Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction
McClelland & Stewart Inc. A Hero of Our Time
Book SynopsisA wry comic novel with an acerbic wit, A Hero of Our Time is a vicious takedown of superficial diversity initiatives and tech culture, with a beating heart of broken sincerity.Osman Shah is a pitstop on his white colleague Olivia Robinson’s quest for corporate domination at AAP, an edutech startup determined to automate higher education.Osman, obsessed by Olivia’s ability to successfully disguise ambition and self-interest as collectivist diversity politics, is bent on exposing her. Aided by his colleague turned comrade-in-arms Nena, who loathes and tolerates him in equal measure, Osman delves into Olivia''s twisted past. But at every turn, he''s stymied by his unfailing gift for cruel observation, which he turns with most ferocity on himself, without ever noticing what it is that stops him from connecting to anyone in his past or present. As Osman loses his grip on his family, Nena, and everything he thought was essential to his identity, he confr
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McClelland & Stewart Inc. What We Both Know
Book Synopsis2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist For readers of My Dark Vanessa, a mesmerizing, disturbing, and thoroughly compelling novel about one woman’s role in preserving—or destroying—her famous father’s legacy.In front of me are hundreds of pages of work. Already I feel it leaving me. He will obliterate what is there, replace it, deny I ever wrote a word. But, he cannot take the words I write on my own.Hillary Greene’s father, once a celebrated author and public figure, is now losing his memory and, with it, his ability to write. As her father’s primary caretaker, each day begins with two eggs, boiled and Charlie Rose or some other host on the iPad screen. Her father compulsively watches himself in old interviews, memorizing his own speech, trying to hang on to who he was.An aspiring author herself, Hillary impulsively agrees to ghost-write his final work—a memoir spanning his career—and release it in his name. Diving deep into her father’s past, and in turn her own, a horrifying truth begins to piece itself together.With full control over her father’s memoir, Hillary is faced with a stark choice: reveal her father as a monster or preserve his legacy as a respected literary figure. But she wonders what writing the truth will do to her and if it will damage her own prospects for a career. Whichever option she chooses, Hillary has to deal with the significant pain writing the memoir has re-surfaced—specifically, how the truth about her father adds to her grief over the death of her enigmatic sister, Pauline. For the first time in her life, Hillary holds the power.Set in the wake of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements, What We Both Know is a visceral, intimate, and complex novel about confronting the personal and professional consequences—and potentially devastating fallout—of revealing the truth about a famous man.
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Kensington Publishing As Good as Dead 1 Cherokee Pointe Trilogy
Book SynopsisWHAT SHE DOESN’T KNOW . . . The victims are all found face-down in the murky waters of the creek that runs through Cherokee Pointe, Tennessee. They are naked, except for the black satin ribbon tied around their necks. And each murdered woman shares a single characteristic . . . they are all redheads . . . JUST MIGHT . . . Socialite Reve Sorrell has come to Cherokee Pointe seeking answers about her family history and her shocking connection to wrong-side-of-the-tracks Jazzy Talbot. With their stunning good looks and shining red hair, the two are mirror images of each other—twins abandoned at birth and raised in very different worlds. And whoever left them for dead on a cold night thirty years ago isn’t about to let them uncover the truth now . . . KILL HER As a serial killer leaves another chilling calling card in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, Reve turns to Sheriff Jacob Butler to help her un
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Random House USA Inc The Murder of Mary Russell
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Random House USA Inc BlackEyed Susans A Novel of Suspense
Book SynopsisTOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • For fans of Laura Lippman and Gillian Flynn comes an electrifying novel of stunning psychological suspense.“My book of the year so far . . . breathtakingly, heart-stoppingly brilliant.”—Sophie Hannah, New York Times bestselling author of The Monogram MurdersI am the star of screaming headlines and campfire ghost stories. I am one of the four Black-Eyed Susans. The lucky one. As a sixteen-year-old, Tessa Cartwright was found in a Texas field, barely alive amid a scattering of bones, with only fragments of memory as to how she got there. Ever since, the press has pursued her as the lone surviving “Black-Eyed Susan,” the nickname given to the murder victims because of the yellow carpet of wildflowers that flourished above their shared grave. Tessa’s testimony about those tragic hours put a man on death row.
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Hospital
Book SynopsisA tour de force: an utterly singular modern Moroccan classicTrade Review"Bouanani sought to bring out the truth of his homeland even as that land itself, one way or another, rendered honest expression impossible; he had no end of impediments and no more than the narrowest way out. Yet with The Hospital he made it, demonstrating, again, how the best work can run any gantlet, even one lined with devils." -- John Domini - Brooklyn Rail"Hallucinatory." -- Guy Gunaratne - Guardian"The Hospital has attained cult status." -- The Brooklyn Rail
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Desert and Its Seed
Book SynopsisAn undiscovered modern Argentinian classic, based on the tragic lives of the renowned Raúl Barón Biza (a wealthy politician and notorious writer) and his wife Rosa Clotilde SabattiniTrade Review"A marvel." -- Will Noah - 4Columns"A provocative, meticulous novel that’s both utterly repulsive and morbidly fascinating." -- Booklist"Elegant prose." -- Publisher Weekly"The Desert and Its Seed chronicles the aftermath of an attack identical to the one that Baron Biza's father perpetrated against his mother. Baron Biza maintains [a] mixture of unflinching scrutiny and cool lyricism through the novel. It feels strikingly of the moment, as a resurgent feminist movement draws attention to the wide scope of misogyny." -- Alejandro Chacoff - The New Yorker"An emotionally (and physically) harrowing account of isolation, violence, and hypocrisy." -- Tobias Carroll - Words Without Borders"A cult masterpiece. The author has been compared to Joyce and Proust." -- Enrique Vila-Matas"Grips and perturbs the reader simultaneously." -- Les Monde des Livres"A great novel." -- Alejandro Zambra"A sublime explosion that results from an unpredictable art." -- El Pais"An Argentinian masterpiece." -- La Stampa
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W. W. Norton & Company Compass
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2015 Prix Goncourt, an astounding novel that bridges Europe and the Islamic worldTrade Review"In this magisterial, exquisitely erudite novel, the insomniac meditations of the bedridden and lovelorn musicologist Franz Ritter take the reader on a vast, crisscrossing perambulation through the rich history of the commingling of Orient and Occident in the 19th and early 20th centuries." -- The New York Times"A fever-dream meditation on East and West and a lost love that binds the two worlds... Lyrical and intellectually rich without ever being ponderous, reminiscent at turns of Mann's Death in Venice and Bowles' Sheltering Sky." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Compass is as challenging, brilliant, and—God help me—important a novel as is likely to be published this year." -- Justin Taylor - The Los Angeles Times"Énard’s prose, which tends to pile descriptive clauses ever higher on top of one another... can be mesmerizing. But it’s the larger project of his writing that bears particular consideration: in his fiction, Énard is constructing an intricate, history-rich vision of a persistently misunderstood part of the world." -- The New Yorker"Énard has written a masterful novel..." -- The Washington Post"Mr. Énard fuses recollection and scholarly digression into a swirling, hypnotic stream-of-consciousness narration. [...] So this sad yet invigorating novel is both a love letter to a vanishing discipline and an elegy. Franz’s mental circumnavigations constitute a celebration of the civilizing power of knowledge and 'the beauty of sharing and diversity.'" -- Sam Sacks - The Wall Street Journal"Compass is poetic, ironic, irresistible." -- Jane Ciabattari - BBC"For all its sandstorm of scholarship, translated with tireless eloquence by Charlotte Mandell, Compass aches with that simple yearning. 'Only love' of a person or a culture, thinks Franz under the stars of Syria, 'opens us up to the other.'" -- The Economist"[H]is most far-reaching and accomplished book and one of the finest European novels in recent memory." -- Adrian Nathan West - Literary Review"[A] brilliant, elusive, outré love letter to Middle Eastern art and culture." -- Dustin Illingworth - Los Angeles Review of Books"Compass, in its relentlessly discursive impressiveness, embodies an uncompromising vision of the novel as relatively static political and cultural essay." -- The Guardian"A novelist like Énard feels particularly necessary right now, though to say this may actually be to undersell his work. He is not a polemicist but an artist, one whose novels will always have something to say to us." -- Christopher Beha - Harper's Magazine"In a time of fear and loathing, Énard’s magnum opus points us toward the reality behind so many myths of the Orient." -- New Republic"This astonishing, encyclopedic, and otherwise outré meditation by Énard on the cultural intersection of East and West takes the form of an insomniac’s obsessive imaginings—dreams, memories, and desires—which come to embody the content of a life, or perhaps several.... [An] opium addict’s dream of a novel." -- Publishers Weekly"[A] masterly new novel that attempts to redeem the specter of the Orient..." -- Library Journal"Mathias Énard is the most brazen French writer since Houellebecq." -- New Statesman"Compass is a novel about many things. At its surface it is about the pull of unmet dreams and ambitions. The falsities of love. But at the crux of this examination of a human life is the fabric of cultures intersecting—and in the truth that the pathos of grief exempts no one." -- Yasmin Roshanian - EuropeNow"Mathias Énard has found a way to restore death to life and life to death, and so joins the first rank of novelists, the bringers of fire, who even as they can’t go on, do." -- Garth Risk Hallberg - The Millions"It’s with no small amount of urgency that Mathias Énard’s Compass, an engrossing meditation on the cultural and historical tension between Europe and the Islamic world, arrives from New Directions in a gorgeous translation by Charlotte Mandell." -- Hal Hlavinka - Quarterly Conversation"Comparisons of Compass with The Thousand and One Nights and with Proust (and Ritter thinks about both) are not only inevitable, but necessary." -- Frank Richardson - Numero Cinq
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Solitary Twin
Book SynopsisHarry Mathews’s last novel is one of his most accessible—and perhaps one of his bestTrade Review"The Solitary Twin is the perfect endnote for Harry Mathews and a superb point of entry for new readers, encapsulating his lifelong commitment to formal invention while simply being an excellent novel in its own right." -- J.W. McCormack - BOMB Magazine"An imagination and an ingenuity that are often just astonishing." -- Harper's"An imagination and an ingenuity that are often just astonishing." -- Harper's"A fascinating, discursive swan song that celebrates the power of stories." -- Tyler Malone - La Times"As the novel circles closer to the grand reveal promised by its title, Mathews toys with the reader’s 'desire to resolve the irresolute, to conclude the incomplete, to have the crooked made straight.' The result is an undeniably clever parting shot from one of contemporary literature’s most playfully challenging writers." -- Publishers Weekly"One of the most remarkable prose stylists presently writing in English." -- San Francisco Chronicle"Posthumous books almost always feel half-formed, coincidental, unpublished for a reason....The Solitary Twin, however, may well be the last great surprise Mathews pulled out of his deep bag of tricks. It is funny, perplexing, consistent and unusual, with all the characteristic Mathews obsessions. It may also be one of the best places to start enjoying his work." -- The New York Times Book Review"Comic extravaganza that plays mockingly with every device of fiction." -- Washington Post Book World"Like Roubaud and Perec, Mathews engineers a funhouse labyrinth in which guise disfigures guise and the logic that reigns is that of representation." -- Village Voice"Comic extravaganza that plays mockingly with every device of fiction." -- Washington Post Book World
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Star
Book SynopsisFor the first time in English, a glittering novella about stardom from “one of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century” (Judith Thurman, The New Yorker) Winner of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese LiteratureTrade Review"Mishima is famous both for writing and for dying. Or, strictly, for attempting hara-kiri. Perhaps surprising, then, is that Star is about shooting a blockbuster: not an Ozu or a Mizoguchi but a cheap Yakuza flick. Mishima himself starred in Afraid to Die, Yukoku, Black Lizard, and Hitokiri and knew first-hand his subject the vapidity of fame. Startling, is its lack of artifice: yielding grace from pulp." -- Oscar Mardell - 3:AM Magazine"This 1961 novel is finally getting the translation it has so long deserved. The psychologically complex story of Rikio Mizuno, young star of a series of gangster films, is based in part on Mishima’s own experiences as an actor. This is a landmark novel of 20th century Japan, and you no longer have to learn Japanese to read it." -- Jeff Somers - Barnes and Noble"Mishima nicely captures the alter-world of stardom—a sharp little novella." -- Complete Review"This little novella gives a bang-filled rush, reflecting on the empty deceit of fame and the psychology of celebrity. Once you're on top of the world, can you ever escape it?" -- Literary Hub"An exquisite contemplation of existence and death, and Mishima’s prose is extremely powerful and the translation finely executed." -- Los Angeles Review of Books"A startlingly modern, hypervisual jewel." -- Patti Smith - New York Times Book Review"Mishima's glitzy melange of playboy paranoia and heartthrob ennui cracks the proverbial 15 minutes wide open, spilling all the juicy details regarding fawning sycophants, monotonous re-shoots, and the anesthetizing effect of prolonged exposure to the limelight. Death-haunted and contemptuous, Star is a sneering "up yours" to celebrity and fanaticism depicted in panoramic decadence — though, notably, nowhere is its critique more biting than when gazing at its own fractured reflection. A rain-slick melodrama dripping with bored excess, this is a pocket guide for the sexy and disaffected." -- Powell's Books"Mishima’s ethereal 1961 novel, published for the first time in English, showcases the strains of fame on a young movie star. Mishima is a master of the psychological: this nimble novella about the costs and delusions of constant public attention will resonate with readers." -- Publishers Weekly"Enormously relevant" -- Spectrum Culture"Written shortly after Mishima himself starred in the yakuza-centered Afraid to Die, his slim novella—smoothly translated into English for the first time by prize-winning Sam Bett—is a raw, scathing examination of fame." -- Terry Hong - The Booklist Reader"Mishima is like Stendhal in his precise psychological analyses, like Dostoevsky in his explorations of darkly destructive personalities." -- The Christian Science Monitor"A short but intense psychological ride. Sam Bett has given the book a colloquial translation that powerfully evokes a mood of Hollywood’s Golden Age." -- Kiri Falls - The Japan News"Star isn’t merely a treat for completists, but a happy reunion with a genius." -- The Japan Times"Mishima was one of literature’s great romantics." -- Jay McInerney - The New York Times"Star, the novella Mishima published in 1960, is now open to rediscovery thanks to an adroit, colloquial translation into American English by Sam Bett. It offers us a snapshot of a twenty-three-year-old, up-and-coming movie star, Rikio Mizuno. In Star, the world of film is, it seems, all artifice, both on and off screen, a world where everyone dons masks as a service to public tastes and desires while peering into mirrors of narcissistic self-regard. Literary genius" -- Damian Flanagan - The Times Literary Supplement (London)"Star, translated from Japanese by Sam Bett, is a strange, avant-garde novella following a young actor who [receives] the kind of attention that could drive any person slowly insane." -- Thrillist "Best Books of 2019""This pitch-perfect novella from Yukio Mishima tells the story of a young film star disenchanted with the trappings of fame. Drawing on his own experiences as an actor, Mishima’s Star is a stunning addition to the oeuvre of one of postwar Japan’s greatest storytellers." -- Thomas Gebremedhin - WSJ Magazine"There may be no writer more autobiographical than Yukio Mishima. He resembles Ce´line and Genet, writers who were not political writers but who were working out the crisis of being alive, the crisis of experience itself. That’s precisely the way it is transcendent—it goes beyond the visible world into a world in which being alive makes sense." -- Philip Glass
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Last Wolf Herman
Book SynopsisNow in paperback, two novellas from the Hungarian master László Krasznahorkai—“one of the most mysterious artists now at work” (Colm Toíbín) Trade Review"Gateway drugs to Krasznahorkai’s work: As the very best fiction always does, they bring another world—an alien world, let’s say—into our own." -- Christine Smallwood - Harper’s"Krasznahorkai, poet of the Apocalypse, stands alone relentlessly, if gleefully, offering wonders." -- The Economist"Together, ‘The Last Wolf’ and ‘Herman’ raise a set of spiritual questions that affirms their author as one of the most important — and eccentric — writers working today." -- Hari Kunzru - The Spectator
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New Directions Publishing Corporation A LeopardSkin Hat
Book SynopsisA quintessential early novel about an intense friendship, by the winner of the 2020 Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle. Trade Review"Genuinely original—and, often, very quietly so." -- Parul Sehgal - The New York Times"Wry, unconventional." -- The New Yorker"Putting down one of Anne Serre’s books is like coming up for air." -- Lucie Elven - London Review of Books"I love Anne Serre, translated by Mark Hutchinson, for the rippling unreality of her prose. Reading her is like watching a mirage flicker in and out of focus." -- Merve Emre"Readers will be moved by this probing story about the unknowability of others." -- Publishers Weekly"Exuberantly anti-realist and avowedly fictional...The story of Fanny and the Narrator is a story about our impulse to understand one another and about the way in which unknowability is what makes someone interesting." -- Meghan Racklin - The Brooklyn Rail
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Random House USA Inc Open City A Novel
Book Synopsis“Cerebral and capacious, Teju Cole’s novel asks what it means to roam freely.”—The New York Times (One of the 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years) “Influential . . . makes you think about what kind of city is revealed to us based on where we cannot go.”—Katie Kitamura, bestselling author of Intimacies ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR • WINNER: PEN/Hemingway Award, Rosenthal Foundation Award, New York City Book Award “A timely and compelling argument for tolerance and moral character in times of extreme antagonism.”—The New York Times One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsAlong the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor named Julius doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks are a release from the tigh
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Random House USA Inc Tough Guys Dont Dance
Book Synopsis“Spectacular . . . [Norman Mailer] makes every word count, like a master knife thrower zinging stilettos in a circle around your head.”—PeopleNorman Mailer peers into the recesses and buried virtues of the modern American male in a brilliant crime novel that transcends genre. When Tim Madden, an unsuccessful writer living on Cape Cod, awakes with a gruesome hangover, a painful tattoo on his upper arm, and a severed female head in his marijuana stash, he has almost no memory of the night before. As he reconstructs the missing hours, Madden runs afoul of retired prizefighters, sex addicts, mediums, former cons, a world-weary ex-girlfriend, and his own father, old now but still a Herculean figure. Stunningly conceived and vividly composed, Tough Guys Don’t Dance represents Mailer at the peak of his powers. Praise for Tough Guys Don’t Dance “As brash, brooding and ultimately mesmeri
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Random House USA Inc The Most Dangerous Place on Earth
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Random House USA Inc The Guest
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this “spellbinding” (Vogue), “smoldering” (The Washington Post) novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls. “Under Cline’s command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing the line between welcome and unwelcome guest becomes a fully destabilizing force.”—The New York TimesA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Vogue, Newsweek, Good Housekeeping, Slate, Chicago Public Library, Electric Lit“Alex drained her wineglass, then her water glass. The ocean looked calm, a black darker than the sky. A ripple of anxiety made her palms go damp. It seemed suddenly very tenuous to believe that anything would stay hidden, that she could suc
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Piglet
Book SynopsisDiscover the deliciously dark and piercing novel of food and secrets, perfect for fans of Lisa Taddeo and Meg Mason*A New York Times standout book of 2024**A Stylist Best Debut for 2024*A sharp, dark, must-read story about appetite, ambition, secrecy and shame' Daily MailIf I owned a bookstore, I'd hand-sell Piglet to everyone' New York Times Book ReviewA dark, weird, satisfying tale about greed and desire' i NewsHer life is so full, so why is she hungry?For Piglet an unshakable childhood nickname getting married is her opportunity to reinvent. Together, Kit and Piglet are the picture of domestic bliss effortless hosts, planning a covetable wedding...But if a life looks too good to be true, it probably is.Thirteen days before they are due to be married, Kit reveals an awful truth, cracking the façade Piglet has created. It has the power to strip her of the life she has so carefully built, so smugly shared.To do something about it would be to self-destruct.But what will it cost her to do nothing?As the hours count down to their wedding, Piglet is torn between a growing appetite and the desire to follow the recipe, follow the rules. Surely, with her husband, she could be herself again. Wouldn't it be a waste for everything to curdle now?Piglet is a searing, unforgettable and original debut which is taking readers by storm in 2024.Compulsively readable... Delicious, in every sense of the word.' Elle USAn insightful, stomach-churning debut novel about the corrosive power of secrets' Mail on SundayA cunning critique of the expectations that society continues to heap on young women.' Financial TimesA debut that needs to be on your radar A rich, vibrant, visceral book, that is brimming with acerbic wit and mouth-watering food, this is dark, witty and explores societal pressure and body image in an unforgettable way' - GlamourDelicious, dark and thought-provoking' Hello!Satirical and funny Hazell has much to say about our food-obsessed snobbery and she plates up a deliciously-written narrative, generously peppered with lethal ground glass' Irish IndependentA food-filled debut of class and ambition' GuardianTrade ReviewVery wise, and so wonderful on food and cooking it should probably come with a hunger trigger-warning. I loved it. * Daily Mail *A best debut novel of 2024 * Stylist *A cunning critique of the expectations that society continues to heap on young women. * Financial Times *A deliciously dark tour de force * Red *Some novels just get food right ... Hazell understands just how connected culinary and literary pleasures are ... [There is] much to devour in Piglet: set scenes of stomach-churning awkwardness, razor-sharp analysis of class, even an unforgettable description of food on the verge of rot. * Sunday Times *
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Little, Brown Book Group Mary Oliver A Life Virago Modern Classics
Book SynopsisBorn in 1865, Mary Olivier is the youngest of four children. Mamma dominates this Victorian household, idolising the boys, rejecting the independent love of her only daughter: the archetype of all women who control by weakness and suffering. Mary adores her mother- and she hates her. Ferociously intelligent, she vacillates between a passionate quest for her own artistic and sexual identity.This is one of the first novels ever written about a mother and daughter relationship, and the eternal conflict engendered by the deepest of ties. But it is a celebration too: for though Mary sacrifices her life- and her lover- to the demands of duty, she emerges victorious, finding in the discovery of her intellectual and feminine self an inner freedom, a perfect happiness.Trade ReviewA multi-levelled, absorbing, fiercely passionate story from a wonderfully gifted writer. * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *
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Verbatim Books Deep Structure The Stonehenge Quantum 3 Gatsby
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Michael Walmer A Share of the World
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Tyrant Books Essays and Fictions
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Pan Macmillan The Blue Bedspread
Book SynopsisA coming of age novel set in India.
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Random House Canada The Damages
Book SynopsisSharp and propulsive, The Damages is an engrossing novel set in motion by the disappearance of a student during an ice storm, and explores themes of memory, trauma, friendship, and identity.What I remember best about that week in January is trying to keep track of all the lies I told.1997: For Ros, starting university at Regis is an opportunity for reinvention—a chance to be seen as interesting, to be accepted by the in-crowd, and maybe even get a boyfriend. But when she meets her roommate, Megan, with her pleated jeans and horse-print bedding, she sees her as a social liability. Outside of their dorm room, Ros distances herself from Megan and quickly befriends the cool kids, seeking status at all costs. Just after winter break, an intense ice storm hits campus, triggering a reckless, days-long dorm party, during which Megan goes missing. Ros is blamed for the incident and abruptly dropped by her social circle, casting a shadow over the next two decades of her life.2020: Ros’s former partner, Lukas, the father of her eleven-year-old son, is accused of a sexual assault. The accusation brings new details of an old story to light, forcing Ros to revisit a dark moment from her past. Ros must take a hard look not only at the father of her child, but also at her own mistakes, her own trauma, and at the supposed liberal period she grew up in.The Damages is a page-turning, thought-provoking novel about the lies we tell other people and the lies we tell ourselves.
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Random House Canada Study for Obedience
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEShortlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeIncluded in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023Longlisted for the Dublin Literary AwardFor readers of Shirley Jackson, Iain Reid, and Claire-Louise Bennett, a haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction.A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has recently left him. Soon after her arrival, a series of inexplicable events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed with some intensity at her and she senses a mounting threat that lies 'just beyond the garden gate.' And as she feels the hostility growing, pressing at the edges of her brother's property, she fears that, should the rumblings in the town gather themselves into a more defined shape, who knows what might happen, what one might be capable of doing.With a sharp, lyrical voice, Sarah Bernstein powerfully explores questions of complicity and power, displacement and inheritance. Study for Obedience is a finely tuned, unsettling novel that confirms Bernstein as one of the most exciting voices of her generation.
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Random House USA Inc A Cure for Suicide
Book Synopsis***LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD***A man and a woman have moved into a small house in a small village. The woman is an examiner, charged with teaching the man a series of simple functions—this is a chair, this is a fork, this is how you meet people. Still, the man is haunted by strange dreams, and when he meets a charismatic, volatile young woman named Hilda at a party, it throws everything he has learned into question. What is this village? And why is he here? A fascinating novel of love, illness, despair, and betrayal, A Cure for Suicide is the most captivating novel yet from one of our most audacious and original young writers.
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Random House USA Inc Forget Me Not
Book SynopsisShe was born for all the wrong reasons. But her search for the truth reveals answers she wishes she could bury in Forget Me Not, a suspenseful and deeply moving near-future thriller from the author of The Last One.“A page-turning mystery . . . highly original, sharply insightful, and thoroughly riveting.”—Kimberly McCreight, New York Times bestselling author of A Good MarriageWhat if your past wasn’t what you thought?As a child, Linda Russell was left to raise herself in a twenty-acre walled-off property in rural Washington. The woods were her home, and for twelve years she lived oblivious to a stark and terrible truth: Her mother had birthed her only to replace another daughter who died in a tragic accident years before. Then one day Linda witnesses something she wasn’t meant to see. Terrified and alone, she climbs the wall and abandons her home, but her escape
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Picador The Virgin Suicides
Book SynopsisThese pocket-sized titles are stunning....They make the perfect stocking stuffers! - MetroBought together or separately, these fiction titles are ideal stocking stuffers for the literature lover. - USA TodayThe national bestseller from Jeffrey Eugenides, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex and The Marriage Plot. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life. First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters--beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys--commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mys
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St. Martin's Griffin An Anonymous Girl
Book SynopsisThe instant #1 New York Times bestseller everyone is talking about! People Magazine''s Book of the Week Bookish''s Must-Read Books of Winter PopSugar''s Best Books of Winter Cosmopolitan''s 2019 Books to Bring to Your Book Club Bookbub''s Biggest Books of Winter Refinery 29''s Best Books of January 2019 Crime Reads'' January''s Best Psychological Thrillers InStyle''s7 Books That You Should Resolve to Read This January HelloGiggles'' The 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2019 USA Today''s 5 New Books Not to Miss Marie Claire''s The Best Women's Fiction of 2019 (So Far) Hypable''s Winter Releases You Can't Afford to MissHendricks and Pekkanen are at the top of their game...You won''t see the final twist coming. People MagazineBeware strange psychologiststhe authors know exactly how to play on their characters' love of danger to bring the
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Picador USA The Answers
Book SynopsisNamed to Most Anticipated and Must Read lists by Huffington Post, W, Nylon, Elle, Buzzfeed and Chicago ReaderWritten by one of Granta''s Best Young American Novelists, Catherine Lacey''s The Answers is a novel of intellect and amplitude that deepens as it moves forward (The New York Times) about a woman learning to negotiate her ailment via the simulacrum of a perfect romantic relationship. Mary Parsons is broke. Dead broke, really: between an onslaught of medical bills and a mountain of credit card debt, she has been pushed to the brink. Hounded by bill collectors and still plagued by the painful and bizarre symptoms that doctors couldn't diagnose, Mary seeks relief from a holistic treatment called Pneuma Adaptive KinesthesiaPAKing, for short. Miraculously, it works. But PAKing is prohibitively expensive. Like so many young adults trying to make ends meet in New York City, Mary scours Craig
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Flatiron Books The Husbands
Book SynopsisA GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICKChandler Baker, queen of the feminist thriller, has delivered once again! The Husbands is a poignant exploration of what it would take for women to have it all. -Sally Hepworth, bestselling author of The Good SisterTo what lengths will a woman go for a little more help from her husband? Nora Spangler is a successful attorney but when it comes to domestic life, she packs the lunches, schedules the doctor appointments, knows where the extra paper towel rolls are, and designs and orders the holiday cards. Her husband works hard, too... but why does it seem like she is always working so much harder?When the Spanglers go house hunting in Dynasty Ranch, an exclusive suburban neighborhood, Nora meets a group of high-powered women-a tech CEO, a neurosurgeon, an award-winning therapist, a bestselling author-with enviably supportive husbands. When she agrees to help with a resident's wrongful death
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Picador Our Kind of Cruelty
Book SynopsisA searing, chilling sliver of perfection . . . May well turn out to be the year's best thriller. -Charles Finch, The New York Times Book ReviewThis is simply one of the nastiest and most disturbing thrillers I've read in years. I loved it, right down to the utterly chilling final line. -Gillian FlynnA spellbinding, darkly twisted novel about desire and obsession, and the complicated lines between truth and perception, Our Kind of Cruelty introduces Araminta Hall, a chilling new voice in psychological suspense.This is a love story. Mike's love story.Mike Hayes fought his way out of a brutal childhood and into a quiet, if lonely, life before he met Verity Metcalf. V taught him about love, and in return, Mike has dedicated his life to making her happy. He's found the perfect home, the perfect job; he's sculpted himself into the physical ideal V has always wanted. He knows they'll be bl
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Celadon Books Saint X
Book Synopsis A New York Times Notable Book of 2020, now a Hulu Original Series!''Saint X'' is hypnotic. Schaitkin''s characters...are so intelligent and distinctive it feels not just easy, but necessary, to follow them. I devoured [it] in a day.Oyinkan Braithwaite, New York Times Book ReviewWhen you lose the person who is most essential to you, who do you become? Recommended by Entertainment Weekly, included in Good Morning America''s 20 Books We''re Excited for in 2020 & named as one of Vogue''s Best Books to Read This Winter, Bustle''s Most Anticipated Books of February 2020, and O Magazine''s 14 of the Best Books to Read This February!Hailed as a marvel of a book and brilliant and unflinching, Alexis Schaitkin's stunning debut, Saint X, is a haunting portrait of grief, obsession, and the bond between two sisters never truly given the chance to know one another.Claire is only s
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Celadon Books Saint X
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St Martin's Press The Collected Regrets of Clover
Book SynopsisNamed a Best Book of 2023 by NPRThis weird, lovely and sweetly satisfying novel [is] engaging and accessible...Clover's emergence from a shuttered life is moving enough to elicit tears, and Brammer's take on death and grieving is profound enough to feel genuinely instructional. The New York Times Book ReviewWhat's the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can't give yourself a beautiful life?From the day she watched her kindergarten teacher drop dead during a dramatic telling of Peter Rabbit, Clover Brooks has felt a stronger connection with the dying than she has with the living. After the beloved grandfather who raised her dies alone while she is traveling, Clover becomes a death doula in New York City, dedicating her life to ushering people peacefully through their end-of-life process.Clover spends so much time with the dying that she has no life of her own, until the final wishes of a feisty old
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St Martin's Press Home Oprahs Book Club
Book SynopsisA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A NEW YORK TIMESE NOTABLE BOOK WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR [Robinson''s] prose is our flight out, a keen instrument of vision and transcendence. O, the Oprah MagazineHailed as incandescent, magnificent, and a literary miracle (Entertainment Weekly), hundreds of thousands of readers were enthralled by Marilynne Robinson''s Gilead. Now Robinson returns with a brilliantly imagined retelling of the prodigal son parable, set at the same moment and in the same Iowa town as Gilead.A luminous and healing book about families, family secrets, and faith from one of America''s most beloved and ac
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St Martin's Press The Therapist
Book SynopsisThe multimillion-copy New York Times bestselling author B.A. Paris returns to her heartland of gripping psychological suspense in The Therapist-a powerful tale of a house that holds a shocking secret.When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, a gated community of exclusive houses, it is everything they've dreamed of. But appearances can be deceptive...As Alice is getting to know her neighbours, she discovers a devastating secret about her new home, and begins to feel a strong connection with Nina, the therapist who lived there before.Alice becomes obsessed with trying to piece together what happened two years before. But no one wants to talk about it. Her neighbors are keeping secrets and things are not as perfect as they seem...
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Picador USA Take Me Apart
Book SynopsisA juicy thriller (Entertainment Weekly) Absorbing (USA Today) Dark and thoughtful (Washington Post) Gratifying (Wall Street Journal) Sun-soaked noir (LA Review of Books) A spellbinding novel of psychological suspense that follows a young archivist's obsession with her subject's mysterious death as it threatens to destroy her fragile grasp on sanity.When the famed photographer Miranda Brand died mysteriously at the height of her career, it sent shock waves through Callinas, California. Decades later, old wounds are reopened when her son Theo hires the ex-journalist Kate Aitken to archive his mother's work and personal effects.As Kate sorts through the vast maze of material and contends with the vicious rumors and shocking details of Miranda''s private life, she pieces together a portrait of a vibrant artist buckling under the pressures of ambition, motherhood, and marriage. But Kate has secret
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Picador USA The Faces
Book SynopsisFrom Tove Ditlevsen, the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, comes The Faces, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the vividness of lived experience.Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and voices. She is convinced that her husband, already extravagantly unfaithful, will leave her. Most of all, she is scared that she will never write again. Yet as she descends into a world of pills and hospitals, she begins to wonderis insanity really something to be feared, or does it bring a kind of freedom?
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Flatiron Books Cutting Teeth
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Picador USA Liarmouth A FeelBad Romance
Book SynopsisA hilariously filthy tale of sex, crime, and family dysfunction from the brilliantly twisted mind of John Waters, the legendary filmmaker and bestselling author of Mr. Know-It-All.Marsha Sprinkle: Suitcase thief. Scammer. Master of disguise. Dogs and children hate her. Her own family wants her dead. She's smart, she's desperate, she's disturbed, and she's on the run with a big chip on her shoulder. They call her Liarmouthuntil one insane man makes her tell the truth.Liarmouth, the first novel by John Waters, is a perfectly perverted feel-bad romance, and the reader will thrill to hop aboard this delirious road trip of riotous revenge.
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Holt McDougal Sleepwalk
Book SynopsisSleepwalk is a high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future America with a big-hearted mercenary, from beloved and acclaimed award-winning novelist Dan Chaon.[Chaon] does madcap well and likes his characters, even the killersespecially the killers.The New York Times Book ReviewA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceAn NPR Book of the DayA USA Today Must ReadSleepwalk's hero, Will Bear, is a man with so many aliases that he simply thinks of himself as the Barely Blur. At fifty years old, he's been living off the grid for over half his life. He's never had a real job, never paid taxes, never been in a committed relationship. A good-natured henchman with a complicated and lonely past and a passion for LSD microdosing, he spends his time hopscotching across state lines in his beloved camper van, running sometimes shady often dangerous errands for a powerful and ruthl
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Minotaur Books,US Things We Do in the Dark
Book SynopsisPropulsive and chilling. --People MagazineAn intoxicating thrill ride. Hillier jams her foot on the accelerator and never lets up. --New York Times Book ReviewThings We Do in the Dark is a brilliant new thriller from Jennifer Hillier, the award-winning author of the breakout novels Little Secrets and Jar of Hearts. Paris Peralta is suspected of killing her celebrity husband, and her long-hidden past now threatens to destroy her future.When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroomcovered in blood, holding a straight razor, her celebrity husband dead in the bathtub behind hershe knows she''ll be charged with murder. But as bad as this looks, it''s not what worries her the most. With the unwanted media attention now surrounding her, it''s only a matter of time before someone from her long hidden past recognizes her and destroys the new life she''s worked so hard to build, along with any chance of a fut
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MacMillan Audio Cutting Teeth
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WW Norton & Co Such Kindness
Book SynopsisA full-hearted parable of aspiration, loss and redemption from a literary master of working-class New England.Trade Review"Dubus is at the top of his game here, masterfully carrying the reader from the present action to Tom's memories and dreams without confusion. The writing and the structure are clean and seamless. " -- Issac Fitzgerald - The New York Times Book Review"A powerful portrait of recovered dignity. " -- People"Dubus excels at showing how mistakes can compound into tragedy... [and] brilliantly captures the ways chronic pain erodes the self... 'Such Kindness' is an astonishing novel about all these feelings, and the actions they call forth when we pay attention. " -- Lorraine Berry - The Los Angeles Times"Dubus is, undoubtedly, a skilled writer, and 'Such Kindness' is an admirable project for challenging us to show compassion for those on the economic fringes of society. " -- Zahir Janmohamed - Boston Globe"Such Kindness charts a remarkable rebirth, not from poverty to wealth but from bitter helplessness to the knowledge of self-worth. The result is a gripping and transformational journey towards kindness, in a tremendously moving novel. " -- Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House"Such Kindness is magnificent. A profound and compassionate study of how to be human wrapped in a taut survival story. I loved it so much. This is Dubus at his absolute finest." -- Lily King, author of Five Tuesdays in Winter
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WW Norton & Co The Latinist
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ingenious.... a superb literary suspense novel that calls to mind an earlier such debut, Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.... Like the classics that inspire it, The Latinist is an inventive wedding of the elegant and the barbaric." -- Maureen Corrigan - Washington Post"Smart and fast-paced.... [A] sparkling debut.... A contemporary classic." -- Clea Simon - Boston Globe"Prins’s confident, engrossing debut novel.... contains more than enough twists to keep you turning the page until the very end." -- Chris Murphy - Vanity Fair"A devilishly clever and terrifically entertaining campus novel/philological whodunnit that also happens to be a brilliantly sly riff on Ovid’s Apollo & Daphne.... A remarkably polished and skillful first novel." -- Daniel Mendelsohn"It would have taken me a single night to read the book except that I kept pausing to pursue tantalizing nuggets of information, ranging from choliambic verse to amputation practices of yesteryear. [A] cleverly plotted adventure about an American student who falls prey to the schemes of her malevolent adviser—a tale of passion, suspense and archaeology. (That’s what I call a ‘triple threat’!)" -- Molly Young - New York Times"Oxford University graduate student Tessa Templeton trusts her dissertation adviser, Christopher Eccles—but should she? ... The Latinist, which twists around the Daphne and Apollo myth from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, culminates with a deeply satisfying blow to the treachery of academia." -- Jason DeRose - NPR, Best Books of 2022"An engrossing psychological thriller.... an absorbing drama about obsession, abuse of power and intimate violence." -- Sharmila Mukherjee - Minneapolis Star Tribune"Brilliant.... Delves deep to question the blurring line between love and obsession, between a yearning for truth and a desire of power." -- Jianan Qian - The Millions"Propulsive.... a campus novel turned psychological thriller.... The novel invites us to see Tessa as Daphne, manipulated by but ultimately escaping Eccles’s Apollo, yet it also asks us: what happens to her humanity along the way?" -- Ayelet Haimson Lushkov - Los Angeles Review of Books"This cerebral thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat.... Prins’ analysis of the toxic relationship between advisor and student is nuanced and thoughtful.... The Latinist succeeds as both literary fiction and thriller; it is every bit as suspenseful as it is intellectually intriguing, with many of the features of A.S. Byatt’s Possession." -- Hannah Joyner - Washington Independent Review of Books"Within the first few pages of this book, I knew I was in the hands of a masterful storyteller. The Latinist is imaginative, propulsive, and wildly intelligent. What a joy to encounter a thrilling and singular new voice in fiction." -- Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, author of The Nest and Good Company"A novel about love and scholarship, ego and obsession, coercion and consent—a brilliant, marvelously infuriating puzzle of a book that combines the globe-trotting exploits of The Da Vinci Code with the smarts and literary gifts of A. S. Byatt. A terrific debut!" -- Julie Schumacher, author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement"Brainy and deftly plotted, The Latinist enchants with its deft inversions of power, its witty poetic inventions, and its passion for languages old and new. A lovely debut." -- Andrea Barrett, author of Archangel and The Air We Breathe"Mark Prins weaves together an extremely contemporary plot—an American academic caught up in the machinations of her advisor at Oxford—with a much older plot—the discovery of a second-century Roman poet. The two thrillingly intertwine and the result is a wonderfully suspenseful novel. The Latinist is a brilliant debut." -- Margot Livesey, author of The Boy in the Field" The Latinist is a whip-smart tale of obsession that teeters on the knife-edge of suspense and literary fiction; Mark Prins is a worthy successor to Patricia Highsmith, Donna Tartt, and Ian McEwan." -- Alexandra Andrews, author of Who Is Maud Dixon?"With its ambitious young scholar, an ancient tomb, and a scheming advisor, The Latinist is a twisty and memorable new addition to the campus-novel genre. Mark Prins propels you through his tale of breakthroughs and retribution while delivering a sharp commentary on power dynamics in academia. A cunning and insightful read—I couldn’t put it down." -- Maria Hummel, author of Still Lives and Lesson in Red"Darkly disturbing and luminously told.… Every twist is delicious and every turn breathtaking as Mark Prins’s devilish debut revels in a scholarly world of cunning, ruthlessness, and dangerous obsession. Funny, erudite, and utterly absorbing, this is a merciless tale to be relished like a guilty pleasure." -- Christopher J. Yates, author of Black Chalk and Grist Mill Road"Prins’s riveting tale of love, power, and possession matches deep characterization with an intriguing plot involving ancient texts, necropolises, and archaeological sites. Fans of academic thrillers will dig this." -- Publishers Weekly
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Simon & Schuster Ltd Small Joys
Book SynopsisThe sensational debut novel about love, friendship and finding happiness in the most unexpected places. 'It's as fun as it is thoughtful: a tender and generous novel about finding your people, getting vulnerable, and celebrating every joy - big or small.' Buzzfeed 'Elvin James Mensah's Small Joys is breathtaking and heartrending, by turns hilarious and devastating and surprising and wild. Mensah's prose makes the intangible deft and tremendous — from the balm of friendship, to the beauty of queerness, and the all-encompassing elixir of community. Tender, thrilling, and honest; Small Joys is a beam of light.' Bryan Washington, author of Memorial 'A beautiful, moving story of love, male intimacy, chosen family and finding self worth.' Paul Mendez, author of Rainbow Milk ‘I adored Sma
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Simon & Schuster Ltd Goddesses
Book Synopsis‘Exciting, contemporary, heartfelt and clever’ Greg Mosse‘Riveting, real and raw . . . a powerful journey’ Balvinder Sopal‘Wisely and wittily leaps into the heart of friendships’ Sabrina Mahfouz ‘Dares to subject modern feminism to a tough and timely cross-examination’ T.J. EmersonThe hen party from hell descends into darkness, perfect for fans of Nikki May, Dawn O’Porter and Zakiya Dalila HarrisSome friends have your back. Some friends stab you in the back. Ayesha is just about finding her feet on the London stand-up scene, but when her response to a sexist heckler goes viral, she finds herself drawn into an exclusive group of activists: a sacred circle of change makers, each woman with a specific gift to contribute to the cause. The circle draws in her friend Yaz too aTrade Review'Had me laughing out loud in some places and unable to tear my gaze from the drama in others. Highly recommended' Cass Green, author of The Killer Inside 'Bold, gripping and divinely comic. A thrilling pageturner with a fresh, original heroine at its heart. A story that dares to subject modern feminism to a tough and timely cross-examination' T.J. Emerson, author of The Ideal Man 'Exciting, contemporary, heartfelt and clever' Greg Mosse, author of Murder at Church Lodge 'Nina plays with many themes and masterfully weaves them into a narrative that is riveting, real and raw . . . a powerful journey . . . We are faced with colonial ownership, power, abuse, money, fame, cultural appropriation, the fetishisation of a culture and its people, feminism, and what happens when the right to tell one's own story is taken away, hijacked by another so far removed from our own lived experience. The narrative moves seamlessly from chapter to chapter, bringing us ever closer to the truth of what it feels like to be silenced into submission . . . It is the book of the year for me' Balvinder Sopal 'Goddesses wisely and wittily leaps into the heart of friendships made within rage, both how healing and harmful they can be. Taut with tension, the worlds of activism, comedy and literature are deftly and hilariously described. Combined with the resonant, contemporary tone, this is an excellent, indulgent read' Sabrina Mahfouz, poet and playwright, author of How You Might Know Me
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Simon & Schuster Ltd Goddesses
Book Synopsis‘Exciting, contemporary, heartfelt and clever’ Greg Mosse‘Riveting, real and raw . . . a powerful journey’ Balvinder Sopal‘Wisely and wittily leaps into the heart of friendships’ Sabrina Mahfouz ‘Dares to subject modern feminism to a tough and timely cross-examination’ T.J. EmersonThe hen party from hell descends into darkness, perfect for fans of Nikki May, Dawn O’Porter and Zakiya Dalila HarrisSome friends have your back. Some friends stab you in the back. Ayesha is just about finding her feet on the London stand-up scene, but when her response to a sexist heckler goes viral, she finds herself drawn into an exclusive group of activists: a sacred circle of change makers, each woman with a specific gift to contribute to the cause. The circle draws in her friend Yaz too aTrade Review'Had me laughing out loud in some places and unable to tear my gaze from the drama in others. Highly recommended' Cass Green, author of The Killer Inside 'Bold, gripping and divinely comic. A thrilling pageturner with a fresh, original heroine at its heart. A story that dares to subject modern feminism to a tough and timely cross-examination' T.J. Emerson, author of The Ideal Man 'Exciting, contemporary, heartfelt and clever' Greg Mosse, author of Murder at Church Lodge 'Nina plays with many themes and masterfully weaves them into a narrative that is riveting, real and raw . . . a powerful journey . . . We are faced with colonial ownership, power, abuse, money, fame, cultural appropriation, the fetishisation of a culture and its people, feminism, and what happens when the right to tell one's own story is taken away, hijacked by another so far removed from our own lived experience. The narrative moves seamlessly from chapter to chapter, bringing us ever closer to the truth of what it feels like to be silenced into submission . . . It is the book of the year for me' Balvinder Sopal 'Goddesses wisely and wittily leaps into the heart of friendships made within rage, both how healing and harmful they can be. Taut with tension, the worlds of activism, comedy and literature are deftly and hilariously described. Combined with the resonant, contemporary tone, this is an excellent, indulgent read' Sabrina Mahfouz, poet and playwright, author of How You Might Know Me
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