From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer\'s tale of a naif getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city. Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as a journalist.

Once there was magic in Britain. There were dragons and wizards and green knights and kings who pulled swords out of stones.

‘Loved it from start to finish, was hooked all the way.’‘This book deserves to be read by everyone.’‘This book is filled with amazing one liners that I would legit tattoo on my forehead!’‘Brilliant, thought provoking.’‘Literally dying for more.’Goodreads ReviewsLegendborn meets Percy Jackson in this dark and thrilling debut fantasy romance.When consumed by shadow, even the

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023 The darkly comic new novel from the bestselling author of The Portable Veblen \'Incredibly funny and very moving’ BELLA MACKIE \'A blissful novel that I want to give to everyone I love’ NINA STIBBE ‘Even funnier, even more romantic than McKenzie’s wonderful last’ KAREN JOY FOWLER Penny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over, she’s quit her job, her

A brilliant new translation of Koestler\'s long-lost original manuscript.

I gasped, laughed, and wept my way through it KHALED HOSSEINI Tender and raw and funny, it\'s a rattling good read COLUM McCANN A wildly charming debut propulsive, funny, and profound ELIF BATUMAN Tbilisi s littered with memories that await me like landmines. The dearly departed voices I silenced long ago have come back without my permission.

Irreverent, witty and wise, But the Girl is a coming-of-age story about not wanting to leave your family behind\'A wonderful new novel for a metamodern world\'BRANDON TAYLOR, author of REAL LIFE\'The voice sometimes recalls Lucia Berlin, JD Salinger or Lorrie Moore but it\'s entirely her own\'SHARLENE TEO, author of PONTIHaving been Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and Esther Greenwood all my life, my writing

From the author of international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 \'\'Cho\'s complex, humane, and by its end utterly transfixing novel shows that it is in community that we find resilience.\' i newspaper \'Like Bong Joon-ho\'s Academy Award-winning film Parasite and the popular Netflix series Squid Games, Saha points to the increasing inequality and lack of social mobility in South Korea. ... With

\'Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom\' Sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare\'s sonnets are the best ever written.

\'If we want to understand what has been lost to time, there is no way other than through the exercise of imagination ... imagination applied with delicate rather than broad strokes\'. So wrote the award winning Japanese author Kyoko Nakajima of her story, Things Remembered and Things Forgotten, a piece that illuminates, as if by throwing a switch, the layers of wartime devastation that lie just below

A girl walks through the slums of Kolkata holding an armful of books. She returns home smelling of smoke, and checks her most prized possession: a brand-new smartphone, purchased in instalments.

\'Nick Bryant is brilliant. He has a way of showing you what you\'ve been missing from the whole story whilst never leaving you feeling stupid.\' - Emily Maitlis \'Bryant is a genuine rarity, a Brit who understands America\' - Washington Post In When America Stopped Being Great, veteran reporter and BBC New York correspondent Nick Bryant reveals how America\'s decline paved the way for Donald Trump\'s

In a powerful exploration of recent racial history, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter examines the moment we\'re in, how we got here, and how together we can build movements to create a just and equal world. Black Lives Matter began as a hashtag when Alicia Garza wrote what she calls \'a love letter to Black people\' on Facebook.

\'Deirdre Mask\'s book was just up my Strasse, alley, avenue and boulevard.\' -Simon Garfield, author of Just My Type \'Fascinating ... intelligent but thoroughly accessible ... full of surprises\' - Sunday Times Starting with a simple question, \'what do street addresses do?\', Deirdre Mask travels the world and back in time to work out how we describe where we live and what that says about us. From

Short Letter, Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke\'s novels. Full of seedy noir atmospherics and boasting an air of generalized delirium, the book starts by introducing us to a nameless young German who has just arrived in America, where he hopes to get over the collapse of his marriage.

Winner of the 2018 Sapir Prize. You need to bribe someone into giving you weed?

Toru Okada\'s cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day.

`An amazing story, and truly inspiring. The kind of book everyone will enjoy.

TheNew York Timesbestselling \"manifesto for the future that is grounded in practical solutions addressing the world\'s most pressing concerns: overpopulation, food, water, energy, education, health care and freedom\" (The Wall Street Journal). Since the dawn of humanity, a privileged few have lived in stark contrast to the hardscrabble majority. Conventional wisdom says this gap cannot be closed.

Soon to be a major film starring Academy Award nominees Jim Broadbent (Iris) and Charlotte Rampling (45 Years). Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school.