Performance is a self-portrait like no other. David Coventry takes us into his experience of ME, a debilitating systemic disease which took hold in March 2013 but has roots in his childhood. For Coventry, ME radically overturns the rules of time, thought and embodiment – an experience which has shaped the writing of this book. Through an illuminating blend of life transcription and deep imaginative projection, he shows how placing fiction into the stories of our damaged lives can remind us...

A grueling race, a haunting past. The 1928 Ravat-Wonder team, the first English-speaking team in the Tour de France, faces a brutal challenge: 5,476 kilometers of unsealed roads on fixed-wheel bikes. They weren't expected to finish, yet stadiums roar with their names.The Invisible Mile reimagines this tour from within the peloton. A young New Zealander's test of endurance becomes a psychological descent into the war's chaos. Fueled by cocaine and opium, vi...

Based on a true story The Invisible Mile tells the poignant story of five Australian and New Zealand cyclists who in 1928 formed the first English-speaking team to ride in the Tour de France. They were gallant, under-resourced and badly outnumbered but taken deep to the heart by the French nation. The novel describes in a wonderful poetic and visceral voice what it was like to ride in this race (the chaos, danger and rivalries), the extraordinary lengths to which the riders pushed...

Based on a true story The Invisible Mile tells the poignant story of five Australian and New Zealand cyclists who in 1928 formed the first English-speaking team to ride in the Tour de France. They were gallant, under-resourced and badly outnumbered but taken deep to the heart by the French nation. The novel describes in a wonderful poetic and visceral voice what it was like to ride in this race (the chaos, danger and rivalries), the extraordinary lengths to which the riders pushed...

A compact and accessible edition of Hume’s political and moral writings with essays by a distinguished set of contributorsA key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume was a major influence on thinkers ranging from Kant and Schopenhauer to Einstein and Popper, and his writings continue to be deeply relevant today. With four essays by leading Hume scholars exploring his complex intellectual legacy, this volume presents an overview of Hume’s moral, political...

THE HEARTBREAKING NO. 1 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF ME BEFORE YOU'A masterclass in storytelling that fans of Me Before You will adore' ELLE'Quite simply one of the best books I've read' 5***** READER REVIEW'Wonderfully well-written and completely engrossing' DAILY MAIL'Will make you laugh, cry and ignore everyone around you'

'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENT ⭐ Longlisted for the Booker Prize ⭐ Longlisted for the Folio Prize ⭐ Winner of the World Fantasy Award'A triumph'GUARDIAN'Epic'EVENING STANDARD'Mind-spinning'INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY'Dazzling'NEW YORK TIMESRun away, one drow...

Two cities. Two spies. Which woman survives?Pianist: NOUN. Informal. A person who operates or controls a radio transmitter – often in code.July, 1940Blitz-ridden London: Marnie Fern’s life is torn apart when her grandfather is killed in an air raid. But once she discovers that he’d been working undercover as a radio operative – or pianist – for the Dutch resistance, Marnie knows she must complete his...

An 'utterly gripping' tale of love and espionage in Occupied France by the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Glass Room (Daily Mail)Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE, the Special Operations Executive, to go undercover in wartime France, it seems ...

Prix Goncourt-winning masterpiece by the writer who brought you Alex, Irène and Camille**.**October 1918: the war on the Western Front is all but over. Desperate for one last chance of promotion, the ambitious Lieutenant Henri d'Aulnay Pradelle sends two scouts over the top, and secretly shoots them in the back to incite his men to heroic action once more.And so is set in motion a series of devastating events that...

In this stunning adventure set in war-torn France—a British agent finds herself in Nazi territory—and unsure about who to trust . . .It's the spring of 1944 and Rosie Ewing is returning to German-occupied France, by air, this time.She's carrying a radio, half a million francs, a pistol, and two cyanide capsules to Finistere in north-west Brittany.With D-Day looming, Rosie fears that the man who'll be meeting her on the ground tonight may be a traitor...

The thing that makes you, it never goes.A sleek high-speed train glides silently through the French countryside, bearing Michael, an Australian writer, and his travelling world of memory and speculation.Melbourne, 1946, calls to him: the pressure cooker of the city during World War II has produced a small creative miracle, and at this pivotal moment the lives of his newly married parents, a group of restless artists, a proud old woman with a tent for a home, a journalist, a...