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A NEW YORK TIMES MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 'BARRAGÁN WRITES WITH IMPECCABLE EMPATHY . . . COMPELLINGLY READABLE' BARBARA DEMICK'ASTONISHING . . . I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN.A TOUR DE FORCE' JON LEE ANDERSON When his mother fell for an 'American soldier' who promised to...
'DELIVERS NEW PLEASURES ON EVERY PAGE' ANNE ENRIGHT'STYLISH, SHARP AND FIERCELY INTELLIGENT' LUCY CALDWELL'A GLOWING, MOVING, DARING BOOK' SEÁN HEWITTIt begins on an orange afternoon, cool but ruminant, close to Halloween. Sunny, only four years old, looks up from the...
From Cleopatra to Grace Kelly, an epic new history of royal women that shatters the myths we have built around them. Stories about royal women form some of our most foundational myths about femininity, and yet their legacies have been almost entirely constructed by the...
From the Locus and Hugo Award-winning author Ray Nayler, this haunting novel blends history and speculative wonder into a story of survival, loyalty and the fragile beauty of life in the darkest of times.Praise for Ray Nayler'first-rate science fiction' - CORY...
'A vision of multiplicity and endless change and continuity' Los Angeles Times'Rich, warm, and as easy on the soul as an afternoon on the beach' KirkusSearoad is a sandy track that runs between the town of Klatsand and the rugged Oregon coast.Across this stretch, locals...
Ursula Le Guin took readers to imaginary worlds for decades. In her last great frontier of life, old age, she explored a new literary territory: the blog, a forum where she shone. The collected best of Le Guin's blog, No Time to Spare, presents perfectly crystallised...
'Joins the very front rank of memoirs of post-war Britain' DAVID KYNASTON'A winning blend of personal memories, evoked with startling clarity, and fascinating social history' CLARE CHAMBERSIn Red, Red Robin, Alison Light puts herself into history, conjuring her girlhood...
'Obscenely good and very funny' Catherine Lacey'You've never read anything like it' Elizabeth McCracken'A knockout debut' Jessica AnthonyA blisteringly funny and transcendently deranged debut novel following a young woman who takes a job at an all-girls boarding school...
This is a book for people who spend most of their time thinking about what to have for dinner.For people who communicate big feelings through food.And for people who know that a bowl of pasta is never really just a bowl of pasta.From crispy gnocchi with hot and sour...
'Sebestyen reminds us once again why he is one of the best historians writing today' ANDREW ROBERTS, author of Churchill: Walking with DestinyIn the years after the First World War, Berlin was - as Vladimir Nabokov described it - a place 'of dangerous glamour and...
Walking defines us as human beings. But how much do we know about the paths that we walk? Why do they matter? What caused so many to be lost? And can we create more of them?In The Path More Travelled, acclaimed geographer and travel writer Nicholas Crane explores the...
'Both book and life are unforgettable' New York Times 'Read it twice and then read it again' Ann PatchettAt age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. It took...
'I ADORED THIS NOVEL' NINA STIBBE'LOADED WITH MARIA SEMPLE'S SIGNATURE WIT' BONNIE GARMUSAdora Hazzard has it all figured out.A Stoic philosopher and contented divorcée, she relishes her teenage daughter, her job as a moral tutor for an old-money family, and the bliss...
You don't know their names, but they own the house you rent. They own your hospitals, nurseries and care homes, the media you consume and the companies you work for. They even own the tools your union uses to fight back. Business is a contest - and they say their people...
'Perfect and prescient. A tremendously influential book' CHRIS KRAUS 'Plangent, mournful, brilliant' ARTFORUM'A bright kaleidoscope of a book' ANNE TYLERPitch Dark is a book about love.Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in an affair with a married man. The...
How could a barely literate peasant from Siberia determine the fate of the world? Undoubtedly, the so-called 'mad monk' Rasputin bewitched Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra. Yet their strange and scandalous relationship conceals a riddle , one that casts an...
Mothers make history. For centuries, motherhood has sparked social and political change. Yet the acts of growing, birthing and nurturing children - and the power they hold - have been pushed to the margins, overlooked in our narratives of the past.In A Woman's Work,...
By the age of five, Naz Shah was used to the sight of her father beating her mother. At six, her father left the family for a teenage neighbour. At twelve, she was sent to Pakistan for protection from her mother's new abuser, only to be forced into marriage at the age...
As one of the world's leading scientists examining how our DNA shapes differences in temperament, temptation and behaviour, Harden has seen first-hand how we - in public and in our most private relationships - continue to struggle with the ancient tensions between...
When the full catalogue of miseries that can be visited on a middle-aged woman are happening all at once to Alison Solomon, everybody tells her she should talk to someone. But it's hard, really hard, to find the right therapist. Meanwhile, there is a ghostly woman...
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