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Claire Lynch (Author)
**WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARDS GOLD PRIZE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025**
‘I’ll be thinking about it for ever’ Barbara Kingsolver
‘A gorgeously written story…a must-read’ Jennie Godfrey
'Both readable and intelligent...it offers hope and consolation... This novel will be read and thought about for years to come' Nick Hornby
‘I was caught up from the first page and completely taken aback by this story. I loved it’ Clare Chambers
A mother following her heart. A father with the law on his side. A child caught in the middle.
1982 Dawn is a young wife and mother hemmed in by village life. Then Hazel appears like a torch in the dark. Their attraction is instant and suddenly Dawn’s world is more joyful, and more complicated, than she ever expected.
2022 Maggie has always lived with an absence where her mother should be. Her father never speaks of her and it feels impossible to ask. Then an official letter arrives with news from the past, and Maggie must face a truth far bigger than just her family’s secret.
'I was completely blown away by Claire Lynch’s exquisite writing, her acute observations, and deep, undramatic understanding of the inner life of people… It’s one of those books that takes up residence inside of you and welds itself onto your soul' Nigella Lawson
‘Powerful and beautifully written… Lynch is a huge new talent in fiction' Good Housekeeping, Book of the Month
'Explores love and loss, intimacy and justice, custody and care…it’s brilliant, I couldn’t put it down' Anita Rani, Woman's Hour
'A beautiful and tender exploration of parental love, prejudice and the things we carry' Rachel Joyce
‘A brilliant book… Full of heart, sympathy and sadness’ Sara Pascoe
‘A triumph! Like the great Maggie O’Farrell, Claire Lynch deals brilliantly with both big themes and small moments’ Elin Hilderbrand
‘Smart and heartbreaking’ Guardian
***READERS ARE IN LOVE WITH A FAMILY MATTER***
‘I would rate this 10 stars if I could’
‘Utterly brilliant, I was captivated from page one’
‘This book had my whole heart and more’
‘A beautiful, heartbreaking, important book’
‘I can’t get the story out of my head’
‘It totally broke my heart’
‘I’ll be thinking of these characters for a long time to come’
Mark Haddon (Author)
'Tender, transporting, creative and beautifully written ... Simply glorious, from start to finish' Rachel Clarke, author of Dear Life
Simultaneously heart-breaking and darkly hilarious, Leaving Home is a portrait of the artist both as a child and as an adult.
Mark Haddon's parents were not really cut out for the job of having children. They were cut out, respectively, for the jobs of designing abattoirs and keeping a pathologically clean and tidy house. At least Mark had the consolations of The Weetabix Solar System Wallchart, walnut whips and the occasional Babycham.
Astringently honest and scalpel sharp, this is a book about being different and seeing the world differently. It’s about being a cartoonist and a care assistant. It’s about family. It’s about how art, in all its varied forms, provides a way of understanding and coming to terms with the mess of human life. And it’s richly illustrated throughout with images from the author’s childhood.
As bracing as it is embracing, Leaving Home is about escaping a place that never felt like home and learning to create somewhere that does.
'I loved this funny, melancholy and arrestingly original memoir of an artist's coming into being' Sarah Perry, author of Enlightenment
Namwali Serpell (Author)
'A landmark appraisal... deep and enriching' GUARDIAN
'An exhilarating meeting of critical minds' OBSERVER
'Serpell is a superlative essayist' DIANA EVANS
'Serpell brings her expertise and eye to Toni Morrion's singular literary genius' HARPER'S BAZAAR
The essential companion to Toni Morrison’s work, written by Namwali Serpell, ‘one of the most innovative and intelligent writers today’ (Financial Times)
Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate and most beloved of writers, has inspired generations of readers. But her artistic genius is often overshadowed by her monumental public persona, perhaps because, as Namwali Serpell puts it, ‘she is our only truly canonical black, female writer – and her work is highly complex.’ In On Morrison, Serpell brings her unique experience as both an award-winning writer and professor to illuminate Toni Morrison’s masterful experiments with literary form.
This is Morrison as you’ve never encountered her before, a journey through her vivid fiction and criticism, as well as her lesser-known dramatic works and poetry – with contextual guidance and original close readings. Accessible and thrillingly rigorous, On Morrison is a primer not only on how to read one of the most significant American authors of our time, but how to approach any great work of literature. The conversation between the two black women artist-readers that rises from these pages is stylish, edifying and spectacular in its scope and erudition.
‘[Serpell has] hopped on a rocket and touched the Tonisphere, with her mind... Serpell’s excitement, her sense of discovery and dismay, become yours’ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
'Breathtaking, provocative, and refreshing' IMANI PERRY
Claire Powell (Author)
‘Intensely funny… profoundly touching’ INDIA KNIGHT, SUNDAY TIMES
'I laughed, I cried, I couldn't pull my eyes away' VOGUE BEST BEACH READS 2026
'Captures all the awkwardness of family dynamics and marriage with such compassion and authenticity' JENNIE GODFREY
A TIMES BEST BOOK TO READ THIS SUMMER * A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING Most Anticipated Read 2026 * A COSMOPOLITAN BEST SUMMER READ*
A marriage on the rocks. A family in disarray. A weekend in the sun at a luxury, all-inclusive hotel. What could possibly go wrong?
Jo and Dave haven't had a holiday in years. They've had other things on their plate: failed IVF, the death of Dave's mother, doing up the bathroom.
So when Dave’s flashy brother Teddy offers to fly in from Dubai and take them – along with his gorgeous young girlfriend and their curmudgeonly father – to a beachfront resort in the Med, the couple can hardly refuse.
But while romance might be on the cards for some, Jo and Dave soon find that tensions don't disappear in paradise. In fact, they might just get worse...
Set over the course of one scorching weekend, All In is a compulsively entertaining and bittersweet novel that asks: when life gets choppy, how does love stay afloat?
'One for fans of The Wedding People and White Lotus' BOOKSELLER 1O TITLES NOT TO MISS
READERS ARE LOVING THIS YEAR'S FUNNIEST, MOST PERCEPTIVE SUMMER READ
'Tender, hilarious and wonderfully perceptive, this will be the summer read of the season'
'Oh I loved this book so much! The writing is so SO good - beautiful and poignant and funny - just brilliant. And the story is so relatable - the stress of travelling, group holidays, suitcases going missing, family dynamics... fabulous!'
'Smart, immersive and surprisingly moving — a standout contemporary read'
'An ideal holiday read... Beautifully written and hard to put down'
'A wonderful emotional snapshot'
'A brilliant book to take on holiday'
Lydia Pang (Author)
A beautiful and fearless exploration of food and feelings – with bite – for fans of Crying in H Mart and Midnight Chicken.
‘Touching, absorbing and unflinching… shows you how to stomach life’s shit, celebrate the ugly, and keep going' Angela Hui
Eat bitter is a Chinese proverb meaning ‘endure hardship to taste sweetness.’ For Lydia Pang, it embodies the struggles of her Hakka ancestors, a persecuted Chinese ethnic group whose ingenuity shaped a food culture rooted in fermenting and foraging.
Pang reimagines eating bitter as a philosophy to confront her own challenges: burning out, testing her marriage, navigating fertility struggles and caring for a parent. Through eight recipes, she shares food as memory and medicine: the silly egg noodles her father cooked when her sister was ill, the bone broth she boiled in New York while homesick and courgettes grown in rural Wales as a gesture of reconnection.
Rachel Long (Author)
'Exceptionally brave and urgent... Moves, shocks and inspires’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO
'A wonderful read from an arresting voice’ DIANA EVANS
Rachel Long’s vivid new collection is a study of toxic love, crisis and recovery, at once moving and whip-smart, from one of our brightest stars in poetry.
'At first you eat less because you’re happy, / so fricking happy, the way you are in high summer / when you just can’t because of the sun.'
Sparrow on the Rooftop tells a story of new love: the summer-like giddiness of it, the ferocity of obsession, and the stark hollowing of absence. Alongside this affair, and unleashed by its intensity, unfolds another story, half-buried, about our young narrator’s uneasy relationship with her body: ‘Black girls// don’t get/ eating disorders./ That’s a white girl/ thing.’
Desire, indulgence, denial, and transformation are some of the themes that animate this engrossing, at times frighteningly intimate, narrative collection. With fierce wit and uncommon insight, Sparrow interrogates the self and other, and the experience of self as other. These remarkable, penetrating, headlong poems chart disorder and desire, break-up and breakdown, and the hard path towards recovery, confirming Rachel Long as one of the most gifted poets of her generation.
'Gruesome and intimate, alive to the rot, funny' SABA SAMS
'Satire and play and unflinching honesty' RAYMOND ANTROBUS
