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Francis Spufford’s entertaining romp of a first novel Golden Hill rightfully won him an armful of awards, and everyone was eager to see what would come next. Light Perpetual begins with the premise of a world altered, a ‘what if’ scenario where a V2 rocket would not hit a London Woolworths and instead the lives of five children within … Read more
Nikesh Shukla is the editor of The Good Immigrant, several novels, screenplays and commentary on social issues. In these eleven chapters, Nikesh Shukla invites the reader into an intimate world of self-reflections written to his daughter on race, family and home. Penned in the style of a manual: How to talk to you about skin colour, How to talk to … Read more
Congratulations to Monique Roffey for winning the Costa Book Of The Year Award 2020! David, a lone Caribbean fisherman encounters a mermaid and is entranced. After she is brutally caught and about to be horribly exploited he rescues her and helps her recover. They fall in love and Aycayia begins to transform back to the young woman she was … Read more
By now, Jane Harper has built quite a following with her previous novels such as her debut novel The Dry, which won all the awards going in 2017. Her ‘Outback Noir’ thrillers have firmly captured the imagination of UK readers and her latest is perhaps her best. In The Survivors, set in a coastal town in Tasmania, follows a young man … Read more
We’re ridiculously excited to hear the announcement that a new Sally Rooney novel has been announced for publication this Autumn. ‘Beautiful World, Where Are You’ (Hardback, £16.99) is due to be published on 7th September 2021, and centres around the relationship between two best friends nearing their thirties in different places and on very different trajectories. Whether you are a fan … Read more
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Aya, her mum and baby brother Moosa have recently arrived in Manchester having fled the bombs of Aleppo, and having been separated from Aya’s father during the long, dangerous journey. Now Aya has to take charge, acting as translator and carer for her mother, and as a second mother to Moosa. But one day as Aya and her family sit … Read more
