'Exceptionally vivid, real, and true' – Colm Tóibín, author of Long Island
'Fundamentally about the beauty of life' – Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam
‘Very romantic, incredibly moving’ – Miranda July, author of All Fours
We are honoured to be publishing the new book from Garth Greenwell, award-winning author of What Belongs To You and Cleanness, this autumn. The cover features an iconic painting by Sir David Hockney, and it’s every bit as beautiful as the words inside.
Available to pre-order from all bookshops now.
@ggreenwell
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A poet’s life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind.
This is a searching, sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, where the forces that give life value – art, memory, poetry, music, care – are thrown into sharp relief. Time expands and contracts. Sudden intimacies bloom. Small Rain surges beyond the hospital to encompass a radiant vision of human life: our shared vulnerability, the limits and possibilities of sympathy, the ideal of art and the fragile dream of America.
Above all, this is a love story of the most unexpected kind.
In the words of one of its brilliant reader reviews, Liars is ‘100% a horror story, and the horror is heterosexual marriage’.
A tense and exquisitely controlled story about a woman subsumed by her husband's ego, we could tell you this is a novel full of female rage, and you wouldn't be prepared. As one reader put it: '10/10, no notes'.
Pre-order your copy now for August 22nd.
In the words of one of its brilliant reader reviews, Liars is ‘100% a horror story, and the horror is heterosexual marriage’.
A tense and exquisitely controlled story about a woman subsumed by her husband's ego, we could tell you this is a novel full of female rage, and you wouldn't be prepared. As one reader put it: '10/10, no notes'.
Pre-order your copy now for August 22nd 👉 https://buff.ly/3LUKEu2
The Science of Racism by Professor Keon West
Introducing the groundbreaking The Science of Racism. Hitting shelves on 23rd January 2025.
'Illuminating, surprising, unnerving, moving . . . and, sadly, utterly necessary for this time in history' Sathnam Sanghera, bestselling author of 'Empireland'
Cutting through divisive anecdotes and rhetoric with decades’ worth of clear, rigorous, quantitative science, Professor Keon West reveals shocking truths about racism and its consequences.
How we know that Black people are up to 50 per cent less likely to be called in to interview than identically qualified White people.
The financial cost of selling items online while Black.
The effects of racism on our friendships, relationships, healthcare and justice system.
The continued prevalence of racism, and the inadequacy of many attempts to address it.
Whatever you’ve read before, this book will ensure that you never see racism in quite the same way again.
https://buff.ly/3VoKrUp
This week, we introduce you to Eve.
Eve is a mother, a partner, and a s3x worker.
Lie with her poolside as she visits wealthy clients at their Caribbean villas. Be a fly on the wall as she whips a regular client into submission. Watch from the public gallery as she is dragged in and out of court by the law. Perch at her side in a cell as she contemplates the true meaning of freedom. And be right there with her when she discovers she’s pregnant and her body is given another job to do: growing and giving birth to a baby.
How Was It For You?
Coming 20th June.
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Welcome to Endellion House.
'A slight bend in the avenue and Endellion was before her, as ornate and crenelated as a child’s drawing of a castle. For the first time since she’d climbed off the cart, Bonnie stopped, shielding her eyes against its white stucco glare. She had expected another Highwell with its exacting Palladian symmetry, but this house might have been cut out of card. Pinnacles rose like small church spires, two turrets and a battlement placed seemingly at random against its sides. Bonnie wiped a damp strand of hair from her forehead, leaned against a tree trunk. All these crenelations and fortifications should have been imposing, but there was something so exaggerated and playful about the house that it looked more like a magnified doll’s house.'
Less than a week to go until the secrets of The Burial Plot by Elizabeth Macneal are revealed...
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Introducing Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst.
Coming autumn 2024.
Twenty years on from the Booker Prize-winning The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from one of the finest writers of our age.
Available to pre-order from @Waterstones now.
The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiigari
One photograph, one treasured memory, one chance to go back.
From the publisher of the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, comes The Lantern of Lost Memories, a magical, heartwarming story by acclaimed Japanese author Sanaka Hiigari.
In Mr Hirasaki's photography studio, in the mountains between this world and the next, someone is waking up as if from a dream. There is a stack of photographs in their lap, one for each day of their life.
Mr Hirasaki hands them a hot cup of tea and gently explains that, having reached the end of their life, they have one final task. They must choose the pictures that capture their most treasured memories, to be placed in a lantern. Once completed, it will be set spinning, and their life will flash before their eyes, guiding them to another world.
But, like our most thumbed-over photographs, our favourite memories fade with age. So each visitor to the studio has the chance to choose one day to return to and photograph again. Extraordinarily moving and wise, The Lantern of Lost Memories is a cosy Japanese tale about the people that make us and the moments that change us.
Coming this August and available to pre-order now.
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Based on the bestselling book by @isabella.tree, WILDING HITS UK and Irish cinemas on June 14th 🍃
Wilding tells the story of a young couple that bets on nature for the future of their failing, four-hundred-year-old estate. Ripping down fences, they set the land back to the wild and entrust its recovery to a motley mix of animals. It is the beginning of a grand experiment that will become one of the most significant rewilding experiments in Europe.
@kneppwilding @metfilmdistribution
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Introducing Natalie Cawley’s Just About Coping 💫 A fascinating peep behind the scenes of the therapy room - where Natalie's patients are seeking healthier ways to self-soothe, and Natalie is breathing into a paper bag between sessions.
Funny, illuminating and bracingly honest, Just About Coping offers the reassuring message that whatever you’re experiencing – from OCD and addiction to personality disorders and catastrophizing – you’re not alone. Someone else has experienced it too. And that someone might just be your therapist.
Publishing July 25th! Find out more here: https://buff.ly/3xMAMP5
An intimate portrait of loneliness, All the Lonely People sees psychologist Dr Sam Carr collect hours of conversations with people young and old, including single parents, carers, teenagers and the bereaved – all shared over countless cups of tea ☕️
A philosophical exploration of love, loss and human connection, All the Lonely People opens a window onto the lives of regular people and asks what we can do to build stronger relationships, and to be part of something bigger than ourselves 🫂
Out 28.03 in hardback, ebook and audio 📖🎧
'Code Dependent is the intimate investigation of AI that we’ve been waiting for, and it arrives not a moment too soon'
Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
The essential read for anyone who has ever wondered about AI, and longlisted for the inaugural @womensprize's for Non-Fiction 2024, @madhumitav's Code Dependent asks: how is AI changing what it means to be human?
Through the voices of ordinary people in places far removed from Silicon Valley, Code Dependent explores the impact of a set of powerful, flawed, and often exploitative technologies on individuals, communities, and our wider society. Madhumita Murgia, AI Editor at the FT, exposes how AI can strip away our collective and individual sense of agency – and shatter our illusion of free will.
AI is already changing what it means to be human, in ways large and small. In this compelling work, Murgia reveals what could happen if we fail to reclaim our humanity.
Hitting bookshops this Thursday and available to pre-order now.
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'Jon Ronson meets Louis Theroux in the style of Joan Didion' The Telegraph
In a world in thrall to data, it’s possible to run a cost-benefit analysis on anything – including life itself. In The Price of Life, journalist, broadcaster and documentary-maker Jenny Kleeman takes us on a journey to meet some of the people who decide what we're worth, exploring what we lose and gain by leaving the judgements that matter up to cold logic.
Out this Thursday in hardback, ebook, and audio 💰
The Amendments by Niamh Mulvey
One of the things Niamh Mulvey explores so brilliantly in her family saga, The Amendments, is the relationship between mother and daughter. So for Mother's Day, we wanted to share with you this wonderful extract.
Dolores has a really lovely but also complex relationship with her mother Brigid. Here, now a mother herself, she reflects on a point in her life as a young woman, when she mistakenly felt, on returning home after a few months away, that she was surpassing her mother, whose life experience she viewed as lesser.
The Amendments is out on April 18th 💙
📣 Check out the brand new paperback cover of LOCKS with author Ashleigh Nugent! 🔐
🌴 🌊 Publishing 27.06.24 🌴 🌊 @locksbook
Aeon, a mixed-up and mixed-race teenager from a leafy Liverpool suburb, is desperate to understand the Black identity thrust upon him. Aeon’s ambition to find his place in the world takes him to Jamaica, where he finds that smoking loads of weed, growing messy locks and wearing massive red boots don’t necessarily help him to fit in.
Within days of his arrival, Aeon is mugged, arrested and banged up in a Jamaican detention centre. Seen as the ‘White boy’, he finds that his journey of self-discovery has only just begun – and he’s going to have to fight for the respect and recognition he deserves . . .
A coming-of-age comedy of errors, Locks is an electric debut novel about growing up, wising up, and finding your place in a world of opposites.
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She wants him.
He'll take everything.
We're so excited to share the most BEAUTIFUL indie exclusive edition for @elizabethmacneal's The Burial Plot. Thank you to our wonderful designer @lucy_scholes_design and illustrator @mariana_illustration for creating such a magical visual world
London, 1839. With the cemeteries full and money to be made in death, tricksters Crawford and Bonnie survive on wicked schemes and ill-gotten coin. But one blistering evening, their fortunes flip. A man lies in a pool of blood at Bonnie’s feet and now she needs to disappear.
Crawford secures her a position as lady’s maid in a grand house on the Thames. As Bonnie comes to understand the family – the eccentric Mr Moncrieff, obsessively drawing mausoleums for his dead wife, and their peculiar daughter Cissie, scribbling imaginary love letters to herself – she begins to question what secrets are lying behind the house’s paper-thin walls and whether her own presence here was planned from the beginning.
Because Crawford is watching, and perhaps he is plotting his greatest trick yet . . .
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'How are we shaping our bodies and behaviours to become desirable to the most powerful, according to their value system, one we insist we hate while stepping on its scale every morning? This is a collective problem more than an individual one, a social sickness.’
February 26 – March 3 marks Eating Disorders Awareness Week, and sees the US publication of Emmeline Clein’s searing social commentary on the eating disorder epidemic. Challenging the accepted narratives women absorb every day about themselves, connecting female worth to an ever-smaller form, this is essential reading.
