A damaged teenage tech prodigy meets an enigmatic waitress in a tiny Tokyo café , sparking an epic journey across Japan that will change everything, forever … a captivating, masterful novel with an extraordinary mystery at its heart… ' Set against a tech heavy backdrop Beautiful Shining People blooms into an emotional and soulful tale that reckons with the isolation we can all feel as outsiders' SciFi Now Book of the Month ' That Beautiful Shining People isn' t just a slipstream novel with...

A traumatised young man forms a relationship with a young woman who believes she' s gtting messages from God. Involuntarily entangled in the world of Hollywood sex-trafficking, they embark on a quest for revenge and redemption that will have devastating consequences…' Gloriously funny but dark as hell, you will laugh and recoil in equal measure' Sunday Express' By turns comic and shocking, an extraordinary debut from a striking new v...

A damaged teenage tech prodigy meets an enigmatic waitress in a tiny Tokyo café, sparking an epic journey across Japan that will change everything, forever … a captivating, masterful novel with an extraordinary mystery at its heart…'Set against a tech heavy backdrop Beautiful Shining People blooms into an emotional and soulful tale that reckons with the isolation we can all feel as outsiders' SciFi Now Book of the Month'Th...

A traumatised young man forms a relationship with a young woman who believes she's gtting messages from God. Involuntarily entangled in the world of Hollywood sex-trafficking, they embark on a quest for revenge and redemption that will have devastating consequences…'Gloriously funny but dark as hell, you will laugh and recoil in equal measure' Sunday Express'By turns comic and shocking, an extraordinary debut from a striking new vo...

Deepfake technology can create video evidence of just about anything:Hollywood superstar Margot Robbie in an orgy.Chinese president Xi Jinping declaring nuclear war.Basketball legend Michael Jordan winning the World Cup.The only limit is the imagination.In a time where fake news and disinformation is becoming harder and harder to identify, it...

It's our world, but decades into the future. . . an ordinary world, where cars drive themselves, drones glide across the sky, and robots work in burger shops. All conflicts are safely oceans away. People get up, work, and have dinner. Everything is as it should be. . . Except for 17-year-old John, a tech prodigy from a damaged family, who hides a deeply personal secret. But everything starts to change when he enters a tiny café on a cold Tokyo night. A café run by a disgraced sumo wrestler...

Seeing is believing, but what happens when you can't believe your own eyes? It's time to go down the rabbit hole...Imagine watching yourself on screen. Seeing your own face, but knowing it's not you. Imagine if someone you didn't know, or worse, someone you did know, could put your face anywhere, make it say or do anything. With deepfake technology, they can. And like most things on the internet, it was made for pornography. Whether you're a celebrity, a porn a...

Deepfake technology can create video evidence of just about anything: Hollywood superstar Margot Robbie in an orgy; Chinese president Xi Jinping declaring nuclear war; basketball legend Michael Jordan winning the World Cup. The only limit is the imagination. In a time where fake news and disinformation is becoming harder and harder to identify, it is more essential than ever to understand the dark origins of deepfakes.Journalist Michael Grothaus goes down the rabbit hole as he inte...

A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, winner of the National Book AwardWelcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian): "homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I experienced. insu...

From Jeremy Dyson & Andy Nyman, creators of the international smash-hit play and film Ghost Stories, comes a new novel: The Warlock Effect.'All the hallmarks of a modern classic' ADAM KAY'Two great masters join forces to explosive effect' RICHARD OSMAN'Huge fun - gripping and very clever. I didn't want it to end' PETER JAMES'A beautiful magic trick in itself - wonderfu...

A genre-blending story of modern witchcraft, a police state and WTF characters, for fans of Alice Hoffman and Madeline Miller.--In the state of Liberty, water is rationed at alarming prices, free speech is hardly without a cost, and Texas has just declared itself its own country. In this society, paranoia is well-suited because eyes and ears are all around, and they are judging. Always judging. This terrifying (and yet somehow vaguely familiar) terrain is ex...

One little word. One bad habit. One year to stop saying sorry.What happens when one woman resolves to ‘break up’ with saying sorry?Charlotte Thomas is polite. Manners cost nothing, her mother always said … yet there’s a fine line between diplomat and doormat.But every woman has their breaking point and Charlotte has just found hers. It wasn’t because she said sorry to her boss for challenging his terrible idea for a staff s...