**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...

On 14 June 2017, a fire broke out in the Grenfell Tower, a high-rise block of flats in North Kensington, London. The tower, built with cheap but highly flammable cladding, burned rapidly, tragically killing seventy two people in the UK's deadliest residential fire since World War Two. 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 many ot...

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...

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...

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...

**FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR'A masterwork of the form . . . mesmerizing.' New York Times'A fun, sexy, dangerous, dark thriller about corruption.' Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah'A dazzling literary talent.'** EsquireAkwaeke Emezi's exhilarating new novel follows five people over the course of a weekend which will brutally upend all of their lives.As Kalu drops Aima at the airport, it marks ...

'A fever dream of a novel. Fuelled by sapphic femgore, it's sick and sultry, and a deeply beguiling masterclass in the perverse; I couldn't put it down!' Lucy Rose, author of The Lamb'Devilishly addictive and delightfully gory from an exciting new voice in literary horror. Northanger Abbey meets Saltburn' Christine Anne Foley, author of BodiesScullery drudge Ann longs to become a lady's maid. Ann can't qu...

An instant bestseller, this is the second fierce, fresh and gloriously romantic YA Greek myth re-imagining from Bea Fitzgerald, TikTok superstar and Sunday Times bestselling author of Girl, Goddess, Queen.Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2025!Love caused this war. At least, that’s what the stories will say.When Cassandra’s patron god, Apollo, offers her the gift of prophecy – and all the power that comes with it –...

*Shortlisted for the 2026 GORDON BURN PRIZE**'Compelling, funny, intelligent . . . Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line is a remarkable piece of work.' Kerry Hudson, Observer'Utterly essential queer reading.' Lucy Rose, author of THE LAMB'Deliciously informative and rigorously researched . . . I loved it.' Julia Bell, author of DIRTY WORKWith warmth and humour, Elizabeth L...

A funny, moving and poignant exploration of modern romance and the allure of domesticity from the Polari-prize-winning author of BelliesChosen as a ‘Best Book of 2025’ by Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Stylist, Elle, Dazed, Vogue, AnOther, and GQ**'One of the UK’s most perceptive young novelists with her finger firmly on the pulse of contemporary behaviour' Guardian

'Sparkles with all the wit, charm, and drama of the best 90’s rom-coms' - Torrey Peters'Irresistibly fresh, bright, funny...the kind of romance I’ve been waiting for' - Casey McQuistonJulia loves her family. They stood by her when she came out as a woman and have been nothing but supportive of her life in New York. So when her brother asks her to be ‘best woman’ in his wedding, how could she say no?Now though, Julia’s facing a week ...