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For Leila, each minute after her death brings a sensuous memory: the taste of spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to celebrate the long-awaited birth of a son; the sight of bubbling vats of lemon and sugar which the women use to wax their legs while the men attend mosque; the scent of cardamom coffee that Leila shares with a handsome student in the brothel where she works. Each memory, too, recalls the friends she made at each key […]
A brilliantly varied new selection of D. H. Lawrence’s essays, chosen and introduced by Geoff Dyer […]
It is Harvard in the early 1960s. Just off campus, Dr Timothy Leary plays host for […]
Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing […]
This definitive biography reclaims Nelson Algren as a towering literary figure and finally unravels the enigma […]
A passionate defence of humanity and a work of radical optimism from the international bestselling author […]
Meet Horace Hopper, a twenty-one-year-old farm hand in Tonopah, Nevada, who works for Mr Reece and […]
In a hard-boiled city of crooks, grifts and rackets lurk a pair of toughs: Box and […]
Not far from London, there is a village. This village belongs to the people who live […]
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings, an electric novel not just about who we want […]
2016 Vineland Meet Willa Knox, a woman who stands braced against an upended world that seems […]
A provocative, wildly funny, intellectually rigorous and engrossing novel, punctuated by Siri Hustvedt’s own illustrations – […]
By the bestselling author of Dark Matter and Thin Air, an outstanding new piece of story-telling, […]
Blood and Land is a dazzling, panoramic account of the history and achievements of Native North […]
Live Long Enough is No 20 in the New Garland Series of poetry books, now published […]
The battered and exhausted Britain of 1945 was desperate for workers – to rebuild, to fill […]
Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville […]
Ranging from Texas, to Chile, to New Mexico and New York, in Evening in Paradise Berlin […]
Meet Charlie Savage: a middle-aged Dubliner with an indefatigable wife, an exasperated daughter, a drinking buddy […]
From the bestselling author of Autumn and Winter, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning How to […]
An adrenaline-charged crime caper that features smart, detailed world-building based on real science and the charm […]
Loudon Wainwright III, the son of esteemed Life magazine columnist Loudon Wainwright, Jr., is the patriarch […]
IN A HOUSE OF LIES… Everyone has something to hide A missing private investigator is found, […]
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 ‘Milkman is extraordinary. I’ve been reading passages aloud for […]
Are The Planets Just For Decoration? is fantastic reading filled with amazing insight and intuitive mastery. […]
‘A clever multiple-narrative account of teenage kicks and sectarian strife in early 80s Northern Ireland . […]
Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and hoping to reconnect with her estranged family. That’s why […]
From the creator of Cat Person – the first short story to go viral – comes […]
The first honest insider’s account of the Trump administration. If you hate Trump you need the […]
At once, dissent and morality, deviancy and normalcy, became modern legal concepts: if writers, editors, printers […]
‘Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until […]
From the bestselling author of The Monk of Mokha and The Circle comes a taut, suspenseful […]
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION, 2019 The debut novel from one of the National […]
‘A unique and thoughtful musical memoir’ Observer ‘Gritty coming-of-age story . . . plenty of anecdotes […]
From the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others – the basis for the […]
Mehrere Prostituierte werden ermordet. Warum? Ist ihre brutale Zuhälterin ausgerastet? Sind sie ins Kreuzfeuer konkurrierender Motorradgangs […]