'BRILLIANT . . . GLORIOUSLY VIVID' GUARDIAN'DISARMINGLY HILARIOUS' SUNDAY TIMES'ROLLICKING . . . CAUSTIC, WITHERING AND GENUINELY FUNNY' INDEPENDENT'FUNNY AND TRAGIC' TLS'SUCH AN ENTERTAINING READ' DAILY MAIL'BOISTEROUS' NEW YORK TIMES'A COMEDY ABOUT TRAGEDY. BRUTAL, PROFOUND AND VERY FU...

The Heathens thought of themselves as 'the 1000th best band of all time'. Then their tour van crashed, and one of their members died.Twenty years later, weird things are happening in Dublin, bringing the surviving members of the band together in ways none of them could have anticipated and lifting the lid on mysteries from their shared past.Experts in a Dying Field is a gloriously sharp, witty and surprising novel about friendship, secrets, the strange workings of ...

Brought to you by Penguin.‘We shall be forgotten.’ he said. ‘We shall be lost. They will scrub us away like a set of dirty fingerprints on a plastic kettle.’The crumbling Gothic mansion of Thornwalk, long-term home of the Gilbert family, is being handed over to a chain of luxury ‘historic’ hotels. Millions will be spent in its restoration. But for every ‘improvement’, what will be lost? What value can there possibly be in a threadbare carpet, a tar...

'Part thriller, part fable, this is fascinating, funny and very moving - highly recommended.' - GUARDIAN'Brilliant, compulsive and thrilling. I will be reading this book again!' - Alice Winn, author of IN MEMORIAM'One of the best novels I've read this year.' - Joanna Quinn, author of The Whalebone Theatre'You will love this book!' - Jennifer Croft, translator of

An immersive, page-turning novel about surviving as a funny woman in the male-dominated world of comedy—and what happens when the most promising female star of her generation disappears.**“An utterly addictive read.”—Amy Tintera, New York Times bestselling author of Listen for the LieONE OF MARIE CLAIRE’S BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR SO FAR**In the 1980s, women were not supposed to be funny. But when a group of college improv c...

Bloomsbury presents This is Where the Serpent Lives written and read by Daniyal MueenuddinIntimate and epic, elegiac and profoundly moving: a tour de force destined to become a classic of contemporary literatureMoving from Pakistan’s sophisticated cities to its most rural farmlands, This Is Where the Serpent Lives captures the extraordinary proximity of extreme wealth to extreme poverty in a land where fate is determined by class and socia...