Fiction. Poetry. When Titus Horace, successful African American author, inherits a large tract of land, he leaves Chicago with his Jewish wife Ardene and their daughter Asa, and moves to the segregated North Carolina of 1950. Unhappy at being uproot...
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Poetry. Drama. In this work, Todd Swift pursues his exploration of how art, fantasy, and desire can console, or inflame, the heart—and how, against the vastly more powerful claims of reality, the imagination can do no more than offer its impulsive, ...
Poetry. Spanning across continents and generations, Jason Eng Hun Lee's ambitious first collection maps the poet's formative childhood experiences in Borneo and his subsequent transplantation and coming of age in the UK. Ranging from the lush, verda...
Fiction. What people have said about this book:The author: "Let me be clear. I love the United States of America. I hate the United States of America."Editor and Poet-in-Residence at Pembroke college, Cambridge University: "Most Brits feel the same ...
Fiction. California Interest. BAD SEED is a business/legal thriller featuring the brilliant, beautiful research scientist Aurora Blanc. It follows her sensational rise from penniless student to potentially-sociopathic Silicon Valley billionaire. BAD...
Literary Nonfiction. Celebrating forty years of the Sir Misha Black Awards—the world's only major awards recognising and promoting excellence in design education—FITNESS offers a treasure trove of thoughtful essays by some of the world's leading des...
Literary Nonfiction. Essays. This book is a chronicle of the overlooked and unsung, a collection of award-winning essays based on Brian Jabas Smith's popular column, "Tucson Salvage.""A true champion of the dispossessed and forgotten. ... I can't re...
Literary Nonfiction. Aimed at the more discerning gourmand, EDIBLE PLEASURES offers an irresistible guide to the unbreakable bond between food and love. From the poetic to the philosophical, the absurd to the abstruse, indulge in scientific, gastron...
Poetry. Jacqueline Bird's debut collection radiates warmth, sincerity and humour in poems exploring interconnectivity and independence in relationships, and examining the need for empathy and separateness to coexist. They are also reminders that eve...
Literary Nonfiction. DEEPER is a powerful new self-help book written by an Everest base camp motivational guide known for working with climbers, adventurers and the Sherpas, as well as any one with a desire to grow as a person.
Poetry. In his first full collection, Gale Burns amuses and intrigues by mining the rich textures of his youth—the pancakes and ice cream of the Happy Eater, the hitchhiking adventures and the caravan holidays. He then engages with fresh perspective...
Poetry. SECULAR GAMES is Alex Wylie's debut collection. Formally exploratory and inventive, its poems range across subjects and settings—ninth-century Japan, Renaissance Italy, the surface of Venus—focusing afresh our own historical moment. Written ...
Literary Nonfiction. Politics. Biography. June 2016. The EU referendum campaign is in full swing. The Tory elite jostles for the leadership. It's a moment which Julius Caesar would have understood. The possibility of power is in the air. While Boris...
Poetry. Lyric or narrative in character, these poems are stitched through by the search for significance in the particular, whether at a train-station, draining a radiator, or eating chips, or on the alternative uses of Tipp-Ex, how not to take stai...
Poetry. Michael's poetic account of his journey through the effects of drug use and mental illness moves through stages of psychosis, wellness, care in the community and catharsis. There is a probing of the dark places with humour, grace and wisdom ...