FICTION & CRIME

CONTENTS

FICTION & CRIME 2

FICTION & CRIME 28 PAPERBACKS

NON-FICTION 40

NON-FICTION 70 PAPERBACKS

POETRY

DRAMA

CHILDREN’S

spring 2021

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.

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Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro

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? 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 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

Bart Koetsier ©

Light Perpetual Francis Spufford

From the bestselling, prize-winning author of Golden Hill, a novel of the miraculous, the everlasting and the everyday. A German rocket incinerates a South London householdgoods store and five young lives are atomised in an instant. 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 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.

Mahdis Keshavarz ©

This One Sky Day

Leone Ross

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

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Siemon Scamell-Katz ©

Second Place Rachel Cusk

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

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

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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.

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little scratch

Rebecca Watson

Literature at its freshest – the virtuosic and powerfully affecting debut by a thrilling new British talent. 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 ‘Reads like the cinders settling in the air after an explosion . . . daring and completely readable.’ Colin Barrett

A Crooked Tree

Una Mannion

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

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

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Hurdy Gurdy

Christopher Wilson

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

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

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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 Ebook | 9780571322114 UK C/Wealth + EU ex Can

Alexandria

Paul Kingsnorth

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

Sylvie Rosokoff ©

Temporary

Hilary Leichter

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

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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.

04/02/2021 HB | 9780571342266 | 288pp | £12.99 Ebook | 9780571342280 World English Language

Night As It Falls

Jakuta Alikavazovic

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

The House Uptown Melissa Ginsburg

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. 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. 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

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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 . . . Praise for Perfidious Albion:

‘The Martin Amis’s Money of our times.’ David Baddiel ‘A mordant, needle-sharp satire.’ Jonathan Coe 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.

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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.

01/04/2021 HB | 9780571347599 | 464pp | £16.99 Ebook | 9780571347629 UK C/Wealth ex Can open EU

The Republic of False Truths

Alaa Al Aswany

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

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

Eva Vermandel ©

A Lonely Man Chris Power

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

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.

‘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. 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 ‘Seriously impressive.’ Claire Adam 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.

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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.

06/05/2021 PB | 9780571353743 | 176pp | £12.99 Ebook | 9780571353767 World All Languages

Intimacies

Lucy Caldwell

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

Boys Don’t Cry Fíona Scarlett

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

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.

06/05/2021 HB | 9780571366071 | 196pp | £12.99 Ebook | 9780571365227 World English Language

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.

06/05/2021 PB | 9780571356379 | 272pp | £12.99 Ebook | 9780571356393 UK C/Wealth ex Can open EU

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

Dan Eccles ©

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 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

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. 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 . . . 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.

03/06/2021 PB | 9780571364671 | 176pp | £12.99 Ebook | 9780571364695 UK C/Wealth ex Can open EU

Tokyo Redux David Peace

Based on a real unsolved case from 1940s Japan, a brutal and compelling novel from one of our most original writers. Tokyo, July 1949. President Shimoyama, Head of the National Railways of Japan, goes missing. American detective Harry Sweeney leads the investigation. 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 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.

03/06/2021 HB | 9780571232000 | 480pp | £16.99 Ebook | 9780571323647 World ex USA

fiction & crime paperbacks spring 2021

07/01/2021 PB | 9780571342372 | 320pp | £8.99 UK C/Wealth ex Can open EU

Rules for Perfect Murders

Peter Swanson

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

‘An ingenious game of cat-and-mouse.’ The Times ‘Never less than enthralling.’ Daily Mail ‘Tremendously enjoyable.’ Sunday Mirror

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A Thousand Moons

Sebastian Barry

‘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 ‘Prose this good is a kind of enchantment, transcending the constructs that are supposed to define us.’ Observer ‘A richly poetic read.’ Sunday Times

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The Rapture

Claire McGlasson

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 . . .

‘Poignant.’ Sunday Times ‘Gripping.’ Metro ‘Fascinating.’ The Times

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Love After Love Ingrid Persaud

‘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 ‘Unforgettable.’ Marlon James ‘A captivating interrogation of love in all its forms.’ Sara Collins, Guardian

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.

Follow Her Home

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 . . .

Beware Beware

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.

Dead Soon Enough

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

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

An Expert in Murder

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

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

The Death of Lucy Kyte

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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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

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 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

‘As exhilarating as it is unputdownable.’ AnOther

Lady in the Lake

Laura Lippman

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

‘Haunting . . . extraordinary.’ Stephen King, New York Times

‘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

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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

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Mouthpieces

Eimear McBride

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

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 ‘A work of delirious genius.’ Guardian

Meanwhile in Dopamine City

DBC Pierre

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.

‘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

The Sun on My Head

Geovani Martins

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

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

‘Mindblowing.’ Chico Buarque ‘An extraordinary writer.’ Misha Glenny

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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

Collected Stories

Hanif Kureishi

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

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

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)

The Alexandria Quartet

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Balthazar

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Mountolive

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Clea

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Prospero’s Cell

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Bitter Lemons of Cyprus

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Caesar’s Vast Ghost

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Reflections on a Marine Venus

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Sicilian Carousel

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The Greek Islands

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The Dark Labyrinth

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The Black Book

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White Eagles Over Serbia

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The Revolt of Aphrodite

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The Avignon Quintet

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non-fiction

spring 2021

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.

29/10/2020 HB | 9780571365821 | 176pp | £9.99 Ebook | 9780571365838 World All Languages

The Cummings Files: CONFIDENTIAL

Thoughts, Ideas, Actions by Dominic Cummings

Arthur Mathews

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 . . .

Access All Areas

The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond Lenny Henry & Marcus Ryder

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

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.

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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.

07/01/2021 PB | 9780571365159 | 288pp | £14.99 Ebook | 9780571365173 UK C/Wealth ex Can Relax A User’s Guide to Life in the Age of Anxiety Timothy Caulfield

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

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

Having and Being Had

Eula Biss

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

‘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 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.

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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.

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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

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) 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.

Sarah Breeze ©

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.

04/02/2021 PB | 9781783352333 | 288pp | £9.99 Ebook | 9781783352340 World All Languages

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.

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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

‘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. 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) 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

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