic woman.’ Margaret Drabble

Lost, Found, Remembered Lyra McKee Lost, Found, Remembered is a memorial collection of writings by the murdered young journalist Lyra McKee – from viral articles to unpublished material – that celebrates her life, work and creative legacy: one that will live on. Revealing the sheer scope of McKee’s intellectual, political, and radically humane engagement with the world, it lets her spirit endure in her own words.

‘Lyra McKee was a beacon for so many.’ Sinéad Gleeson, Guardian ‘An icon, a symbol of a young Northern Irish demographic.’

Sean O’Hagan, Observer ‘Fearless . . . beloved and trusted champion of the lost.’

Patti Smith

You Goddess!

Indian Sun

The Hard Stuff

Lessons in Being Legendary from Awesome Immortals

The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar

Dope, Crime, The MC5, and My Life of Impossibilities

Oliver Craske

Wayne Kramer

Elizabeth Foley & Beth Coates Men have depicted deities over the centuries and made plenty of toxic female stereotypes out of them. Now it’s time to reclaim their female powers for a new generation.

Divinely illustrated by Georgia Perry, You Goddess! is an irreverent guide to fierce and fantastic goddesses that will help you conquer today’s world.

‘What guts. What attitude!

These are the immortals I wish I’d learned about at school.’ Olivia Colman ‘Funny, readable, and fascinating.’ Sara Pascoe on What Would Boudicca Do?

The first biography of Ravi Shankar – a vivid picture of the public and private faces of one of the twentieth century’s most important musicians; a captivating, restless workaholic who lived an intense and extraordinary life.

‘A masterly chronicle of a life teeming with all-toohuman incident but heavenly inspiration.’ The Times ‘A definitive, meticulously truthful book, full of discoveries.’ BBC Radio 4 ‘Extraordinary . . .

This is a beautiful book, as resplendent as its subject’s music and life.’

Washington Post

‘Such a great book.’ Dawn O’Porter on What Would Boudicca Do?

Conclusions John Boorman

John Boorman is one of cinema’s authentic visionaries, manifest in his best-loved Led by legendary guitarist Wayne Kramer, The MC5 was a films Point Blank, Deliverance reflection of the times: exciting, and Excalibur. In his inspiring sexy, violent, out of control and Conclusions Boorman all but assuring their time in the summarises what he has learned about the craft of filmspotlight would be short-lived.

Kramer’s story is a revolutionary making, to pass on to the next generation of film-makers. one, but it is also the deeply personal struggle of an addict ‘There is something special and an artist. about Boorman. It suffuses A Rough Trade Book of the Year ‘The MC5 and Brother Wayne have inspired me and given me spiritual strength.’

Bobby Gillespie ‘Kramer’s tale of a life in street-level rock ‘n’ roll is as gripping as it is sobering.’

Telegraph ‘Few have pushed . . . to such vivid extremes as the MC5 guitarist.’ Uncut

his delightful, wry, human and elegiacally thoughtful book.’

Financial Times ‘Boorman is one of the world’s great directors, a master storyteller.’

Paul Auster ‘Boorman may be the most inspired and wayward of English directors since Michael Powell.’ London Review of Books

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God’s Shadow

As if by Chance

The Ottoman Sultan Who Shaped the Modern World

Journeys, Theatres, Lives

Alan Mikhail Alan Mikhail’s groundbreaking account of Sultan Selim’s Ottoman Empire places it and Islam as the very pivots of global history, redefining such world-changing events as Christopher Columbus’s voyages, the Protestant Reformation, the transatlantic slave trade and the dramatic Ottoman seizure of the Middle East and North Africa, radically reshaping our understanding of a world we thought we knew.

‘An astonishing and thrilling story, worthy of Game of Thrones.’ Stephen Greenblatt ‘Alan Mikhail is a very original and inventive historian.’

Orhan Pamuk

David Lan Sometimes hilarious, always deeply felt, David Lan’s memoir evokes a unique theatre of life: Peter Brook’s Paris, Lithuania to find his great grandparents, Broadway for the Tony Awards, escaping the South African army, Chekhov’s Yalta, the Royal Court in the nineties, spirit mediums in Zimbabwe, his years running the Young Vic – Ivo Van Hove, Jude Law, Gillian Anderson, Stephen Daldry, Yerma, The Jungle, The Inheritance . . .

‘Lan’s ear is brilliant . . . everything is shown, nothing is told. His writing glows with his humanity and skill . . . linking memory with theatre and theatre with life.’

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The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe

Alex Bellos A compendium of more than one hundred hugely entertaining puzzles celebrating the amazing diversity of the world of words and language, from the bestselling author of Can You Solve My Problems?

Whether you are a crosswordsolver, a code-breaker or a Scrabble addict, these puzzles are guaranteed to twist your tongue and sharpen your mind.

‘Alex Bellos is a wizard.’ Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist ‘Superbly engrossing.’

Spectator (on Can You Solve My Problems?)

‘Heartfelt, inspirational and evocative.’ Observer

Like Punk Never Happened Dave Rimmer Like Punk Never Happened is Dave Rimmer’s controversial and honest insider account of the rollercoaster ride that was Boy George & Culture Club and the new eighties pop, first published by Faber in 1986. This expanded edition features a new foreword by Neil Tennant, a new afterword and a bonus chapter about Duran Duran.

‘As sharp a study of British pop as we’ll get.’

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What Happened?

Hanif Kureishi Comic, dark and insightful, What Happened? is Hanif Kureishi’s most recent collection of essays and fiction.

No topic is too fringe or mainstream for this chronicler of our modern age – through Kureishi’s characteristic boundless curiosity and wit, we are treated to a compendium of observations on culture and the way we live now.

‘Clear-sighted cultural commentary from a lively, limber mind.’ Sunday Times

‘Among the most entertaining writers ever to pen a rock book.’ Dave Marsh, Rock and Roll Confidential

‘It would be hard to name a British writer of the past forty years who matches his range of achievement . . . Splendid.’ Daily Telegraph

‘A controversial and honest account . . . and a serious analysis of the whole mess.’

David Quantick, NME

‘Highly readable.’ Times Literary Supplement

The Word and the Bomb Hanif Kureishi Hanif Kureishi has been writing about the tensions between Islam and the West for over twenty years. In recent times the argument has evolved from one of constructive discussion to one of a refusal to engage – where the bomb speaks louder than the word. This volume collects pieces from Kureishi’s work, providing a historical perspective for the times in which we live.

‘Excellent.’ New York Times ‘Kureishi has a particular appreciation for the complexity of modern British Muslim identity that comes from having a mixed-race family . . . Here, Kureishi’s experience turns to insight.’ Observer

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ROWAN RICARDO PHILLIPS is the author of two books of poems (Heaven and The Ground) and two essay collections (The Circuit and When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness). His awards include the PEN/Osterweil Award for Poetry and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, among others.

He lives in New York City and Barcelona.

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Living Weapon Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Snow Approaching on the Hudson August Kleinzahler

The award-winning essayist and poet presents a bracing renewal of civic poetry – his first publication in the UK.

The first new collection from the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning ‘poetry star’ (New York Times) since 2013’s The Hotel Oneira.

Living Weapon is a love song to the imagination, a new blade of light homing in on our political moment. A winged man plummets from the troposphere, four NYPD officers enter a mobile phone store, concrete pavements hang overhead. Phillips ruminates on violins and violence, on hatred, on turning fortythree, even on the end of existence itself. Living Weapon reveals the limitations of our vocabulary, showing that our platitudes are inadequate for the brutal times we find ourselves in. But still, our lives go on, and these are poems of survival as much as indictment. Couched in language both wry and ample, this is a piercing collection from ‘a virtuoso poetic voice’ (Granta).

‘Phillips refuses to abandon the past; instead, he interrogates its ghosts – in all their terrible admixture of violence and beauty – and, despite every reason not to, he sings.’ Los Angeles Review of Books

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August Kleinzahler is admired for his musical, precise, wise and sometimes madcap poems that are grounded in the wide array of places, people and, most especially, voices he has encountered in his real and imagined worlds. Snow Approaching on the Hudson is a book that moves seamlessly through the often hypnogogic, porous realms of dreams, the past and present, inner and outer landscapes. His haunting, shifting atmospheres are peopled by characters, intimately portrayed, that are at once historical and invented. The poet’s signature rhythmic propulsion serves as the engine for his newest collection, and his always masterful free verse conveys a life thoroughly lived and brilliantly perceived.

‘Kleinzahler is a generous writer; you are cheered . . . to spend a few hours in his company, admiring the ease with which he skips from one to the next and ties it all together.’

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AUGUST KLEINZAHLER was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He is the author of over a dozen books of poems and a memoir, Cutty, One Rock.

His awards include the Griffin Poetry Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and a Lannan Literary Award.

He lives in San Francisco.

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THOM GUNN (1929–2004) was born in Kent. He wrote his first collection, Fighting Terms (1954), while still an undergraduate at Cambridge.

In 1954 he moved to California, settled in San Francisco in 1961, and went on to publish nine books of poetry.

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The Letters of Thom Gunn edited by August Kleinzahler, Michael Nott and Clive Wilmer This selection of correspondence presents the private reflections of a trailblazing figure in Anglo-American poetry and gay literature.

‘I write about love, I write about friendship,’ remarked Thom Gunn: ‘I find that they are absolutely intertwined.’ These core values permeate his correspondence with friends, family, lovers, and fellow poets, and shed new light on ‘one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century’ (TLS). These letters reveal the evolution of Gunn’s work and the fascinating life that informed his poems: his struggle with his mother’s suicide; his changing relationship with his life partner, Mike Kitay; the LSD trips that led to his celebrated collection Moly (1971); and the deaths of friends from AIDS that inspired the powerful, unsparing elegies of The Man with Night Sweats (1992).

‘Gunn is one of the most free-spirited, intriguing, intelligent and emotionally engaging poets of his time – and ours.’

Andrew Motion

A Vertical Art: Oxford Lectures Simon Armitage The UK Poet Laureate’s popular series of lectures examining what poetry is and who it might be for.

This edition gathers the expansive and spirited public lectures delivered by Simon Armitage during his ‘conscientious and often amusingly self-conscious tenure’ (TLS) as Oxford University Professor of Poetry. He tries to identify a ‘common sense’ approach to an artform that can lend itself to grand statements and vacuous gestures, questioning both the facile and obscure ends of the poetry spectrum, asserting certain fundamental qualities that separate the genre from nearneighbours such as prose and song lyrics, and examining poetry’s values in contemporary society. These are personal essays that enquire into the volatile and disputed definitions of poetry from the point of view of a dedicated reader, a practising writer and a lifelong champion of its power and potential. ‘[Armitage] blended his down-to-earth, often flippant demeanour with a brilliantly understated, original and captivating address.’ Oxford Culture Review

SIMON ARMITAGE is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. His most recent poetry collection is Magnetic Field (2019). From 2015 to 2019, he served as Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, and, in 2018, he was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. Simon Armitage is Poet Laureate.

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FREDERICK SEIDEL has written many books of poems, including The Cosmos Trilogy, Ooga-Booga, Nice Weather, Widening Income Inequality and Peaches Goes It Alone.

New Selected Poems Frederick Seidel An overview of Seidel’s best and most famous poetry from the past five decades, showing the evolution of a master poet’s craft.

This collection provides readers with a perpetually exciting, compact edition of the revolutionary poet’s most powerful work.

Seidel has been hailed as ‘the poet of a new contemporary form’ (New York Review of Books) and ‘the most frightening American poet ever’ (Boston Review). His ambitious, disturbing and tender work has mystified and captured critics, poets and readers for decades. This New Selected Poems allows readers to appreciate the scope of Seidel’s work over the past half-century and his uncanny ability to say the unsayable.

‘The divisive bad-good poet, whose terrible-beautiful rhymes and offensive-tender sentiments will have you levitating one minute and on the floor with horror the next.’

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The Gododdin Lament for the Fallen

Gillian Clarke A poet’s translation of one of Britain’s oldest cultural treasures, which captures its compelling ‘word-music’.

The Gododdin charts the rise and fall of 363 warriors in the battle of Catraeth, around the year AD 600. The men of the Brittonic kingdom of Gododdin rose to unite the Welsh and the Picts against the English, only to meet a devastating fate.

Composed by the poet Aneirin, the poem was originally orally transmitted as a sung elegy, passed down for seven centuries before being written down by two medieval scribes. It is composed of one hundred laments to the named characters who fell and follows a sophisticated alliterative poetics. Former National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke is the first poet to create a translation. She animates this historical epic with a modern musicality, making it live in the language of today.

‘Y Gododdin is extremely readable, not a long narrative route march but a mosaic of elegies and eulogies to the fallen.’ Carol Rumens, Guardian

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GILLIAN CLARKE lives in Ceredigion. She was National Poet of Wales (2008–16) and was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2010. Her prose works include a writer’s journal, At the Source (2008), and her poetry collections include Selected Poems (Picador, 2016) and Zoology (Carcanet, 2017).

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Selected Poems of Thom Gunn Thom Gunn Thom Gunn has been described as ‘one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century’ (TLS). Compiled by his friend Clive Wilmer and accompanied by insightful notes, this is the first edition to represent the full arc of Gunn’s inimitable career.

‘The new selected edition of Thom Gunn’s poetry reveals a writer as good as Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney.’

Guardian ‘Wilmer’s selection is the ideal place to begin with Gunn.’

Poetry Chicago ‘The first step towards the rehabilitation of Gunn into the national consciousness.’ New Statesman 18/03/2021 PB | 9780571365081 | 336pp | £14.99 UK C/Wealth + EU ex Can

WALTER DE LA MARE (1873–1956) was born in Charlton, Kent. The Listeners (1912) and the children’s volume Peacock Pie (1913) established him as one of the foremost poets of his time. De la Mare also published novels, short stories, children’s books, literary criticism and a series of celebrated anthologies.

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Magnetic Field Simon Armitage

Reading Walter de la Mare edited by William Wootten

Magnetic Field brings together Simon Armitage’s Marsden poems, from his very first pamphlet to new work from a forthcoming collection. It offers personal insight into this unique region of West Yorkshire that forms a frontier territory between many different worlds, and invites questions about the forging of identity, the precariousness of memory and our attachment to certain places.

A selection of de la Mare’s greatest poems presented alongside insightful, reader-friendly commentaries.

Walter de la Mare was one of the best-loved English poets of the twentieth century, admired by contemporaries including Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot. This volume offers a new selection of his finest verse – including perennial favourites such as ‘Napoleon’, ‘Fare Well’ and ‘The Listeners’, and a substantial representation of his late long poem Winged Chariot – presented for a twenty-first-century audience.

The poems are accompanied by illuminating commentaries by William Wootten, which build up a portrait of de la Mare’s life, loves and friendships with the likes of Hardy, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas and Katherine Mansfield. They also point out the fascinating references to literature, folklore, history and the natural world that embroider the verse.

‘Contains some of the most memorable lyric moments from Armitage’s thirty-year career – such is the magic of place for poets.’ Sunday Times ‘It was the view from his house at the edge of the moors that shaped his poetic vision.’ Guardian 01/04/2021 PB | 9780571361458 | 104pp | £10.99 UK C/Wealth + EU ex Can

‘De la Mare’s poems I have had for a long time and I read them more often than any other book. I put him above Yeats and all the other moderns, and in spite of his fantasy find him nearer than any one else to the essential truth of life.’ C. S. Lewis 88

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DAVID HARE’s first full-length play was produced in 1970.

Since then he has written over thirty stage plays and thirty screenplays for film and television. In a millennial poll of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, five of the top hundred were his.

Beat the Devil

Two Besides

A Covid Monologue

A Pair of Talking Heads

David Hare

Alan Bennett

A searing account of seventeen days during the pandemic.

Two new Talking Heads to add to the twelve acknowledged masterworks by one of our most highly acclaimed writers.

COVID-19 seems to be a sort of dirty bomb, thrown into the body to cause havoc.

On the same day that the UK government finally made the first of two decisive interventions that led to a conspicuously late lockdown, David Hare contracted COVID-19. Nobody seemed to know much about it then, and many doctors are not altogether sure they know much more today. Suffering a pageant of apparently random symptoms, Hare recalls the delirium of his illness, which mixed with fear, dream, honest medicine and dishonest politics to create a monologue of furious urgency and power.

In An Ordinary Woman, a mother suffers the inevitable consequences when she makes life intolerable for herself and her family by falling for her own flesh and blood. The Shrine introduces us to Lorna, the bereft partner of a dedicated biker with a surprising private life.

‘Given the opportunity to revisit the characters from Talking Heads I’ve added a couple more, both of them ordinary women whom life takes by surprise. They just about end up on top and go on, but without quite knowing how. Still, they’re in good company, and at least they’ve made it into print.’ Alan Bennett, June 2020 ‘A fully peopled, entirely credible, heartbreaking world.

Technically, each one a masterclass in writing.’ Guardian

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ALAN BENNETT’s work includes Talking Heads, Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, A Question of Attribution, The Madness of George III, The History Boys, The Habit of Art, People, Hymn, Cocktail Sticks and Allelujah! as well as Writing Home, Untold Stories (PEN/ Ackerley Prize), Keeping On Keeping On, Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin, The Uncommon Reader and Smut: Two Unseemly Stories.

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RICHARD SCARRY is one of the most popular children’s authors of all time. He wrote more than 250 books which have sold more than 150 million copies globally.

Scarry once wrote: ‘It’s a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought.’

Lowly Worm is one of Richard Scarry’s best loved characters, and the star of this lively collection of stories, in which he takes an unexpected ride on a hot-air balloon; helps Huckle find just the right gift for Mother Cat; rides the roller coaster at the fair and builds a castle at the beach. With everything from bike crashes to a big birthday surprise, these stories show exactly why Lowly is one special worm, loved the world over. Every page has something to delight over and discuss.

Jump into Busy Town and learn your ABCs with Richard Scarry and his friends!

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Scarry captures all the hustle and bustle of Busytown through a series of delightful, brightly illustrated stories. Flossie, Big Hilda, Mother Cat, Squeaky Mouse and a cast of Scarry’s most popular characters are off to pick spring flowers, watch fireworks at the Pig family picnic, help the postman deliver letters, and celebrate holidays, family and friends. This is the best introduction to everyday grown-up life – ever!

Richard Scarry’s beloved Busylande meets the Middle Ages – and the result is a joyful reworked fairy tale starring knights on horseback, wandering minstrels, intrepid peasants, a beautiful princess and a frightening dragon!

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‘Treasure troves of detail . . . he taught me to draw.’

Chris Mould

Busylande is a very busy, happy kingdom – until a roaring dragon kidnaps Princess Lily.

Who will save her? The knights do try, but everything goes wrong. Now it’s all up to Peasant Pig and Lowly Worm . . . but they’ve not faced a challenge like this – ever!

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‘One of my favourite illustrators.’

Allen Fatimaharan

Each double page spread is packed with words starting or finishing or including a specific letter of the alphabet. The letters are highlighted in bright pink to emphasise the learning point. It’s busy and it’s bright and it makes learning your alphabet fun.

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The first ever picture book addressing how a disabled child might want to be spoken to.

Imagine it was a question that raised unhappy memories . . .

What Happened to You? James Catchpole and Karen George Like Joe, JAMES CATCHPOLE has one leg. He has played for the England Amputee Football Team, and also busked around Provence with a guitar, but now he runs a literary agency with his wife, Lucy. Lucy and James live in Oxford with their two young daughters. Visit their inspirational Instagram: @thecatchpoles

KAREN GEORGE gained a first class honours degree in Fine Art and an MA from The Royal College of Art. Karen painted film sets for a while until, in 2009, she won Waterstone’s ‘Picture This’ competition to illustrate Freddie and the Fairy for Julia Donaldson. Karen lives in Bristol with her family and Dr Calamari the cat.

This is the experience of onelegged Joe, a child who only wants to have fun and play pirates. Constantly seen first for his disability, Joe is fed up of only ever being asked about his leg.

And today at the playground is no exception. Joe gets increasingly cross – until finally the penny drops and the children realise that Joe is playing a rather good game, one that they can join in – and, in fact, that question doesn’t matter any more at all.

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Rita’s Rabbit Laura Mucha and Hannah Peck Be careful what you wish for!

A delightful picture book about a little girl who is so very sure she wants a fluffy pet rabbit and NOT a scaly, scratchy bearded dragon called Spike . . . But when a fussy, grouchy, messy rabbit comes to stay, Rita discovers rabbits aren’t necessarily as adorable as they seem.

A very funny text wonderfully complemented by Hannah Peck’s witty artwork.

LAURA MUCHA is a prizewinning poet, author and speaker whose writing has been featured by CBBC, TalkRadio, Classic FM, Sunday Brunch and Woman’s Hour.

Rita’s Rabbit is her debut picture book.

HANNAH PECK is an author and illustrator based in Brighton who has illustrated many books including Nevermoor and My Butterfly Bouquet.

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ELENA DE ROO is an enormously talented poet who lives in New Zealand. She has had a number of stories, poems and plays published including The Rain Train.

TEEMU JUHANI is a Finnish illustrator, comic artist and graphic designer whose illustrations have been published in Finland, UK, US and China.

To Catch A Cloud Elena de Roo and Teemu Juhani

Two Terrible Vikings Francesca Simon and Steve May

An epic story, full of danger wrapped up as a sea shanty from enormously talented poet Elena de Roo and rising star illustrator Teemu Juhani.

Francesca Simon had so much fun writing her super picture book Hack and Whack she has decided to take her unruly Viking twins, now older, on further adventures – pitching the stories squarely at the Horrid Henry readership. Set in the snowy fjords of a Viking kingdom, the terrible twins are adored by their parents for demonstrating that they are the very best worst vikings. But of course, behaving appallingly sometimes goes horribly wrong . . .

I spy a cloud go floating by Where do you go, Cloud, so high?

A boy and a dog follow a cloud out to sea, but as the weather worsens the boy discovers that the weather and the sea are formidable friends, and not necessarily on his side. This beautiful text, full of drama and lyricism, sees a boy bear witness to the power of the elements, and the full force of the sea – before the waves and whales bear him safely home.

Powerful stuff!

With whip-smart dialogue, and accompanied by Dennis the Menace style anarchic cartoon imagery from Steve May, this series is as sharp, funny and compelling as you would expect from the reigning Queen of Comedy.

FRANCESCA SIMON is universally known for the staggeringly popular Horrid Henry series. The books and CDs have sold over 20 million copies in the UK alone and are published in 27 countries.

Francesca is also the author of Costa-shortlisted The Monstrous Child and two picture books, Hack and Whack and The Goat Cafe.

She lives in North London with her family.

STEVE MAY trained as an animation director and is now a hugely successful self-taught comic illustrator in his own right. He has illustrated books

by Jeremy Strong, Philip Reeve, Harry Hill and Phil Earle, as well as the Dennis the Menace series. Steve now lectures on animation and lives and works in North London.

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CLAIRE BARKER lives with her family on a small, untidy farm in deepest, darkest Devon. Claire is the author of the award-winning animal fantasy series Knitbone Pepper, as well as the Picklewitch & Jack series.

TEEMU JUHANI is a Finnish illustrator, comic artist and graphic designer based in London. Born and raised in a land of snow and northern lights, he grew up holding his pencil and dreaming of superheroes.

Picklewitch & Jack and the Sea Wizard’s Secret Claire Barker and Teemu Juhani

Indiana Bones Harry Heape and Rebecca Bagley

DR FIRENZE SHARPTOOTH cordially invites ST IMACULATE’S SCHOOL FOR THE GIFTED to the Great Fossil Hunt

Indiana Bones is a shaggy dog with a difference. He’s got superpowers and can sniff out criminals and – with his young friend and owner Aisha – solve mysteries that would flummox the world’s more expert detectives!

Goody-two-shoes Jack is very excited when he learns that this year’s school trip is a visit to the seaside to hunt for fossils. And even better – there’s going to be a prize for the best find!

In their first case, they are on the trail of treasure hidden centuries ago by a legendary knight, an adventure which takes them all the way to Egypt and the Pyramids.

However, his best friend, mischievous Picklewitch, is not impressed . . . until she discovers the local Sea Wizard, whose secret lair is hiding the biggest treasure of all . . .

A hugely inventive new series from one of the funniest authors in the business.

04/03/2021

HARRY HEAPE is an artist, a visionary and a very successful none-of-your-businessman. A shy and quiet man, he lives and writes in deepest, darkest Hahahahalifax, and is the author of the muchacclaimed Shiny Pippin series.

REBECCA BAGLEY lives in Bath.

When she’s not drawing, she’ll probably be plotting how to best smuggle a husky into her flat. She has illustrated brilliant books such as the Shiny Pippin series and Armadillo and Hare.

01/04/2021

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The Five Realms Uki and the Swamp Spirit Kieran Larwood and David Wyatt (Cover illustration by Fernando Juarez)

Uki had the sensation of a sickly green light, spreading out through the networks of water.

Of tendrils connecting all the creatures of the marsh in a web . . . Linking itself so it could poison it all and destroy it.

Uki and his friends have two more spirits to find and capture. After defeating Valkus, they make for Clarice, who is spreading disease through the swamps. Can Uki and his friends outwit him – all whilst they themselves are being chased by the Endwatch and Jori’s clan of assassins?

From bestselling author and winner of the Blue Peter Best Story Book Award, Uki and the Swamp Spirit is the fifth title set in the world of Podkin.

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with exquisite detail, Alex Bell's worldbuilding is second to none.

Alex Bell takes her readers to another enchanting corner of the Explorers’ Realm where we meet the submarine engineer Ursula, who works for the Ocean Squid Explorers’ Club.

Determined to make her way in the world, Ursula wants to follow in Stella’s footsteps and become an explorer. But there are countless barriers in her way, not least the fact that she is secretly part-mermaid and therefore the sworn enemy of all Ocean Explorers. When The Collector threatens the very existence of the Club, Ursula does not hesitate to defend it, even though it puts her own future in jeopardy. At last it seems she will go on an expedition of her own aboard the Blowfish, helped by her friend Max, twins Genie and Jai Bartholomew Singh – and Stella herself!

ALEX BELL is the author of various works for both adults and young adults including Frozen Charlotte.

The Polar Bear Explorers’ Club was her first foray into middle grade.

After training as a lawyer, she now works at The Citizens’ Advice Bureau. Most of her spare time consists of catering to the whims of her Siamese cat.

TOMISLAV TOMIĆ graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He started to publish his illustrations during his college days.

He has illustrated a great number of children’s books, and lives and works in Zaprešic, Croatia.

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KIERAN LARWOOD has loved fantasy stories ever since reading The Hobbit. He worked as a teacher and has just about recovered. He now writes fulltime although, if anybody was watching, they might think he just daydreams a lot.

DAVID WYATT is a hugely respected illustrator living in Devon. He has illustrated tales by the very best of authors, including Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and J. R. R. Tolkien and is known for his detailed and wonderfully atmospheric fantasy work.

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BONNIE-SUE HITCHCOCK, author of The Smell of Other People’s Houses, was a journalist and spent many years fishing commercially, raising her children on a boat.

She was born in Alaska and lives there still in a yurt with moose wandering through her backyard, a yurt that was lucky to escape the 2019 wildfires.

Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock

All American Boys Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

The highly anticipated second novel from the Carnegie-shortlisted author of The Smell of Other People’s Houses.

In this New York Times bestselling novel, two teens – one Black, one white – grapple with the repercussions of a violent act that leaves their community and, ultimately, the country divided by racial tension.

Come on a journey across the rural American West . . .

Meet the teenagers who live in the small towns across these states, separated by distance, but whose stories are woven together in the most unexpected of ways.

Whether they are brought together by the spread of wildfire, by the abusive priest who’s moved from state to state or by the hunt for a missing child, these incredible tales blaze with secrets, rage and love.

A novel like no other, this intricate, intense and beautiful book will take your breath away.

Praise for Bonnie-Sue:

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‘Transports the reader effortlessly both in time and space.’

Metro ‘Intoxicating . . . will resonate with readers of all ages.’

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A bag of chips. That’s all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for.

What he finds instead is a cop, Paul, who mistakes Rashad for a shoplifter, mistakes Rashad’s pleadings that he’s stolen nothing for belligerence, mistakes Rashad’s every flinch at every punch the cop throws as further resistance and refusal to STAY STILL. But how can you stay still when someone is pounding your face into the pavement?

JASON REYNOLDS is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning author. He lives in Washington, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com.

BRENDAN KIELY is also a New York Times bestselling and award-winning author.

Originally from the Boston area, he now lives with his wife in New York City.

There were witnesses: Quinn – Rashad’s classmate who has been raised by Paul since his own father died – and a video camera.

Soon the beating is all over the news and simmering tensions threaten to explode as Rashad and Quinn are forced to face decisions and consequences they had never considered before.

‘Timely and powerful, this novel promises to have an impact long after the pages stop turning.’ School Library Journal

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JEFFREY BOAKYE is a writer, teacher and music enthusiast originally from Brixton, London. He has two published books, Hold Tight and Black, Listed. He is also the co-author of What is Masculinity? Why Does it Matter? And Other Big Questions. Jeffrey lives in East Yorkshire with his wife and two sons.

NGADI SMART is a Sierra Leonean Visual Artist based between London, UK and Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, who specialises in Illustration and Photography.

03/06/2021

Musical Truth: A Musical History of Modern Black Britain in 25 Songs Jeffrey Boakye and Ngadi Smart This extraordinary retelling of Black British history will dazzle readers of all ages.

A history book with a twist, structured around a playlist of twenty five songs, listed chronologically. Each song is a jumping off point for deeper social, political and historical analysis, tracking key moments in Black history, and the emotional impact of both the songs and the artists who performed them. The book redefines British history, the Empire, and post colonialism, and invites readers to immerse themselves in music and think again about the narratives and key moments in history that they have been taught up to now. Targeted at upper middle grade to YA, this is a book that will also attract a much wider adult audience, which is why we are going out first in a gift format.

Animal Farm George Orwell and Chris Mould One of our hand-picked classics that no home should be without, Animal Farm is the classic story of revolution – now with fabulous illustrations by Chris Mould.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

When the animals overthrow the oppressive Mr. Jones, they think their problems are over, but in Orwell’s great indictment of the Russian Revolution, they find that power corrupts and they have merely swapped one form of tyranny for another.

This highly collectable gift edition, wittily illustrated by Chris Mould, will bring Orwell’s text to a much broader readership.

GEORGE ORWELL (1903-1950) is one of the world’s most influential writers, the visionary author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four.

CHRIS MOULD is a bestselling author and illustrator. As well as illustrating Ted Hughes’ The Iron Man, he teamed up with Matt Haig for the A Boy Called Christmas series.

He lives in Yorkshire.

‘A stunning new illustrated edition of a classic tale.

Mould . . . is equal to the big themes the story presents, creating unforgettable images for this unforgettable fable.’

LoveReading4Kids on The Iron Man

‘Has the intelligence and power to change the way British history is taught in schools, and should become a school set text. Jeffrey is a phenomenal talent.’ Leah Thaxton

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ANNE BRONTË (1820-1849) was brought up together with her sisters and brother; Charlotte, Emily and Branwell.

All three sisters became published novelists under the pseudonyms of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Anne is best known for her two novels, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey, and she was also a brilliant poet.

Agnes Grey Anne Brontë Part of our collection of Young Adult Classics, a Victorian coming-of-age story.

I had been seasoned by adversity, and tutored by experience, and I longed to redeem my lost honour in the eyes of those whose opinion was more than that of all the world to me.

Agnes Grey is forced to become a governess due to her family’s circumstances, but struggles with the reality of disobedient children, disdainful employers and an isolated existence.

Written from Anne’s experience, this is a truly personal and moving coming-of-age story.

With a stunning cover from Instagram sensation Bodil Jane.

The Story of a Man Who Wanted to do Housework Wanda Gág A classic find from the Faber archive and a sure hit on Father’s Day! A man who wanted to do housework, but, sadly, fell into the cooking pot . . .

The story of a man who creates more trouble for himself than he could ever have expected, will bring a smile to every dad’s face. It’s also a hilarious fable to read to children – as you would expect from a story that features a dad getting stuck in a chimney due to a cow falling off a roof . . .

WANDA GÁG (1893-1946) was born in Minnesota.

Wanda initiated the doublepage spread, designing two facing pages as one scene. In recognition of her rare artistry, she was the posthumous recipient of the 1958 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for Millions of Cats and the 1977 Kerlan Award for the body of her work.

‘Humour and good-natured fun.’ Kirkus ‘Each title is a treasure, done in her instantly recognizable style.’ Horn Book Magazine

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Jeremy Wood Account Manager for Central and North London Bookshops Tel: 07966 058496 Email: jeremyw@faber.co.uk Luke Crabb Account Manager for London Museums and Galleries and SE England Bookshops Tel: 07841 800561 Email: luke.crabb@faber.co.uk Richard Evans Account Manager for South West England Tel: 07957 354631 Email: richarde@faber.co.uk John McColgan Account Manager for Scotland and Northumbria Tel: 07595 214384 Email: john.mccolgan@faber.co.uk Kellie Balseiro Account Manager for Home Counties, South and West London Bookshops Tel: 07790 757833 Email: kellieb@faber.co.uk Rosy Locke Account Manager for East Anglia Tel 07590 929836 Email: rosy.locke@faber.co.uk

EUROPEAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN SALES

Richard Fortey Account Manager for Midlands and North Wales Tel: 07792 456837 Email: richard.fortey@faber.co.uk Mel Tyrrell Account Manager for South Wales, Middle England and Oxfordshire Tel: 07824 085033 Email: melanie.tyrrell@faber.co.uk Sue Jackson Account Manager for the North of England Tel: 07980 712102 Email: sue.jackson@faber.co.uk

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Ireland Gill Hess Ltd 16 Church Street Skerries Co Dublin Eire Tel: +353 1 8491801 Fax: +353 1 8492384 Email: gilhess@iol.ie Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Denmark, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus and Malta Amelie Burchell Faber & Faber Bloomsbury House 74–77 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3DA Mobile: + 44 (0) 7384 525251 Email: amelieb@faber.co.uk

Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and Austria Bridget Lane Faber & Faber Bloomsbury House 74–77 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3DA Mobile: +44 (0) 7966 057076 E-mail: bridgetl@faber.co.uk Eastern Europe (including Russia and The Baltics) Cristian Juncu Str. Fabricii nr.2B-A 060823 Bucuresti Romania Tel: +40 (0)720 454 800 Email: cristian@j4.ro Middle East (including North Africa, Turkey, Pakistan) Faber & Faber Bloomsbury House 74–77 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3DA Tel: +44 (0)20 7927 3800 E-mail: gaexport@faber.co.uk

ASIAN SALES Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia Viki Cheung Faber & Faber Bloomsbury House 74–77 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3DA Tel: +44 (0)20 7927 3800 E-mail: gaexport@faber.co.uk Singapore Times Distribution Pte. Ltd. 1 New Industrial Road Times Centre Singapore 536196 Tel: + 6715 8989 Fax: + 65 6715 8999 Email: enquiry@timesdistribution.com.sg

INDIA SUB-CONTINENT SALES India and Sri Lanka Penguin Books India Penguin Random House 7th Floor, Infinity Tower C, DLF Cyber City, Phase – II, Gurgaon – 122 002 Haryana India Tel: +91 124 478 5600 Fax: +91 124 478 5600 Email: customer.service@ in.penguingroup.com

AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND SALES Australia Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd 83 Alexander Street Crows Nest NSW 2065 Australia Tel: 00 612 8425 0100 Fax: 00 612 9906 2218 Email: info@allenandunwin.com www.allenandunwin.com New Zealand Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd Office 3 Level 3 HB Building 228 Queen Street Auckland New Zealand Tel: 00 649 337 3800 Fax: 00 649 377 3811

Canada Publishers Group Canada 128A Sterling Rd., Suite 201 Toronto, Ontario M6R 2B7, Canada Tel: +1 416 934 9900 Email: info@pgcbooks.ca

AFRICAN SALES Sub-Saharan Africa Anita Zih-De Haan Africa Book Services 105b Prins Mauritssingel 3043 PE Rotterdam The Netherlands Tel: +31 104 154 250 Fax: +31 104 151 128 Email: anita.zih@azabs.nl Southern Africa Independent Division (Jonathan Ball Publishers (Pty) Ltd) 66 Mimetes Road Denver Extension 9 Johannesburg 2094 South Africa Tel: +27 (0)11 601 8000 Fax: +27 (0)11 622 3553 Email: services@jonathanball.co.za

LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN SALES David Williams IMA / InterMediaAmericana E-mail: sales@intermediaamericana.com

NORTH AMERICAN SALES USA Publishers Group West 1700 Fourth Street Berkeley, CA 94710, USA Tel : +1 510 809 3700 Fax : + 1 510 809 3777 Email: info@pgw.com

Malaysia Times Distribution (M) Sdn. Bhd. Level 1, Tower 2A, Avenue 5 Bangsar South City No 8 Jalan Kerinchi 59200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tel: +60 3 2242 7228 Fax: +60 3 2242 7238 Email: enquiry@timesdistribution.com.my

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