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Great Eastern Hotel
Ruchir Joshi
A rich, teeming, involving epic of war, famine, love and culture-clash in imperial Calcutta during World War Two – Joshi is ‘the brand new experience after Rushdie: a megashow, Russian in size, Indian in soul’ India Today
The world is at war. And at the Great Eastern, Calcutta’s most luxurious hotel, amidst the feasting, dancing and laughter, we witness the metropolis in the last moments before multiple disasters strike.
The story begins in August 1941, on the day Rabindranath Tagore dies. The city has come to a standstill as thousands of people line the streets to pay their respects. Among them are: Nirupama, a student of history and a volunteer with the Communist Party of India; Imogen, a young Englishwoman whose father is an official with the Raj; Kedar, the scion of a wealthy family, who dreams of painting like Cézanne; and Gopal, a young but experienced pickpocket, who finds himself promoted into a dark, dangerous world.
Their lives intertwine with those at the hotel: an American soldier who plays jazz at the nightclub; a genius French chef; an heiress fleeing from the nightmare in Europe; and a group of military officers running a secret intelligence operation.
Singularly ambitious and attentive, Ruchir Joshi’s Great Eastern Hotel maps this simmering pause at a crucial juncture in history, and offers new contexts to the upheavals of our present, raising vital questions about political commitment, nationalism, love and art.
‘Riotously audacious and entertaining — cinematic, jazzlike, a humdinger of a novel’ Kamila Shamsie
‘A film-maker’s novel, so vividly immersive ... at once human and epic’ Jeet Thayil, author of Narcopolis
‘Glorious, brimming with life ... A towering novel’ Nilanjana S. Roy, author of Our Freedoms
Ruchir Joshi is the author of The Last Jet-Engine Laugh, a novel, and Poriborton!, a book about the 2011 state elections in West Bengal. He has contributed to Granta, India Magazine, the Indian Quarterly and more. He has also directed documentaries and essay films, including the award-winning Tales from Planet Kolkata.
Historical Fiction 17 July
HB
£18.99
9780007143931
Who Will Remain
Kasim Ali
A gripping, powerful new novel following a young man as he weighs up the life of safety that his parents want for him and another path just outside his door, from the acclaimed author of Good Intentions.
Amir has grown up in the Alum Rock neighbourhood of Birmingham, under the loving eye of his older brother, Bilal, and his cousin Saqib, born just a few days before Amir. There are places and people you know to avoid as an Alum Rock kid, but Amir has managed to keep his nose clean and stay out of trouble.
When Saqib is killed gang running, suddenly home doesn’t feel so safe anymore. Amir’s university grades are collapsing and pressures are mounting from every direction. As tensions flare, it seems that everyone in his life is carrying their own secrets and the family ties that have bound him so completely begin to unravel. Amir decides he only has himself to rely on and must take his future into his own hands.
This is a blistering story of social expectations and social condemnation, of dead ends and divided loyalties, and of what remains when you have nothing left to lose.
Praise for Good Intentions:
‘Ali explores racism, the difficulty of navigating cultural heritage and the travails of early adulthood [with] a climactic sucker punch’ Metro
‘A gorgeous, unbelievable debut’ Angie Kim, author of Miracle Creek
Kasim Ali works at Penguin Random House and has previously been shortlisted for Hachette’s Mo Siewcharran Prize, longlisted for the 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize, and has contributed to The Good Journal. He comes from Birmingham and now lives in London.
General Fiction 17 July HB
£16.99
9780008450595
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No Lost Causes Club
An Honest Guide to Recovery, and How to Find Your Way Through It
Lauren McQuistin
‘I kept thinking, I’m twenty-fucking-five, I’ve not had the chance to buy a house to lose, and I’m not anyone’s ex-wife yet – surely it should take more time to absolutely destroy your life.’
When she was told that her life expectancy could be as low as twenty-five if she did not stop drinking, Lauren felt absolutely nothing – then the sparks of despair. How was she here? Surely, sobriety was for middle-aged divorcées who’d lost everything, not young, struggling singers who didn’t have anything to lose in the first place? Besides, when alcohol is the only medicine that makes the world feel bearable, how can you possibly stop taking it?
Six years later, Lauren has found her way to an intricate answer. Entwining practical, empathetic suggestions with intimate memoir, No Lost Causes Club is an intrinsically vulnerable and brutally honest exploration of what living a full life after you get clean looks like. From delving into the social complexities that often leave people hopelessly dependent on alcohol, to centring the struggles of those newly navigating sobriety, this book is a soothing balm for anyone wondering how to carve a beautiful life from a world that never made sense before.
‘Irreverent, provocative, delightful and very funny. It captures the bizarre, delightful highs and lows experienced by the alcoholic or addict in recovery. Lauren is an important voice and a rare talent. I’d read anything she writes’ Cat Marnell
Lauren McQuistin is a Londonbased Scottish musician and writer, whose debut book, No Lost Causes Club, is based on her multiple years of sobriety and her running of the instagram page @brutalrecovery (171k followers). Lauren was a professional opera singer, winning the district round of the Metropolitan National Opera Competition three times, and uses her experience as a musician to teach trauma informed musicianship.
Self-Help / Memoir
17 July
HB
£16.99
9780008685164
The Phoenix Pencil Company
Allison King
In this dazzling debut novel of love and secret histories, a young woman unearths the story of a lost Shanghai pencil company and a hidden family ability which will alter the path of her life forever.
Monica Tsai, a self-confessed recluse, has become intent on tracking down the long-lost cousin Meng that her beloved grandmother was separated from back in China before it’s too late. In her search, Monica connects with a young woman archivist who presents her with a single pencil that holds a clue to a hidden family history. Through it, Monica comes to learn of her grandmother’s years in Shanghai, working at the Phoenix Pencil Company. As WWII raged outside their door, Yun and Meng came into a unique power the women in their family possess: the ability to reclaim stories from the pencils they were written with. But when government officials uncover their secret ability, they are both forced into a life of espionage, betraying other people’s stories to survive. These shocking discoveries set Monica on a path that will change all their lives in ways she can scarcely imagine.
A sweeping cross-generational family epic, Allison King’s brilliantly inventive debut novel pushes us to question how well we really know our own stories and the many beguiling ways they connect our lives.
‘Wildly inventive … Allison King is a talent to watch’ Liz Moore, author of The God of the Woods
‘Stories connect with literal magic in this suspenseful debut. Marvelous!’ Gish Jen, author of The Resisters
Allison King is an Asian American writer and software engineer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In technology, her work has ranged from semiconductors to platforms for community conversations. Her short stories have appeared in Fantasy Magazine and Diabolical Plots, among others. She is a 2023 Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club LitUp fellow. The Phoenix Pencil Company is her first novel.
General Fiction
31 July HB
£16.99
9780008700843
Necessary Fiction
Eloghosa Osunde
From the acclaimed author of Vagabonds!: an audacious and eye-opening exploration of cross-generational queer life in contemporary Nigeria.
Whatmakesafamily?Howisitdefinedandbywhom? Isfreedomforeveryone?
Across Lagos, Osunde’s characters seek out love for self and their chosen partners, even as they risk ruining relationships with parents, spouses, family and friends. A rolling cast emerges: vibrantly active, stubbornly alive, brazenly flawed. These characters grapple with desire, fear, time, death, and God, forming and breaking unexpected connections; in the process unveiling how they know each other, have loved each other and had their hearts broken in that pursuit.
As they work to establish themselves in the city’s worlds of art, music, entertainment and creative commerce, we meet their collective and individual attempts to reckon with the necessary fiction they carry for survival.
‘Necessary Fiction lives up to its title and beyond … a vivid, stirring revolution’ Yrsa Daley-Ward
‘I’m in awe of Osunde’s writing’ Caleb Azumah Nelson
Eloghosa Osunde is an award-winning writer and multidisciplinary artist. Winner of MoAD’s African Literary Award and the Plimpton Prize for Fiction, their critically acclaimed novel Vagabonds! was shortlisted for the inaugural Waterstones Debut Novel Prize. They move between Nigeria, Nairobi, New York City, and wherever else their work calls.
Literary Fiction 31 July HB
£13.99
9780008708627
Loved One
Aisha Muharrar
The debut novel from Aisha Muharrar, the Emmy Award-winning writer and Co-Executive Producer of Hacks, The Good Place and Parks & Recreation.
When Julia’s first-love-turned-best-friend Gabe, a musician with a cultish following, dies unexpectedly aged 29, Julia launches herself into an intercontinental quest to recover the possessions he left with friends and acquaintances across the world.
Along the way, she encounters Elizabeth, Gabe’s effortlessly perfect and endlessly cool last ex-girlfriend. Now, Julia can’t stop talking to, thinking about and googling Elizabeth. As the two women struggle to reconcile their respective claims on Gabe’s memory, can they find their way from rivalry to friendship?
‘The funniest book you’ll ever read about grief. Full of wildly astute, delectably thorny questions about love, loss and possession’
Maggie Shipstead, author of The Great Circle
‘Shimmers with wit even as it explores deep loss’
Rachel Khong, author of Real Americans
‘It’s equal parts hilarious, poignant and thrilling’
Casey Wilson, author of The Wreckage of My Present
Aisha Muharrar is an Emmy Award-winning writer and Co-Executive Producer of the hit show Hacks (HBO), The Good Place (NBC), and Parks & Recreation (NBC). Raised in Long Island, Aisha got her B.A. at Harvard and was Vice President of the Harvard Lampoon. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband. This is her first novel.
Literary Fiction 14 August
A Truce That Is Not Peace
Miriam Toews
Internationally bestselling author Miriam Toews’ first memoir explores the creative drive to write and live. This is a work of unreliable memory, humour and beautiful craft set against the experience of our ever accelerated society.
“Why do you write?” the organizer of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempted answer from Toews—all of them unsatisfactory to the organiser— surfaces new layers of grief, guilt, and futility connected to her sister’s suicide. She has been keeping up, she realises, a decades-old internal correspondence, filling a silence she barely understands. And we, her readers, come to see that the question is as impossible to answer as deciding whether to live life as a comedy or a tragedy.
Marking the first time Toews has explored her own life in non-fiction, A Truce That Is Not Peace explores the uneasy pact every creative person makes with memory. Wildly inventive yet masterfully controlled; slyly casual yet momentous; wrenching and joyful; hilarious and humane—this is Miriam Toews at her dazzling best, remaking her world and inventing an astonishing new form to contain it.
‘This small book is bursting with hilariousness and suffering and rage and also so much tenderness that the pages are practically flying off like paper-airplane love letters’ Catherine Newman author of Sandwich
‘A smart and wise companion for turbulent times’ Laura van den Berg, author of State of Paradise
Miriam Toews is the author of eight bestselling novels: Fight Night, Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, Irma Voth, The Flying Troutmans, A Complicated Kindness, A Boy of Good Breeding, and Summer of My Amazing Luck, and one work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is a winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers’ Trust Marian Engel/ Timothy Findley Award. She lives in Toronto.
Life Writing / Literary Non-Fiction 28 August HB £16.99 9780008722845
One of Us
Elizabeth Day
The riotous follow up to the The Party from the Sunday Times bestselling author, Elizabeth Day.
In the inner circle, where can you hide a secret?
In this compulsive story of betrayal, old bonds, and buried scandals, one British establishment family comes face to face with the consequences of privilege, and the true cost of power.
Martin and Ben were friends for decades – best friends, Martin would have said – before the events at Ben’s 40th birthday party tore them apart. But now the ever-dazzling Ben and his family want to draw Martin back into their world of wealth and privilege, just as they had done years ago when he was the badly dressed scholarship boy.
Ben has risen through the ranks of power, with the Prime Minister’s seat almost within reach. It’s just that there are… irritations that need dealing with, like his eccentric alcoholic sister, or his environmental activist daughter, or his wife Serena, to whom he’s not been entirely faithful, or his parliamentary colleague who’s just lost his seat for an embarrassing infraction. And then there’s the fallingout between the two former friends which has devastated Martin for years, leaving him intent on revenge. Perhaps their reunion will be just what they both need? Or perhaps it will reopen old wounds and shine an unforgiving light on matters that have been very deliberately hidden...
With everyone watching, the stage is set for a reckoning. It’s time for Martin and Ben to confront what love truly means when everything – family, power, and loyalty – is on the line.
Praise for Magpie:
‘Completely, terrifyingly BRILLIANT’ Marian Keyes
‘I didn’t want it to end’ Lisa Taddeo
‘Magnificent: I read it in one sitting’ Kate Mosse
Elizabeth Day is the author of five novels and four works of non-fiction, including her Sunday Times bestselling novel Magpie and hit memoir How to Fail. She is the creator and host of the charttopping podcast How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Upmarket Fiction 25 September
HB
£16.99
9780008534912
No F*cks Given The Zero Accountability Guide to Getting Over a Boy
Toni Tone
Are you trying to get over a toxic boy but can’t quite seem to shake him off? Does your ex keep pulling you back in every time you finally start feeling ready to let go?
Fear not because Sunday Times bestselling author Toni Tone is back in full force with the ultimate breakup guide to help you kick that f*ckboy to the kerb, once and for all.
Speaking from a place of more experience than she’d like to admit, Toni’s most unapologetic book yet is here to provide you with all the tough love you need in order to move on after a breakup – with zero accountability.
With sections like ‘There’s always someone better’, and ‘Write the f*cking list’, No F*cks Given is the big sister you desperately need and unlike anything Toni has written before. Be prepared to laugh, feel enraged and shout in agreement.
And hopefully, by the end, you will no longer give a f*ck.
Praise for I Wish I Knew This Earlier:
‘This book is scarily accurate. There were so many times where I was adamant that Toni was talking specifically to and about me. Spoiler alert: Everyone I know is getting a copy of this book for their next birthday’ Julie Adenuga
Toni Tone is an award-winning speaker, writer and social content creator, best known for her writing on Twitter, which has been featured in publications such as the Independent, Elle and Cosmopolitan. Toni is also the host of the podcast Money Moves with Toni Tone on Radio 1 Xtra. Her first book, I Wish I Knew This Earlier, was a Sunday Times bestseller.
Self-Help
25 September
PB
£8.99
9780008591250
Without Reservation
Jeremy King
One of the world’s leading restaurateurs shares wit and wisdom from a distinguished career spanning decades, offering key insights into some of life’s most fundamental issues.
The peerless Jeremy King is the founder of such iconic London restaurants and grand brasseries, as Le Caprice in the 80s, the Ivy in the 90s, the Wolseley in the 2000s to the Arlington in the 2020s, among many others. He believes that restaurants are microcosms of all life that can teach us so much. There is a curious intimacy between guest and restaurateur, and he has been witness to much heartbreak, failures and challenges, as well as celebrations.
In this wonderfully entertaining memoir he describes his life in hospitality and spills 50 years of anecdotes and true happenings as well as life lessons. He talks of the mystery of solo diners, why you should always look the waiter in the eye and misperceptions about which are the best tables. Over the years he has found himself confided in and refereeing tricky disputes, and his counsel has been sought widely; ‘Well, Jeremy told me...’
Here he shares some of the best kept secrets of his one-of-a-kind restaurants as well as memories of stand-out guests like Lucian Freud, Harold Pinter and Lauren Bacall.
Praise for Jeremy King: ‘King has a knack for selling his vision’ Financial Times
‘[King] is London’s foremost restaurateur’ Tatler
‘Jeremy King is well and truly back’ Restaurant
Jeremy King was Searcys’ youngest ever manager at the age of 21. With his business partner Chris Corbin, he created numerous iconic establishments in London, including The Wolseley and Brasserie Zédel. They owned and managed some of London’s most famous restaurants, including Le Caprice, The Ivy and J Sheekey. Jeremy was awarded an OBE in the 2014.
Memoir 9 October
HB
£25.00 9780008599027
I Wrote This for Attention
Lukas Gage
A riveting and heartwarming memoir by the actor of White Lotus and Euphoria that details his upbringing in the west coast – including a broken family, struggles with addiction, sex, borderline personality disorder – and his commitment to being the center of attention at all times, even as he actually becomes a star.
Lukas Gage was no stranger to going viral. He loved attention. As a toddler, he set his room on fire. As a child, he hugged and flirted with women at Hooters to his father’s delight. As a teen, he stole handles of alcohol and cherry cough syrup. He had sex at a restroom in Chili’s, and fell hopelessly in love with a girl who wore an ankle monitor. He became an actor and filmed that scene in White Lotus (if you know, you know). Lukas was scared of attention and yet he craved it more than anything in the world.
I Wrote This for Attention is a riveting, exquisite memoir full of heart that chronicles Lukas’s coming of age in the haunting underbelly of San Diego and clawing his way to stardom. Lukas captures the universal anxieties of transitioning from innocence to adulthood, of feeling too much and nothing at all. Sex and death, fame and familial strife, drug abuse and Raya, I Wrote This for Attention is a remarkable achievement of healing, of vaping through.
‘This book is provocative, chaotic, heartwarming, and – dare I say – slutty. Wait, sorry, that was me describing Lukas Gage. The book, though, is every bit of that and more. A must-read for anyone who’s a fan of Lukas (or even if you can’t stand him). Or, if you’ve never heard of him – just read it anyway’ Colleen Hoover
Gage is a writer, actor, and producer. Responsible for many memorable performances across both tv and film, including You, The White Lotus and Euphoria, as well as Smile 2, Roadhouse and Down Low, which he co-wrote, among many others. Beloved for his work on screen, Gage continues to develop several projects across different genres and mediums. He currently resides in Los Angeles and San Diego.
Memoir 16 October HB
Lukas
The Uncool
Cameron Crowe
A charming, funny and pacey memoir by legendary Rolling Stone journalist and acclaimed filmmaker Cameron Crowe, who wrote and directed the widely celebrated films Almost Famous, Say Anything… and Jerry Maguire.
America is on the precipice of the 1970s and Cameron Crowe lives a small, stultifying life in Southern California. Yet even as so much around him begins to deteriorate –his mother’s moods, his sister’s devastating mental decline and eventual death – there is still a sense of hope and enormous possibility in things yet to come.
Embarking on a discovery of the music and counterculture that will go on to define his career and inspire one of the most beloved cult movies of all time, Cameron finds true meaning in the power of family and following your instincts. He watches a 23-year-old Bob Dylan take the stage. He learns about love by listening to Joni Mitchell. He takes his rock-and-roll–fearing, schoolteacher mother to watch Eric Clapton shred his guitar.
This unflinchingly personal and big-hearted memoir is a must-read for all those who are fuelled by music and art.
Cameron Crowe is an awardwinning screenwriter and film director. His career includes seminal movies such as Almost Famous, Say Anything…, Jerry Maguire, Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Singles. Before moving into the film industry, Crowe was Rolling Stone’s youngest-ever contributing editor, for which he still frequently writes. He lives in South California.
Memoir 6 November
HB
£22.00 9780008697853
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The Lasting Harm
Lucia Osborne-Crowley
‘Powerful, vivid and affecting’ David Nicholls
‘Urgent, necessary and courageous’ Elizabeth Day
‘Brilliantly unsettling’ Guardian
‘Will make you think about trauma in a new light’ Evening Standard
In November 2021, Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted for the role she played in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of four girls. Lucia Osborne-Crowley was one of the only reporters allowed into the courtroom every day. The Lasting Harm is her gripping true-crime account of that trial, and a blistering critique of a criminal justice system ill-equipped to deliver justice for abuse survivors, no matter the outcome.
Lucia Osborne-Crowley is a trained lawyer, legal reporter, journalist and author. She has appeared as an expert journalist on the Maxwell and Prince Andrew cases on BBC News, Sky News and LBC News.
True Crime • 3 July • PB • £10.99 • 9780008591229
Teddy Emily Dunlay
‘Your summer read is sorted’ Sunday Times Style ‘Glamorous, exuberant and propulsive’ Daisy Buchanan ‘Mad Men meets White Lotus’ Red
It is the summer of 1969 and Rome is awash with glamour and intrigue. After some wayward years, Teddy Huntley Carlyle is fresh off a plane from Texas with a new husband in tow. In Rome, Teddy will be good. And she is … until the fourth of July, when she’s snapped in the arms of the American ambassador moments after spotting a man from the darkest corner of her past... Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Emily Dunlay studied English literature and creative writing at Princeton University, after which she trained and worked as a specialist librarian for antiquarian books. She lives in Abu Dhabi.
Upmarket Fiction • 3 July • PB • £9.99 • 9780008669751
Gold Rush
Olivia Petter
‘Addictive writing wrapped up in a compelling page turner that makes you deeply think and feel’ Yomi Adegoke
‘An incisive new voice in fiction’ Coco Mellors
Working in PR for a powerful news outlet, Rose spends her days with tedious spreadsheets and fashion divas. But when she meets the world-famous, globally adored, British pop sensation Milo Jax at a work party, an unlikely flirtation turns into an even more unlikely evening. Rose has just spent the night with the most famous man on the planet … except she doesn’t quite remember it.
Olivia Petter is an award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster based in London. She is a columnist at the Independent and has hosted her chart-topping Millennial Love podcast (now called Love Lives) since 2017.
Upmarket Fiction • 17 July • PB • £9.99 • 9780008606459
Once More from the Top
Emily Layden
‘The secrets simmer in this atmospheric, powerful novel’ Katie Bishop ‘You won’t be able to put it down’ Rufi Thorpe
Dylan Read, the legendary country pop star, has spent fifteen years learning to craft the perfect good-girl image. But when the body of her missing best friend, Kelsey, is found at the bottom of a New England lake, Dylan is drawn back to their hometown, where she must revisit their ill-fated teenage friendship and reckon with secrets that have stayed hidden for decades…
Emily Layden works in TV development and is the author of the 2021 novel All Girls A graduate of Stanford University, her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Marie Claire and Elle
Upmarket Fiction • 31 July 2025 • PB • £9.99 • 9780008587833
You’re Embarrassing Yourself
Desiree Akhavan
‘I laughed, I cried and then I laughed again’ Lena Dunham ‘Reminds me of the best of Nora Ephron’ Guardian ‘Hilariously raw’ Jessi Klein
With all the humour and vulnerability of Jennette McCurdy and the warmth and nuance of Jia Tolentino, You’re Embarrassing Yourself is a collection of hilarious, horny, heartbreaking tales of a life in pursuit of art and love. Charting an artist’s journey from outcast to overnight indie darling, to (somewhat) self-aware adult woman, this book captures the pathetic lows and euphoric highs of our youth in a voice that is unmistakably, unapologetically Desiree’s.
Desiree Akhavan is a filmmaker and writer. She created the Channel 4 series The Bisexual as well as the films Appropriate Behavior and The Miseducation of Cameron Post, which won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize.
Non-Fiction • 14 August • PB • £9.99 • 9780008204372
A Voyage Around the Queen Craig Brown
‘A very unusual masterpiece’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Extraordinarily original, enlightening and fresh’ Spectator ‘Brilliantly funny and well-researched’ Financial Times
Queen Elizabeth II was famous for longer than anyone who has ever lived. For close to a century, she inhabited the psyche of a nation and mirrored all of their hopes and anxieties. Combining biography, essays, cultural history, dream diaries, travelogue and satire, Craig Brown presents a kaleidoscopic and unforgettable portrait of this most public yet private of sovereigns.
Craig Brown has written for a wide variety of publications, including Private Eye, Daily Mail, New Statesman, Guardian and Spectator. His award-winning books include One Two Three Four and Ma’am Darling
Biography • 28 August • PB • £10.99 • 9780008557539
A Thousand Feasts
Nigel Slater
The #1 Sunday Times bestseller.
‘Slater’s greatest talent is making the ordinary extraordinary’ The Times ‘Filled with heart, tenderness, yearning and humour’ Elizabeth Day
For years, Nigel Slater has kept notebooks of curiosities and wonderings, penned while at his kitchen table, soaked in a fisherman’s hut in Reykjavik, sitting calmly in a moss garden in Japan or sheltering from a blizzard in a Vienna Konditorei. This funny and sharply observed collection of the good bits of life, often things that pass many of us by, is utter joy from beginning to end.
Nigel Slater is a bestselling author, journalist and television presenter. He has been the food columnist for the Observer for over thirty years and is one of Britain’s most highly regarded food writers.
Memoir • 25 September • PB • £10.99 • 9780008670788
Powsels and Thrums
Alan Garner
‘Better than anyone else writing in English today’ The Times ‘A unique genius’ New Statesman ‘One of the most distinct and profound writers we have’ Guardian
In this lyrical and revelatory memoir, Alan Garner traces his life from a working-class childhood in World War II Cheshire, to the University of Oxford, to becoming a writer. His lifetime of working with a pen has produced the powsels and thrums of research, imagination and story. Here, he shapes these oddments into a vivid tapestry of a creative life that will inspire any reader, and what a celebration it is.
Alan Garner is an English novelist best known for his fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales. His novel Treacle Walker was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize.
Memoir / Literary Non-Fiction • 9 October • PB • £9.99 • 9780008725242
The Scapegoat
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
‘Stunningly good … Vivid, erudite and sympathetic’ The Times ‘Compulsively readable and elegantly written’ Financial Times
In this immersive and authoritative account, Hughes-Hallett transports us into the opulent and twisted world of seventeenth-century royal court. Georges Villiers was the favourite of two kings and a skilful player of the political game before coming to his untimely and violent end. The Scapegoat navigates love, war-fever and pacifism in a society on the brink of cataclysmic change.
Lucy Hughes-Hallett is a respected literary critic and the author of The Pike: Gabriele d’Annunzio, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize, among other prestigious accolades.
Biography / History • 9 October • PB • £12.99 • 9780008126599
Absolution
Jeff VanderMeer
Praise for the Southern Reach Trilogy: ‘Creepy and fascinating’ Stephen King ‘Hauntingly weird and brilliantly new … contemporary masterpieces’ Guardian ‘An ever-creeping map of the apocalypse’ Colson Whitehead
Although the Southern Reach Trilogy was first published a decade ago, becoming an instant sensation, for Jeff VanderMeer, there was never full closure to the story of Area X.
Absolution is the brilliant and ever-terrifying final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time.
Jeff VanderMeer’s New York Times–bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy has been translated into more than thirty-seven languages. His other books include Hummingbird Salamander, Dead Astronauts, Borne, and The Strange Bird.
Sci-Fi • 23 October • PB • £9.99 • 9780008725990
The Elements of Marie Curie Dava Sobel
‘Sobel writes beautifully and with clarity’ Daily Mail ‘An essential read, capturing both [Curie’s] genius and her legacy’ New Scientist
An eloquent and nuanced portrait of the trailblazing life and work of Marie Curie, the most famous woman in the history of science. Dava Sobel illuminates this consequential figure through the untold story of the remarkable young women who trained in Curie’s laboratory and became key parts of her enduring legacy.
Dava Sobel is the author of the international bestseller Longitude, the Pulitzer Prize finalist Galileo’s Daughter, The Planets and The Glass Universe. She lives on Long Island. Biography / Science • 6 November • PB • £9.99 • 9780008536954
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