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Set in what may be the future, and centred on six women sharing a space in some sort of crumbling apartment tower, Ruins, Child is remarkable for its irresistible sweep, wit, and prickly splintered truth. Giada Scodellaros novel is like a precious old mirror: dropped, looking up at you, flashing light and bits of the undeniable. With the pulsating sway of its liquid mosaic narrative, the novel may recall Virginia Woolfs The Waves, but is entirely its own animal: kaleidoscopic, pointedly disorienting in its looseness, and powered along by snatches of speech from its compelling ensemble cast, often vernacular, often overheard. Its a book seemingly drawn from deep wells of Black American reality: Scodellaros female protagonists push back against authority in the very vivacity of their telling, setting afoot a freeing-up and a mysterious inversion of marginalization. A surreal musing, Ruins, Child uses the lens of urban infrastructure, social commentary, folklore, choreography and collective listening to create an ethnography of place and an ode to communal ruins.

Beirut, 1982, at the outbreak of the second Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and the young French activist George has been tasked by his old friend Samuel a Greek Jewish resistance fighter and theatre director with staging a performance of Jean Anouilhs Antigone in the Lebanese city. With a cast composed of those on all sides Palestinian, Christian, Druze, Jewish, Shiite, Sunni, Chaldean and Armenian and a stage caught amid the chaos and destruction of the approaching war, George and Sam hope that this radical act of art may spark the beginnings of peace and reconciliation. Their aspirations, however, are soon confronted by the brutal realities of the conflict and the true price of violence. Profound, harrowing and as urgently relevant as ever, The Fourth Wall is a stunning literary novel, informed by the authors own experiences as a journalist in the Middle East. Winner of the Prix Goncourt des lyceens and le Choix de lOrient.

When Titanic left Southampton in 1912, neither the Aristocrat, The Countess of Rothes, nor the Able Seaman, Thomas Jones, imagined meeting, let alone navigating a tiny lifeboat together at night, among towering icebergs. But Jones put Noel Rothes at the tiller of his boat when he realised her calm capability, and for seven long hours they did all they could to shepherd at least twenty-five others to safety. Their ordeal forged an unlikely affinity that lasted until Noel died in 1956.Angela Young, Noels great-granddaughter, tells the stories of these two courageous Titanic survivors and considers why so very few people survived the tragedy.

Spenser may have uncovered an explosive secret that threatens the career of a controversial figure, in this latest installment of Robert B. Parkers beloved series.Vic Hale isnt anyones idea of a father figure. He is one of the biggest and loudest podcasters in the nation and got there by spewing overheated rhetoric thats reviled by some but loved by even more. His particular brand of entertainment is so successful, hes about to sign the biggest contract in the history of online broadcasting. Vics riding high... until he gets a visit from Spenser, who specialises in bringing guys like Hale back down to Earth.Spenser is there on behalf of Daniel Lopez, a young man who believes Hale may be his father. Its a potentially explosive revelation for a man in the podcasters position and it might even be enough to blow up his massive new deal. That could explain the bodies that start popping up bodies connected in one way or another with the mystery surrounding Daniels birth. There are a lot of questions remaining, and Spensers going to have to find the answers before someone shuts Hale or Daniel up for good.

Take a Hike is a delicious second-chance romance, with miles of chemistry, yearning that feels real, and addictively relatable charactersEmma Lucy, author of Riding the LineWalking boots? Check. Raincoat? Check. Emotional baggage? Check, check, check.Lydia Williams is used to putting on a smile and saying yes. So, when her friends beg her to join them on a cross-country hiking trip she agrees, even if shed rather be crying into a pint of ice cream post-breakup. And post-job loss. Yeah, its been a week.Shes barely got her boots laced when Ren Hunter rocks up, her ex-best friend shes been desperately avoiding since he broke her heart.Ren knows he made the biggest mistake of his life. Hes ready to grovel, but Lydias walls are higher than any peak theyre about to climb. So after his brother-slash-business partner shoots down his dream, he jumps at the chance for a break and a chance to maybe, finally, win her back.Lydia is determined to keep her heart zipped up tight. But with days spent walking side by side and nights spent just inches apart, old feelings come creeping back, and in the middle of nowhere, they might just find their way back to each other.

Even in this predominantly secular age, Britains cathedrals remain potent symbols of religious continuity. Their purpose was to reveal Gods majesty, to declare the supremacy of the Church and the devotion of the men who built them. They were intended, literally, to be awesome. Similarly, our medieval abbeys, most of them sad remnants of a glorious past, serve to remind us of the dedication of those who aspired to the monastic ideal. No two cathedrals or abbeys are alike in their conception, location, construction or history, and it is this that gives them their limitless appeal.Informative, knowledgeable and wide-ranging, Stephen Friars study contains over 1,450 entries and explores the features of these places, as well as associated subjects, such as architecture, monuments and church music. Entries on the Anglo-Saxon Church, monasticism, the Reformation, the restoration of the Roman Catholic dioceses and more assist in revealing a wider historical context.Richly illustrated in both colour and black and white, The Companion to Cathedrals and Abbeys is essential reading to new and more seasoned researchers alike.

This new translation of the best stories by Ichiyo Higuchi showcases the pioneering authors profound sensitivity and lyrical eye. The crystalline beauty of falling snow is a painful reminder of lost innocence; three children growing up on the fringes of Tokyos red-light district enjoy a last summer of freedom before adulthood and its compromises overtake them; a discontented serving maid and a prodigal son find their transgressions can be mutually beneficial; and a mans passion for an indifferent teahouse courtesan becomes so consuming that he is willing to sacrifice everything to it - his job, his family, perhaps even his life. Rarely translated into English, but revered in Japan for the purity of her classical language and her status as the countrys first professional woman writer, Ichiyo Higuchi drew on her own short life in a poor Tokyo neighbourhood to inspire her work. With immense delicacy of phrase and feeling, and vivid evocations of the colourful festivals and salty street banter that mask unspoken yearning and disappointed hopes, she transmits both the beauty and the struggle of working-class womens lives in turn-of-the-century Japan. In her clear-eyed vision of the world, longing and memory may be the only solace.

Hes searching the city. Shes dangling in plain sight.In the Old City of Québec, Kay Harper falls in love with a puppet in the window of the Quatre Mains, a toy shop that is never open. She is spending her summer working as an acrobat with the cirque while her husband, Theo, is translating a biography of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Late one night, Kay fears someone is following her home. Surprised to see that the lights of the toy shop are on and the door is open, she takes shelter inside.The next morning Theo wakes up to discover his wife is missing. Under police suspicion and frantic at her disappearance, he obsessively searches the streets of the Old City. Meanwhile, Kay has been transformed into a puppet, and is now a prisoner of the back room of the Quatre Mains, trapped with an odd assemblage of puppets from all over the world who can only come alive between the hours of midnight and dawn. The only way she can return to the human world is if Theo can find her and recognize her in her new form. So begins a dual odyssey: of a husband determined to find his wife, and of a woman trapped in a magical world where her life is not her own.

Northern Ireland is on fire. But rather than attending to the conflict raging around her, the young Sinéad Morrissey is obsessed with the Cold War, East Germany and the utopia of the USSR.Set against the distinctive cultural milieu of Belfast Communism its smoky meeting rooms, protests, marches, sports days, holidays, discos and Party bazaars Among Communists tells a history of the Troubles unlike any other whilst simultaneously charting a young writers journey into poetry.When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, surprising everyone Western Communists most of all Morrisseys family followed suit and fell apart. This memoir charts those personal and political earthquakes, weaving together a lyrical exploration of familial love, belief, contrariness and loss, and of the galvanising power of sudden endings to make and re-make the past.

Bill Manhire has always subscribed to Paul Valérys definition of poetry as a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense. In that spirit, many of the poems in this new, dazzling collection blend story and song, and do so using everyday words and phrases that suddenly, on the page become new and delightfully weird.Lyrical Ballads is a many-peopled collection: the baffled inhabitants of Every Street and Intermediate Street are here, while Dracula, T.S. Eliot and Bobby Outram from Outram have walk-on parts. The collection is anchored by two long sequences that embrace awkwardness, mystery and absurdity: The Tobacco Tin, a kind of folk story riding along on its own lacunae, and Tell You What, a set of curmudgeonly opinions that evoke the prejudices of a fast-vanishing world.As they notice the small collisions between wonder and everyday reality, and the trajectories of those who dont fit easily in this world, these poems close in on the darker certainties of our lives.

A Poetry Book Society RecommendationPraising Joe Carrick Vartys debut, the T.S. Eliot Prize judges observed that his work confronts fraught spaces of addiction and domestic violence [its] lyricism shaped by a raw and fragmented reality.His outstanding second collection reflects further on growing up under the cloud of abuse and alcoholism, unfolding compelling patterns as it examines how the past shapes our future lives. Bold and unusual in form, its three gripping long poems look unflinchingly and unforgettably at inheritance, pain and memory.

I feel like, soon, the day after tomorrow, some other people are going to come, a strong, bold race, and sweep us off the face of the earth like litter.Its a hot, beautiful summer in 1905, and Russias elite retreats to the countryside to swim, sip champagne and start affairs. When youre having this much fun, why care about anything else? But Vavara cant shake the feeling that theyre living on stolen time. How long can they go on ignoring the storm thats gathering on the horizon?A razor-sharp portrait of class, privilege and denial, Summerfolk was written by Maxim Gorky in 1904. This adaptation by Nina Raine and Moses Raine premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2026, directed by Robert Hastie.

Gave it to me when he died. Thought it was a bit odd. Fuck flowers. Have an espresso machine.3 a.m. in a London flat. Jude and Kyle return from A&E. Jude has slipped, but theyre both falling. A decade after their messy breakup, their surprise reunion threatens to undo them both.Winner of Soho Theatres Tony Craze Award, Louis Emmitt-Sterns Slippery is a hilarious and heartfelt play for two actors about ghosts, sex and spaghetti. It was first performed at the Omnibus Theatre, London, in 2026, directed by Matthew Iliffe.This volume also includes another intimate and insightful two-hander, Is This Us Fading Out, which premiered as part of a digital showcase produced by Swings & Roundabouts in 2020, and was subsequently performed at Watford Palace Theatre. Louis Emmitt-Stern is a rising star playwrightTime Out

Nesta obra, Rollo May lança um olhar lúcido sobre o poder e a violência, temas que permanecem centrais na experiência humana contemporânea. Ao explorar as origens psicológicas e existenciais da agres

Dos antigos textos hindus à literatura escandinava medieval, os mitos do trovão revelam figuras divinas dotadas de poder e grandeza. No universo nórdico, Thor surge como o incansável adversário dos g

Pilar é uma advogada bem-sucedida cujas principais preocupações sempre foram o corpo e a carreira. Sua rotina se divide entre pedaladas, academia e escritório. Ao descobrir que está grávida, é tomada

Memórias quilombolas de Mandira (Cananéia, SP) convida o leitor a mergulhar em um território vivo, onde o passado e o presente se entrelaçam na luta por reconhecimento, dignidade e conservação. Situa

What seems broken might just need a reboot in this slow-burn, lesbian romance. New admin Willow Greene has the worst luck with electronics. Computers crash, printers jam, and even coffee machines refuse to cooperate when shes around.Like her devices, her relationships never seem to last, so she has given up on dating. Thats why shes seriously unprepared for the IT departments easygoing, always smiling Scottie Prescott, who has far too much charm to be safe.Scottie cant help noticing introverted, mysterious Willow, but shes still healing from a bad breakup. The last thing she needs is more chaos, given shes supposed to fix problems, not get tangled up in them.But when they get stuck in an elevator together, the sparks between them become impossible to ignore. Can they risk their carefully protected hearts getting burned?

Zagabria, primavera 2003. Alla soglia dei trentanni, Tin ha barattato il suo anticonformismo con una scrivania nella redazione di uno dei maggiori settimanali del paese. La sua ragazza, Sanja, fa lattrice, e la critica e compatta nel predirle una brillante carriera. Alla vigilia dellinvasione americana dellIraq, Tin raccomanda il cugino Boris come corrispondente di guerra. Un terribile errore, il primo di molti. Un ritratto ironico di una societa paralizzata, travolta dal capitalismo e dalla globalizzazione, tormentata da cambiamenti sociali troppo rapidi, in cui tutti sono sul campo, anche se ciascuno a modo suo.

Rosy Winter is definitely not looking for love.Following heartbreak, Rosy has rebuilt her life in the beautiful Cornish village of Penmenna. Now headmistress of the local school, she is living by The Rule: no dating anyone in the village. Easy, right? But Rosy Winter has a new neighbour, handsome gardener Matt.In Penmenna for his new gardening TV show, this guy next door will do everything he can to persuade her to break her rule and win her heart. Meanwhile, Penmenna Village School is threatened with closure and its up to Rosy to rally the local community and #SaveOurSchool.Can she bring her worlds together and accept help from the most unlikely of sources?This heartwarming romance is perfect for fans of Holly Martin and Tilly Tennant.Praise for The Cornish Village School - Breaking the RulesI couldnt tear my eyes away from this story that is brimming full of wonderfully crafted characters living in an idyllic setting. A not-to-be-missed summery read! Through a BookIt was funny, lighthearted and really enjoyable. Its wonderfully romantic... Id recommend giving this novel a go. You wont regret it! The Cosiest CornerA total delight through and through... Chick-lit at its heartwarming best. Lilac MillsI got this book just when I needed a smile on my face and boy did I get it!? The Book Trail