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"Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025 'Absolutely, absolutely incredible.' Karl Ove Knausgård 'A total explosion.' Nicole Krauss 'Unforgettable.' Hernan Díaz 'Breathtaking.' Chetna Maroo 'Brilliant.' Jon McGregor 'Absolutely marvellous.' Lauren Groff  A NEW YORKER AND PARIS REVIEW ...

'A new literary star is born . . . dazzling.' The Times 'Terrific.'Guardian 'A powerful, searing tale.' André Aciman 'I read this book with my heart in my mouth and could not put it down.' Mary Costello 'Amherst has created a young protagonist of extraordinary depth and complexity.' Nathan Filer ...

'Poignant . . . I loved it!' ELAINE FEENEY'A beautiful, deeply affecting story.' DONAL RYAN'Hugely compelling and utterly persuasive.' JOSEPH O'CONNORFrom the author of the beloved debut Boys Don't Cry - an unforgettable story of love and loss and how the ones we love never really leave us.He's l...

The new novel from the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature - 'a maestro' (Guardian). A captivating story of the intertwined lives of three young people coming-of-age in postcolonial East Africa Selected as a book to look out for in 2025 by the Guardian, Observer, Irish Times and BBC 'T...

Join a young Ghanaian woman on her journey into Europe's heart of whiteness to meet the natives in this iconoclastic modern classic.'A wondrous discovery.' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie'A treasure: one of the works that inspired my own literary journey.' Tsitsi Dangarembga'Aidoo has reaffirmed my fait...

" A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'A fascinating look at the impact of country home-making on the lives and work of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann. It's beautifully written, gorgeously produced, absorbing and full of insight' Sarah Waters, Guardian In Rural Hours, H...

" ** 'BEAUTIFULLY, SKILFULLY TOLD WITH REAL TENSION AND GORGEOUS CHARACTERS, HUMAN, ANIMAL MOVED ME TO TEARS... REMARKABLE' - RUSSELL T DAVIES ** A deeply moving debut about one family's struggle to find connection in a rapidly changing world, Human, Animal is an ode to the wild, a journey of...

" Brought to you by Penguin. 1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and creative block. 1930. Feeling jittery about her writing career, Sylvia Townsend Warner spots a modest workman's cottage for sale on the Dorset coast. 1941. Rosamond...

" ** From the acclaimed author of On the Edge and Cut Adrift comes the third and final instalment in the action-packed, 'pulse-pounding' Jen Shaw series ** Still reeling from a life-threatening experience on the coast of Calais, daredevil climber Jen Shaw finds herself in Glasgow for a funera...

The journey will be long and difficult, one thousand miles. Try not to be too obvious. Stick to the backroads. You' ll know you' ve arrived when you get there. Stephen Bolin leaves a bizarre note by his deathbed, asking his sisters to take his body back to his birthplace in Far North Queensland. ...