A blisteringly funny and transcendently deranged debut novel for fans of Ottessa Moshfegh, Patricia Lockwood and George Saunders'One of the sharpest and liveliest debuts of the decade' VULTURE'Obscenely good and very funny' CATHERINE LACEY'A startling fever dream of a novel' LUCY ROSE'So smart, weird and eerie . . . I recommend everyone buy it when it comes out' MADELINE CASH

A thirteen-year-old girl falls in love with her dentist. An adult woman moves back home and must share a bedroom with her father. Two friends reconnect and visit their disgraced high school teacher.Stuff gets weird in Avigayl Sharp's mischievous, stylish and beautifully bizarre short story collection.Throughout these eleven stories, we follow characters hysterically attuned to the obscenities of the twenty-first century, whose demented longings for love and approval only un...

A blisteringly funny and transcendently deranged debut novel for fans of Ottessa Moshfegh, Patricia Lockwood and George Saunders'One of the sharpest and liveliest debuts of the decade' VULTURE'Obscenely good and very funny' CATHERINE LACEY'A startling fever dream of a novel' LUCY ROSE'So smart, weird and eerie . . . I recommend everyone buy it when it comes out' MADELINE CASH

* WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU, THE LATEST SENSATION FROM PATRICIA LOCKWOOD, OUT NOW *'Patricia Lockwood is the voice of a generation' Namita Gokhale'A masterpiece' Guardian'I really admire and love this book**'** Sally Rooney'An intellectual and emotional rollercoaster' Daily Mail'I can't remember th...

Anyone that has read NAKED and BARREL FEVER, or heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you that a new collection from him is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris from New York inspired these hilarious new pieces, including 'Me Talk Pretty One Day', about his attempts to learn French from a sadistic teacher who declares that 'every day spent with you is like having a caesarean section'. His family is another inspiration. 'You Can't Kill the Rooster' is a portr...

A guy walks into a bar . . .From here the story could take many turns. A guy walks into a bar and meets the love of his life. A guy walks into a bar and finds no one else is there. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless. In Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, Sedaris delights with twists of humour and intelligence, remembering his father's dinnertime attire (shirtsleeves and underpants) his first colonoscopy (remarkably pleasant) and the time he consid...

***A major Netflix series starring Leo Woodall and Rachel Weisz*A Sunday Times Paperback of the Year'I was utterly hooked . . . by this twisty, sexy, shocking treat of a novel ' – The Sunday Times**'This clever, engrossing debut explores female creativity, rage and desire . . . Astonishing' - The GuardianOne evening, a fifty-something literature professor invites her new and beautiful young colleague, Vlad...

David Sedaris's remarkable ability to uncover the hilarious absurdity teeming just below the surface of everyday life is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this new book of stories.Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life - the etiquette of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger or how to soundproof your windows with LP covers against neurotic songbirds - to the most deeply resonant human truths. Taking in t...

What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself? From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these stories have become modern classics and are now for the first time collected in one volume.For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly at...

From the acclaimed novelist and The Believer editor HEIDI JULAVITS, a wildly imaginative and emotionally intense novel about mothers, daughters, and the psychic damage women can inflict on one another.Is the bond between mother and daughter unbreakable, even by death?Julia Severn is a student at an elite institute for psychics. Her mentor, the legendary Madame Ackermann, afflicted by jealousy, refuses to pass the torch to her young disciple. Instea...

A VULTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR**"A raw, frightening, funny, and beautiful testimony." -Robert Jones, Jr.“White's love of sex makes us proud to be human.” -John Irving**I'm at an age when writers are supposed to say finally what mattered most to them-for me it would be thousands of sex partners.In his final memoir, the 85-year-old “paterfamilias of queer literature” (New York Times) recounted the seventy-plus years of s...

From getting locked out of her flat twice on the same day and being fired for baking a giant cookie in the shape of her boss's head, to playing bridesmaid for a friend she'd long forgotten, Sloane Crosley can do no right, despite the best of intentions. With sharp, original and irresistible storytelling that confounds expectations at every turn, Crosley recounts her victories and catastrophes, finding uproarious comedy and genuine insights in the most unpredictable places.