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Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She is attractive. She drives a red Corvette. Her husband, Ford, is rich, squar...

Lina returns to Colombia after twenty years away. Sent to England after her mother's death when she was eight, she's searching for the person who c...

Intimacies exquisitely charts the steps and missteps of young women trying to find their place in the world. From a Belfast student ordering illega...

Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. August himself has ju...

The award of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Literature to Wislawa Szymborska gives deserved prominence to a figure whose reputation has been relatively s...

Two decades before Zimbabwe would win independence and ended white minority rule, thirteen-year-old Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her education. On ...

The Occupation had a hangover, but still the Occupation went to work. Tokyo, July 1949, President Shimoyama, Head of the National Railways of Japan...

Why has violence, and especially violence against women, become so much more prominent and visible across the world? To explore this question, Rose...

Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically a...

When Simon Armitage burst on to the poetry scene in 1989 with his spectacular debut Zoom!, readers were introduced to an exceptional new talent who...

After more than a decade and following his celebrated adventures in drama, translation, travel writing and prose poetry, Simon Armitage's eleventh ...

The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written betwe...

Illustrated by Nicolas Bentley Cats! Some are sane, and some are mad. Some are good, and some are bad... The original Old Possum's illustrations ha...

Spring will marry you. A promise! Cuckoo brings the message: May. O new clothes! O get your house ready! Expectation keeps you starry. But at which...

Right from the start he is dressed in his best – his blacks and his whites. Little Fauntleroy – quiffed and glossy, A Sunday suit, a wedding natty ...

In her first collection of new poetry since 2011's acclaimed Family Values, Wendy Cope celebrates 'the half-forgotten stories of our lives' with co...

In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romanti...

Robert is a struggling writer living in Berlin with his wife and two young daughters. One night he meets Patrick, an enigmatic stranger with a sens...

Come on a journey across the rural American West... Meet the teenagers who live in the small towns across these states, separated by distance, but ...

By turns essay, memoir and cultural study, Finding the Raga is Amit Chaudhuri's singular account of his discovery of, and enduring passion for, Nor...

Translated by S. R. Fellowes General Alwany is a pious man who loves his family. He also tortures and kills enemies of the state. Under the regime ...

Dawn breaks across the archipelago of Popisho. The world is stirring awake again, each resident with their own list of things to do: A wedding feas...

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A woman invites a famed artist to visit the remote coastal region where she lives, in the belief that his vision will penetrate the mystery of her...

Are our brains wired to hate? Does online hate incite violence on the streets? With hate crimes at an all-time high, what can we do to help turn th...

As Zimbabwe emerges into independence, Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her second year at the Young Ladies' College of the Sacred Heart. Determined to...

The Children of Men is P.D. James's stand-alone dystopian novel of mass infertility and chilling mystery. The year is 2021. No child has been born ...

After the sudden death of her mother, Ava finds herself headed cross-country to live with the only relative she has left. But Lane, her grandmother...

After a whirlwind, fairytale romance, Abigail Baskin marries freshly-minted Silicon Valley millionaire Bruce Lamb. For their honeymoon, he whisks h...

A woman enters an Avignon hotel room. She's been here once before - but while the room hasn't changed, she is a different person now. Forever caugh...

Written during her time as the inaugural fellow in the Beckett archive last year, Eimear McBride's three short, characteristically brilliant texts ...

What is the secret of happy relationships? How do companies build collaborative cultures? What lies behind some of the greatest scientific and crea...

Bessie Smith was born in Tennessee in 1894. Orphaned by the age of nine, she sang on street corners before becoming a big name in travelling shows....

August Kleinzahler has earned admiration for his musical, precise poems that are grounded in the people, places and language among which he has liv...

Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman Amelia was one of those people who destroyed everything and called it art. Paul is a student who works as a hotel n...

November 1944. A German rocket strikes London, and five young lives are atomised in an instant. November 1944. That rocket never lands. A single se...

Picking up the pieces after the chilling events of the previous year isn't easy, but the Grace siblings are determined to try and get things back t...

Murder in the Cathedral, written for the Canterbury Festival in 1935, was one of T. S. Eliot's first dramatic achievements, and it remains one of t...

Living Weapon is a love song to the imagination, a new blade of light homing in on our political moment. A winged man plummets from the troposphere...

Sir Lenny Henry rang up the Office for National Statistics to confirm something he'd been thinking about for a long time. They told him that only 2...

Rage. That's the feeling engulfing the car as Ellen's mother swerves over to the hard-shoulder and orders her daughter out onto the roadside. Ignor...

The bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with this collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, a...

The Language Lover's Puzzle Book is a book of more than 100 surprising and entertaining puzzles that celebrate the amazing diversity of the world o...

Everyone said the Graces were witches. They moved through the corridors like sleek fish, ripples in their wake. Stares followed their backs and the...

Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kal...

Madrid. Unfinished. Man Dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed. Max Porter translates into seven extraordinary written pictures the explosive ...

Ullis went to the bathroom and carefully unfolded the business card and placed it on the sink. Then he rolled up a note and snorted the last of his...