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''John Tottenham writes with a rare comic intensity'' Colm Tóibín''My favourite nihilistic romantic'' Rachel KushnerWhat''s this book about? Is there a restroom? Do you have gluten-free bagels? Do you work here? Do you have a restroom? Do I buy books or rent books or what? Still a bookseller in his late forties, Sean knows that the worst thing about a bookshop is the customers. Then there''s the gift-wrapping, the invoicing, the Yelp reviews. The overwhelming sense of self-loathing after another day of not writing a novel yourself. While Sean''s book remains unfinished, his city has changed around him. As have friends and acquaintances, at least the ones who keep in touch. The service industry is different, too. But what, or whom, is he serving anyway? Biting, hilarious and self-aware, John Tottenham''s debut novel is a razor-sharp dissection of gentrification, friendship, jealousy and the role of literature in a digital age.

By 1942, Churchill faced a vastly different war than the one he''d inherited from Neville Chamberlain. Britain was no longer alone; the Soviets were now an unlikely ally in the East, and Pearl Harbor had finally pushed America into action. Yet the scale of violence remained unchanged. On average, seven British men, women and children were killed every hour of the Second World War. The country would never be the same again.In Advance Britannia, historian Alan Allport reveals the war as it was lived - from the battlefields to the ration books, in the War Ministry and in the air raid shelters. Mixing social history with dramatic storytelling, this is a definitive account of the war that reshaped the world.

''A superb chronicler of cop culture'' - SUNDAY TIMES''Disher is the gold standard for rural noir'' - CHRIS HAMMER''The equal of Joseph Wambaugh and James Lee Burke'' - THE TIMES A MAN OF GOD IS NOT WITHOUT SINSchool''s out on the Mornington Peninsula, and the small town of Waterloo has become a hotbed for rowdy teenagers and petty crimes. The Waterloo Police Department are struggling with the caseload, and Detective Inspector Hal Challis is desperate for a week without major crimes. But when a prestigious school''s chaplain is beaten to the brink of death, Challis''s workload takes a turn for the worse. When a local woman is found dead, the hunt for a killer is on... From the multiple Ned Kelly Award-winning author of Consolation and Day''s End comes the fifth Hal Challis investigation, for readers of Jane Harper, Ian Rankin and Chris Hammer.

''Odd and evocative, a frolicking rumination'' TIMES CRITICS'' BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR''Hilarious, unsettling and unexpectedly moving'' FINANCIAL TIMES BEST TRANSLATED BOOK OF THE YEAR''Astonishing and captivating'' KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD''There''s a refreshing, bright moral clarity to Eurotrash'' NELL ZINK Realising he and she are the worst kind of people, a middle-aged man embarks on a dubious road trip through Switzerland with his eighty-year-old mother, recently discharged from a mental institution. Driving across the country, they attempt to give away her arms-industry wealth, but a fortune of such immensity is hard to squander. Haunted in different ways by the figure of her father, an ardent supporter of Nazism, mother and son can no longer avoid delving into the darkest truths about their past.Eurotrash is an unsparingly funny, vertiginous mirror-cabinet of familial and historical reckoning, a tragicomic quest punctuated by the tenderness and spite meted out between two people who cannot escape one another. ''Christian Kracht is the great German-language writer of his generation'' Joshua Cohen''Resonant and spiky'' Daily Mail''Brilliantly caustic'' i paperTRANSLATED BY DANIEL BOWLES

''Written in gorgeous, sparse prose, We Survived the Night reads like a novel. [...] A book I''ve been waiting my whole life to read.'' Tommy Orange, author of There ThereAs an infant, Julian Brave NoiseCat''s father was found abandoned in a dumpster. Against all odds, he survived and made it out of his impoverished reservation only to abandon his own son. As a young man, NoiseCat embarks on an unforgettable journey into his family''s past and his people''s present. Told in the style of a ''Coyote Story'', an art form nearly annihilated by colonization, this dazzling blend of history and mythology, memoir and reportage unravels old stories and braids together new ones. NoiseCat grapples with the erasure of North America''s First Peoples and the trauma that cascades across generations, and illuminates the vital Indigenous cultural, environmental and political movements that are reshaping the future. Virtuosic, compelling and deeply moving, this is at once an intensely personal journey and a searing portrait of Indigenous survival, love and resurgence.

''A delightful mix of classic crime fiction and Robert Galbraith'' - IAN MOORE''Witty, compelling and an intriguing fiendish murder'' - J.M. HALL''Brilliantly entertaining and fiendishly fun'' - PHILIPPA EASTA dead art historian. Cold War skulduggery.A reluctant Danish sleuth. And an extremely hungry dog.Eminent art historian Dame Charlotte Lazerton is dead. Her body was found at the foot of her stairs, guarded by her Irish wolfhound. The police believe that she died of natural causes, but Torben Helle - Danish academic and amateur sleuth - is convinced that his beloved mentor was murdered. After all, Charlotte had a knack for making enemies.Aided by his old friend Leyla, Torben''s investigation uncovers plenty of people who might have wanted Charlotte dead, from old adversaries from her time with MI6 to her rivals for a prestigious academic presidency. But Torben is woefully unqualified to catch a killer, and the killer knows it... This witty murder mystery puts a modern spin on the classic Golden Age whodunnit. A must-read for fans of Tom Hindle, Richard Osman and Janice Hallett.

''Close in spirit to Alan Garner'' Guardian ''Lush and magical, creepy and shocking - Kerr is a born storyteller'' Jenn Ashworth, author of Ghosted The pit towns of Northalbion are seething with protest and unrest ... and when townsfolk begin to turn up mauled, locals suspect the murderous and mythical Wolf of Whindale. Caleb, banished for crossing a picket line, is forced to take work with pit owner and antiquarian Mr Siskin, who is in pursuit of an ancient artefact that may have magical properties. But searching for buried treasure in lonely places brings danger when there is a bloodthirsty killer on the loose - whether wolf, man or something else entirely. Laced with myth, faith and avarice, The Wolf of Whindale is a superbly twisted and ferociously imaginative English horror story set in a stormy northern landscape.

Winner of the John Avery Award at the André Simon Awards 2024In A Cheesemonger''s Tour de France, Ned Palmer wends his way around the country''s regions, meeting the remarkable cheesemongers who carry the torch for France''s oldest and most treasured traditions. Every French cheese carries an essence of the place where it''s made - its history, identity and landscape. Sometimes that''s a physical thing, as the hard texture of Comté echoes its mountainous home in the Jura. Other times it''s about power and politics - Brie swelling to royal dimensions due to its proximity to the French court, or Camembert gaining national status after being supplied in patriotic boxes to First World War soldiers.Witty, fascinating and endlessly moreish, A Cheesemonger''s Tour de France is the perfect guide to a French cheeseboard - and a terrific insight into la Belle République.

''A brilliant evocation of the joy of the football carnival and the absurdities of the global companion ... an essential companion'' David Goldblatt It''s the biggest sporting competition on Earth. A four-yearly chance for our greatest footballers to realise their ultimate dream. A month-long spectacle that''s watched by billions. But the inaugural World Cup, held in Uruguay in 1930, was semi-professional, poorly attended and haphazardly organised - so how did it become a bonanza of multinational sponsorship, dubious ethics and shadowy characters, and the ultimate stage for football''s greatest dram? imon Kuper is one of very few people to have attended every World Cup since 1990. In World Cup Fever he looks back at each tournament he''s experienced - from half-empty stands at Italia 90 to the French triumph as hosts in 1998, South Africa''s national dream in 2010 and the troubling legacy of 2022 - to reveal a captivating portrait of sport in a globalised world. World Cup Fever is the story of how the tournament touches and sometimes even changes our lives, by one of the best writers on the beautiful game.

Addictively strange and disturbing, Flowers From the Void is a collection of delectably uncanny tales. A reaper readies herself for her next gruesome assignment and a bereaved African witch prepares for a showdown with a rigidly traditional white Salem coven while an outcast teenage boy is lured into a pact with a schoolfriend that will cost him far more than he ever imagined. Hauntingly macabre and piercingly insightful about loss and loneliness, these gothic short stories lead us into a labyrinth of other possible worlds, each one darker than the last and yet all fearfully close to our own. Living dolls serve as imperfect replacements for the deceased, a girl without a shadow finds her soulmate and spurned lovers'' bodies begin falling to pieces. In this scintillating debut collection Gianni Washington explores the limit of intimacy and empathy with the vivid intensity of your worst nightmare.

''A genuinely thrilling ride'' - LISA GARDNER''A page-turner that I finished in one sitting'' - PATRICIA WOLF''A wilderness thriller you''ll love to lose yourself in'' - JANICE HALLETTOne girl escaped. But the forest took another...A young girl wanders into the small town of Koraha, her hands stained with blood. She won''t speak, but her path is tracked through New Zealand''s unforgiving wilderness to a cabin - and the scene of a double murder. The townsfolk know this cabin; it has a violent history. Twenty years ago, another girl was forced to flee, leaving her siblings and father behind. But now that her family''s secrets have led to more victims, Effie has no choice but to return to the bush and face the truth of what happened there... and why she ran.Flooded with atmosphere and full of twists, The Vanishing Place is perfect for readers of Lucy Clarke and Sarah Pearse.

* A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR ** A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION PICK OF THE MONTH *''A splendid romp from a wonderfully clever historical novelist'' - TELEGRAPH''An exhilarating voyage into another era'' - FINANCIAL TIMESHe looked as if he had just received some very bad news. In that he was certainly right, for he was perfectly and incontrovertibly dead...London, 1774. Susan Bell - daughter of the kindly Dean of Westminster - enjoys a pleasantly uneventful life within the confines of the abbey. That is until a group of scholars from the Society of Antiquaries comes armed with a letter from King George III, giving them permission to exhume Edward I and examine his body.As they prepare to open the tomb, a ghostly figure is seen wandering the cloisters, wearing the crown of the dead king. Then one of the Antiquaries is found viciously murdered, and the corpse of Edward I is stolen. With the abbey in uproar and her father''s position under threat from the scandal, Susan feels bound to investigate. Could one of the Society''s members be harbouring a deadly secret, or is one of the abbey''s own a killer? The new historical mystery from the bestselling author of Black Drop, Blue Water and Scarlet Town. Perfect for readers of Andrew Taylor, Laura Shepherd-Robinson and S.J. Parris.

''There are few bits of history more mythologised, sensitive and political than Sparta, but luckily we have Bayliss'' Dan Snow, creator of History HitSparta - its legendary warriors and steadfast resilience are famous throughout the world as a model for toughness, justice and masculinity. The Spartans'' reputation as fighters is matched only by their mythic code of honour. Their torch has been carried by footballers and politicians, video games and philosophers alike.But who really were the Spartans? And what was the driving force behind the rise - and dramatic fall - of Spart? parta traces the story of Ancient Greece''s most iconic city-state, from its humble beginnings as a hamlet in the Peloponnese to its meteoric rise as the foremost military superpower of the Classical world. Andrew Bayliss uncovers the eclectic quirks that set Sparta above its rivals: its famous double monarchy, the harsh methods for raising children as soldiers and the unique role of women in Spartan life.Sparta was an ancient superpower, and its legacy is still shaping popular culture and politics today. This is the story of its rise and fall.

The International Booker Award winner''s breathtaking new novel about neo-Nazis, particle physics, and graffiti vandalism''Propulsive and revelatory'' The New York Times''A work of genius'' 5-star review, TelegraphGentle giant Florian Herscht is an orphan, adopted by a neo-Nazi who has apprenticed him as a graffiti cleaner. The Boss, a Bach fanatic, is enraged that someone is spraying wolf emblems across the monuments to the famed composer in their east German town. He is determined to punish the culprit and Florian has no choice but to join his gang as they devise a plan to catch him. But Florian has bigger things to worry about: having attended Herr Köhler''s adult education classes in physics, he can see that the world might end at any moment. Written in one cascading sentence with the power of atomic particles colliding, Krasznahorkai''s novel is a tour de force, a moving character study, a blistering satire and devastating encapsulation of our helplessness at the moral and environmental dilemmas we face today.

Longlisted for the 2025 BSHS Hughes Prize ''Enthralling'' Philip Ball''Ingenious'' Sujit SivasundaramIn Tracks on the Ocean, Sara Caputo tells how our journeys around the globe became fixed lines on maps - and how journey lines themselves reshaped maps and the way that we view the world. From Captain Cook''s route across the South Seas to the disorientating power of digital technology, the tracks we''ve left on the oceans - trading, exploring and conquering - are a hidden record of humanity''s impact on the planet. Revealing their histories, Caputo uncovers a fascinating new history of maritime travel and modernity.Weaving human history, cartography, literature and climate science, Tracks on the Ocean reveals how, on the path to discovery, we have changed the world.

''Engaging, thoughtful, and illuminating'' Madeline Miller''A long-needed survey of the great theologian'' Rowan WilliamsAugustine of Hippo is one of the world''s most influential theologians, an early Christian writer whose work shaped the course of Western philosophy. Born in Numidia in 354 CE, Augustine''s African identity has long been painfully denied. But it was foundational to his thinking and faith. Drawing on original sources and the Augustinian texts themselves, world-renowned scholar Catherine Conybeare traces Augustine''s travels from North Africa to the European continent and back again, placing his African origins firmly at the centre of his story. A tale of exile, faith and identity, Augustine the African upends conventional knowledge about one of Christianity''s most celebrated saints, and recentres Africa as the locus of early Catholic intellectual activity - with Europe on the periphery.