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Michael is left shattered and empty after his wife leaves him suddenly. His sorrow and resentment build up, and on a whim, he decides to take his beloved boat at sea to wander freely through the waters. After days of solitude and heartbreak, strange things start happening. Could it be just his imagination or is he really hearing a dazing song attracting him to the ocean? Suddenly, Michael finds himself lost in international waters, cut off from all communication at land.But things take a fantastic turn when he finds three beautiful and mysterious creatures. Their ethereal, strange charm seem like trouble... Yet Michael cant resist.In Song of the Sea, J.A. Thomas stuns yet again with his talent for fantasy erotica, creating a whimsical and sexy tale like nothing youve ever seen.

SUFFUSED WITH JOYGuardian, PROPHETICDaily Mail, BEAUTIFULScotsman, IMMERSIVEIMAGEPerched on a hill above a village by the sea, the high house has a mill, a vegetable garden and a barn full of supplies.Caro and her younger half-brother, Pauly, arrive there one day to find it cared for by Grandy and his granddaughter, Sally. Not quite a family, they learn to live together, and care for one another.But there are limits even to what the ailing Grandy knows about how to survive, and, if the storm comes, it might not be enough.Deeply moving so grounded in reality and the ordinariness of the lives of this disparate group, that I had to read parts of it through my fingersGood Housekeeping Books of the Year

Gripping - TelegraphBrilliant - Sunday TimesRiveting - GuardianThe devastating rediscovered classic written from the horrors of Nazi Germany, as one Jewish man attempts to flee persecution in the wake of KristallnachtBERLIN, NOVEMBER 1938. With storm troopers battering against his door, Otto Silbermann must flee out the back of his own home. He emerges onto streets thrumming with violence: it is Kristallnacht, and synagogues are being burnt, Jews rounded up and their businesses destroyed.Turned away from establishments he had long patronised, betrayed by friends and colleagues, Otto finds his life as a respected businessman has dissolved overnight. Desperately trying to conceal his Jewish identity, he takes train after train across Germany in a race to escape this homeland that is no longer home.Twenty-three-year-old Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz wrote The Passenger at breakneck speed in 1938, fresh in the wake of the Kristallnacht pogroms, and his prose flies at the same pace. Shot through with Hitckcockian tension, The Passenger is a blisteringly immediate story of flight and survival in Nazi Germany.

Serenity races against time to save a crew members life in an original Firefly tie-in novel that reads like a lost episode from the showA deadly disease Months after Inara leaves Serenity, Mal and the crew finally learn the reason for her sudden departure: she is dying of a terminal illness. It is Kiehls Myeloma, a form of cancer that s supposedly incurable, and Inara has very little time left.A disreputable scientist Through their shock and despair, rumors of a cure reach the crew. Expert Esau Weng is said to have developed a means to treat Inara s condition, but he has been disgraced and incarcerated for life on a notorious Alliance prison planet.An infamous prison On the planet of Atata, inmates are abandoned with no guards and left to survive as best they can. Whats more, terraforming the planet did not take properly, so the world is a frozen wasteland. To save Inara, the Serenity crew must infiltrate the prison

This single volume brings together all of Poes stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history.Quotes from the book:"Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.""Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence whether much that is glorious whether all that is profound does not spring from disease of thought from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.""Is all that we see or seemBut a dream within a dream?"Readers reviews:"Definitely not light reading, but perfect for the fall and winter. Very dark and poetic. Great stories, and each story is just short enough to maintain attention span. I recommend this to anyone who appreciates a challenging read." (Bailey Jane, goodreads.com)"Edgar Allan Poe, is best known for the Raven, still the greatest and most famous American poem ever written." (Henry Avila, goodreads.com)"Poe is, whatever you may have gleaned about him from cheap movies and comic book adaptations, a thoroughly top-notch writer in the Romantic tradition." (David, goodreads.com)

For fans of Black Mirror and The Handmaids Tale, in Dark Lullaby a mother desperately tries to keep her family together in a society where parenting standards are strictly monitored."This gripping thriller has everything: beautiful writing, shedloads of tension, family drama. It made me grateful for my fragile freedoms." Emily Koch, author of If I Die Before I WakeThe world is suffering an infertility crisis, the last natural birth was over twenty years ago and now the only way to conceive is through a painful fertility treatment. Any children born are strictly monitored, and if you are deemed an unfit parent then your child is extracted. After witnessing so many struggling to conceive and then keep their babies, Kit thought she didnt want children. But then she meets Thomas and they have a baby girl, Mimi. Soon the small mistakes build up and suddenly Kit is faced with the possibility of losing her daughter, and she is forced to ask herself how far she will go to keep her family together.

Feminist writers come together to respond to the crisis of 2020 in this unique collection of essays, interviews, and fiction.Spring 2020. When everything changed. As life around the world retreated behind closed doors, gender inequalities and systemic racism were brought to new and shocking prominence. Womxn of all backgrounds and experiences were disproportionately affected by the crisis. Essential debate and action was, for a time, silenced. Then we re-emerged in protest and started to rethink our fight for equality.So, what happens now?Challenging, inspiring and fiercely optimistic, This Is How We Come Back Stronger is an intersectional feminist collection for our times. Published on the one-year anniversary of lockdown, writers from both sides of the Atlantic reflect on what matters most in these difficult days, and what the future can hold for us all.20% of every sale will be donated to charities Womens Aid and Imkaan in the fight to end domestic abuse and support survivors.Featuring contributions from Amelia Abraham, Yomi Adegoke, Rosanna Amaka, Laura Bates, Fatima Bhutto, Lauren Bravo, Molly Case, Catherine Cho, Sara Collins, Melissa Cummings-Quarry and Natalie A. Carter, Juli Delgado Lopera, Lindsey Dryden, Stella Duffy, Sarah Eagle Heart, Fox Fisher, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Mireille Cassandra Harper, Kerry Hudson, Akasha Hull, Juliet Jacques, Jude Kelly, Dorothy Koomson, Kuchenga, Helen Lederer, Francesca Martinez, Gina Miller, Jessica Moor, Kate Mosse, Jess Phillips, Layla F. Saad, Radhika Sanghani, Jenny Sealey, Shaz, Lisa Taddeo, Michelle Tea, Virgie Tovar, Sophie Williams.

Spring has brought many new beginnings into the world of florist Persimmon Simmy Brown. Not only has her baby arrived, but she and her fianc Christopher have moved to the historic village of Hartsop in the Lake District - and they still intend to say their vows before the height of summer.But when a former acquaintance of Christophers reminds him of a promise he made a decade previously, their lives soon take a sinister - and deadly - turn. Yet even with a young baby to consider Simmy cannot ignore her instinct to investigate, especially with the personal link to her soon-to-be husband. Ably assisted by her would-be detective friend Ben, can Simmy puzzle out this reckoning from the past and protect her family in time for the wedding bells to chime?

A ground-breaking anthology celebrating Marvels beloved Black Panther and his home of Wakanda, penned by an all-star cast of authors such as Sheree Renée Thomas and Nikki Giovanni.TChalla faces the gods of his parents. Vampires stalk Shuri and a Dora Milaje in voodoo-laced New Orleans. Erik Killmonger grapples with racism, Russian spies, and his own origins. Eighteen brand-new tales of Wakanda, its people, and its legacy.The first mainstream superhero of African descent, the Black Panther has attracted readers of all races and colors who see in the King of Wakanda reflections of themselves. Storytellers from across the African Diaspora some already literary legends, others who are rising stars have created for this collection original works inspired by the world of the Panther and its inhabitants. With guest stars including Storm, Monica Rambeau, Namor, and Jericho Drumm, these are stories of yesterday and today, of science and magic, of faith and love.These are the tales of a king and his country. These are the legends whispered in the jungle, myths of the unconquered men and women and the land they love.These are the Tales of Wakanda.Featuring stories by Linda D. Addison, Maurice Broaddus, Christopher Chambers, Milton J. Davis, Tananarive Due, Nikki Giovanni, Harlan James, Danian Jerry, Kyoko M., L.L. McKinney, Temi Oh, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Glenn Parris, Alex Simmons, Sheree Renee Thomas, Cadwell Turnbull and Troy L. Wiggins.

STEEPED IN DARKNESS, COMPLICITY AND FORGIVENESS, THIS BESTSELLING SCANDI NOIR IS FOR FANS OF LITERARY FICTION SUCH AS MY ABSOLUTE DARLING, A LITTLE LIFE AND THE DISCOMFORT OF EVENINGA MAJOR BESTSELLEROPTIONED FOR TV BY THE PRODUCERS OF THE BRIDGESHORTLISTED FOR THE PRESTIGIOUS AUGUST PRIZETRANSLATED INTO ELEVEN LANGUAGESWell worth the read GUARDIANBleak and beautiful rural noir CRIMEREADSPerfect for fans of Scandi-noir dramas CULTUREFLY____________Jana Kippo has returned to Smalnger to see her twin brother, Bror, still living in the small family farmhouse in the remote north of Sweden.Within the isolated community, secrets and lies have grown silently, undisturbed for years.Following the discovery of a young womans body in the long grass behind the sawmill, the siblings, hooked by a childhood steeped in darkness, need to break free.But the truth cannot be found in other peoples stories. The question is - can it be found anywhere?A literary noir of phenomenal power about the magnetic attraction of the wrong person, the brutality visited upon one human to another - and a rural community that stood by and did nothing____________FURTHER PRAISE FOR MY BROTHERPossesses the same melodramatic power as Ferrantes Neapolitan Novels ETCA media sensation. . . remarkable GPBrutal, colourful, carnal. . . Impossible to put down ExpressenA rare story-telling talent Aftonbladet____________READERS LOVE MY BROTHERA powerful story, brilliantly translatedRural and epic in landscape, deep and heart-breaking in loss, and truthIf you enjoyed The Discomfort of Evenings by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, I think you will enjoy this too!

The narrator arrives in Berlin, a place famed for its hedonism, to find peace and maybe love; only to discover that the problems which have long haunted him have arrived there too, and are more present than ever. As he approaches his fortieth birthday, nearing the age where his father was killed in a brutal revolution, he drifts through this endlessly addictive and sometimes mystical city, through its slow days and bottomless nights, wondering whether he will ever escape the damage left by his fathers death. With the world as a whole more uncertain, as both the far-right and global temperatures rise at frightening speed, he finds himself fighting a fierce inner battle against his turbulent past, for a future free of his fear of failure, of persecution, and of intimacy. In The End, It Was All About Love is a journey of loss and self-acceptance that takes its nameless narrator all the way through bustling Berlin to his roots, a quiet village on the Uganda-Sudan border. It is a bracingly honest story of love, sexuality and spirituality, of racism, dating, and alienation; of fleeing the greatest possible pain, and of the hopeful road home.

SOMETIMES GROWING UP MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONSThe son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.LATER is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. With echoes of Kings classic novel It,LATER is a powerful, haunting, unforgettable exploration of what it takes to stand up to evil in all the faces it wears.

An epic, heart-breaking novel opening on the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, about the legacy of migration, with a tangled family mystery at its heartOn the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a woman gives birth alone in a Beijing hospital. Years later, her daughter Liya travels from America to China with her mothers ashes, hoping to unravel the legacy of silences and contradictions that she inherited from that night.As Liya seeks to untangle the mystery of her family, we travel through Shanghai and Beijing, and deep into the past, uncovering an unexpected love triangle whose repurcussions are felt in the present moment.Ambitious yet intimate, Little Gods is a gripping story of migrations both literal and emotional, and of the tragic impact of history on personal lives.Meng Jins s narrative prose has appeared in the Pushcart Prize Anthology, Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, the Bare Life Review, Vogue, and Best American Short Stories 2020. A Kundiman Fellow, she has an MFA from Hunter College, and received the David TK Wong Fellowship at the University of East Anglia. Jin was born in Shanghai and has lived in the UK and the US.

A dazzling new collection of Pushkins most essential fiction, in definitive translations by the acclaimed Anthony BriggsPushkins restless creative genius laid the foundations for Russian prose. His stories, among the greatest and most influential ever written, retain stunning directness and precision, more than ever in Anthony Briggs finely nuanced translations.Upending expectations at every turn, Pushkin depicts brutal conflicts and sudden reversals of fortune with disarming lightness and sly humour. These are stories of fateful chances: a stationmaster encourages his young daughter to ride to town with a traveller, only to lose her forever; a man obsessively pursues an elderly womans secret for success at cards with bizarre results, in The Queen of Spades; and in The Captains Daughter, Pushkins great historical novella of love and rebellion in the era of Catherine the Great, a mysterious encounter proves fatally significant during a violent uprising.

With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century. In dialogue with writers like Roland Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Susan Sontag and Osip Mandelstam, In Memory of Memory is imbued with rare intellectual curiosity and a wonderfully soft-spoken, poetic voice. Dipping into various forms - essay, fiction, memoir, travelogue and historical documents - Stepanova assembles a vast panorama of ideas and personalities and offers an entirely new and bold exploration of cultural and personal memory.

A young TV journalist is forced to revisit her harrowing past when shes thrust into a sex-trafficking investigation in her hometown. A startling, searing, debut thriller by award-winning CNN journalist Sarah Sultoon.A brave and thought-provoking debut novel. Sarah Sultoon tackles a challenging and disturbing subject without sensation, and her sensitive handling, tight plotting and authentic storytelling make for a compelling readAdam HamdyA stunning debut a powerhouse writerJo SpainDelving into corruption, abuse of power and the resilience of the human spirit, The Source is a taut and thought-provoking book thats all the more unnerving for how much it echoes the headlines in real lifeCultureFlyOne last chance to reveal the truth1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats, and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start to look a little less bleak...2006. London. Junior TV newsroom journalist Marie has spent six months exposing a gang of sex traffickers, but everything is derailed when New Scotland Yard announces the re-opening of Operation Andromeda, the notorious investigation into allegations of sex abuse at an army base a decade earlier...As the lives of these two characters intertwine around a single, defining event, a series of utterly chilling experiences is revealed, sparking a nail-biting race to find the truth ... and justice.A riveting, searing and devastatingly dark thriller, The Source is also a story about survival, about hopes and dreams, about power, abuse and resilience ... an immense, tense and thought-provoking debut that you will never, ever forget.For fans of Holly Watt, Abigail Dean, Fiona Barton, Abi Dare, Kate Elizabeth Russell, Sarah Vaughan and Casey KelleherCarly and Maries stories are about to collide, the secrets of the past are devastating, the investigation in the present urgent. This is a tense thriller, a remarkable debut, heartbreaking, but ultimately this is a story of resilience and survivalNew Books MagazineA powerful, compelling read that doesnt shy away from some upsetting truths written with such energyFanny BlakeTautly written and compelling, not afraid to shine a spotlight on the darker forces at work in societyRupert WallisSo authentic and exhilarating breathtaking pace and relentless ingenuityNick Paton Walsh, CNNA powerful, intense whammy of a debut that is both uncomfortable and exhilarating to read Thought-provoking, tense, and expressive, The Source is an utterly compelling debutLoveReadingA gripping, dark thrillerGeoff Hill, ITVA cleverly constructed story that offers an authentic view behind the scenes in a British newsroom an original and wholly engaging debut. Definitely a name to watchCrime Fiction LoverMy heart was racing fiction to thrill even the most hard-core adrenaline junkiesDiana Magnay, Sky News Unflinching and sharply observed. A hard-hitting, deftly woven debutRuth Field

Immersive and affectingutter bliss. Marian KeyesCompelling, moving and teeming with feral desire: Elizabeth Hayness new novel is an intoxicating story of love and redemption, set on a wild and windswept Scottish island.Rachel is at crisis point. A series of disastrous decisions has left her with no job, no home, and no faith in herself. But an unexpected job offer takes her to a remote Scottish island, and it feels like a chance to recover and mend her battered self-esteem.The islands other inhabitants are less than welcoming. Fraser Sutherland is a taciturn loner who is not happy about sharing his lighthouse or his precious coffee beans and Lefty, his unofficial assistant, is a scrawny, scared lad who isnt supposed to be there at all.Homesick and out of her depth, Rachel is sure shes made another huge mistake. But, as spring turns to summer, the wild beauty of the island begins to captivate her soul.

Critically acclaimed novelist Michael Farris Smith pulls Nick Carraway out of the shadows and into the spotlight in this exhilarating imagination of his life before The Great Gatsby.Before Nick Carraway moved to West Egg and into Gatsbys world, he was at the centre of a very different story - one taking place along the trenches and deep within the tunnels of World War I.Floundering in the wake of the destruction he witnessed first-hand, Nick delays his return home, hoping to escape the questions he cannot answer about the horrors of war. Instead, he embarks on a transcontinental redemptive journey that takes him from a whirlwind Paris romance - doomed from the very beginning - to the dizzying frenzy of New Orleans, rife with its own flavour of debauchery and violence.An epic portrait of a truly singular era and a sweeping, romantic story of self-discovery, this rich and imaginative novel breathes new life into a character that many know only from the periphery. Charged with enough alcohol, heartbreak, and profound yearning to transfix even the heartiest of golden age scribes, NICK reveals the man behind the narrator who has captivated readers for decades.

Vital reading. This is the book on artificial intelligence we need right now. Mike Krieger, cofounder of InstagramArtificial intelligence is rapidly dominating every aspect of our modern lives influencing the news we consume, whether we get a mortgage, and even which friends wish us happy birthday. But as algorithms make ever more decisions on our behalf, how do we ensure they do what we want? And fairly?This conundrum - dubbed The Alignment Problem by experts - is the subject of this timely and important book. From the AI program which cheats at computer games to the sexist algorithm behind Google Translate, bestselling author Brian Christian explains how, as AI develops, we rapidly approach a collision between artificial intelligence and ethics. If we stand by, we face a future with unregulated algorithms that propagate our biases - and worse - violate our most sacred values. Urgent and fascinating, this is an accessible primer to the most important issue facing AI researchers today.

THE JURA EDITION with new introduction by Alex Massie For him Jura was home - Richard Blair on his father George Orwell The book of the twentieth century . . . haunts us with an ever-darker relevance Ben Pimlott, Independent The greatest British novel to have been written since the war Time Out His final masterpiece . . . enthralling and indispensable for understanding modern history New York Review of Books The year is 1984 and war and revolution have left the world unrecognisable. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, led by Big Brother. Mass surveillance is everything and The Thought Police are employed to ensure that no individual thinking is allowed. Winston Smith works at The Ministry of Truth, carefully rewriting history, but he dreams of freedom and of rebellion. It is here that he meets and falls in love with Julia. They start a secret, forbidden affair - but nothing can be kept secret, and they are forced to face consequences more terrifying than either of them could have ever imagined. In this new edition of a modern classic, Alex Massies introduction highlights the importance that Jura had on the writing of one of the twentieth centurys most important works of fiction.