Escape to the ocean with the entrancing, unforgettable winner of the Costa Book of the Year – as read on BBC Radio 4.‘A daring, mesmerising novel… A modern myth’ Maggie O’Farrell, author of HAMNET‘Not your standard mermaid’ Margaret Atwood, author of THE HANDMAID’S TALENear the island of Black Conch, a fisherman sings to himself while waiting for a catch. But David attracts a sea-dweller that he ne...

Four women spark a revolution on a Caribbean island – the exhilarating new novel from the Costa-winning author of The Mermaid of Black Conch.‘If The White Lotus were a modern feminist thriller, this would be it’ LALINE PAULL‘Brilliant. I loved it’ SARAH WINMANEarly one morning, at the close of St Colibri’s carnival, a young female steel-pan player is found dead beneath a cannonball tree. It is a dis...

Al largo dell’isola immaginaria di Black Conch, la melodia intonata da un pescatore incanta una sirena. Sono secoli che Aycayia, magnifica creatura mezza donna e mezza pesce, nuota nelle acque dei Caraibi e, alba dopo alba, la soavità del canto di quell’uomo la spinge a tornare a cercarlo. Tantissimi anni fa era una donna giovane, la più bella del suo villaggio, che la maledizione delle mogli gelose ha trasformato in un essere marino, intrappolandola nel corpo di un pesce. Un giorno, mentr...

Escape to the ocean with the entrancing, unforgettable winner of the Costa Book of the Year.Features original music created for the audiobook.'Mesmerising' MAGGIE O'FARRELL'A unique talent' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Wonderful' BRIDGET COLLINS'Brilliant' CLARE CHAMBERSNear the island of Black Conch, a fisherman sings to himself while waiting for a catch. But David attracts a sea-dweller that he never expected - Aycayia, an innocent young woman cursed by...

Brought to you by Penguin.Four women spark a revolution on a Caribbean island – the electrifying new novel from the Costa-winning author of The Mermaid of Black Conch.Early one morning, at the close of St Colibri’s carnival, a young female steel-pan player is found dead beneath a cannonball tree. It is a discovery that will transform the lives of everyone on this small island.As the days pass, this shocking event draws toge...

Author of The Mermaid of Black Conch, Rathbone Folio Prize 2021 longlisted, Winner of the Costa Best Novel Award 2020 & Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2020London, midsummer night. Jane and Bill meet the mysterious Lilah in a bar. She entrances the couple with half-true, mixed up tales about her life. At closing time, Jane makes an impulsive decision to invite Lilah back to their home. But Jane has made a catastrophic error of judgement, for Lilah is a skilled and ruthless pre...

Author of the winner of the Costa Book of the Year award The Mermaid of Black Conch.August Chalmin feels the weather like no one else. A large awkward recluse, with bright orange hair and sun-shy eyes, August hides himself away behind the counter of a Shepherd's Bush deli. One winter's day two things change his life forever: his mother's ex-lover Cosmo shambles back into his life, and he discovers a rash on his arm which looks like frost. A rash which is frost. As Cosmo raises ques...

Author of The Mermaid of Black Conch, Rathbone Folio Prize nominated, Winner of the Costa Best Novel Award & Winner of the Costa Book of the YearThe City of Silk is restless. During the post-independence era, a new beginning was denied to the people of the small island of Sans Amen. Corruption set in and has been endemic for too long.Then, one hot July evening the Leader, the self-appointed head of a fringe spiritual group, gathers his followers and tells them: ‘Today, we w...

Der Überraschungserfolg aus der Karibik: Ein moderner Mythos von Liebe und Freundschaft, Eifersucht und Gier und der zerstörerischen Natur des MenschenIn der Nähe der Insel Black Conch singt ein Fischer vor sich hin, während er auf seinen Fang wartet. Doch David zieht eine Meeresbewohnerin an, die er nie erwartet hätte: Aycayia, eine Frau, die aufgrund ihrer Schönheit und Reinheit vor Jahrhunderten von eifersüchtigen Frauen ihres Stammes verflucht und als Nixe ins M...

*Winner of the 2026 RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE and the 2025 CARICON FICTION PRIZE**Shortlisted for the 2025 WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE PRIZE*'The past is uprooted, the present holds on by thread, and in the midst of it all is Miss Pauline, strong, conflicted, driven and remarkable.' Marlon James, Booker Prize-winning author of Moon Witch, Spider King'Delightful and big-hearted . . . It kept me t...

*Winner of the 2026 RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE and the 2025 CARICON FICTION PRIZE**Shortlisted for the 2025 WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE PRIZE*'The past is uprooted, the present holds on by thread, and in the midst of it all is Miss Pauline, strong, conflicted, driven and remarkable.****' Marlon James, Booker Prize-winning author of MOON WITCH, SPIDER KING'Delightful and big-hearted . . . ...

'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. Four siblings pass their days in the ricefield, as does Ma. But Pa is an angry man ready to vent. It is the August rainy season and above their heads the black sky crackles with lightning.On the day that Pa nearly drowns Ma in a tub of washing water...