The Boy at the Back Who Stood Up is a powerful self-esteem psychology fiction novel exploring bullying, social anxiety, emotional healing, shame, and personal growth.
When the legendary Apache warrior Cuchillo Oro crosses the deadliest desert in the American West, he faces not only scorching heat and starvation, but ruthless bounty hunters, deadly outlaws, and the bitter hatred of the white world that refuses to forget his past.
It was not a passing saying, or a line of poetry that dampened the dryness of the situation, but a slap whose hissing sound continued to ring in my ears for twenty-five years.
Three brothers live a peaceful, quiet life in the Southern town of Oakenmill—until a single event shatters their lives and pushes them north, into lands where shadows move and secrets linger.
When monster hunter Amor's team is slaughtered by the gruesome beast they've been tailing, and death is at her throat, she finds herself thrown to safety.
A new translation by David Bellos of the last great novel by France s greatest novelist In the turmoil of the French Revolution, the year 1793 represented the peak of bloody revolutionary violence.
Elmore Leonard s gritty western Hombre is accompanied here by his famous short story of rough justice and survival, Three-Ten to Yuma, both of which have been made into classic filmsJohn Russell, known simply as 'Hombre', is a mysterious loner raised by Apache Indians, on the last wagon out of Sweetmary, Arizona, along with a motley group of travellers including a doctor, a traumatised girl and a brutal stranger.
It is a sad fact, but the truth is that the female contribution to Western society has, for the most part, been ignored - this means that, in effect, females have been hidden from history because of the absence of records.
Whilst dealing with the affairs of his recently deceased mother, Peter comes across letters addressed to him from Helen who, at the time, was the love of his life.
'A truly great millennial novel' New York Times Book Review newsletter'A big, beautiful novel about what friendship means as we get older' LitHub 'A bracingly honest and exhilarating novel' Kimberly King Parsons, author of We Were the Universe 'A big-hearted and daring novel from one of our finest creative and critical minds' Jonathan Escoffery, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of If I Survive You 'A powerfully intimate portrait of female friendship' Kimberly King Parsons, author of We Were the Universe *****As undergrads, Gregg, Reba, Hillary, Bella, and Carson formed the kind of rare bond that university brochures promise - friendship that lasts a lifetime.
A Madame Bovary for the heyday of gay New York, Love Junkie is a riotously funny, razor-sharp tale about wanting it all He was a charismatic porn star who sold his dirty underwear.
In 1984, Celestine Tolland was a fifteen-year-old member of a crew of explorers who set off into space, but a virus killed nearly everyone on board the Phaeacia.
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026'A novel to marvel at' SOPHIE MACKINTOSH'Astonishing' MICHAEL MAGEE'Like Karl Ove Knausgaard at the end of the world' SUNDAY TIMESThe acclaimed author of The Doloriad returns with a darkly beautiful novel following a reclusive graduate in a campus love story like no other.
