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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. ...

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...

John Boyne

Puffin

'John Boyne is one of our best authors writing today. The Weight of Angels is wise, imaginative, funny, and extremely moving. Art and Life, Tragedy and Love, you'll find them all here in this rich and magnificent novel' Tan Twan Eng, Booker longlisted author of The House of Doors Can one rash decision prove the difference between a life well lived and a life destroyed? When t...

Kurt Vonnegut

Vintage

Player Piano is the debut novel from one of history's most innovative authors, published on Vonnegut's 100th birthday. In Player Piano, the first of Vonnegut's wildly funny and deadly serious novels, automata have dramatically reduced the need for America's work force. Ten years after the introduction of these robot labourers, the only people still working are the engineers an...

Kurt Vonnegut

Vintage

A MASTERFUL COLLECTION OF TWENTY-FIVE SHORT STORIES FROM THE INIMITABLE AUTHOR OF SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5, KURT VONNEGUT 'Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer...a zany but moral mad scientist' Time A diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms. A scientist discovers the secret to unlocking instant happiness, with unexpect...

Kurt Vonnegut

Ladybird

Dr Felix Hoenikker - a father of the atomic bomb - has another creation. Far more dangerous than that which levelled Hiroshima is ice-nine, a chemical that could freeze the world's oceans solid. The search for Hoenikker leads first to his three children, each in possession of the chemical, and then to the Republic of San Lorenzo, a mysterious island in thrall to a bizarre relig...

Kurt Vonnegut

Vintage

'Black satire of the highest polish' Guardian Whilst awaiting trial for war crimes in an Israeli prison, Howard W. Campbell Jr sets down his memoirs on an old German typewriter. He has used such a typewriter before, when he worked as a Nazi propagandist under Goebbels. Though that was before he agreed to become a spy for US military. Is Howard guilty? Can a black or white verd...

Kurt Vonnegut

Vintage

Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision as seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent look at the all-too-possible results of today's follies. But even the end of life-as-we-know-it is transformed by Kurt Vonnegut's pen into hilarious farce--a final slapstick that may be the Almighty's joke on us all....

Kurt Vonnegut

Gollancz