**Winner of the 2020 Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award**Jay Bernard's extraordinary debut is a fearless exploration of the New Cross Fire of 1981, a house fire at a birthday party in which thirteen young black people were killed.Dubbed the 'New Cross Massacre', the fire was initially believed to be a racist attack, and the indifference with which the tragedy was met by the state triggered a new era o...

Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan's luminous anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thrilling contemporary voices and visionary poets of the past. Featuring Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Ocean Vuong, Carol Ann Duffy, Kae Tempest and many more.* A Guardian Best Poetry Book of the Year ** Shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards *Encompassing both the flowering of queer poetry over the past f...

On 14 June 2017, a fire broke out in the Grenfell Tower, a high-rise block of flats in North Kensington, London. The tower, clad in cheap but highly flammable cladding, burned rapidly, tragically killing seventy-two people in the UK's deadliest residential fire since the Second World War. A subsequent inquiry into the fire found that a host of failures on both a governmental and private sector level were responsible for the structural inadequacies that rendered the Grenfell Tower – and man...

One of literature's greatest gifts is its portrayal of realistically drawn characters--human beings in whom we can recognize motivations and emotions. In Imagined Human Beings, Bernard J. Paris explores the inner conflicts of some of literature's most famous characters, using Karen Horney's psychoanalytic theories to understand the behavior of these characters as we would the behavior of real people.When realistically drawn characters are understood in psychological...

Brought To You By Penguin.The audiobook edition of Surge, written and read by Jay Bernard.Winner of The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2020.*Winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2018*Jay Bernard's powerful debut is a queer exploration of the black British archive, tracing a line between two significant events in recent British history: the New Cross Massacre of 1981 in which thi...

Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Lesley Manville (winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress and known for Phantom Thread and Mum**), Derek Jacobi (winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and known for** Gladiator and Gosford Park**), Michael Balogun (known for** National Theatre Live: Macbeth**), Jay Bernard (writer o...

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", commonly known as "Prufrock", is the first professionally published poem by American-born, British poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). Eliot began writing "Prufrock" in February 1910, and it was first published in the June 1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse at the instigation of Ezra Pound (1885–1972). It was later printed as part of a twelve-poem pamphlet (or chapbook) titled Prufrock and Other Observations in 1917. At the time of its publication, P...

Love caused this war. At least, that's what the stories will say.When Princess Cassandra's patron god, Apollo, offers her the gift of prophecy—and all the power that comes with it—she jumps at the opportunity. But when she fails to uphold her end of the agreement, her prophecy becomes doomed. No one believes her visions of an alluring, lonely girl who is going to start a war.Helen fled Sparta in pursuit of love, though it's proving more elusive than she'd h...

How do we shape a better world for LGBTQ+ people? Olly Alexander, Peppermint, Owen Jones, Beth Ditto, Shon Faye and more share their stories and visions for the future.'A vital addition to your bookshelf' Stylist, 5 Books for Summer'Captivating... A must-read' Gay Times, Books of the YearIn We Can Do Better Than This, 35 voices - actors, musicians, writers, artists and activists - answer t...

THE #1 KOREAN INSTANT BESTSELLER AND PRIZEWINNERDiscover the original and uplifting sensation for fans of CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN and KLARA AND THE SUN‘Engaging, touching, subtly disturbing’ K-Lit Review‘A stunningly crafted novel, evoking a myriad emotions’ Kim Bo-young‘A dazzling, warm novel that shows us how to move forward as a society without ...

An unhinged romp through fame, obsession, and fandomThe sinister side of celebrity worship is inverted in this razor-sharp debut following the descent of the world’s most beloved movie star into a dark and disastrous obsession—perfect for readers of You and My Sister, the Serial Killer.Everyone knows Marina, the A-list movie star. But very few know Marina, the absolute monster. Years at the top have proved that whatever Marina wants, she g...

From the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson's legendary career.Sparking vigorous debate in the sciences, The Social Conquest of Earth upends “the famous theory that evolution naturally encourages creatures to put family first” (Discover). Refashioning the story of human evolution, Wilson draws on his remarkable knowledge of biology and social behavior to demonstrate that group selection, not kin selection, is ...