Canongate Spring 2021 catalogue by Canongate

January–June 2021

Canongate is an independent publisher: since 1973 we’ve worked to unearth and amplify the most vital, exciting voices we can find, wherever they come from, and we’ve published all kinds of books – thoughtful, upsetting, gripping, beatific, vulgar, sly, unrepentant, life-changing . . . Along the way there have been landmarks of fiction – including Alasdair Gray’s Lanark, Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being, and Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, the best ever selling Booker winner – as well as ground-breaking non-fiction – from Barack Obama’s memoir Dreams from My Father to Matt Haig’s genre-defying Reasons to Stay Alive to Samin Nosrat’s new cookery classic Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. We’ve campaigned for causes we believe in and fought court cases to get our authors heard. And twice we’ve been voted Publisher of the year. We’re passionate about books and their value, and we’re as committed to unorthodox and innovative publishing as ever. link canongate.couk

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A River Called Time COURTTIA NEWLAND

A monumental speculative fiction story of love, loyalty, politics and conscience set in parallel Londons ‘An excellent, beautiful read that will make you think while taking your breath away’ DOROTHY KOOMSON

Courttia Newland is the author of seven books including his much lauded debut, The Scholar. His latest novel, The Gospel According to Cane, was published in 2013. His short stories have appeared in many anthologies and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. In 2016 he was awarded the Tayner Barbers Award for science fiction writing and the Roland Rees Busary for playwriting. As a screenwriter, he has written two episodes of the Steve McQueen BBC series Small Axe.

The Ark was built to save the lives of the many, but rapidly became a refuge for the elite, the entrance closed without warning. Years after the Ark was cut off from the world, a chance of survival within its confines is granted to a select few who can prove their worth. Among their number is Markriss Denny, whose path to future excellence is marred only by a closely guarded secret: without warning, his spirit leaves his body, allowing him to see and experience a world far beyond his physical limitations. Once inside the Ark, Denny learns of another with the same power, whose existence could spell catastrophe for humanity. He is forced into a desperate race to understand his abilities, and in doing so uncovers the truth about the Ark, himself and the people he thought he once knew.

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The Art of Dying AMBROSE PARRY

The second in the series of gripping historical crime novels from bestselling author Chris Brookmyre and consultant anaesthetist Dr Marisa Haetzman, set in nineteenth-century Edinburgh

Ambrose Parry is a pseudonym for a collaboration between Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman. The couple are married and live in Scotland. Chris Brookmyre is the international bestselling and multi-award-winning author of over twenty novels. Dr Marisa Haetzman is a consultant anaesthetist of twenty years’ experience. The Way of All Flesh was shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year and longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.

‘Parry’s Victorian Edinburgh comes vividly alive – and it’s a world of pain’ VAL MCDERMID ‘A rip-roaring tale of murder’ IAN RANKIN LONGLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE 2020 Edinburgh, 1849. Hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. And a whispering campaign seeks to paint Dr James Simpson, pioneer of medical chloroform, as a murderer. Determined to clear Simpson’s name, his protégé Will Raven and former housemaid Sarah Fisher must plunge into Edinburgh’s deadliest streets and find out who or what is behind the deaths. Soon they discover that the cause of the deaths has evaded detection purely because it is so unthinkable.

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My Name Is Monster KATIE HALE

Inspired by Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein, My Name Is Monster is a novel about power, about isolation, and about female relationships ‘Strikingly beautiful’ GUARDIAN ‘Tough and tender’ JOANNE HARRIS Born in Cumbria, Katie Hale is a poet, freelance journalist and educator. She has held Emerging Writer in Residence posts at Theatre by the Lake and Creative Futures Cumbria, and is currently working on an oral story-sharing project with the National Trust. Her debut poetry pamphlet, Breaking the Surface, was published by Flipped Eye in 2017,

After the Sickness has killed off her parents, and the bombs have fallen on the last safe cities, Monster emerges from the Arctic vault which has kept her alive. When she washes up on the coast of Scotland, everyone she knows is dead, and she believes she is alone in an empty world. Slowly, piece by piece, she begins to rebuild a life. Until, one day, she finds a girl: another survivor, feral, and ready to be taught all that Monster knows. But as the lonely days pass, the lessons the girl learns are not always the ones Monster means to teach . . .

her poetry has been awarded the Jane Martin and Ware Poetry Prizes, and has been shortlisted for the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize. My Name Is Monster is her debut novel.

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7 January 2021 Paperback Fiction 320pp

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The Unusual Suspect The Remarkable True Story of a Modern-Day Robin Hood Photo © Ben Gurr

BEN MACHELL

Ben Machell is a feature writer for

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contributor to publications including VICE and Esquire. He has been shortlisted for Feature Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards.

Ben has full and exclusive access to Stephen and his surviving diaries, as well as access to law enforcement and the key characters involved in Jackley’s story on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Stephen Jackley was a young British student with Asperger’s Syndrome. When the global financial crisis hit in 2007, he became obsessed with the idea of Robin Hood. With no prior experience, he resolved to become a bank robber. He would steal from the rich and give to the poor. Against all likelihood, his plan actually worked. Jackley used disguise, elaborate escape routes and replica pistols to successfully hold up a string of banks, making away with thousands of pounds. He committed a number of robberies in south-west England over a six-month period. Bank notes marked with ‘RH’ – ‘Robin Hood’ – began finding their way into the hands of the homeless. The police, despite their concerted efforts, had no idea what was going on or who was responsible. That is until Jackley’s ambition got the better of him. This is his story.

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Thin Places KERRI NÍ DOCHARTAIGH

A breathtaking mix of memoir, nature writing and history: this is Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s story of a wild Ireland, an invisible border, an old conflict and the healing power of the natural world

‘A special, beautiful, many-faceted book’ AMY LIPTROT ‘A remarkable piece of writing . . . Luminous’ Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in

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1983, in Derry-Londonderry at the border between the North and South of Ireland. She read English Literature and Classical Civilisation at Trinity College Dublin and trained as a Waldorf teacher in Edinburgh. She taught in Edinburgh and Bristol, before returning to Ireland in her early thirties. She writes about nature, literature and place for the Irish Times, Dublin Review of Books, Caught by the River and others. She now lives in a railway cottage in the very heart of Ireland. Thin Places is her first book.

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Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, at the very height of the Troubles. She was brought up on a grey and impoverished council estate on the wrong side of town. But for her family, and many others, there was no right side. One parent was Catholic, the other was Protestant. In the space of one year they were forced out of two homes and when she was eleven a homemade petrol bomb was thrown through her bedroom window. Terror was in the very fabric of the city, and for families like Kerri’s, the ones who fell between the cracks of identity, it seemed there was no escape. In Thin Places, a mixture of memoir, history and nature writing, Kerri explores how nature kept her sane and helped her heal, how violence and poverty are never more than a stone’s throw from beauty and hope, and how we are, once again, allowing our borders to become hard, and terror to creep back in. Kerri asks us to reclaim our landscape through language and study, and remember that the land we fight over is much more than lines on a map. It will always be ours but, at the same time, it never really was.

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28 January 2021 Hardback Fiction 304pp

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Mrs Death Misses Death

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SALENA GODDEN

Mrs Death tells her intoxicating story in this life-affirming fire-starter of a novel ‘Exquisite. A daring, poetic offering that establishes Godden as one of our most exciting voices’ IRENOSEN OKOJIE

Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted from spending eternity doing her job and now she seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. Wolf Willeford, a troubled young writer, is well acquainted with death, but until now hadn’t met Death in person – a black, working-class woman who shape-shifts and does her work unseen. Enthralled by her stories, Wolf becomes Mrs Death’s scribe, and begins to write her memoirs. Using their desk as a vessel and conduit, Wolf travels across time and place with Mrs Death to witness deaths of past and present and discuss what the future holds for humanity. As the two reflect on the losses they have experienced – or, in the case of Mrs Death, facilitated – their friendship grows into a surprising affirmation of hope, resilience and love. All the while, despite her world-weariness, Death must continue to hold humans’ fates in her hands, appearing in our lives when we least expect her . . .

Salena Godden is one of Britain’s best loved poets and performers. She is also an activist, broadcaster, memoirist and essayist and is widely anthologised. She has published several volumes of poetry, the latest of which was Pessimism is for Lightweights,and a literary childhood memoir, Springfield Road.

Mrs Death Misses Death is her debut novel. A BBC Radio 4 documentary following Godden’s progress on the novel over twelve months was broadcast in 2018.

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How to Be Animal A New History of What it Means to Be Human MELANIE CHALLENGER

Combining popular science, history and moral philosophy, this is a wide-ranging and radical new take on the human story and what it means for us today Melanie Challenger works as a researcher on the history of humanity and the natural world, and environmental philosophy. She is the author of On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature. She received a Darwin Now Award for her research among the Canadian Inuit, and the Arts Council International Fellowship with the British Antarctic Survey for her work on the history of whaling.

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‘An utterly challenging, wholly essential book: it shows us how to be human.’ PHILIP HOARE Humans are the most inquisitive, emotional, imaginative, aggressive and baffling animals on the planet. But how well do we really know ourselves? How to Be Animal writes a remarkable story of what it means to be human and argues that at the heart of our psychology is a profound struggle with being animal. As well as piecing together the mystery of how this psychology evolved, the book examines the ways in which it affects our lives, from our politics to the ways we distance ourselves from other species. We travel from the origins of Homo sapiens through the agrarian and industrial revolutions, the age of the internet, and on to futures of AI and human–machine interface. We examine how technology influences our the planet. Drawing on new evidence from a wide range of disciplines, Challenger proposes that being an animal is a process, beautiful and unpredictable, and that we have a chance to tell ourselves a new story, to realise that if we matter, so does everything else.

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Maxwell’s Demon STEVEN HALL

The absurdly brilliant and mind-twisting second novel from the highly acclaimed author of The Raw Shark Texts, 13 years in the making ‘Deliciously diabolical’ CHRISTOPHER BROOKMYRE ‘Wickedly playful’ M.R. CAREY Thomas Quinn is having the strangest autumn . . . Steven Hall’s debut novel, The Raw Shark Texts, won the Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. It was an international bestseller and has been

Nine years ago, his mentor Andrew Black wrote a millioncopy-selling mystery novel – and then disappeared. Now could it be that Thomas is being stalked by the hero of Black’s book? And that new answerphone message sounds a lot like his own father. His father who has been dead for years.

translated into over thirty languages. He was also lead writer on the bestselling video game Battlefield 1, for which he received a Writer’s Guild nomination. In 2013, Hall was named as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. Maxwell’s Demon is his second novel.

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Thomas’s wife Imogen usually has the answers but she’s on the other side of the world. If he can just find Black, perhaps Thomas might start finding some answers . . . With the same white-knuckle thrills as Hall’s first novel, The Raw Shark Texts, Maxwell’s Demon is a freewheeling investigation into the magic power locked inside the alphabet, love through the looking glass, the bond between parents and children, and, at its heart, the quest for meaning in a chaotic and untidy world.

Also by Steven Hall: The Raw Shark Texts £8.99 (new edition 7 January 2021 – 9781838851804)

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The Midnight Library MAT T HAIG

The number one Sunday Times bestseller: a touching, funny and heartwarming new novel from the author of How to Stop Time and Reasons to Stay Alive ‘Just beautiful’ FEARNE COTTON ‘An uplifting, poignant novel about regret, hope and second chances’ DAVID NICHOLLS Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive, Notes on a Nervous Planet and six other highly acclaimed novels for adults, including How to Stop Time, The Humans and The Radleys. The audiobook of The Midnight Library is read by Carey Mulligan.

Between life and death there is a library. Nora’s life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. The books in the library give her the chance to undo her regrets and try out each of the other lives she might have lived. Which raises the ultimate question: with infinite choices, what is the best way to live?

Haig also writes award-winning books for children, including A Boy Called Christmas, which is being made into a feature film with an all-star cast. He has sold more than two million books in the UK and his work has been translated into over forty languages.

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HOW TO STOP TIME The Sunday Times bestseller. Winner of the Books Are My Bag Award for Popular Fiction. B-fmt PB £8.99

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REASONS TO STAY ALIVE

NOTES ON A NERVOUS PLANET

The number one Sunday Times bestseller has sold more than 500,000 copies in the UK.

The number one Sunday Times bestseller.

‘Maybe the most important book I’ve read this year’ Simon Mayo

‘Witty, honest and engaging . . . A worthy successor to Reasons to Stay Alive’ Sunday Times

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Everyday Magic The Adventures of Alfie Blackstack JESS KIDD

Magical, mischievous and mysterious, Everyday Magic is an enchanted mix of The Witches, Nevermoor and Lemony Snicket Jess Kidd wanted to be a writer before she could even write. She comes from a big noisy (and nosy) family where storytelling was a favourite pastime. Jess was quite shy when she was little so she learnt to write down the stories she imagined. Then she gave them to her friends and relatives to enjoy.

She is currently writing her fourth novel, teaching at her local college and working on TV and film projects. Oh, and playing tug-of-war over socks with Wilkie the dog.

Age range: 9+ ‘Had me giggling all the way through . . . I loved it!’ JASBINDER BILAN

‘Action-packed and bursting with fun’ SINÉAD O’HART Welcome to Little Snoddington, where nothing is normal and every day is magic . . . Nine-year-old Alfie Blackstack’s parents have met a very unfortunate end. Now he’s living in the dark and cobwebby Switherbroom Hall with his mad-haired Aunt Gertie and warty Aunt Zita, who would really like to pickle him. Before long, Alfie realises his aunts aren’t just the weird local chemists, they’re witches!

Also by Jess Kidd: Himself £8.99 (9781786899835) The Hoarder £8.99 (9781786899842) Things in Jars £8.99 (9781786893772)

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Radical Acts of Love How We Find Hope at the End of Life JANIE BROWN

A profoundly moving account of an oncology nurse’s conversations with the dying

Janie Brown was born in Epsom, England, and raised in Scotland from the age of four. She has a Masters in Psychology at St Andrews University, and a Masters in Nursing at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver,

‘Insightful, wise and life-affirming’ OBSERVER ‘Turns death into life, despair into hope, sorrow into joy’ STEPHEN FRY In Radical Acts of Love, Janie Brown, oncology nurse and counsellor, offers a sensitive and wise insight into our final moments by recounting twenty conversations she has had with people who were dying.

Canada. She has worked for more than thirty years as an oncology nurse and counsellor, and in 1995 founded the Callanish Society, a grassroots non-profit organisation for people living with, and dying from, cancer, based in Vancouver (callanish.org). She presents nationally and internationally, has published in professional journals and writes a widely read blog.

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A Tall History of Sugar CURDELLA FORBES

A vivid epic following an unusual couple’s mysterious love affair from childhood to adulthood, across rural Jamaica and England ‘Brimming with magic, passion and history’ NEW YORK TIMES

‘Captivating from the very first page’ JENNIFER EGAN Curdella Forbes is a Jamaican writer. She has published four previous works

SHORTLISTED FOR THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE FOR CARIBBEAN LITERATURE

of fiction: Songs of Silence, A Permanent Freedom, Ghosts, and a children’s book, Flying with Icarus and Other Stories. She lives in Takoma Park, Maryland, and teaches at Howard University where she is a professor of Caribbean literature. She names among her literary influences the oral traditions of rural Jamaica, the fairy tales of her childhood and the work of Gabriel García Márquez.

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Discovered amidst a tangle of sea grape trees, Moshe Fisher’s provenance is a thing of myth and mystery; his unusual appearance, with blueish, translucent skin and duo-toned hair, only serves to compound his mystique. Equally feared and ridiculed by peers as he grows up, he finds a surprising kindred soul in the striking and bold Arrienne Christie, but their complex relationship is fraught with obstacles that tear them apart as powerfully as they are drawn together. Beginning in the late 1950s, four years before Jamaica’s independence from colonial rule, A Tall History of Sugar’s epic love story sweeps between a rural Jamaica, scarred by the legacies of colonialism, and an England increasingly riven by race riots and class division.

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Dark Truths A.J. CROSS

Introducing criminologist Will Traynor in the first of a gripping new forensic mystery series from an expert in the field A.J. Cross is a forensic psychologist with over twenty years’ experience in the field. She lives in Birmingham with her jazz-musician husband and is the author of five Kate Hanson mysteries.

When a young woman’s body is discovered on a popular jogging trail in Birmingham, Detective Inspector Bernard Watts and his team are plunged into a disturbing murder investigation. Not only has the woman been violently stabbed – her head is missing. When a close examination of the crime scene results in a shocking discovery linking the present murder to a past crime, criminologist Will Traynor is brought in to assist the police. Aware of Traynor’s troubled past, Watts is sceptical that he will bring anything useful to the investigation. He’s about to be proved very wrong . . .

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Lanark A Life in Four Books A L A S D A I R G R AY

40th anniversary edition of the modern classic, introduced by William Boyd ‘Probably the greatest novel of the century’ OBSERVER ‘Lanark, in common with all great books, is still, and always will be, an act of resistance’ JANICE GALLOWAY

Born in 1934, Alasdair Gray graduated in design and mural painting from the Glasgow School of Art. Since 1981, when Lanark was published by Canongate, he authored, designed and illustrated seven novels, several books of short stories, a collection of his stage, radio and TV plays and a book of his visual art, A Life in

Lanark, a modern vision of hell set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A work of extraordinary imagination, its playful narrative conveys a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind’s inability to love, and yet our compulsion to go on trying. First published in 1981, Lanark established Alasdair Gray as one of Britain’s leading writers and kickstarted the modern renaissance of Scottish literature.

Pictures.In November 2019, he received a Lifetime Achievement award by the Saltire Society.He died in December 2019, aged eighty-five.

Also by Alasdair Gray: The Fall of Kelvin Walker £9.99 (new edition 18 February 2021 – 9781838853853) McGrotty and Ludmilla £9.99 (new edition 18 February 2021 – 9781838853877) Unlikely Stories, Mostly £9.99 (new edition 18 February 2021 – 9781838852733)

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Explorer The Quest for Adventure BENEDICT ALLEN

This enquiry into the explorer mindset is part meditation, part memoir, from one of ‘Britain’s greatest explorers’ (Telegraph) What does it mean to be an explorer in the twenty-first century? Benedict Allen is an explorer and a former member of Council and Trustee of the Royal Geographical Society, Patron of the Environmental Justice Foundation, The Tony Foundation and Save the Rhino Trust. He is the editor of The Faber Book of Exploration.

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Explorer is the story of what first led Benedict Allen to head for the farthest reaches of our planet – at a time when there were still valleys and ranges known only to the remote communities who inhabited them. It is also the story of why, thirty years later, he is still exploring. It’s the story of a journey back to a clouded mountain in New Guinea to find a man called Korsai who had once been a friend, and to fulfil a promise made as young men. It is also a story of what it is to be ‘lost’ and ‘found’. Honest, sensitive and packed with insight, in Explorer Allen considers the lessons he has learnt from his numerous expeditions – most importantly, from the communities he has encountered: there is a value in disconnecting from all that we are familiar with, particularly in today’s crowded world. And there is a value in connecting with worlds unfamiliar to us, some of whom have lived in harmony, not competition, with nature for generations. We explore not to plant a flag, or leave a mark, but to open up and allow the place and people to leave their mark on us.

4 March 2021 Hardback Non-fiction 288pp

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The Fugitives JAMAL MAHJOUB

Moving from Khartoum, Sudan, to Washington D.C., and then across the US in a road trip unlike any other, this is a book about music, friendship and the desire for home

Jamal Mahjoub is a British-Sudanese writer. Born in London, he was raised in Khartoum where his family remained until 1990. He has lived in a number of places, including the UK, Denmark, Spain and, currently, the Netherlands. His novels include: In the Hour of Signs, Travelling with Djinns, The Carrier and The Drift Latitudes. Under the pseudonym Parker Bilal he is the author of the Inspector Makana crime series and, most recently, the Crane and Drake

The Kamanga Kings, a Khartoum jazz band of yesteryear, is presented with the opportunity of a lifetime when a surprise letter arrives inviting them to perform in Washington, D.C. The only problem is . . . the band no longer exists. Rushdy is a disaffected secondary school teacher and the son of an original Kamanga King. Determined to see a life beyond his own home, he sets out to revive the band. Aided by his unreliable best friend, all too soon an unlikely group are on their way, knowing the eyes of their country are on them. As the group moves from the familiarity of Khartoum to the chaos of Donald Trump’s America, Jamal Mahjoub weaves a gently humorous and ultimately universal tale of music, belonging and love.

series. His latest non-fiction book, A Line in the River, was longlisted for the Ondaatjie Prize.

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4 March 2021 Hardback Fiction 336pp

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The Island Child MOLLY AITKEN

A rich, haunting and deeply moving novel about the power and the danger in a mother’s love, from one of the most exciting new voices in Irish fiction ‘Exquisite’ DAILY TELEGRAPH ‘A haunting tale’ IRISH TIMES Molly Aitken was born in Scotland in 1991 and brought up in Ireland. She studied Literature and Classics at Galway University and has an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa. She was shortlisted for Writing Magazine’s fairy tale retelling prize in 2016 and has a story in the Irish Imbas 2017 Short Story Collection. Currently, she works as an editor and ghostwriter and lives in Sheffield. The Island Child is her debut novel.

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Twenty years ago, Oona left the island of Inis for the very first time. A wind-blasted rock of fishing boats and turf fires, where girls stayed in their homes until they became mothers themselves, the island was a gift for some, a prison for others. Oona was barely more than a girl, but promised herself she would leave the tall tales behind and never return. The Island Child tells two stories: of the girl who grew up watching births and betrayals, storms and secrets, and of the adult Oona, desperate to find a second chance, only to discover she can never completely escape. As the strands of Oona’s life come together, in blood and marriage and motherhood, she must accept the price we pay when we love what is never truly ours . . . Rich, haunting and rooted in Irish folklore, The Island Child is a spellbinding debut novel about identity and motherhood, freedom and fate, and the healing power of stories.

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Letters of Note: Dogs, Fathers, Grief, New York, Sex and Space COMPILED BY SHAUN USHER

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Speeches of Note. Along with Simon Garfield’s To the Letter, Letters of Note inspired Letters Live, a series of live performances celebrating the enduring power of literary correspondence, with great performers reading remarkable letters to a live audience.

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Every one of these pocket-sized collections features an eclectic mix of correspondence – sometimes thoughtful, sad, joyous, inspirational or kind, but always fascinating. They come from a staggering array of letter writers, and cover eclectic topics, from our canine companions (in Letters of Note: Dogs) to the far ends of the universe (in Letters of Note: Space). These six titles include letters by: Isaac Asimov, Ralph Ellison, Groucho Marx, Anaïs Nin, Sue Perkins, Marcel Proust, Dodie Smith, Gertrude Stein, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Mae West & many more.

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The Beijing Conspiracy SHAMINI FLINT

One man is caught up in a lethal global conspiracy in this explosive spy thriller ‘Flint . . . creates fascinating, unforgettable characters’ BOOKLIST

A LONG-LOST DAUGHTER. AN EXPLOSIVE SECRET. A LETHAL CONSPIRACY. Shamini Flint was born and brought up in Malaysia. Having studied law at Cambridge University, she travelled

Ex-Delta Force soldier Jack Ford is trying to put the past behind him. But when he receives a letter from someone he hasn’t spoken to in thirty years, claiming he has a daughter, he can’t resist investigating for himself.

extensively throughout Asia for her work as a corporate lawyer, before becoming a writer, part-time lecturer and environmental activist. Shamini now lives in Singapore with her husband and two children. She is the author of the highly acclaimed Inspector Singh

Soon he’s on a plane to China, a country he hasn’t returned to since witnessing the atrocities of the Tiananmen Square massacre. But on his search he stumbles upon explosive information which both the Chinese and American governments are desperately chasing. Now Jack is trapped in an impossible dilemma: save his daughter or prevent a war where thousands will lose their lives.

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How Beautiful We Were IMBOLO MBUE

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers, comes a sweeping story about the collision of a small African village and an American oil company ‘A formidable storyteller’ JONATHAN FRANZEN Imbolo Mbue is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Behold the Dreamers, which won the PEN/ Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Blue Metropolis Words to Change Prize and was an Oprah’s Book Club selection. Named a notable book of the year by the Observer, New York Times and the Washington Post and a best book of the year by close to a dozen publications, the novel has been translated into eleven languages, adapted into an opera and a stage play, and has been optioned for film. A native of Limbe, Cameroon and a graduate of Rutgers and Columbia universities, Imbolo Mbue lives in New

Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, How Beautiful We Were tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean-up and financial reparations are made – and ignored. The country’s government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interest only. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. But their fight will come at a steep price . . . one which generation after generation will have to pay. Told through the perspective of a generation of children and the family of a girl named Thula, How Beautiful We Were is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community’s determination to hold onto its ancestral land and a young woman’s willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people’s freedom.

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The dark and gripping Harry McCoy series continues, from Alan Parks, ‘the latest star of Tartan noir’ (Daily Mail)

The April Dead

Bobby March Will Live Forever

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When an American sailor from the Holy Loch Base goes missing, Harry McCoy is determined to find him. But as he investigates, a wave of bombings hits Glasgow – with the threat of more to come. Soon McCoy realises that the sailor may be part of a shadowy organisation committed to a very different kind of Scotland. One they are prepared to kill for.

There’s a heatwave in Glasgow and the drugs trade is booming. The whole force is searching for missing thirteen-year-old Alice Kelly. All except Harry McCoy, who has been taken off the case after a run-in with the boss, and is instead sent alone to investigate the death of rock-star Bobby March, who has just overdosed in the Royal Stuart hotel.

With time running out to stop another bomb and save the sailor, McCoy discovers a deeper, darker secret – the sailor is not the first young man to go missing in April.

The papers want blood. The force wants results. McCoy has a hunch. But does he have enough time?

PRAISE FOR THE HARRY McCOY SERIES ‘Gripping, utterly authentic and nerve-jangling’ DAILY MAIL ‘Vivid and evocative’ PETER MAY ‘Bloody and brilliant’ LOUISE WELSH ‘Denise Mina and Ian Rankin had better watch out’ EVENING STANDARD

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Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. He lives and works in Glasgow.

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Sick Money The Truth About the Global Pharmaceutical Industry BILLY KENBER

An urgent call to build a new model for the pharmaceutical industry, from the multiaward-winning Times journalist

Billy Kenber is an investigative journalist at The Times and has worked at the newspaper since 2010. He has won several accolades including prizes at the UK Press Awards, the British Journalism Awards and two prizes from the Medical Journalists’ Association including the 2017 award for Outstanding Contribution to Health or Medical Journalism. In 2013 he won the Laurence Stern Fellowship and worked for the Washington Post for three months. He lives in London.

What drugs are being researched, how medicines are priced, who has access to which medicines is now being dictated by share-holder value, not the good of the public – who enjoy ever-diminishing benefits for ever-higher prices. Drugs companies are being fined for bribing doctors in Eastern Europe while patients desperate for life-saving medicines are being driven to the black market in search of drugs the NHS can’t afford.

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Sick Money argues that the way we research medicines and pay for them is no longer working. Unless we take action we risk a dramatic decline in the pace of drug development and a future in which medicines are only available to the highest bidder. In this book Billy Kenber offers a diagnosis of an industry in crisis and a prescription for how we can fight back.

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The pharmaceutical industry is broken. From the American hedge fund manager who put the price of an AIDS pill up from $13.50 to $750 overnight to the children’s cancer drugs left intentionally to expire in a Spanish warehouse, the signs are all around. A system that was designed to drive innovation and patient care has been co-opted to drive profit.

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TRACEY THORN

An exploration of female friendship and women in music, from the iconic singersongwriter and bestselling author of Tracey Thorn is a singer-songwriter and writer, best known for her seventeen years in bestselling duo Everything But The Girl. She has released four solo albums, one movie soundtrack, a large handful of singles, and three books, including the Sunday Times bestsellers Another Planet and Bedsit Disco Queen. She lives in London, with her husband Ben Watt and their three children.

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Another Planet and Bedsit Disco Queen In 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and Lindy Morrison first met. Tracey’s music career was just beginning, while Lindy, drummer for The Go-Betweens, was ten years her senior. They became confidantes, comrades and best friends, a relationship cemented by gossip and feminism, books and gigs and rock ’n’ roll love affairs. Morrison – a headstrong heroine blazing her way through a male-dominated industry – came to be a kind of mentor to Thorn. They shared the joy and the struggle of being women in a band, trying to outwit and face down a chauvinist music media. In My Rock ’n’ Roll Friend Thorn takes stock of thirty-seven years of friendship, teasing out the details of connection and affection between two women who seem to be either complete opposites or mirror images of each other. This important book asks what people see, who does the looking, and ultimately who writes women out of – and back into – history.

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Learwife J.R. THORP

Inspired by Shakespeare’s King Lear, this debut novel tells the story of the most famous woman ever written out of literary history ‘I am the queen of two crowns, banished fifteen years, the famed and gilded woman, bad-luck baleful girl, mother of three small animals, now gone. I am fifty-five years old. I am Lear’s wife. I am here.’ J.R. Thorp is a writer, lyricist and librettist. She won the London Short Story Award in 2011 and was shortlisted for the BBC Opening Lines Prize, and has had work published in the Cambridge Literary Review, Manchester Review, antiTHESIS, Wave Composition and elsewhere. She wrote the libretto for the highly acclaimed modern opera Dear Marie Stopes and has had works commissioned by the Arts Council, the Wellcome Trust and St Paul’s Cathedral. She was a Clarendon Scholar at Oxford, where she completed her PhD. Born in Australia, she now lives in Cork, Ireland.

Word has come. Care-bent King Lear is dead, driven mad and betrayed. His three daughters too, broken in battle. But someone has survived: Lear’s queen. Exiled to a nunnery years ago, written out of history, her name forgotten. Now she can tell her story. Though her grief and rage may threaten to crack the earth open, she knows she must seek answers. Why was she sent away in shame and disgrace? What has happened to Kent, her oldest friend and ally? And what will become of her now, in this place of women? To find peace she must reckon with her past and make a terrible choice – one upon which her destiny, and that of the entire abbey, rests. Giving unforgettable voice to a woman whose absence has been a tantalising mystery, Learwife is a breathtaking novel of loss, renewal and how history bleeds into the present.

Learwife is her first novel.

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The Go-Between A Memoir of Growing Up Between Different Worlds OSMAN YOUSEFZADA

Yousefzada’s memoir of living between worlds, and learning how to find his own

Osman Yousefzada was born in Birmingham. He studied anthropology at SOAS, and fashion at Central Saint Martins. He later went on to do a Masters at Cambridge. As well as being nominated for various fashion awards, including the prestigious British Fashion Council NEWGEN award for three consecutive seasons, Osman has been nominated for the Annual Designs of the Year

The son of Afghan parents, Osman Yousefzada was raised in post-industrial Birmingham. Osman’s father was a carpenter, and his mother, to help make ends meet, took up sewing and became a seamstress. Women from IndianEast African, Israeli, Shia and Afghan communities came together in the Yousefzada household to have clothes made and mended by his mother. Osman learned the craft at her knee and became enraptured by what was deemed a woman’s job, and increasingly found himself at odds with the highly patriarchal culture he grew up in. Whether secretly bringing his sister books and magazines from the local library, lusting after forbidden jelly in the local shop, or chatting to the area’s prostitutes, Osman quietly weaved in and out of different spheres.

Award at the Design Museum, and for a Frieze Art Award. He curates an annual collaborative journal, The Collective, a cross-disciplinary publication featuring

But no one can be a go-between forever, and Osman’s is a story of finding your own way, even if it means turning your back on the world you know.

artists, writers and other creatives. The Osman clothing line is sold internationally, and is worn by celebrities including Beyoncé, Lupita Nyong’o, Thandie Newton, Gwen Stefani, Emma Watson, Freida Pinto and many more.

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Sharks in the Time of Saviours KAWAI STRONG WASHBURN

A powerful debut novel that blends Hawaiian myth with the broken American dream ‘As vivid as it is splendid’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘Beautifully written and completely absorbing’ SARAH MOSS, GUARDIAN

Kawai Strong Washburn was born and raised on the Hamakua coast of the Big Island of Hawai'i. His work has appeared in McSweeney’s, Electric

At seven years old, Nainoa falls into the sea and a shark takes him in its jaws – only to return him, unharmed, to his parents. For the next thirty years Noa and his siblings struggle with life in the shadow of this miracle.

Literature and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, among others. He has received scholarships from the Tin House and Bread Loaf writer’s workshops and has worked in software

Sharks in the Time of Saviours is a brilliantly original and inventive novel, the sweeping story of a family living in poverty among the remnants of Hawai'i’s mythic past and the wreckage of the American dream.

and as a climate policy advocate. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and daughters. Sharks in the Time of Saviours is his first novel.

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TERRI WHITE

A powerful, raw and unflinchingly honest Terri White is Editor-in-Chief of Empire magazine, having previously edited some of the most read titles in the UK and US, including Time Out New York and Shortlist, where she was named Men’s Magazine Editor of the Year. She has also written for the Guardian and The Pool.

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account of a life coming undone ‘Breathtaking’ DOLLY ALDERTON ‘Remarkable’ MARIAN KEYES To everyone else, Terri White appeared to be living the dream, named one of Folio’s Top Women in US Media and accruing further awards for the magazines she was editing. In reality, she was rapidly skidding towards a mental health crisis that would land her in a locked psychiatric ward as her past caught up with her. Coming Undone is Terri’s documentation of her unravelling, and her precarious navigation back from a life in pieces.

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Like Flies from Afar K. FERRARI

A wickedly dark, multi-award-winning noir novel in translation about corruption in the Argentine state ‘Sharp, savage and tense’ SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGER K. Ferrari was born in Buenos Aires. He is the author of several novels, collections of short fiction and a book of non-fiction. He is the winner of the Casa de las Américas Prize. Like Flies from Afar is the first of his books to be translated into English and is published in Argentina, Spain, Italy, France and the US. It was shortlisted for the CWA Crime Fiction in

Luis Machi has had enemies for a long time thanks to his corrupt business deals and cooperation with the military junta’s coup, not to mention the numerous infidelities of his love life. What is new, however, is the corpse chained to the boot of Machi’s car with furry pink handcuffs . . . Someone is trying to set him up and the number of suspects is incalculable. Machi is stuck dredging his guilty past for clues and trying to dispose of the mystery corpse. But time is just another enemy and it’s running out fast.

Translation Dagger.

Adrian Nathan West is the author of The Aesthetics of Degradation. He is a contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and the Literary Review; his essays, short fiction and translations have also appeared in the New York Review of Books, McSweeney’s, the London Review of Books and other publications.

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Oligarchy SCARLETT THOMAS

Power, privilege and peer pressure – the hilarious new novel from the bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y ‘Hugely enjoyable’ OBSERVER ‘Wickedly funny’ THE TIMES

Scarlett Thomas was born in London in 1972. Her novels include Bright Young Things, PopCo, Our Tragic Universe and The Seed Collectors. She is Professor of Creative Writing & Contemporary Fiction at the University of Kent.

When Tash, daughter of a Russian oligarch, is sent to an English boarding school, she is new to the strange rituals of the girls there. Theirs is a world of strict pecking orders, eating disorders and Instagram angst. While she spends her time at the lake and the stables, a few hand-picked girls are invited to join the Headmaster at his house for extra lessons. Then her friend Bianca mysteriously vanishes, and the routines of her dormmates seem darker and more alien than ever before.

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Come Again

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ROBERT WEBB

The debut novel – a time-travelling story of love and adventure – from the number one bestselling author of How Not To Be a Boy and star of Peep Show Robert Webb is best known for his

‘A genre-defying time-travel tale’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Hugely moving’ OBSERVER

work as the Webb half of Mitchell & Webb in the Sony award-winning That Mitchell & Webb Sound and the Bafta award-

You can’t fall in love for the first time twice . . . For Kate Marsden, everything is starting to fall apart. Her husband has died, she’s lost her job, and she’s pushed away all her friends. One day, she wakes up in the wrong body. She is eighteen again but remembers everything. This is 1992. The first day of Freshers’ Week. It’s the day she first meets Luke, the man she will marry. If they can fall in love again, Kate might just be able to save him, but she’ll have to do everything exactly the same as before . . .

winning That Mitchell & Webb Look, and as permanent man-boy Jeremy in the acclaimed Peep Show. In 2017, his call-toarms memoir How Not To Be a Boy was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. Robert has been a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and the New Statesman, and now lives in London with his wife and daughters. Come Again is his first novel.

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Things I Have Withheld KEI MILLER

Award-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller explores the meanings of silence in this collection of provocative and lyrical Kei Miller was born in Jamaica in 1978 and has written several books across a range of genres. His 2014 poetry collection, The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion, won the Forward Prize for Best Collection; his 2017 novel, Augustown, won the Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the Prix Les Afriques and the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde. In

essays In this moving and lyrical collection of essays, the awardwinning poet and novelist Kei Miller explores the silence in which so many important things are kept. He examines the experience of discrimination through this silence and what it means to breach it: to risk words, to risk truths. And he considers the histories our bodies inherit – the crimes that haunt them, and how meaning can shift as we move throughout the world, variously assuming privilege or victimhood.

2010, the Institute of Jamaica awarded him the Silver Musgrave medal for his contributions to Literature and in 2018 he was awarded the Anthony Sabga medal for Arts & Letters. Kei has an MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University and a PhD in English Literature from the University of Glasgow. He has taught at the Universities of Glasgow, Royal Holloway and Exeter’. He was the 2019 Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor to the

Through letters to James Baldwin, encounters with Derek Walcott, Liam Neeson, Soca, Carnival, family secrets, love affairs, white women’s tears, questions of aesthetics and more, Miller powerfully and imaginatively recounts everyday acts of racism and prejudice. With both the epigrammatic concision and conversational cadence of his poetry and novels, Things I Have Withheld is a great artistic achievement: a work of beauty which challenges us to interrogate what seems unsayable and why – our actions, defence mechanisms, imaginations and interactions – and those of the world around us.

University of Iowa and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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See/Saw Looking at Photographs GEOFF DYER

A full-colour illuminated history of how photographs frame and change the world, from the award-winning author of The Ongoing Moment Geoff Dyer is the author of ten non-fiction books and four novels. He has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography’s 2006 Infinity Award for

See/Saw is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives. Starting from single images by the world’s most important photographers – from Eugène Atget to Alex Webb – Geoff Dyer shows us how to read a photograph, as he takes us through a series of close readings that are by turns moving, funny, prescient and surprising.

writing on photography and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E.M. Forster Award. In 2012 he won a National Book Critics Circle Award and in 2015 he received a Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction. His books have been trans-

Following Dyer’s previous books on photography, The Ongoing Moment and The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand, See/Saw brilliantly combines visual scrutiny and stylistic flair. It shows us how a photograph can simultaneously record and invent the world, and reveals a master seer at work.

lated into twenty-four languages. He currently lives in Los Angeles where he is Writer in Residence at the University of Southern California.

In the spirit of intellectual curiosity of Berger, Sontag and Didion, Geoff Dyer helps us to see the world around us, and within us, afresh.

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MICK KITSON

A story of overcoming all the odds, and a woman centuries ahead of her time, set on the canals of nineteenth-century England Mick Kitson was born in South Wales, and studied English at university before launching the prolific ’80s pop band, The Senators, with his brother Jim. He worked as a journalist for several years, then went on to become an English teacher. His debut novel, Sal, was the winner of the Saltire First Book Award. Mick lives in Fife, Scotland.

Annie Perry is born beside the coal-muddied canals of the Black Country, at the height of the industrial revolution. The youngest in a large Romani family who cannot afford to keep her, when she is eight years old Annie is sold as a servant to the famous and feared bare-knuckle boxer Bill Perry, The Tipton Slasher. Bill is starting to lose his strength, but refuses to give up his crown. When it looks like a fight might become Bill’s last, Annie steps into the ring, fists raised in his defence. From that moment she is determined to train and follow in Bill’s footsteps, to learn to fight for herself. But Annie has been doing this all along. A whole new world opens up for Annie, one of love, fortune, family and education, but also of danger. One wrong move, one misstep, and the course of her life will be changed forever.

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It’s the longest day of the year, June 21st, and thirteen-yearold Elle and her Leapling classmates are visiting the Museum of The Past, The Present and The Future. But during the school trip, disaster strikes, and the most unique and valuable piece in the museum, the Infinity Glass, is stolen! And worse still, Elle’s friend and fellow Infinite, MC2, is arrested for the crime!

children. She has been writing poetry for over twenty years, and her first novel for children, The Infinite, the first in the Leap Cycle series, was published in 2020 and was a CBBC Book of the Month. Like

To prove his innocence Elle must leap back centuries in time, to a London very different from today. She must travel back to 1752, to the year when the whole country leapt eleven days forward in time, and when a young servant boy called Francis was the first owner of the Infinity Glass.

Elle, she loves sprinting, numbers and pepper soup, but, disappointingly, her leaping is less spectacular.

Along the way she will meet new friends and face an old enemy, one who is determined to destroy her. Can Elle find the missing Infinity Glass and return it to its rightful home before it’s too late?

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Dear Girls Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets and Advice for Living Your Best Life ALI WONG

The New York Times bestseller: sharp and hilariously funny advice for growing up female from the Netflix star of Always Be My Maybe Ali Wong is a stand-up comedian, writer and actress. She has released two hit

‘You’ll laugh like a drain’ STYLIST ‘Hilarious, brilliant and touching’ PATTON OSWALT

Netflix comedy specials – Baby Cobra and Hard Knock Wife – and starred in the Netflix original film Always Be My Maybe. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two daughters.

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Dear Girls is Ali Wong’s collection of heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters covering everything they need to know in life, like the unpleasant details of dating, how to be a working mum in a male-dominated profession and how she trapped their dad. She shares the wisdom she’s learned from a life in comedy and reveals stories from her life off stage, including the brutal single life in New York (and the inevitable confrontation with erectile dysfunction), reconnecting with her roots (and drinking snake blood) in Vietnam and parenting war stories. Ali Wong’s letters are absurdly funny, surprisingly moving and enlightening (and gross) for all.

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Stories We Tell Ourselves Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe R I C H A R D H O L LOWAY

A thought-provoking and playful examination of how we make sense of the world, from the Sunday Times bestselling author Richard Holloway was Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. A former Gresham Professor of Divinity and Chairman of the Joint Board of the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen, he is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Leaving Alexandria won the PEN/Ackerley Prize and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. His most recent book, Waiting for the Last Bus, was a Sunday Times bestseller.

‘Devestatingly human . . . Erudition and empathy: I wept’ DAMIAN BARR Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of our place in the universe. Richard Holloway takes us on a personal, scientific and philosophical journey to explore what he believes the answers to the biggest of questions are. He examines what we know about the universe into which we are propelled at birth and from which we are expelled at death, the stories we have told about where we come from, and the stories we tell to get through this muddling experience of life. Thought-provoking, revelatory, compassionate and playful, Stories We Tell Ourselves is a personal reckoning with life’s mysteries by one of the most important and beloved thinkers of our time.

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A Bad Bad Thing ELENA FORBES

Eve West, a police officer with a hidden past, is drawn into a dark and complex case when she’s asked to investigate a miscarriage of justice ‘An ending that will leave readers breathless’ Booklist ‘A master at complex plots’ GLOBE AND MAIL Elena Forbes worked for a number of international investment groups before becoming a full-time writer. She is the author of four previous thrillers in the Mark Tartaglia series, the first of which, Die with Me, was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award. She lives in central London.

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After a police operation ends in catastrophe, DCI Eve West is suspended. She faces expulsion from the force, until John Duran – a violent criminal Eve incarcerated herself and who is still serving his sentence – offers to help clear her name. But nothing comes for free. Duran wants Eve to help free a fellow prisoner, who he claims has been wrongly convicted of murder. But as her investigation grows darker, Eve finds that more than just her job is at stake, and Duran is a dangerous man to trust . . .

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The Startup Wife

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A quirky, funny, deeply intelligent story of love, big dreams, starting up and feminist geekdom, from the award-winning author Tahmima Anam is an award-winning

of A Golden Age

novelist, short-story writer and Harvardeducated anthropologist. Her work has been published in Granta, the New York Times and the Guardian. She is also the co-founder of a music technology startup with offices in New York and London.

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Halfway through her PhD and already dreaming of running her own lab, computer scientist Asha has her future all mapped out. But a chance meeting with an old classmate Cyrus and his best friend Jules inspires her with a lifechanging idea: building a social networking app that could bring meaning to millions of lives. Soon the inseparable trio are invited to join Utopia, a startup workspace run by intimidatingly confident women, offering limitless hemp shakes, Unbearably Hot Yoga, and ideas that range from genius to outright insane. As Asha networks with venture capitalists and builds empowering friendships amidst exposed brickwork, her app explodes into the next big thing. So why does she feel invisible at the boardroom tables of her own company? And why are decisions being made without her? Gripping, witty and razor-sharp, The Startup Wife is a blistering novel about dreaming big, speaking up and fighting to be where you belong.

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The Biggest Footprint WRITTEN BY ROB SEARS ILLUSTRATED BY TOM SEARS

An illustrated, fact-filled book about climate change, by the bestselling author Rob Sears has written comedy and

of The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump

fiction for McSweeney’s and is the author of the hit humour titles The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin: Life Coach and Choose Your Own Apocalypse with Kim Jong-un & Friends. He lives in Finsbury Park with his wife Grace.

Of his writing Rob says, ‘With my books, I plan to usher in a new era of sane political leadership. Failing that I would like to raise a weak smile on the face of a disillusioned knowledge worker, during a lull in the hellacious rollercoaster timeline we inhabit.’

Age range: 9+ There are 7.7 billion of us All breathing, eating, drinking and thinking deep thoughts. It’s an unimaginably large number. Or is it? Meet the megahuman: all the people in the world smooshed into one giant human being. Even though it’s a big, lumbering creature, the megahuman is slowly beginning to understand the problems it has created for Planet Earth’s future . . . Drawing on brain-bending stats and the work of biomass boffins, The Biggest Footprint is a journey of self-discovery suitable for anyone and everyone identifying as human.

Also by Rob Sears: The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump £9.99 (9781786894724) Vladimir Putin: Life Coach £9.99 (9781786894694) Choose Your Own Apocalypse £9.99 (9781786898647)

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Part memoir and reflective analysis, Dr Pragya Agarwal is a behavioural and data scientist. She was a senior aca-

Pragya Agarwal examines motherhood and fertility and how it shapes all our lives

demic in US and UK universities for over twelve years and held the prestigious Leverhulme Fellowship. A passionate campaigner for racial and gender equality, Pragya is a two-time TEDx speaker, a

In a world where women have more choices than ever, society nevertheless continues to exert the stigma and pressures of less enlightened times when it comes to childbirth, defining women by whether they embrace or reject motherhood, and whether they can have children or not.

TEDx Women organiser and the founder of research think tank ‘The 50 Percent Project’. She writes regularly for the Guardian, Prospect, BBC Science Focus, Scientific American and New Scientist amongst others. In 2018, Pragya was the winner of the Diverse Wisdom Writing award from Hay House Publishing. She is the author of Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias and Wish We Knew What

Dr Pragya Agarwal uses her own varied experiences and choices around motherhood to examine the broader societal and scientific factors that drive how we think and talk about this issue – including education, economic status, feminism, race and more. Extremely open in its honesty and meticulously researched, (M)otherhood makes a powerful argument for the need to tackle society’s obsession with women’s bodies and fertility – and urgently.

to Say: Talking with Children About Race.

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The Secret History of Here A Year in the Valley ALISTAIR MOFFAT

A personal investigation into the history that surrounds us, from the historian and award-winning author of The Hidden Ways

Alistair Moffat was born in Kelso, Scotland in 1950. He is an awardwinning writer, historian and Director of Programmes at Scottish Television, former Director of the Edinburgh

The Secret History of Here is the story of a single place, a farm in the Scottish Borders. The site on which Alistair Moffat’s farm now stands has been occupied since prehistoric times. The fields have turned up ancient arrow heads, stone spindles, silver pennies and a stone carved with the rune-like letters of Ogham. Walking this landscape you can feel the presence of those who lived here before.

Festival Fringe, and former Rector of the University of St Andrews. He is the founder of Borders Book Festival and Co-Chairman of The Great Tapestry of Scotland, and the author of The Hidden Ways: Scotland’s Forgotten Roads and To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne.

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But it is also the story of everywhere. In uncovering the history of one piece of land, Moffat shows how history is all around us, if only we have the eyes to see it. Under our feet, carved into the landscape, in the stories we pass down, our history leaves its trace on the land. Taking the form of a journal of a year, The Secret History of Here is a walk through the centuries as much as the seasons. We hear the echo of battles long since fought, of lives lived quietly or scandalously, of kings, of the common folk who mostly inhabited this land, and a little of those that live here now.

Also by Alistair Moffat: The Hidden Ways £9.99 (9781786891037) To the Island of Tides £9.99 (new edition 3 June 2021 – 9781786896346)

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A Room Made of Leaves KATE GRENVILLE

This beautifully wrought novel, from the author of The Secret River, tells a story of passion and resilience, giving voice to a woman silenced by history

Kate Grenville’s bestselling novel The

‘Beautifully written . . . a stunning literary achievement’ GUARDIAN ‘The absorbing story of a woman discovering herself in the vast expanse of a new world, told in rich, insightful prose’ SUNDAY TIMES

Secret River received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. The Idea of Perfection won the Orange Prize. Grenville’s other novels include Sarah Thornhill, The Lieutenant, Lilian’s Story, Dark Places and Joan Makes History.

It is 1788. When twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth marries the proud, scarred soldier John Macarthur, she soon realises she has made a terrible mistake. Forced to travel with him to New South Wales, she arrives to find Sydney Town a brutal, dusty, hungry place of makeshift shelters, failing crops, scheming and rumours. All her life she has learned to fold herself up small. Now, in the vast landscapes of an unknown continent, Elizabeth has to discover a strength she never imagined, and passions she could never express. Inspired by the real life of a remarkable woman, this is an extraordinarily rich, beautifully wrought novel of resilience, courage and the mystery of human desire.

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The Oak Papers JAMES CANTON

Blending personal experience with cultural legacy, this homage to the oak tree presents a case for the important role it plays today: in our landscape and in our lives A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK Dr James Canton runs the Wild Writing MA at the University of Essex and has done since its inception in 2009. He is the author of Ancient Wonderings (2017) and Out of Essex: Re-Imagining a Literary

‘Some five years ago, I sought solace from the ways of the world by stepping into the embrace of an ancient oak tree . . . From the first meeting, there grew a strange sense of attachment I did not consciously recognise until I later began to realise the significance that trees, and oak trees especially, can have in our lives.’

Landscape (2013) which was inspired by his rural wandering in East Anglia. He was awarded his PhD by the University of Essex and reviews for the TLS, Caught by the River and Earthlines. Canton is a regular on television and radio and lectures frequently.

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James Canton spent two years sitting with and studying the Honywood Oak. A colossus of a tree, it would have been a sapling when Magna Carta was signed. Initially visiting the tree for escape and solitude, in time he learns to study it more closely. He examines how our long-standing dependency on oak trees has developed and morphed into myth and legend. The Oak Papers is a stunning, meditative and healing book about the lessons we can learn from the natural world, if only we slow down enough to listen.

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A sweeping, momentous novel that shines a light on war, and the individual lives that go on long after the drones have left Phil Klay is a veteran of the US Marine Corps. He served in Iraq during the surge and subsequently received an MFA from Hunter College. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal,

the skies, from the National Book Awardwinning author of Redeployment ‘Expansive, explosive and epic’ MARLON JAMES ‘Has a sweep and incisiveness to it I had almost forgotten novels were capable of’ GARTH GREENWELL

New Yorker and Granta. He is co-host of the Manifesto! podcast and is the author of Redeployment, which was a New York Times bestseller and won the National Book Award for Fiction, the John Leonard Award and the Warwick Prize.

Neither Mason, a US Special Forces medic, nor Lisette, a foreign correspondent, has emerged from America’s long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan unscathed. Yet, for them, war still exerts a terrible draw – the noble calling, the camaraderie, the life-and-death stakes. Where else in the world can such a person go?

Missionaries is his first novel.

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All roads lead to Colombia, where the US has partnered with the local government to stamp out a vicious civil war and keep the predatory narco gangs at bay. Mason is ready for the good war, and Lisette is more than ready to cover it.

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Caro Ramsay is the Glaswegian author of the critically acclaimed Anderson and Costello series, the first of which, Absolution, was shortlisted for the CWA’s New Blood Dagger for best debut of the year. The ninth book in the series, The Suffering of Strangers, was longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize 2018.

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Megan Melvick has returned home after a three-year absence to visit her dying sister, Melissa, for the last time. As she approaches the grand Scottish country estate where she grew up, the memories come flooding back. Just what did happen on the night of Melissa’s wedding five years before? Where has Megan and Melissa’s mother disappeared to? And why does Melissa whisper that solitary word before she finally slips away: Sorry. In order to overcome her demons, Megan must confront her painful recollections of that terrible night, the night of Melissa’s wedding. The night somebody died. But can she really trust her memories? And who is so determined that she should forget?

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Dubliners No One Belongs Here More Than You Chronicle In Stone The Siege Redeployment Born on the Fourth of July To the River The Trip to Echo Spring Bird by Bird The Boat The Outrun Island on the Edge of the World Life Of Pi Rembrandt’s Whore Dream Angus Getting it in the Head Notes from a Coma Docherty The People’s Act Of Love The Private Lives of Pippa Lee Beneath The Underdog My First Summer In The Sierra The Discovery Of Slowness Neither Wolf Nor Dog Dreams From My Father A Tale for the Time Being The Howling Miller Free Women, Free Men Necropolis One Moonlit Night The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ Snowblind Cold Skin How to be a Grrrl The Last Holiday Now And Then

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Vol. 1: 1950–1952 Vol. 2: 1953–1954 Vol. 3: 1955–1956 Vol. 4: 1957–1958 Vol. 5: 1959–1960 Vol. 6: 1961–1962 Vol. 7: 1963–1964 Vol. 8: 1965–1966 Vol. 9: 1967–1968 Vol. 10: 1969–1970 Vol. 11: 1971–1972 Vol. 12: 1973–1974 Vol. 13: 1975–1976

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Vol. 14: 1977–1978 Vol. 15: 1979–1980 Vol. 16: 1981–1982 Vol. 17: 1983–1984 Vol. 18: 1985–1986 Vol. 19: 1987–1988 Vol. 20: 1989–1990 Vol. 21: 1991–1992 Vol. 22: 1993–1994 Vol. 23: 1995–1996 Vol. 24: 1997–1998 Vol. 25: 1999–2000 Vol. 26: 1950–2000

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