'Atmospheric and intoxicating' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS'A joyous, lyrical read' YOMI ADEGOKE'Hypnotic and freewheeling' GUARDIANA GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE SKY ARTS POETRY AWARD 2025Caleb Femi returns with a landmark, life-affirming new poetry collection, The Wickedest.
Based on the real life of Edith Warner, who ran a tearoom at Otowi Crossing, just below Los Alamos, The Woman at Otowi Crossing is the story of Helen Chalmer, a person in tune with her adopted environment and her neighbors in the nearby Indian pueblo and also a friend of the first atomic scientists.
Based on the real life of Edith Warner, who ran a tearoom at Otowi Crossing, just below Los Alamos, The Woman at Otowi Crossing is the story of Helen Chalmer, a person in tune with her adopted environment and her neighbors in the nearby Indian pueblo and also a friend of the first atomic scientists.
A Great Classic of Japanese literature and the masterpiece of novelist Ihara Saikakunow in a completely new and revised edition with introduction by noted scholar David J.
Goshen Road is an elegiac, unvarnished, and empathetic portrait of one working-class family over two decades in rural West Virginia, with sisters Dessie and Billie Price as its urgently beating heart.
Silver Medalist in Literary Fiction, 2020 Military Writers Society of America AwardsBrendan Leary, assigned to an Air Force photo squadron an hour from L.
In 1907, in a quiet English village, Theodora Bosanquet answered Henry James's call for someone to transcribe his edits and additions to his formidable body of work.
An interconnected web of lives in one midwestern city captures the surprising humanity of people searching for their authentic selves amid the 1990s drug crisis.
Good-bye, Son and Other Stories, Janet Lewis's only collection of short fiction, was first published in 1946, but remains as quietly haunting today as it was then.
In her day job as a nurse, Sandy Holston cares for the elderly and the sick, even as she is haunted by her own questionable past and the deaths that marked it.
Set in Appalachian Ohio amid an epidemic of prescription opiate abuse, Michael Henson's linked collection tells of a woman's search for her own peculiar kind of redemption, and brings the novel-in-stories form to new heights.
As a serial killer stalks prostitutes in Columbus, Ohio, a distraught brother asks private investigator Andy Hayes to find his sister before it's too late.
The seventeen narratives of The Common Lot and Other Stories, published in popular magazines across the United States between 1908 and 1921 and collected here for the first time, are driven by Emma Bell Miles's singular vision of the mountain people of her home in southeastern Tennessee.
From Sleep Unbound portrays the life of Samya, an Egyptian woman who is taken at age 15 from her Catholic boarding school and forced into a loveless and humiliating marriage.
Kabul, Afghanistan, 1979: CIA station chief Lucius Burling, an idealistic but flawed product of his nation's intelligence establishment, barely survives the assassination of the American ambassador.
New Stories from the Midwest presents a collection of stories that celebrate an American region too often ignored in discussions about distinctive regional literature.
A haunting ode to Cornish folklore and the secrets of the places we call home'This powerfully brutal novel is the most exciting thing I've read in years' S.
THE AWARD-WINNING MILLION COPY #1 BESTSELLERWINNER OF WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGER AWARD 2025A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK'A full-fat, Michelin-starred treat' SUNDAY TIMES'A cult phenomenon' iNEWS'Took the literary world by storm' BBC'A killer Japanese novel' THE TIMES'I have been glued to Butter' NIGEL SLATERThe cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story, and translated by Polly Barton.
'Like all great storytellers Sara pulls the reader in and doesn't let go until the utterly satisfying, heart-swelling conclusion' Graham Norton'Utterly brilliant.
In this unique book first published in 1916, Romanian Jew ALEXANDER AARONSOHN documents for the world the struggle that went on in Palestine during the early years of the Zionist movement, when his parents helped found the village of Zicron-Jacob and worked to transform the desert into a fertile garden.
'There's a scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
Dive into the delightful world of Jacob Abbott's Cousin Lucy at Study, a charming narrative that brings the innocence and curiosity of childhood to life.
