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Hardback | 320 pages, N/A
164 x 242 x 28 | 514g
Hardback | 272 pages
223 x 145 x 29 | 382g
Hardback | 1200 pages
242 x 167 x 56 | 1274g
Hardback | 272 pages
223 x 145 x 30 | 384g
Hardback | 192 pages
128 x 200 | 266g
Hardback | 256 pages, N/A
223 x 147 x 28 | 364g
Hardback | 480 pages
241 x 163 x 43 | 708g
Hardback | 192 pages
205 x 138 x 22 | 266g
A bold and brilliant short work by the author of the Goldsmiths Prize-winning Cuddy‘Makes most contemporary fiction look bloodless by comparison’ Daily Mail‘Like nothing else you’ll read this year’ Jan Carson‘Highly original, bold, inventive … A stunning rendering’ independent.co.uk‘A hair-raising performance’ Kit Fan‘Brilliant, strange and electrifying’ Daily TelegraphNovember, 1971. Berlin, Germany. Opening night.
Klaus Kinski, Germany’s most controversial actor, steps into the spotlight to a crowd of thousands. After years of making movies abroad, he has returned to the stage for a much-publicized one-man performance about Jesus Christ. As the crowd turn on him and violence is threatened, it is also very nearly his last.
After this week, he will never perform on stage again. Exactly fifty years later, a hypochondriac writer, housebound by winter snowstorms, becomes fixated with video footage of Kinski at his most manic. In this forensic analysis, he strays into the darker corners of modern culture, and finally begins to understand the compulsive urge that drives artists to the edge of sanity in their pursuit of perfection.
Jesus Christ Kinski is a novel about a film about a performance about Jesus. It is a daring act of literary ventriloquism, a meditation on censorship, creativity, loneliness – and just how far our tolerance is tested by bad people who make great art. Praise for Benjamin Myers‘One of our finest, and most deftly imaginative, writers’ i news ‘Radical and gorgeous’ Max Porter‘A writer of extraordinary and incandescent talent’ Alex Preston
Hardback | 304 pages
205 x 136 x 24 | 332g
Hardback | 448 pages
205 x 137 x 33 | 444g
From the bestselling author of Mayflies and Caledonian Road, a heart-enriching celebration of what makes us great: our friends. If we are lucky in our lives, our friendships will be rich and varied. They will be shared with those with two legs, with four legs, with whiskers or clean faces; they will come dressed in the simplicity of childhood or the professional attire of adult life; some will span decades, and some will be only fleeting.
But the thing they will all have in common is that life is not only unimaginable – but unimagined – without them. In these gorgeous personal reflections, Andrew O’Hagan explores friendship through music and poetry, memory and history, illuminating the many ways and reasons that people come together, and how our lives are all the better because we do. Andrew O’Hagan’s novel Caledonian Road was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 31/03/2024
CURSES ARE LIKE HEARTS. SOME ARE MORE EASILY BROKEN THAN OTHERS… ‘A worthy successor to My Sister, the Serial Killer…
Pacey storytelling, nuanced characterisation and sharp dialogue… An immersive page-turner’ Sunday Times–‘A haunting, twisty tale of curses and romance’ Ayòbámi Adébáyò’A sweeping love story… I lost myself within its gorgeous pages’ Jennie Godfrey’Funny and fearless, soaked in secrets, spirit, heartbreak, and love…
Impossible to put down’ Abi DaréNo man will call your house his home. And if they try, they will not have peace… So goes the family curse, handed down from generation to generation, ruining families and breaking hearts as it goes.
And now it’s calm, rational Eniiyi’s turn – who, due to her uncanny resemblance to her dead aunt, Monife, and her family’s insistence that she must be a reincarnation, has long been used to some strange familial beliefs. Still, when she falls in love with the handsome boy she saves from drowning, she can no longer run from her family’s history. Is she destined to live out the habitual story of love and heartbreak, or can she escape the family curse and the mysterious fate that befell her aunt?–Readers are falling hard for Cursed Daughters…
‘Everyone’s going to fall in love with this book”A stunning read. Possibly my book of the year so far”One of the best endings of a book I’ve read in a long time. So satisfying”Sharp, brilliantly written…and broke my heart on more than one occasion”I cannot express how much I adored this book – like truly, madly, deeply adored it’
In the small Ohio town of Bonhomie, Cal Jenkins and Margaret Salt come together in a stolen moment of passion, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe. Cal’s wife, Becky, has a spiritual gift: she is a seer who can conjure the dead, helping families connect with those whom they’ve lost.
Margaret’s husband, Felix, is serving on a Navy cargo ship; she will soon learn that he may have perished in a predawn attack in the Philippine Sea. But in a small town, nothing stays buried forever, and the consequences of that encounter will ripple through the next generation of both families, compelling them to re-examine who they thought they were – and what the future might hold. Full of compassion, humour and charm, Buckeye is a dazzling portrait of an unforgettable community: of hopes and fears, loves and losses, and above all an indomitable longing for connection.
When the Inter-Continental Kabul opened in 1969, Afghanistan’s first luxury hotel symbolised a dream of a modernising country connected to the world. More than fifty years on, the Inter-Continental is still standing. It has endured Soviet occupation, multiple coups, a grievous civil war, a US invasion and the rise, fall and rise of the Taliban.
History lives within its scarred windows and walls. Lyse Doucet, the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent, has been checking into the Inter-Continental since 1988. And here, she uses its story to craft a richly immersive history of modern Afghanistan.
It is the story of Hazrat, the septuagenarian housekeeper who still holds fast to his Inter-Continental training from the hotel’s 1970s glory days – an era of haute cuisine and high fashion, when Afghanistan was a kingdom and Kabul was the ‘Paris of Asia’. It is the story of Abida, who became the first female chef to cook in the Inter-Con’s famous kitchen after the fall of the Taliban in 2001. And it is the lives of Malalai and Sadeq, the twenty-something staff who seized every opportunity offered by two decades of fragile democracy – only to witness the Taliban roaring back in 2021.
The result is a remarkably vivid history of how Afghans have survived a half century of destruction and disruption. It is the story of a hotel but also the story of a people.
