**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...

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...

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...