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'Brilliant and completely unique' SOPHIE MACKINTOSH'Michelle Steinbeck is the lovechild of Robert Wasler and a witch' CAMILLA GRUDOVA'An absolute joyride of a novel. Surreal, highly dramatic and a feminist must-read' IRISH TIMES'I'm sorry, your mother was murdered.'Fila's mother Magdalena caused chaos every time she appeared in her daughter's life. Fila hasn't seen her in yea...

NARRATED BY JACK LOWDEN'A quirky and original debut that sizzles with scintillating prose.' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Michael Pedersen is a rare writer of real passion and power and this debut is phenomenal.' MATT HAIGLife on a remote island is turned upside down by a stranger's arrival, testing bonds of family and tradition and leaving a young dreamer's future hanging in the balance.It's no ordin...

Boil the cat lady down to her essence, and you find the belief that you shouldn't trust a cat farther than you can throw it, you'd do well not trust a woman even that far, and it gets worse when they team up.What is it about women and cats? Historically, both have occupied an uncertain status: are they feral or domestic? Malevolent or harmless? Deceptive or trustworthy?With a claw-like swipe of the pen, Reiches toys with the facts and fictions that comprise the cat...

This is a history of the Second World War - as you have never heard it before.Dancer, singer and intelligence agent Josephine BakerGerman Nazi pianist Elly NeyBritish pianist Myra HessComposer Avril Coleridge-TaylorBallerina Tatiana VecheslovaViolinist Alma Rosé, conductor of the Auschwitz women's orchestraJazz band the International Sweethearts of RhythmPrize-winning author Leah Broad brings to life the unsung stories of the trailb...

'Maybe it was time I forgot about Nico Peterson, and his sister, and the Cahuilla Club, and Clare Cavendish. Clare? The rest would be out of my mind, but not the black-eyed blonde . . . 'In 1950s L.A., business is slow, and Private Detective Philip Marlowe is restless and lonely as ever. Then a new client arrives. Young, beautiful and expensively dressed, Clare Cavendish wants Marlowe to find her former lover.Caught under the spell of this black-eyed blonde, Marlow...

An extraordinary account of resistance, courage and survival in Putin's Russia, from a Pulitzer Prize-winning dissident with a uniquely hopeful message.Vladimir Kara-Murza has had a front-row seat on Russian history for a quarter of a century, both as witness and participant. He challenged Putin's party at the ballot box and saw firsthand how it stifles opponents. He rallied support on the streets of Moscow and in Western corridors of power. And he paid the price for his defiance: ...

'Spellbinding, elegant, and urgent . . . Held me from the first moment to the last' Katherine RundellThe great quest of Augustine's life was for truth. This was his true fire.Today, we are still the product of Augustine's thinking, only most of us don't know it. Our world is shaped by his ideas on time and language, his understanding of the self, his theory of 'Just War', his attitudes to sex and the body, his conception of God. Augustine wrote the world's ...

It's a totally unassuming Tuesday when Aggie's little sister Marcie - her favourite person, her especially made best friend - is admitted to hospital, prepared for a long stay with a bag of her softest things. It is a day Aggie has dreaded and longed for. Like crows need wings, like planets have moons, when it comes to Marcie, there's nothing she wouldn't do.So when Death - red-lipped, feline-eyed and chignoned-to-perfection - appears in her bedroomready to strike a deal, Ag...

Quiet on set, please.Enter Lynette-actor, writer, director, showrunner, and star of the final movie in her head. Which is a farce, a comedy, a tragedy - or just her life.Here's what you need to know about Lynette:It's her birthday.She's waking up in a hotel room, hungover, in a dreary English seaside town. Outside are grey skies, crazy golf, a row of Border Defence huts.She hasn't worked in a while (she hasn't been very well). But maybe you recognize h...

The conversion of a local beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for New Cemetery. From regular walks around the boundary near his moorland home in West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage chronicles the extraordinary transformation of landscape both outer and inner. These luminous and wry poems - composed in short-lined tercets - reflect the changing world: one of unstable weather patterns and unpredictable news events, all observed across a few acres of Pennine uplan...

'A thing to rejoce over.' (Evelyn Waugh)Illicit queer crushes on a family picnic. A nightclub singer lecturing her Communist nephew. Drunken feuds at the seedy South Kensington Hotel's staff dance. The eccentric spinsters tempting a little boy to grotesque acts.Welcome to the singular world of Angus Wilson. An overlooked legend of the post-war queer landscape, he casts a waspish, tragicomic yet oddly tender eye across mid-century England. Jitterbugging, esp...

The thrilling story of the enigmatic billionaire Pavel Durov - known as Russia's 'Mark Zuckerberg' - and his controversial social media platform, Telegram.'A wonderful exposé. Killer App tells the story of how Telegram and its founder Pavel Durov shaped our dark, modern times . . . riveting'LUKE HARDING, author of Betrayal: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest***AUGUST 2024. A private jet touches dow...