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Auxilio Lacouture is trapped. For twelve days she hides alone in a lavatory on the fourth floor of her university. Staring at the floor, she begins a heartfelt and feverish tale: she is the Mother of Mexican poetry. A highly charged first-person semi-hallucinatory novella, Amulet is a potent st...

‘The undisputed laureate of ordinary lives’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘A brilliant, one-of-a-kind writer’ DAVID NICHOLLS * * * At sixty-six, Paula Spencer – mother, grandmother, widow, survivor – is finally living her life. A job at the dry cleaners she enjoys, a man – Joe – with whom she shares what she...

**NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX TV SERIES, STARRING GONG YU AND SEO HYUN-JIN ** Read the gripping international feminist satire for fans of KIM JIYOUNG BORN 1982, CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN and YELLOWFACE. ‘So this is the world we live in, where even spouses can be rented’ Meet Noh Inji: thirty years old, ...

A steamy and charming small-town romance about a dashing ghost hunter and a bookseller who made up the ghosts he's chasing. 'The perfect combo of spooky, sweet and spicy!' FALON BALLARD 'A joyful, romantic escape.’ IVY FAIRBANKS 'Sure to delight Gilmore Girls fans and anyone who loves flirty r...

A bold exploration of the life and work of one of the world’s most influential – and controversial – thinkers, which brings Arendt’s ideas into urgent dialogue with our troubled present. ‘A rare gem’ SHAMI CHAKRABARTI 'An absorbing new biography... Admirable' ECONOMIST 'Invigorating and insigh...

'Loot held me spellbound from the first page...an expertly-plotted, deeply affecting novel ' Maggie O’Farrell Young toy maker and dreamer Abbas is whisked away to Tipu Sultan's glorious palace in Mysore and ordered to create a musical tiger to delight Tipu's sons. When he is apprenticed to ecce...

Antonia Senior in The Times said: 'Superb . . . authentic and terrifying . . . fans of Bernard Cornwell’s Winter King trilogy will devour this and conclude that Kristian has surpassed the Master.' And readers are loving ARTHUR . . . 'By far the best Arthurian story I have had the honour to read....

‘Compelling' Marie Claire 'Immensely enjoyable' Observer 'Fascinating' Red One week into lockdown, the tenants of a Manhattan apartment building have begun to gather on the rooftop each evening and tell stories in this exciting new twist on the novel. With each passing night, more and more neig...

Clara’s mother is famous for the nude portraits she took of Clara throughout her childhood. Clara has spent her entire adult life pulling away from her mother. At age eighteen, sick of her notoriety as 'the girl in the pictures', Clara fled New York City, settling and making her own family in sm...

The major new novel from the once-in-a-generation author of The End of Eddy 'One of the most important, politically vital and morally bracing writers of his generation’ Keiran Goddard, Guardian ‘Change fills me with admiration and inspiration, as well as renewed faith in writing itself’ Maggie ...