Bitter Blackness:With a profound narrative and a plot that grips the heart and mind, Muhammad Sulaiman al-Faki al-Shadhili plunges into worlds of violence, alienation, and the search for meaning amidst the rubble of devastation.
ONE OF THE TIMES BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF 2025'Blends a wholly convincing evocation of the period with a compelling narrative' The Times'After their riveting debut in Vienna, Fox and Fry are back in compelling fashion to navigate their way through a shadowy world of espionage and murder.
Virginia Woolf's first fully realized work of fictionpublished in its final, revised form for the first timeA beguiling trio of fantastical and farcical anti-fairy tales about a giantess who builds a magical ';cottage of one's own,' battles a silver-scaled sea monster, and defies governesses and gravity alikeIn 1907, eight years before she published her first novel, a twenty-five-year-old Virginia Woolf drafted three interconnected comic stories chronicling the adventures of a giantess named Violeta teasing tribute to Woolf's friend Mary Violet Dickinson.
