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A propulsive, timely spy thriller from the critically acclaimed author of STAR OF THE NORTHAn explosive conspiracy is on the verge of detonation…A Korean man is poisoned in broad daylight at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.A Russian intelligence officer is assassinated in a Washington hotel.And a real-estate mogul has just become the 45th President of the United States.The world teeters on the brink and three individuals find themselves caught up in the crosshairs:Jenna, a seasoned CIA officer, whose past missions refuse to stay buried.Lyosha, a student in Moscow who confronts Vladimir Putin on live TV only to suffer the consequences.And Eric, a North Korean spy in the heart of the White House who adores the man he is working to undermine: the President.In a world of shifting allegiances and betrayal, RED STAR DOWN is a global and gripping thriller that explores the intricate web of politics, espionage, and deception during one of the most turbulent periods in recent history.

Choose life. Choose love? The Trainspotting crew fall for rave and romance in the blazing new novel from the No.1 bestseller.* A Guardian and Standard ‘Book to Look Out For’ 2025 *It is the late 1980s, the closing years of Thatcher’s Britain. For the Trainspotting crew, a new era is about to begin – a time for hope, for love, for raving.Leaving heroin behind and separated after a drug deal gone wrong, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie each want to feel alive. They fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead; they follow the call of the dance floor, with its promise of joy and redemption.Sick Boy starts an intense relationship with Amanda, his ‘princess’ – rich, connected, everything that he is not. When the pair set a date for their wedding, Sick Boy sees a chance for his generation to take control at last.But as the 1990s dawn, will finding love be the answer to the group’s dreams or just another doomed quest? *****PRAISE FOR NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER IRVINE WELSH:‘The arrival of Trainspotting was an earth-shaking cultural moment . . . It shines with humour and friendship. Every character here is alive’DOUGLAS STUART‘So propulsive . . . about as much fun as you can have between two book covers’ THE TIMES‘The voice of punk, grown up, grown wiser and grown eloquent’SUNDAY TIMES

Quick before the story ebbs away.There are things I need to tell youA work of great strength and equal delicacy, Mouth transports us to a world where violence hangs in the air, where beauty, pity and cruelty intertwine. The sequence at its heart, Palace, takes the overlooked women from the edges of Greek tragedy and places them centre stage, to tell unforgettable stories of survival and loss. With new depth and force, their voices set off echoes with women navigating the terrible reality and aftermath of war today.As a human rights lawyer, Arshi saw power and its abuses, the structures of silencing set against refugees. As a poet, she charts the movements and migrations that change the course of our lives – from child to adult, from home to elsewhere, from grief to what lies beyond.Mouth is a complex and original study of speaking’s limitations, chasms in communication, but also the unexpected power of silence: ‘sometimes / language picks us clean’.

The story of a mother grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child – from the award-winning and bestselling memoirist of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight ‘Truly extraordinary’ HELEN MACDONALD ‘A mesmeric celebration... Will help others surviving loss – surviving life’ NEW YORK TIMES It’s midsummer in Wyoming and Alexandra Fuller is barely hanging on. Grieving her father and pining for her home country of Zimbabwe, reeling from a midlife breakup, freshly sober and piecing her way uncertainly through a volatile new relationship with a younger woman, Alexandra vows to get herself back on even keel. And then – suddenly and incomprehensibly – her son Fi, at twenty-one years old, dies in his sleep. From a sheep wagon deep in the mountains of Wyoming to a grief sanctuary in New Mexico to a silent meditation retreat in Alberta, Canada, Alexandra embarks on a journey up and down the spine of the Rocky Mountains trying to find out how to grieve herself whole.‘For anyone who’s ever loved and lost, or ever will; in short, a book for us all’ OPRAH DAILY‘A profound and gripping memoir about surviving unexpected, devastating loss’ SUNDAY TIMES‘Profound and defiantly enthralling’ WASHINGTON POST* A Book of the Year for the New York Times, Washington Post and Time *

Why do teenagers act as they do?'Brilliant' PANDORA SYKES'Fascinating, moving ... clear-eyed' DAILY MAIL'Wise and revelatory' GUARDIAN** A GUARDIAN AND TELEGRAPH BEST PAPERBACK PICK **What we experience during adolescence shapes us for life, but psychologist Lucy Foulkes shows that too often we fear, dismiss or even try to prevent aspects of it that are crucial to our development. Drawing on decades of psychological research, and including profoundly moving interviews, Coming of Age gets beneath the recent myths and age-old stereotypes of adolescence to reveal the real reasons why teens behave the way they do. Above all, Foulkes shows that adolescents have an extraordinary capacity for resilience, empathy and mutual support, and that even the most challenging encounters are part of an essential process of self-discovery. 'Foulkes is steeped in knowledge about, as well as respect for, teenage life' OBSERVER'A wonderful and deeply moving book' MARK HADDON'Reveals adolescence's unwritten rules' JO BRAND

As the sun starts slowly disappearing, the residents of a remote town in the desert find themselves undergoing shocking transformations in this dazzlingly eerie and bewitching novelLONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 CLIMATE FICTION PRIZE‘A supremely confident and gifted writer’ Katie KitamuraIn Five Poems Lake, a town surrounded by impenetrable deserts, the sun is slowly disappearing overhead. A young woman keeps an apprehensive eye on the sky above as she tends her family’s pharmacy of traditional medicine. She has few customers, and even fewer visitors. Her father was found dead by the lake twelve years ago, in unexplained circumstances. Her elder sister, Dong Ji, works at a wellness parlour across town for those who can afford it – which, during these strange and difficult days, is not many. The town fell on hard times long before the sun began to shrink. But now, as the temperature drops and the lake freezes over, the inhabitants of the town realise there is no way they can survive. When the Beacons appear – ordinary people with heads replaced by searing, blinding light, like miniature suns – the residents wonder if they may hold the answer to their salvation, or if they are just another sign of impending ruin. Soon, Dong Ji and her sister will uncover a photograph which may offer a clue in the mystery of the Beacons, and finally help them learn what happened to their father. READERS LOVE SUNBIRTH‘A bittersweet, moving and strange ... about what it means to truly live’'Very beautiful, serene and thoughtful''If you liked I Who Have Never Known Men ... then this might be your next 5 star read'‘If you’ve enjoyed Yoko Ogawa this one may be for you’PRAISE FOR AN YU‘Rich and wild… it gets under your skin’ Observer‘Profound’ Guardian‘Beautiful’ New Statesman‘Seductive’ Daily Mail‘Spellbinding’ New York Times‘Steeped in atmosphere’ Mail on Sunday

In the rain-slicked, neon glowing streets of a 1970s continental metropolis, a man called François makes a snap decision that will change his life for goodFrançois, in his fifties, living alone and low on cash, does not have the life he dreams of.With a cigarette stuck to the corner of his mouth and wearing his perpetual black suit, he has carried out the same morning routine for 17 years: entering the lottery with his lucky numbers, then knocking back a beer at Café Monico before his shift as the delivery driver for a dry cleaners.His days are brightened only by newsagent Maryvonne and her young daughter. He dreams of winning the lottery to give them a better life.When a routine delivery leads him to knock on the door of a countryside mansion, he enters the scene of a crime whose remains consist of a dozen bodies and a bag full of banknotes. What François chooses to do next could change his fate for good…Visually stunning, atmospheric and replete with the smoking irony of European noir, Dry Cleaned is a masterful tale about an anti-hero radically stepping out of his routine.

What if you could rewrite your relationship, again and again, until it worked out?‘A cause for celebration’ GEORGE SAUNDERS‘A stunner of a debut’ NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH''Hilarious, heart-rending, grotesque, delightful, utterly brilliant'' DAISY JOHNSON‘Exhilaratingly good’ KELLY LINKWhen Myriam and Allison fall in love at a show in a run-down punk house, their relationship begins to unfold through a series of hypotheticals:What if they became mothers by finding a baby in an alley?What if the only cure for Myriam’s depression was Allison’s flesh?How much darker - or sexier - would their dynamic be if one were a power-hungry CEO, and the other her lowly employee?From the fantasies of early romance to the slow encroaching of heartbreak, each reality builds to complete a brilliant and painfully funny portrait of love’s many promises and perils.WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:''Wow. I will be reading everything Myriam Lacroix puts out''''Everything Everywhere All at Once for U-haul lesbians... I''m diving in again''''I haven''t read anything like it before... Fantastic debut''

''Ferociously smart and full of surprises, Flashlight is thrilling to the last'' ELEANOR CATTONA thrilling, globe-spanning novel that mines questions of memory, language, identity and family.One evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town while her father Serk, a Korean émigré, completes an academic secondment from his American university. When Louisa wakes hours later, she has washed up on the beach and her father is missing, probably drowned.The disappearance of Louisa’s father shatters their small family unit. As Louisa and her American mother Anne return to the US, this traumatic event reverberates across time and space, and the mystery of what really happened to Serk slowly unravels.Flashlight is a masterpiece that moves between the Korean immigrant community in post-war Japan, to suburban America, and the North Korean regime, to tell the astonishing story of one family swept up in the tides of twentieth century history. ''Instantly bewitching... a writer at the height of her spectacular powers'' JENNIFER EGAN''Susan Choi is a master of rendering relationships with utter particularity'' RAVEN LEILANI''Once I started reading, I couldn’t put it down, and once I finished, I couldn’t stop thinking about it'' BARBARA DEMICK

An eye-opening exploration of humanity’s unprecedented path to global depopulation and why it''s in everyone''s interests to prevent it''Stunning . . . essential reading'' Daniel H. Pink, author of DriveIf we continue as we are, with birth rates falling globally, the world’s human population will peak in the next few decades – and then begin a sudden and rapid decline. It would be easy to think that fewer people would be better: better for the planet, better for the people who remain. In After the Spike, two leading population economists ask us to think again.Carefully weighing the evidence and the many claims that surround this controversial subject, Dean Spears and Mike Geruso explain why depopulation is not the solution we urgently need for the climate crisis, nor will it improve lives. Far more likely is that the progress which has raised living standards so dramatically over the last two centuries will slow or even reverse. As humanity’s future shrinks, it will become more fragile and less certain, and harder for us to escape from global poverty, disease and injustice.Halting this decline and stabilising the population need not mean sacrificing a greener future or reverting to past gender inequities. In fact, they argue, it can only be achieved with women’s reproductive rights and individual choice as driving forces. But if we want future generations to enjoy lives even better than our own, it’s time to take seriously society’s collective task of lifting the burdens of parents and other carers.Deeply reasoned and uncompromisingly humane, After the Spike sheds important light on a dramatic shift in the human story and asks us to consider what future we should want for our planet, our children, and one another.--‘A remarkable blend of empirical research and philosophical argument that has challenged, and changed, my thinking about population’ Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation‘After the Spike dissolves our preconceptions through evidence, rigour and a deep compassion for all’ Toby Ord, author of The Precipice‘As stirring as it is thoughtful, rigorous and morally uncompromising’ Anastasia Berg, author of What Are Children For?‘I had my mind blown over and over and over’ Zach Weinersmith, coauthor of A City on Mars‘Fascinating, thoughtful and timely’ Simon Johnson, Nobel Laureate in Economics‘The insights and rigour are matched by human and empathetic narrative throughout’ Hannah Ritchie, author of Not the End of the World‘The most interesting and important book I’ve read in years’ Katy Milkman, author of How to Change

Diaspora is witnessing a murder without getting blood on your shirt.***WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION******FINALIST FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD******WINNER OF THE SKY ARTS AWARD FOR POETRY***''Exceptional… Mehri is a truly transnational poet of the twenty-first century''BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of Girl, Woman, Other''A once in a generation poet''CALEB FEMI, author of PoorThe definition of diaspora is the dispersion of people from their original homeland. But what does it mean to write diaspora poetry? Momtaza Mehri''s debut collection poses this question, taking us from Mogadishu to Naples, Lampedusa to London. Mixing her own family''s experience with the stories of many others across nineteenth- and twentieth-century Somalia, Bad Diaspora Poems confronts the ambivalent nature of speaking for those who have been left behind.We meet the poet, the translator, the refugee, the exile, and the diaspora kid attempting to transcend their clichéd angst. Told in lyric, prose and text messages, and taking place in living rooms and marketplaces, on buses and balconies, on transatlantic journeys and online, these are essential poems about our diasporic age.

Prizewinning Yan Lianke returns with a campus novel like no other following a young Buddhist as she journeys through worldly temptationYahui is a young Buddhist at university. But this is no ordinary university. It is populated by every faith in China: Buddhists, Daoists, Catholics, Protestants and Muslims who jostle alongside one another in the corridors of learning, and whose deities are never far from the classroom.Her days are measured out making elaborate religious papercuts, taking part in highly charged tug-of-war competitions between the faiths and trying to resist the daily temptation to return to secular life and abandon the ascetic ideals that are her calling. Everything seems to dangle by a thread. But when she meets a Daoist student called Mingzheng, an inexorable romance of mythic proportions takes hold of her.** Beautiful edition illustrated throughout with beautiful original papercuts **''One of China''s greatest living authors'' Guardian''His talent cannot be ignored'' New York Times''China''s foremost literary satirist'' Financial Times

A suspenseful, wildly engaging debut novel following a musician spiraling in self-doubt and self-searching after a night – and a relationship – gone wrong.Songs of No Provenance tells the story of Joan Vole, an indie folk singer forever teetering on the edge of fame, who flees New York after committing a shocking sexual act onstage. With the threat of an internet storm looming over her, Joan seeks refuge at a writing camp for teenagers in rural Virginia, where she’s forced to question her own toxic relationship to artmaking – and her complicated history with a friend and mentee – while finding new hope in her students and a deepening intimacy with a nonbinary artist and fellow camp staff member.Lydi Conklin boldly explores kink, shame, queer appropriation, fame hunger, cancel culture, trans nonbinary identity and how to make art without ego, all the while asking how Joan might forge a new future for herself.Suffused with flashbacks to a musical underworld as seductive as it is seedy, Songs of no Provenance is a visceral, gutsy and profound debut novel about love, self-acceptance and clawing oneself to safety.

In-laws can be hard. This one might be murder.Miyako suspects her mother-in-law is a murderer. It’s not just a case of them rubbing each other up the wrong way – there is definitely something suspicious going on. But Miyako isn’t exactly what she seems either. Her husband has no idea about her past life as a secret agent. When she decides to use her professional skills to investigate her mother-in-law, the delicate equilibrium of their lives is thrown wildly out of balance.Many decades later, in a future world where electronic communication has been irrevocably compromised, confidential messages must be delivered by trusted couriers like Mito. But one delivery pulls Mito into a conspiracy beyond his wildest imaginings, and forces him into a race against time to defeat a world-changing technological threat.Seesaw Monster contains two sharp, thrilling linked novellas - SEESAW MONSTER and SPIN MONSTER - from the bestselling and multi-award-winning writer Kotaro Isaka, internationally celebrated for his offbeat humour and inventive talent for twists.PRAISE FOR KOTARO ISAKA:‘Unlike anything you''re likely to have read before . . . white-hot with double-crosses’ Financial Times‘Entertaining . . . high-speed . . . with lots of twists and turns’ The Times''Fascinating and thought provoking with some genuine surprises and incredibly clever ideas that kept me thinking about it long after I finished it… a Japanese Black Mirror!'' Ajay Chowdhury‘Thoroughly enjoyable’ Guardian

‘A brilliant, one-of-a-kind writer’ DAVID NICHOLLSThis summer, meet Paula Spencer – mother, grandmother, widow, survivor – as she lives her life at last…A job at the dry cleaners she enjoys, a man – Joe – with whom she shares what she wants, friends who see her for who she is, and four grown children. Despite its ghosts, Paula has started to push her past aside.That is until Paula’s eldest, Nicola, turns up on her doorstep. Independent, a loving wife and mother, “a success” – Nicola is suddenly determined to leave it all behind.Over the next few days, as Nicola gradually confides in Paula the secret that unleashed this moment of crisis, they find themselves embracing the bruised but beautiful symmetry of what each means to the other.‘His best yet…full of energy and life’ OBSERVER‘Reading [Paula Spencer’s] voice for the first time sent a pang of recognition through me, followed by love’ ANNE ENRIGHT‘Storytelling genius’ i PAPERA GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2024

DAUGHTER. FRIEND. LOVER. VICTIM. MURDERER. WHO IS THE REAL KATIE COLE?''Stunning: so clever, so gripping, so timely'' LUCY FOLEY''Unique, punchy and super-smart'' ABIGAIL DEAN''Beautifully written, experimental, and fast-paced. I’m addicted'' GILLIAN McALLISTERWhen four influential members of London’s most exclusive private club are poisoned, a young waitress is charged with their murder after being caught fleeing the scene of the crime. As the trial grips the nation, five men begin to question how well they really knew her.There’s her father, who remembers the sweet girl growing up in Devon; her childhood friend, who is swept up in her fascination with conspiracy theories; her lover, who wants to distance himself from a young woman with an obsession; her barrister, who knows she’s hiding something; and the journalist investigating the case, who is convinced he knows exactly who she is: a cold-blooded killer.Five men. Five stories. But are you ready to hear hers?A novel about privilege, passion and how women’s voices can be sidelined and silenced, Her Many Faces will leave you asking: who can you ever truly believe?''Clever, twisty and with such a unique narrative .... Cloke can count me as her number one fan!'' SARAH PINBOROUGH''Indignant, beautifully wrought ... had me fooled repeatedly and I absolutely loved it'' ERIN KELLY‘Ingenious and gripping – I loved it’ HARRIET TYCE''The new GONE GIRL'' ANNA MAZZOLA‘A clever, fast paced but emotionally insightful book. I loved it’ JO CALLAGHAN