From the septuagenarian prostitute exposed in a tabloid sting to the Queen Bee of a local dramatic society upstaged by her cleaner; from the nine-year-old girl caught... Læs mere
Sound Advice taps into the transformative power of 1980s pop songs to deliver timeless wisdom to life. This practical and inspiring guide offers tips to... Læs mere
From the Castle to the Hove-l is the third instalment of Nicholas Lezard’s rueful, dissolute life.
In Wonder, Chris Emery brings together poems about memory, distance, and the passing of time. Moving between personal and historical landscapes, these poems reflect on grief, love, and the... Læs mere
This is a story about community spirit, about people coming together and looking out for each other. No person is an island, including Wilf Kelly, its hero. Many neighbours help... Læs mere
From Booker-shortlisted Tibor Fischer comes a biting satire about crypto wealth, lost potential, and disillusionment. Dan, a former tennis prodigy drifts through Dubai’s synthetic paradise in search of meaning, haunted by past failures and future doubts.
Based on a correspondence between Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens, Elizabeth and Ruth tells the story of Elizabeth Gaskell’s relationship with a young prostitute in Manchester’s New Bailey prison, and how this relationship helped to define her as a writer.
The Collected Poems gathers together Tobias Hill’s poems from his four full-length collections. Hill was selected as one of the country’s Next Generation poets, shortlisted for the 2004... Læs mere
The Tribe chronicles a powerful Sephardic dynasty in the cosmopolitan city of Salonica during the dying days of the Ottoman Empire, through the Nazi Occupation of France, to the early 1960s,... Læs mere
This debut novel follows a father and daughter travelling in a stolen car as they head to what may be the end of the world.
Finders, Keepers is a book about collecting second-hand books and therefore about second-hand bookshops and booksellers, disguised as a series of memoir-inflected essays about free books, London books, and books with the same titles as other books and so on.
Wash is an ordinary man — who lived an extraordinary life. His story and struggle are inspiring, and they show how the odds can be overcome; that true love is possible, but it doesn't always come... Læs mere