Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote religious Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and raped, often repeatedly, by what many thought were ghosts or demons, as a pun
Graham's New Collected Poems (2004) marked a crucial point in the growth of his reputation, bringing together for the first time all the poems of his seven collections as well as some of the unpublish
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018A 21st-century masterpiece: winner of the Orwell and Booker Prize, this politically resonant modern classic is now available in a new look.INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDWINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICALSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION'Potent and urgent.' IRISH INDEPENDENT'Original, funny, disarmingly oblique.' CLAIRE KILROY'A triumph. . . darkly hilarious' GUARDIANIn this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman.But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle, and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes 'interesting'. The last thing she ever wanted to be.Anna Burns' book 'Milkman' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2018-12-31, 2018-01-07
The Forward Book of Poetry 2019 brings together the best poetry published in the British Isles over the last year, including the winners of the 2018 Forward Prizes. In showcasing the range and ambitio
A Guardian, Sunday Times, Observer, Telegraph and Financial Times Book of the YearThe musician Peggy Seeger has lived a life full of art and passion, family and separation, tragedy, celebration and th
A challenging new biography of a major composer whose life and works have been the subject of intense controversy ever since his attempted suicide and early death in an insane asylum. Schumann was a k
Thomas Adès: Full of Noises is an unprecedented glimpse into the creative mind and influences of one of the most intriguing and successful contemporary composers and conductors, now in an updated pape
If we follow him across land and sea - to Italy, Greece and Albania, to The Levant and Egypt and India - and to the borderlands of spirit and self, art and desire, can we see, in the end, if the no
"A vivid and humane study of the Plantagenets' diabolical and devious first family - a real joy to read."—Dan Jones, author of The War of the RosesIn The Restless Kings Nick Barratt presents the tumul
The bard is captured by the bonedancers and taken to their temple where he has to retell the tale that earned him a contract on his life. The story of Podkin continues . . . The Gorm have started to a
In the mid-1980s the Happy Mondays emerged as the prime mischief makers on the Madchester scene. Chief protagonist was Shaun Ryder, a man whose lyrical street swagger in songs like "Kinky Afro", "24 H
In the City of Love's Sleep reveals love in all its inscrutable complexity: the raw nature of feeling and its uncontrollable, inconsistent, unsettling truths.
Celebrating Faber's 90 year anniversary with this beautiful desk agenda featuring beautiful Liberty print fabricThe Faber poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, is celebrating its 90th year in
More recently the creation of the Poet to Poet series has further broadened the scope of Faber poetry by including the work of great poets from the past, selected and introduced by the contemporary po
Alongside a selection of photographs and Plath's own line-drawings, the editors masterfully contextualise what the pages disclose. This selection of early correspondence marks the key moments of Pla
Based on a remarkable and little-known true story. Martinique, 1765, and brothers Emile and Lucien are charged by their French master with a mission. While Lucien, barely in his teens, sees the trip
Motion - affectionate but undeceived about the man's frailties, a diligent researcher and a deft reader of poetry - has written an equally exemplary 'Life' of him.' Peter Conrad, Observer'Honest but n
Knute is a twenty-four-year-old single mother who returns home to Algren with her daughter to look after her father Tom, who has suffered a heart attack. Algren has held this position for some time bu
Sylvia Plath was, for both English and American poetry, one of the defining voices of twentieth-century, and one of the most appealing: few other poets have introduced as many new readers to poetry.
In 2006 Dr Adrian Owen and his team made medical history. But now, through Dr Owen's pioneering techniques, we can talk to them - and they can talk back.
Instead she's trapped in East Village, Manitoba: a town with no train station, no bar, and where job prospects consist of slaughtering chickens at the Happy Family Farms abattoir. Since her mother a
Propped against the bank, his blond face undisfigured, except by the mud which I wiped from his eyes and mouth with my coat sleeve. Anyhow I hadn't expected the Battle of the Somme to be quite like th
Understanding the humble pebble makes a trip to the beach, lake-side or river bank simply that little bit more fascinating. A handy illustrated guide to identifying pebbles is included on the revers
Longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award When a baby goes missing on a lonely roadside in Australia, it sets off a police investigation that will become a media sensat
Kramer wanted to redefine what a rock 'n' roll group was capable of achieving - and there was power in reaching for that - but it was also a recipe for disaster, both personally and professionally.
Maybe I would arrive and know - with little to no resistance - that I am of that town. No town continues to just be a town. A young writer arrives in New South Wales to research local settlements that
How did Gerry Adams grow from a revolutionary street activist - in perpetual danger of arrest and assassination - into the leader of Sinn Fein, with intimate access to the British and Irish prime mini
With an Introduction by the author.‘The prolific master of suburban mayhem has still got his mojo.’ Evening StandardTime of My Life‘One of Mr. Ayckbourn's most virtuosic experiments in postmodern narr
And then he's got to deal with marking, OFSTED, educational consultants, spreadsheets, personal statements, school trips, strikes, class, race, love, death, birth, manhood, dry cleaning, the end of li
His journey from India has taken him to graduate school in New York where he keeps falling in love: not only with women - Jennifer, Nina, Cai Yan - but with literature and radical politics, the fuel o
One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her c
Since his precise, potent and subtle portraits of Northern Irish life first came to public attention in the 1970s, Tom Paulin has been an unmissable writer on the contemporary poetry scene.
