THE ART OF NOT EATING: a critical exploration of fasting and female oppression
Jessica Hamel-Akré’s The Art Of Not Eating is a book which readers might call critical and poignant, “especially right now”.
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Explore the realities of life in Zimbabwe with WHATEVER HAPPENED TO RICK ASTLEY?
Step into the vivid world of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, through Bryony Rheam's intriguing short stories in Whatever Happened To Rick Astley?
PLEASURE BEACH homages ULYSSES with a boundary-pushing queer twist
A boundary-pushing novel, queer love story Pleasure Beach is an ambitious homage to James Joyce’s Ulysses and an exemplar of what literary modernism is all about.
Step into 1920s Malaya with THE HOUSE OF DOORS, a gripping tale of love, murder & revolution
Travel through time and space with the latest novel from acclaimed Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors, filled with vivid imagery and historical intrigue.
A FLAW IN THE DESIGN: a disturbing & gripping examination of the dark side of creativity
Nathan Oates' intense psychological journey in A Flaw In The Design takes readers on a thrilling ride. A gripping literary thriller.
IN MEMORIAM: a poetic, heartfelt novel about friendship & war
Alice Winn's In Memoriam, set in a school environment as war looms over the lives of boys on the cusp of manhood, is a beautiful and life-affirming novel expertly blends poetic prose with the harsh realities of war.
Short story maestro George Saunders releases razor-sharp anthology LIBERATION DAY
If good fiction is meant to hold up a mirror to society, then Saunders smashes the mirror and lets you find yourself in the pieces.
BEHIND THE COUNTER: Angela Hui’s sweet & sour tales from a Rhondda Chinese takeaway
In Takeaway, Angela Hui details family life serving Chinese food in the Lucky Star in Beddau, a Rhondda village.
CALL ME NATHAN: graphic novel delicately unravels trans teen experience
Catherine Castro’s graphic novel Call Me Nathan, illustrated by Quentin Zuttion, frankly but delicately tells the story of Nathan - assigned female at birth, and dealing with his own identity and sexuality.
THE COUPLE AT THE TABLE promises an ‘unguessable’ mystery – and delivers just that
The Couple At The Table is the perfect escape from the mania of the current world, without compromising on thrill-factor.
UNCONTROLLABLE WOMEN expands and diversifies the suffragette story
“Radical, reformist and revolutionary women” pepper the pages of Nan Sloane's Uncontrollable Women, which should be welcomed into political literature as a map of the path taken to get to where Britain is today.
The 12 books of Christmas: what to read from every month of 2021
2021 has welcomed some real crackers into the literary universe and Megan Thomas has picked out one from every month of the year to see you into 2022.