On March 3, 1947 Archibald Isaac Ferguson is born. From that single beginning, his life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four boys who are the same boy, will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Fergusons story rushes on across twentieth-century America. A sweeping story of birthright and possibility, of love and the fullness of life itself.
"Polyphonically technicolour and lushly textured, Brutes is a defiant elegy to the myth of girlhood innocence. Dizz Tate''s talent is brazen - and brilliant." Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure "Assured, insightful, quietly savage, Dizz Tate is capable of conjuring a whole world." Nicole Flattery, author of Show Them a Good Time In Falls Landing, Florida-a place built of theme parks, swampy lakes, and scorched bougainvillea flowers-something sinister lurks in the deep. A gang of thirteen-year-old girls obsessively orbit around the local preacher''s daughter, Sammy. She is mesmerizing, older, and in love with Eddie. But suddenly, Sammy goes missing. Where is she? Watching from a distance, they edge ever closer to discovering a dark secret about their fame-hungry town and the cruel cost of a ticket out. What they uncover will continue to haunt them for the rest of their lives.
Through a darkly beautiful and brutally compelling lens, Dizz Tate captures the violence, horrors, and manic joys of girlhood. Brutes is a novel about the seemingly unbreakable bonds in the ''we'' of young friendship, and the moment it is broken forever.
"The mystery and the danger of being a girl, of feeling crazy and vulnerable and wild, wanting to run away and be someone-anyone-is captured here across a landscape of nail polish and fire and sex, a sinister lake and the pink sky of Florida. Brutes is a beautiful and deeply strange novel, full of dread and longing. I loved it." Mariana Enriquez, author of Things We Lost in the Fire
Juliet is enraged at the victory of men over women in family life. Amanda is warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework. Solly is confronting her own buried femininity in the person of her Italian lodger. This novel talks about the domestic lives, private thoughts and fears of a group of women.
Based on a Middle Eastern fable, this title tells the story of Dodola, who escapes being sold into slavery and rescues an abandoned baby she names Zam.
Gerry Anderson has been having trouble sleeping. He''s unwell - bed-bound - and has only his night nurse and his PA for company. But what''s really troubling him are the phone calls. Phone calls from a woman claiming to be the ''real'' Aubrey. But that can''t be. Aubrey''s just a character Gerry made up in a book, years ago. Can Gerry see past the ever-blurring lines of fact and fiction and figure out who is threatening him, or has his long-overdue moment of reckoning finally arrived?
A writer hides. A mother dies. A woman is attacked.
In Parade, Rachel Cusk creates a new documentary voice that operates on the border between fiction and reality. It braids imagined characters with the actual, experience with the philosophical, to altering effect.
Praise for the Outline trilogy:
''A work of stunning beauty, deep insight and great originality.'' Monica Ali, New York Times ''A landmark in twenty-first-century English literature, the culmination of an artist''s unshakable efforts to forge her own path.'' Andrew Anthony, Observer ''A perfect synthesis of form and content.'' Deborah Levy
Twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, and his silent and seductive girlfriend Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.
***PRE-ORDER NOW*** THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FOSTER , ANTARCTICA AND WALK THE BLUE FIELDS ''This is a tale of courage and compassion, of good sons and vulnerable young mothers. Absolutely beautiful.'' Douglas Stuart (Winner of the Booker Prize 2020) ''Marvellous-exact and icy and loving all at once.'' Sarah Moss ''A haunting, hopeful masterpiece.'' Sinead Gleeson It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church. The long-awaited new work from the author of Foster , Small Things Like These is an unforgettable story of hope, quiet heroism and tenderness. ''A single one of Keegan''s grounded, powerful sentences can contain volumes of social history. Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.'' Hilary Mantel ''Astonishing. Claire Keegan makes her moments real - and then she makes them matter.'' Colm Toibin ''A true gift of a book. a sublime Chekhovian shock.'' Andrew O''Hagan ''A moral tale that is unsentimental and deeply affecting, because true and right.'' David Hayden
The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to make Plath an enduring feminist icon. It was published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author's suicide.
'It is a fine novel, as bitter and remorseless as her last poems . . . The world in which the events of the novel take place is a world bounded by the Cold War on one side and the sexual war on the other . . . This novel is not political nor historical in any narrow sense, but in looking at the madness of the world and the world of madness it forces us to consider the great question posed by all truly realistic fiction: What is reality and how can it be confronted? . . . Esther Greenwood's account of her year in the bell jar is as clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing.' New York Times Book Revie
Taking a big-picture view of the post-punk period, this book recreates a time of tremendous urgency and idealism in pop music. It presents many anecdotes and insights, and features the likes of Joy Division, The Fall, Pere Ubu, PiL and Talking Heads. It is of interest to fans of post-punk music.
Karim lives with his Mum and Dad in a suburb of south London and dreams of making his escape to the bright lights of the big city. But his father is no ordinary Dad, he is 'the buddha of suburbia', a strange and compelling figure whose powers of meditation hold a circle of would-be mystics spellbound with the fascinations of the East.
The New York Trilogy is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what it means to be human. Auster's book is modern fiction at its finest: bold, arresting and unputdownable
Beneath the surface we are all connected . . . ''An authentically soothing, powerful, thought-provoker.'' MATT HAIG '' On Connection is medicine for these wounded times.'' MAX PORTER '' On Connection came to me when I needed it most, and reminded me that the links we have to places, people, words, ourselves, are what keep us alive.'' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS This is a book about connection. About how immersing ourselves in creativity can help us cultivate greater self-awareness and bring us closer to each other. Drawing on two decades of experience as a writer and performer, Kae Tempest champions the role of creativity - in whatever form we choose to practice it - as an act of love, helping us establish a deeper relationship to our true selves, and to others and the world we live in. Honest, hopeful and written with piercing clarity, On Connection is an inspiring personal meditation that will transform the way you see the world. ''Persuasive and profound.'' OBSERVER ''Tempest''s prose is crisp and thoughtful.'' NEW STATESMAN
Ageless, sexless, deathless and timeless, Pilgrim has inhabited endless lives and times. On April 15, 1912, he fails to commit suicide, his heart starting again five hours after he is found hanging from a tree. Admitted to a clinic in Zurich, he begins a battle of wills with Carl Jung.
'I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain . . .' So begins Paul Auster's remarkable new novel, The Brooklyn Follies. Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000, it tells the story of Nathan and Tom, an uncle and nephew double-act. One in remission from lung cancer, divorced, and estranged from his only daughter, the other hiding away from his once-promising academic career, and, indeed, from life in general.
Having accidentally ended up in the same Brooklyn neighbourhood, they discover a community teeming with life and passion. When Lucy, a little girl who refuses to speak, comes into their lives, there is suddenly a bridge from their pasts that offers them the possibility of redemption.
Infused with character, mystery and humour, these lives intertwine and become bound together as Auster brilliantly explores the wider terrain of contemporary America - a crucible of broken dreams and of human folly
'Fear and Trembling' tells the story of a young woman who spends a year working at a Japanese firm. She soon learns that at the Yumimoto Corporation hierarchy means everything, and her time there soon turns into a comic nightmare of terror and self-abasement.
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . .
A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love.
Lies, rumours and guilt snowball, causing the parents, Joanna and Alistair, to slowly turn against each other. Finally Joanna starts thinking the unthinkable: could the truth be even more terrible than she suspected? And what will it take to make things right?
Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a Brooklyn stationery shop and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18th, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, within a world of eerie premonitions.
Following the death of his father, Jim Nashe takes to the open road. But there he picks up Pozzi, a hitchhiking gambler, and is drawn into a dangerous game of high-stakes poker with two eccentric and reclusive millionaires.
'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line was adopted by Jean Anouilh, to characterize the first production of "Waiting For Godot" at the Theatre de Babylone, in 1953. Anybody acquinted with Beckett's masterly black comedy would not question the recognition of this twentieth-century literature classic.
The stunning debut story collection from the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlised Small Things Like These ''A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.'' Sebastian Barry ''Among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English.'' Observer A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sister''s revenge. A love-struck doctor. A missing girl. In Antarctica, an astonishing sequence of stories, one of our most gifted writers illuminates human longing and fallibility in all its variety.
Celebrated by Cathy Rentzenbrink, this glorious rediscovered classic exploring the mystery of a buried Cornish hotel is perfect for Agatha Christie and Daphne du Maurier fans ... ''Hilarious and perceptive, here''s the perfect seaside holiday read.'' Daily Mail ''The miniature charm of a Baby Austen.'' Observer ''Tense, touching, human, dire, and funny ... A feast indeed.'' Elizabeth Bowen ''Kennedy is not only a romantic but an anarchist.'' Anita Brookner ''So full of pleasure that you could be forgiven for not seeing how clever it is.'' Cathy Rentzenbrink ''Oh boy, what a treat; wonderfully sharp and funny; I devoured this ... Page-turningly good!'' Lissa Evans Cornwall, Midsummer 1947. Pendizack Manor Hotel is buried in the rubble of a collapsed cliff. Seven guests have perished, but what brought this strange assembly together for a moonlit feast before this Act of God - or Man? Over the week before the landslide, we meet the hotel guests in all their eccentric glory: and as friendships form and romances blossom, sins are revealed, and the cracks widen ... Reader Reviews: ''Really clever - but readable. Perfect for a sunlounger (in the garden!)'' '' One of the best books I have ever read ... Viva Ms. Kennedy, you were truly marvellous!'' ***** ''The best book I''ve ever read. Yes, I know that''s a big statement! Kennedy is quickly becoming my all-time favorite author ... A first-rate literary genius. '' ***** '' This is bar none, one of the best books I have ever read.'' ***** ''A magnificent rediscovery ... Kennedy''s masterpiece is a searing and unflinching look at postwar England ... Elegantly and tartly written, this smart and haunting novel offers one of the most unforgettable endings ... A brilliant and moving literary feast to be enjoyed without any moderation ! ***** ''I''m longing to read this again! Clever Kennedy! Is it a thriller? Is it a morality play or an exploration of divine justice? Or is it a family/village saga and maybe even a romance? ... Terrifically readable with a marvellous cast .'' ***** ''This isn''t just the story of a Cornish summer holiday gone horribly wrong. Kennedy is, in fact, doing something much cleverer and more sophisticated - offering us the chance to solve a very unusual kind of mystery ... An unexpectedly engaging literary game.'' **** ''Such a good idea, and brilliantly executed ... I was unable to stop reading, absorbed completely in the company of the motley group. It''s almost like you''re eavesdropping on them. After finishing it, I find myself still thinking about it ... A fabulous read.'' ***** ''One of my favorite kinds of books: a forgotten treasure . The writing is exemplary ... Many, many fine moments.'' *****
