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Elif Shafak

Ladybird

In One Brief Moment All Eternity is an astonishing new novel by the bestselling, prize-winning novelist Elif Shafak. Spanning decades and continents, from revolutionary 19th century France to Istanbul, Egypt and Beirut, it is a profound meditation on creativity in times of political crisis and war, asking what literature can hope to offer when the world feels broken. Building a...

Barbara Kingsolver

Faber & Faber

The landmark new novel from the Global Bestseller, Double Women's Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver. ...

Min Jin Lee

Harper

'Profoundly generous and humane' DOUGLAS STUART 'Engrossing ... brilliantly imagined' COLM TÓIBÍN 'Extraordinary' TARA WESTOVER 'A novel I didn't want to end' ROXANE GAY Min Jin Lee, the acclaimed author of Pachinko, returns with a breathtaking contemporary epic that follows one family as they reckon with personal dreams and familial duty. John and Helen Koh and their three chi...

Madeline Miller

Bloomsbury

From the internationally bestselling author of The Song of Achilles and Circe comes a remarkable new short story A cursed father, a gifted daughter Mestra, daughter of the King of Thessaly, is gifted a unique ability by Poseidon: metamorphosis into any being she can imagine. Her father, on the other hand, is cursed. As punishment for disrespecting the goddess Demeter, he is ...

Callie Kazumi

Penguin

*Not Suitable For Vegetarians* 'Sinister, stylish and utterly addictive' Lucy Rose 'Butter meets Never Let Me Go' Erin Kelly 'Dark and delectable' B.A. Paris ________________________________ Ed is in trouble with the yakuza. He's gambled away all his money and his family is at risk. But just as he's about to lose everything, he receives an offer he can't refuse. A reclusive ...

Monica Wood

Harper

A runaway global bestseller, available now in the UK comes a heartfelt, uplifting novel about a chance encounter at a bookshop. One bookshop. A thousand ways to rewrite a life. When Violet Powell is newly released from prison after killing someone in a drink-driving crash, she longs for a chance to start over. Harriet Larson believes stories can light a way through the lonelies...

Ali Smith

Ladybird

Ghosts don't exist. They don't. End of. Story, however. It is haunting. Everything tells it. It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost. Is it imaginary? Is it real? Then it all starts again thirty years later when Petra, now estranged from Patch, finds a phantom horse kicking the furniture ...

Ali Smith

Ladybird

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021 A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now. 'A maestra's portrait of her age . . . remarkable' Guardian In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother a...

Ali Smith

Ladybird

SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now. 'Her best yet, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and present with a chorus of voices' Observer What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the ...

Ali Smith

Ladybird

A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now. Winter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summer's leaves? Dead litter. The world shrinks; the sap sinks. But winter makes things...

Ali Smith

Penguin

Selling more than 30K copies in hardback, this is the first title in Smith's }Seasonal{ series, with }Winter{ to follow. 'The novel of the year is obviously Ali Smith's }Autumn{ ... Expansive, shape-shifting, at once more stringent and more consoling than anything I've read this year' Olivia Laing, }Observer{ SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSEL...

Ali Smith

Ladybird

O brave new world, that has such people in't. Once upon a time not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red paint encircling the outside of their house. What does it mean? It's a truism of our time that it'll be the next generation who'll sort out our increasingly toxic world. What would that actually be like? In a state turned hostile, a world o...