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FascinatingSpectatorEntertainingSunday TimesEnthrallingGuardianBeautiful, funny and movingDaily MailCompelling and movingObserverReplete with vivid - often hilarious, often shocking - anecdotesFinancial TimesWhile for generations Polly Toynbees ancestors have been committed left-wing rabble-rousers railing against injustice, they could never claim to be working class, settling instead for the prosperous life of academia or journalism enjoyed by their own forebears. So where does that leave their ideals of class equality?Through a colourful, entertaining examination of her own family - which in addition to her writer father Philip and her historian grandfather Arnold contains everyone from the Glenconners to Jessica Mitford to Bertrand Russell, and features ancestral home Castle Howard as a backdrop - Toynbee explores the myth of mobility, the guilt of privilege, and asks for a truly honest conversation about class in Britain.

If a single word could summarize everything Bisila Bokoko conveys it would be "inspiration". Her personal story, is one of a racialized woman who has learned how to grow in the face of adversity, and her business, her wisdom, her love of books, and her philanthropic spirit will act as a guide and a path for those who dive into the pages of We All Have a Story to Tell.Discover how to make our dreams come true, how to learn from failure, how to be happy despite the hurdles, what reading can do for us as the pages of her parents library did for her, with which she uncovered Africa for the first time and how to handle our fears. These are the lessons to be learned from the story Bokoko narrates so we can know how to do the same with our own. The United Nations award winning author, founder of the Bisila Bokoko African Literacy Project and owner of a life full of anecdotes and valuable lessons, reveals a vital trajectory that will help us take that step we all need to go further into the story of our lives.

The Road to Wigan Pier is a book written by the English author George Orwell. It was published in 1937 and is a combination of social commentary and personal reflections. The book explores the harsh living conditions endured by the working class in the industrial towns of Northern England during the 1930s, particularly in Wigan, Lancashire.Orwell spent time in Wigan and conducted extensive research to gather firsthand experiences of the working class and their struggles. He describes the grim living conditions, poverty, unemployment, and lack of basic amenities that characterized the lives of many working-class individuals and families during that period.In addition to documenting the social and economic hardships, Orwell also discusses his own political journey and ideological perspectives. The latter part of the book delves into his criticism of socialism and the shortcomings he identifies within the political left, while still expressing his commitment to social justice."The Road to Wigan Pier" is considered an important work in Orwells literary career and a significant contribution to the tradition of social documentaries in British literature. It reflects his commitment to shedding light on social injustice and his passion for writing about the lives of ordinary people.George Orwell, whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair, was an English writer and journalist born on June 25, 1903, in Motihari, British India (now part of modern-day India). He is widely regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.Orwell is best known for his works of fiction, particularly the dystopian novels "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and "Animal Farm." These two novels, published in 1949 and 1945, respectively, have become iconic works of literature, exploring themes of totalitarianism, political corruption, surveillance, and the abuse of power.Orwells writing often reflected his own experiences and political views. He was deeply concerned with social justice, equality, and the impact of political systems on individual freedom. Many of his works, including his non-fiction essays and journalistic writings, tackle social and political issues of his time.In addition to "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and "Animal Farm," Orwells notable works include "Burmese Days,""Down and Out in Paris and London,""Homage to Catalonia," and "Keep the Aspidistra Flying." His writing style is characterized by clarity, precision, and a commitment to exposing social and political injustices.George Orwell passed away on January 21, 1950, at the age of 46. Despite his relatively short life, his works continue to be widely read and studied, and his ideas and warnings about the dangers of authoritarianism and totalitarianism remain highly relevant in todays world.

OPRAHS BOOK CLUB PICK INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREY ONE OF BARACK OBAMAS BEST BOOKS OF 2023One of the best books Ive read in my entire life. Its epic. Its transportive . . . It was unputdownable!Oprah Winfrey, OprahDaily.comSpanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water follows a family in southern India that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning - and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century a twelve-year-old girl, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time. From this poignant beginning, the young girl and future matriarch - known as Big Ammachi - will witness unthinkable changes at home and at large over the span of her extraordinary life, full of the joys and trials of love and the struggles of hardship.A shimmering evocation of a lost India and of the passage of time itself, The Covenant of Water is a hymn to progress in medicine and to human understanding, and a humbling testament to the hardships undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today. Imbued with humour, deep emotion and the essence of life, it is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years.

A sensuous and strange horror novella full of creeping dread and delicious gore, twisting mermaid myths into something sharp, dangerous, and hungry, for fans of Christina Henry, Carmen Maria Machado and Eric LaRocca.After the murder of her husband and the fall of his empire, a mermaid and her plague doctor companion escape into the wilderness. Deep in the woods, they stumble across a village where children hunt each other for sport, sacrificing one of their own at the behest of three surgeons they call "the saints." These saints play god with their magic, harvesting the best bits of the children for themselves and piecing the sacrifices back together again.To save the children from their fates, the plague doctor must confront their past, and the mermaid must embrace the darkest parts of her true nature.

Dark tales inspired by J. M. Barries classic stories of Neverland, Captain Hook, Tinkerbell, and of course Peter Pan, from some the masters of science-fiction, horror and fantasy including A. C. Wise, Claire North, Lavie Tidhar and more.The award-winning Marie ORegan & Paul Kane bring together the masters of fantasy, science-fiction and horror, to spin stories inspired by J. M. Barries classic tale.A murder investigation leads a detective to a strange place called Neverland; pupils attend a school for Peters; a young boy loses his shadow and goes to desperate lengths to retrieve it.These stories take the original tales of Peter & Wendy, the Lost Boys and Tinkerbell, twisting and turning them. From dystopias to the gritty streets of London, these stories will keep you reading all night and straight on til morning.Featuring stories from:Lavie Tidhar, Claire North, Premee Mohamed, Kirsty Logan, Edward Cox, Anna Smith Spark, Alison Littlewood, A. C. Wise, Rio Youers, Gama Ray Martinez, Juliet Marillier, Robert Shearman, A. K. Benedict, Laura Mauro, Cavan Scott, Guy Adams, Paul Finch Muriel Gray

Being paid to explore sounded like a dream job. From Norway to Madagascar, by campervan, taxi, boat and small plane, Amelia Dalton hunted down remote archipelagos, deserted beaches and tiny local museums to create expedition holidays with a difference. On the way she was abandoned on an unpopulated island and escaped a hotel fire and worse. Pages from my Passport is a memoir of adventures, disasters and occasional triumphs, all infused with Amelias unquenchable enthusiasm.

***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****A FINANCIAL TIMES, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*Excellent... first class... both fair and damning. Daniel Finkelstein, The TimesAuthoritative, gripping and often jaw-dropping Andrew Rawnsley, ObserverInvaluableNew StatesmanExplosive Isabel Hardman, The i After his dramatic rise to power in the summer of 2019 amid the Brexit deadlock, Boris Johnson presided over the most turbulent period of British history in living memory. Beginning with the controversial prorogation of Parliament in August and the historic landslide election victory later that year, Johnson was barely through the door of No. 10 when Britain was engulfed by a series of crises that will define its place in the world for decades to come. From the agonising upheaval of Brexit and the devastating Covid-19 pandemic to the nerve-shredding crisis in Afghanistan, the outbreak of war in Ukraine and the Partygate scandal, Johnsons government ultimately unravelled after just three years.This gripping behind-the-scenes work of contemporary history maps Johnsons time in power from start to finish and sheds new light on the most divisive Prime Minister to have led the United Kingdom since Thatcher. Based on more than 200 interviews with key aides, allies and insiders, Johnson at 10 gives the first full account of Johnsons premiership, the shockwaves of which are still felt today.***A WATERSTONES BEST POLITICS BOOK OF 2023***Number 2 Sunday Times bestseller, 14 May 2023

In these tense, macabre stories, bodies fall from the sky, perfect nails conceal grisly secrets and violence pulses behind gleaming façades. From hellish visions to obsessive relationships, acclaimed author Agustina Bazterrica takes us to the dark heart of human desires and fears.Shocking, brutal, yet glinting with sharp humour, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird is a breathtaking dive into human monstrousness from a master of contemporary horror.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024The Times Novel of the YearAnd a Guardian, FT, Economist, Irish Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Irish Independent and Independent Book of the Year One of the finest novels published this year. Sunday TimesI could not put it down. ANNE ENRIGHTIts very moving, also very funny. PAUL MURRAYMy favourite book Ive read this year. PANDORA SYKESI lived and breathed beside her narrator. DAISY JOHNSON In her wildly acclaimed new novel Claire Kilroy creates an unforgettable heroine, whose fierce love for her young son clashes with the seismic change to her own identity.As her marriage strains and she struggles with questions of love, autonomy, creativity and the passing of time, an old friend makes a welcome return - but can he really offer a lifeline to the woman she used to be?Readers adore Soldier Sailor:***** About as perfect a piece of writing as youll find.***** Unbearably tense and frequently hilarious. ***** An entirely different voltage to anything Ive read ... she somehow manages to verbalise *exactly* the feelings and thoughts I, certainly, had at points when I was a young mother ***** This story touched me on such a visceral level. ***** I was held captive by this novel ... an utterly absorbing depiction of motherhood ***** I loved this book. Any woman, with or without children, will see themselves mirrored in this narrative ***** An excellent, interesting and rather unforgettable creation.

In Michael Farris Smiths latest gritty epic, a young woman returns home with her child, to her ghost-haunted father, while a religious extremist hunts the storm-ridden territory to find the girl who may hold the key to the regions apocalyptic future.There was no rising from the dead and there was no hand to calm the storms and there was no peace in no valley.In the hurricane-ravaged bottomlands of South Mississippi, where stores are closing and jobs are few, a fierce zealot has gained a foothold, capitalising on the vulnerability of a dwindling population and a burning need for hope.As she preaches and promises salvation from the light of the pulpit, in the shadows she sows the seeds of violence.Elsewhere, Jessie and her toddler, Jace, are on the run across the Mississippi/Louisiana line, in a resentful return to her childhood home and her desolate father.Holt, Jaces father, is missing and hunted by a brutish crowd, and an old man witnesses the wrong thing in the depths of night.In only a matter of days, all of their lives will collide, and be altered, in the maelstrom of the changing world.At once elegiac and profound, Salvage This World journeys into the heart of a region growing darker and less forgiving, and asks how we keep going what do we hold onto in a land where God has fled.Michael Farris Smith masterfully takes us on a ride into the growing darkness of a crumbling world. You couldnt ask for better than that. Michael ConnellySouthern, wet and gritty. Storm-filled and laced with fear and tension, as well as realistic and engaging characters, this world is grimly enticing Joe LansdaleWith a cast of fierce, masterfully drawn characters set loose in gorgeous, hurricane-blasted landscapes, Salvage this World by Michael Farris Smith is riveting: I couldnt put it down Laird HuntAudaciously prophetic. Heres a near-future and all too plausible southern noir in which the lawlessness already creeping into American democracy has become the norm and in which preachers have abandoned Christ and instead are searching for the new climate Messiah, and the line between good and evil is not only very thin but completely effaced. A rollicking good (dark) read Brian EvensonAn exceptional storyteller in top form KirkusSmith melds fire and brimstone with the ravages of hurricanes in this evocative noir of the Mississippi Delta Publishers Weekly

I text you how muchit hurts not to see you.Here are poems about love, loss, mothers, fathers, God, rain and growing up. About all the things that poems are always about, in fact, with one crucial difference. Instead of being remembered from an adult distance, these poems were written by a diverse group of teenagers direct from their own experience. So as well as being clever, funny and moving, they are also immediate they go straight to the heart like a text from a friend.Most of these poems are by pupils from a single multicultural comprehensive school, Oxford Spires Academy. Many have already been social media sensations: some students poems, for instance, have been retweeted over 100,000 times.A donation from the sale of this book will be made to the charity Asylum Welcome.

Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penmans long awaited first original book, a kaleidoscopic study of the late West German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder (19451982). Written quickly under a self-imposed deadline in the spirit of Fassbinder himself, who would often get films made in a matter of weeks or months, Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors presents the filmmaker as a pivotal figure in the late 1970s moment between late modernism and the advent of postmodernism and the digital revolution. Compelling, beautifully written and genuinely moving, echoing the fragmentary and reflective works of writers like Barthes and Cioran, this is a story that has everything: sex, drugs, art, the city, cinema and revolution.

Delve into the enchanting world of Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice, a timeless classic that masterfully weaves romance, wit, and social commentary. Follow the captivating story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy as they navigate the complexities of love, family dynamics, and societal expectations in 19th-century England. Experience the charm, humor, and keen observations of human nature that have made this novel a beloved favorite for generations. Indulge in the delightful dance of manners and emotions as you explore the transformative power of love, understanding, and personal growth in this quintessential work of English literature.

An eerie tale of young girls obsession and what happens when it grows out of hand, perfect for fans of dark academia, The Secret History and Picnic at Hanging Rock.1864. Banished from her parents farm to a boarding school for young ladies, Ivy feels utterly alone. In a crumbling and isolated seminary that has seen better days, she is shunned by the other pupils for her working-class origins, and mourns for her sister, who died not long after she was sent away.Hope comes in the form of a new teacher, Miss Emily White, but almost immediately, suspicions are raised that she is not all she should be. Ivy is captivated, yet as her devotion grows, odd reports begin to circulate that Miss White has been glimpsed in the garden picking flowers whilst also teaching a class, leaving the school but stalking the halls at the same time.As increasingly strange rumours abound, Ivys obsession spins out of control, and with Emily Whites future at stake, she will do anything to keep her only friend.

AN EXPLOSIVE ASSAULTWhen a firebomb attack at a Brighton travellers site kills women and children, Chief Superintendent Jo Howe has strong reason to believe the new, far-right council leader is behind the murders.A CORRUPT LEADERHowe digs deeper into the case and uncovers a criminal ring of human trafficking and euthanasia leading to a devastating plot threatening thousands of lives and from which the murderous politician will walk away scot-free.A DETECTIVE AT BREAKING POINTUnflinching, brutal and disturbingly plausible KIA ABDULLAHMasterful S. A. CosbyUnputdownable A. A. Chaudhuri

The official origin story of LiS fan-favourite Steph Gingrich featuring LGBTQ+ romance, inevitable heartbreak, and the punk-rock beginnings of Drugstore Makeup.Setting the stage for her appearance in Life is Strange: True Colors, this official Steph Gingrich novel sheds light on the Drugstore Makeup years and the story of how Steph crash-landed in Haven Springs, Colorado.Steph Gingrich has finally run out of couches to surf. Now shes back at her dads place in Seattle to figure out what she wants to do with the rest of her life.When running an RPG session for her local gamer cafe, Steph meets Izzie. Izzie is electric: a punk, a girl who likes girls, and a hella good guitarist. Steph finds the punk life is exactly what she needs, she loves the music, the art and the fashion, but most of all she likes the girl. Entranced, she offers to drum for Izzie, forming the band Drugstore Makeup.A hit in more ways than one, Drugstore Makeup compete in a battle of the bands before deciding to tour the offbeat punk venues of America. But Steph and Izzie soon find themselves on different wavelengths, unable to communicate, and wanting different things.

A damaged teenage tech prodigy meets an enigmatic waitress in a tiny Tokyo café, sparking an epic journey across Japan that will change everything, forever … a captivating, masterful novel with an ex

How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us? In Porn: An Oral History, Polly Barton interrogates the absence of discussion around a topic that is ubiquitous and influences our daily lives. In her search for understanding, she spent a year initiating intimate conversations with nineteen acquaintances of a range of ages, genders and sexualities about everything and anything related to porn: watching habits, emotions and feelings of guilt, embarrassment, disgust and shame, fantasy and desire. Soon, unfolding before her, was exactly the book that she had been longing to encounter not a traditional history, but the raw, honest truth about what we arent saying. A landmark work of oral history written in the spirit of Nell Dunn, Porn is a thrilling, thought-provoking, revelatory, revealing, joyfully informative and informal exploration of a subject that has always retained an element of the taboo.

A ruthless international cartel seeks world dominationFramed in the doorway of Poirots bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The mans gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell. Who was he? Was he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what was the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life to uncover the truth about Number Four. From The Queen of Crime Agathe Christie.