In September 1933, the Peruvian Rubber Company delivers nineteen indigenous people from the Amazon to businessman Amado Dam, intended for Argentina's first Ethnographic Theme Park.
Strange Pilgrims is a collection of unforgettable stories about distinctive South American individuals in Europe from the Nobel laureate Gabriel Garc a M rquez author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.
Discover the Sunday Times bestselling collection from the TikTok sensation and author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous'One of the most important poets of his generation'ANDREW MCMILLAN, author of Physical'Powerful'DUA LIPA'Redefines our idea of what an elegy can do it, what it is for'ILYA KAMINSKY, author of Deaf RepublicIn this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it.
When X - an iconoclastic artist, writer and polarizing shape-shifter - dies suddenly, her widow, wild with grief, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified.
WINNER OF THE ROONEY PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2023WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION 2023WINNER OF THE JOHN MCGAHERN PRIZE 2024WATERSTONES IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023Sean is back.
*LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024**SHORTLISTED FOR FICTION 2023 NERO BOOK AWARDS*After the death of a young girl, the finger of suspicion is pointing at one reclusive family Ambitious and original DAVID NICHOLLS Gripping A triumph SUNDAY TIMESIt s 1990 in London and, after the death of a young girl on an estate, the finger of suspicion is pointing at one reclusive Irish family: the Greens.
*** SHORTLISTED FOR THE DIVERSE BOOK AWARDS 2024 ****** LONGLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD ***A GRAZIA BOOK CLUB PICK, Ghost Girl, Banana is a powerful debut novel about the family secrets unearthed by a surprise inheritance.
Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this blazing debut of one family's queer desires, violent impulses and buried secrets.
AKirkusBest Indie Book of the Year & aLibrary JournalBest World Literature read, from Pulitzer Prize-winning AP Journalist and Director/Producer/Writer of the Academy Award-winning documentary20 Days in Mariupol[A] book for our timesvivid enough to grab us and not let go.
**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK**'A milestone in the campaign for racial equality' GuardianIn 1945, Rick Braithwaite, a smart, highly educated ex-RAF pilot, looks for a job in British engineering.
A deliciously funny and moving comedy-of-manners about a Chinese father and son's experiences at the height of London's Jazz Age'He was in London - why be bothered looking at it?
NOW A MAJOR BBC TELEVISION DRAMA STARRING LENNIE JAMES RECIPIENT OF THE WOMEN S PRIZE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD A moving and funny novel about an exuberant, closeted family man living as himself for the first time in over 60 years, from the Booker-prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other.
"e;This novel will be nostalgia trip for anyone who grew up in similar circumstances and a breath of fresh Jamaican air for anyone else"e; The Voice Jenny and Hortense Rodney have always loved and hated one another in the way that only sisters can.
'An understated masterpiece' San Francisco Chronicle'Her wisdom is staggeringly beautiful, implicating each of us' Irish TimesAfter the First World War, a group of young women is brought by boat from Japan to San Francisco.
When he lands in Harare North, our unnamed protagonist carries nothing but a cardboard suitcase full of memories and a longing to be reunited with his childhood friend, Shingi.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEARIt s time to dance, to love, to be free Mesmerising BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of Girl, Woman, Other Fabulous MAGGIE O'FARRELL, author of Hamnet Beautiful CALEB AZUMAH NELSON, author of Open WaterYamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground club on the outskirts of London.
OVER 4 MILLION COPIES SOLD A Showtime/Paramount+ series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander RostovFrom the number one New York Times-bestselling author, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel'A wonderful book' - Tana French'This novel is astonishing, uplifting and wise.
**WINNER OF THE RSL ENCORE AWARD 2024****SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024**Reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine.
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2024WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTIONNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER FOR FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024FROM THE PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF THE RETURN'A brilliant novel about innocence and experience, about friendship, family and exile' COLM TOIBINKhaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh: two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE 2023NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023A powerful, compressed masterwork for fans of Shirley Jackson and Claire-Louise BennettA woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF STASILAND & WIFEDOMA powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the German resistance in World War II that resonates deeply in today s political climate.
A saga of life in the Northern Territories and the clash of white and Aborigine cultures - one of Australia's all-time best-selling novels and an inspiration for Baz Luhrmann's lavish film 'AUSTRALIA'.
Pucheros de vida es una crónica conmovedora y apasionante de la vida de una familia de migrantes de provincias, su lucha, sus esperanzas y los sacrificios que hacen por un futuro mejor.
Birma, 1996: Mit einem Anhänger aus Jade, der einst ihrer Mutter gehörte, macht sich die kleine Farimah nach der Zerstörung ihres Dorfes alleine auf den Weg.
'A masterpiece of hurt' New York TimesWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONIQUE ROFFEYIn the Caribbean, at the beginning of the last century, a poor rice-growing family struggle to exist.