A 'Book to Read in 2026' in the NEW STATESMAN, and IRISH TIMESA Best New Book in the DAILY TELEGRAPH, iNEWS and NEW SCIENTISTA GUARDIAN Summer Read'A****t once surreal, seductive, shrewdly funny and wholly terrifying' Julia Armfield'I don't think I'll read a better book this year, perhaps decade' Helen Macdonald, OBSERVER

The disturbing post-apocalyptic novel The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, author of The Day of the Triffids and The Kraken Wakes and dramatised on BBC Radio 4.David Strorm's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses, calling them blasphemies against nature. Little does he realise that his own son, and his son's cousin Rosalind and their friends, have their own secret abberation which would label them as mutants. But as David and Rosalind...

Gain a clear understanding of Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away by Annie Duke in this concise and practical guide. This summary explores the science and strategy behind quitting at the right time, showing how knowing when to stop can be just as valuable as persistence. It breaks down key ideas from decision theory, behavioral psychology, and real-life examples to explain how people often stay too long in failing situations due to bias, emotion, or sunk costs. Ideal for readers s...

Gain a clear understanding of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain in this concise and insightful guide. This summary explores the strengths of introverted personalities and how they contribute to creativity, leadership, deep thinking, and meaningful relationships in a world that often favors extroversion. It breaks down key ideas about personality differences, social expectations, workplace dynamics, and the value of solitude, showing how introve...

'A masterwork of paranoid, destabilizing weird fiction.' – Paul Tremblay, author of The Pallbearers Club 'A poet of misfits, outsiders and the forsaken, his empathy for their suffering ever poignant.' – Adam Nevill, author of The Ritual 'Stark and thrumming with a forbidden, eldritch energy.' – Matt Wesolowski, author of Demon

*WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2020* *A New Statesman Book of the Year* 'A mesmerising, mysterious book . . . Haunting. Worrying. Beautiful' Russell T. Davis 'Brilliantly unsettling' Olivia Laing 'A magificent book' Neil Gaiman 'An extraordinary experience' William GibsonWinner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2020, this is fiction that pushes t...

When Hernán Cortés met the Mayans, Aztecs and other cultures of the gulf coast of Mexico in 1519, it was the first extended contact between the peoples of continental America and Europe. The Spanish found cities larger and better run than any in Europe, and pyramids greater than Egypt's. The Aztecs believed time was running down and they lived in the final age of the world. Many Spaniards believed Christ's millennium was approaching, and God's revelation of Americas had opened the final ac...

"An awesomely fluent and versatile prose stylist" - INDEPENDENT**"**Amazing achievement ... Harrison pulls off the almost impossible feat of seamlessly blending hard sci-fi, cyberpunk, noir crime ... while doing what all the best literature does" - Goodreads ReviewerSet in the unique world, first featured in the award-winning Light**,** here is a story of love, murder, and intergalactic noir on the razors edge of the imagination, a...

On the barren surface of an asteroid, located deep in the galaxy beneath the unbearable light of the Kefahuchi Tract, lie three objects: an abandoned spacecraft, a pair of bone dice covered with strange symbols, and a human skeleton.What they are and what they mean are the mysteries explored and unwrapped in LIGHT, M. John Harrison's triumphant novel.

The cult classic novel from the author of Climbers and The Sunken Land Begins to Rise AgainWith an introduction by bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield'A more grown-up version of The Secret History' LUCY SCHOLES'A groundbreaking work' GUARDIAN'The best literary fiction out now' D...

From the winner of the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize...Throughout his career, M. John Harrison’s writing has defied categorisation, building worlds both unreal and all-too real, overlapping and interlocking with each other. His stories are replete with fissures and portals into parallel dimensions, unidentified countries and lost lands. But more important than the places they point to are the obsessions that drive the people who so believe in them, characters who spend their lives...

'There is no more carefully chosen yet eclectic anthology series in existence in Britain today' – Susan Haigh, The Short ReviewBest British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, collections, magazines, ne...