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At school, survival wasnt just about fitting init was about making it through the day with his dignity intact. The first time they shoved Garys head into the toilet bowl, he questioned how much more he could take. By the time they drew a swastika on his forehead, he stopped wondering.In the backdrop of 1970s England, Gary navigates the chaotic seas of adolescence in the English coastal town of Hove. With humour and a delicious sense of naivety, he steers through a life marked by a blend of love and dysfunction, anchored by his loving and quirky mother and his deeply cherished father. But beyond the warmth of home, school is a much darker and crueller reality. At Knoll Boys, Gary confronts relentless and vicious bullying that pushes his spirit and resilience to the brink. The horrors he endures are not just physicalthey are ritualistic and dehumanizing, the cruelty seemingly unending. Yet, Garys resilience shines through, a testament to the human spirits capacity to endure.

From Alix E. Harrow, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Starling House, comes a moving and genre-defying adventure through time, as a reluctant lady knight and a not-so-heroic historian will fight through time and space to rewrite their tragic fates . . . and finally reveal the hidden truths beneath the greatest legend ever told.It begins where it ends: beneath the yew tree a girl not yet a knight, and a boy without a story.It is where she pulls a sword from the heartwood and becomes a legend.And it is where, more than a thousand years later, he will find her and lose her and find her and lose her again.It is where a new story will be written but whose will it be?Praise for The EverlastingAn exquisite, epic romance . . . Simply superb Freya MarskeAs dark and oppressive as it is utterly sublime . . . I loved every word of it Olivia AtwaterIncandescent. The Everlasting should enshrine Alix E. Harrow as one of the finest writers of our generation Cassandra Khaw

A legend. A lie. A love story. From Alix E. Harrow, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Starling House, comes a moving and genre-defying quest. A lady-knight whose legend built a nation meets a retiring historian in awe of her fame. He''s sent back through time to make sure she plays her part . . . even if it breaks his heart. Sir Una Everlasting was Dominions greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in childrens books and recruiting posters - but her life as it truly happened has been forgotten. Centuries later, Owen Mallory - failed soldier, struggling scholar - falls in love with the tale of Una Everlasting. Her story takes him to war, to the archives, and then into the past itself. Una and Owen are tangled together in time, bound to retell the same story over and over again, no matter what it costs. But that story always ends the same way. If they want to rewrite Unas legend, and finally tell a different story, theyll have to rewrite history itself - and change their lives in the process.

If old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour. Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy against the backdrop of national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of Midnight''s Children, a magical musician is unhappily married to a multibillionaire. In an English college, an undead academic can''t rest until he avenges his former tormentor. Following Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, Salman Rushdie''s new fiction moves between the places he has grown up in, inhabited, explored, and left. In doing so, he asks fundamental questions we all one day face. How does one deal with, accommodate, or rail against entering the eleventh hour, the final stage of your life? How can you bid farewell to the places you have made home? The Eleventh Hour is the magisterial new work from one of our greatest living writers. It speaks deeply to what Salman Rushdie has come from and through, and strikes into the heart of our fractious times.

The new, hard-hitting, emotional novel from one of the nations favourite celebrities.

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The gripping early novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Our House is re-issued with a stunning package for the contemporary market.

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"The Afterlife of Stars moved me more than any other novel Ive read in recent memory." --Tim OBrien

A dark and hilarious pot-infused novel of teenage maladjustment from a compelling new voice in American fiction.

Soon to be a major motion picture, directed by Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy)

A brilliant satire in the tradition of Orwell and Ray Bradbury about what happens when a small company starts aggressively marketing a new global language.

Classic Second World War crime featuring Miss Silver, the retired governess turned private eye.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes a legendary standalone novel that navigates the seas and the stars of a far-future Cosmere. Illustrated by Esther Hi'ilani Candari.All his life, Sixth of the Dusk has been a traditional trapper of Aviar - the supernatural birds his people bond with - on the deadly island of Patji. Then one fateful night he propels his people into a race to modernize before they can be conquered by the Ones Above, invaders from the stars who want to exploit the Aviar.But it's a race they're losing, and Dusk fears his people will lose themselves in the effort. When a chance comes to sail into the expanse of the emberdark beyond a mystical portal, Dusk sets off to find his people's salvation with only a canoe, his birds, and all the grit and canniness of a Patji trapper.Elsewhere in the emberdark is a young dragon chained in human form: Starling of the starship Dynamic. She and her ragtag crew of exiles are deep in debt and on the brink of losing their freedom. So when she finds an ancient map to a hidden portal between the emberdark and the physical realm, she seizes the chance at a lucrative discovery.These unlikely allies might just be the solution to each other's crises. In their search for independence, Dusk and Starling face perilous bargains, poisonous politics, and the destructive echo of a dead god.In this beautiful new tale, Sanderson expands his thrilling novella Sixth of the Dusk into a mythic novel of legends, lore, and warring galactic superpowers.

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A beautiful thoughtful book that brims with joy KATE MOSSE Our master storyteller JOANNA LUMLEY In Funny Thing Getting Older one of our most belove novelists shares his reflections from a lifetime of writing stories about the world Here collected for the first time on Michael s 82nd birthday are his thoughts on nature childhood writing peace and war and getting older Some are deeply personal some political others in between And woven in amongst them you will find a play a poem or two and even a few stories Full of wonder gentle humour and sharp observation Funny Thing Getting Older is a book to treasure For me a story is like a kite It will swoop and soar and it will be please my heart when it s up there floating on the wind It is the same with the making of the pieces in this book every one of them I have to keep making and flying my kites and to teach others if I can to fly theirs MICHAEL MORPURGO

A warm hug of a book like sitting by a roaring winter fire JACKIE KAY Winter is the time to snuggle indoors without guilt to curl up on the sofa with a good book or a box set a hot drink or a wee whisky to hand Val McDermid has always had a soft spot for winter the bitter clarity of a crisp cold day the vivid skies over the Firth of Forth the crunch of frost on fallen leaves and the chance to be enveloped in big jumpers and thick socks In Winter she takes us on an adventure through the season from the frosty streets of Edinburgh to the windblown Scottish coast from Bonfire Night and Christmas to Burns Night and Up Helly Aa She remembers winters from childhood the thrill of whizzing over a frozen lake on skates carving a neep swede for Halloween and being taken to see her first real Christmas tree in the town square lights twinkling bravely in the dark Scottish winter night Above all she shows us that winter is a time of rest retreat and creativity for scribbling in notebooks and settling in beside the fire This is a charming and cosy celebration of the winter season from one of Scotland best loved writers