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DISCOVER THE EPIC CONCLUSION TO THE SWEEPINGLY ROMANTIC NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMESBESTSELLER DIVINE RIVALSTORN APART BY WARIris has returned home bruised and heartbroken from the front, but the war is far from over. Roman is gone, lost behind enemy lines, with no memory of his past, or Iris.REUNITED BY LOVEHoping his memories return, Roman begins to write again - but this time for the enemy. When a strange letter arrives beneath his wardrobe door, he strikes up with its mysterious yet hauntingly familiar author.BOUND BY FATEIris and Roman are drawn together by their words once more only for the war to demand the greatest sacrifice: their hearts.Praise for Divine Rivals:'Rich and romantic - if stories had scent, this one would smell like a mug of black tea, the ink ribbons of a typewriter, and that addictive spice called enemies to lovers'Shelby Mahurin, New York Times bestselling author ofSerpent & Dove'A sweeping start to a beautiful and romantic new series. Ross weaves her stories in such a vulnerable and delicate way, truly with a style all her own. I adored this book'Adalyn Grace, New York Times bestselling author of BelladonnaReaders love Iris and Roman:¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ 'The most tender rivals-to-lovers romance I've ever read'¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ 'My heart by the end couldn't take anymore!'¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ 'Easily a top read for me and definitely a new favourite. I will never stop recommending this book'¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ 'A truly moving story and very unlike anything I've read lately'

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DON'T BE THE LAST TO DISCOVER THE SERIES THAT EVERYONE CAN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT:<BR><BR>Get ready for the breathtaking follow-up to global phenomenons Fourth Wing and Iron Flame from the no. 1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Yarros.<BR><BR>ARE YOU READY TO BRAVE THE DARK?<BR><BR>After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there's no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty. Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their ranks, it's impossible to know who to trust.<BR><BR>Now Violet must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre. The trip will test every bit of her wit, luck, and strength, but she will do anything to save what she loves - her dragons, her family, her home, and him.<BR><BR>Even if it means keeping a secret so big, it could destroy everything.<BR><BR>They need an army. They need power. They need magic. And they need the one thing only Violet can find - the truth.<BR><BR>But a storm is coming... and not everyone can survive its wrath.<BR><BR>Pre-order your copy now!<BR><BR>OTHER BOOKS IN THE EMPYREAN SERIES:<BR>FOURTH WING<BR>IRON FLAME

'IT MOVED ME DEEPLY' LIV LITTLE'DEEPLY POIGNANT' HARPERS BAZAAR'GORGEOUS' RAVEN LEILANITHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF CLEOPATRA AND FRANKENSTEIN'It will make you laugh, cry deeply, and want to call your siblings' Cosmopolitan'Even better than Cleopatra and Frankenstein' GraziaThe Blue sisters have always been exceptional - and exceptionally different.Avery, a strait-laced lawyer living in London, is the typical eldest daughter, though she's hiding a secret that could undo her perfect life forever.Bonnie was a boxer but, following a devastating defeat, she's been working as a bouncer in LA - until a reckless act one night threatens to drive her out of the city.And Lucky, the rebellious youngest, is a model in Paris whose hard-partying ways are finally catching up with her.Then there was Nicky, the beloved fourth sister, whose unexpected death left Avery, Bonnie and Lucky reeling.When, a year later, the three of them must reunite in New York to stop the sale of their childhood home, they find that it's only by returning to each other that they can navigate their grief, addiction and heartbreak and learn to fall in love with life again.What readers are saying...'This book was INCREDIBLE' ¿¿¿¿¿'This book moved me to tears several times' ¿¿¿¿¿'Captivating and utterly human' ¿¿¿¿¿'A book that will live with me for a very long time' ¿¿¿¿¿'A beautiful, moving book' ¿¿¿¿¿

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Rediscover this deep, practical anatomy of the novel from 'the strongest ... literary critic we have' (New York Review of Books) in this new revised 10th anniversary edition.What do we mean when we say we 'know' a fictional character? What constitutes a 'telling' detail? When is a metaphor successful? Is realism realistic? Why do most endings of novels disappoint?In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. In his first full-length book of criticism, one of the most prominent critics of our time takes the machinery of story-telling apart to ask a series of fundamental questions. Wood ranges widely, from Homer to Beatrix Potter, from the Bible to John Le Carré, and his book is both a study of the techniques of fiction-making and an alternative history of the novel. Playful and profound, it incisively sums up two decades of bold, often controversial, and now classic critical work, and will be enlightening to writers, readers, and anyone interested in what happens on the page.'Should find a place on every novel-lover's shelf. It has the quality all useful works of criticism should have: refined taste, keen observation, and the ability to make the reader argue, passionately, with it' Financial Times

'A vital work for our times'IRENOSEN OKOJIE'Radical, gorgeous ... a queer love song, honouring chosen family'BIG ISSUE'Beautiful ... this is prose worth spending time with'MARIE CLAIRE'A gorgeously deeply humane book' NICOLE DENNIS-BENN'A vivid, stirring revolution'YRSA DALEY-WARD'The ink practically hovers off the page'KAVEH AKBARWhat makes a family? How is it defined and by whom?Across Lagos, a rolling cast of unforgettable characters seek out love in all its forms, daring to push all other relationships - with partners, relatives and friends - to the brink in the process. Stubbornly alive and brazenly flawed, they work to establish themselves in the worlds of art, music, entertainment and creativity in the city, all while reckoning with desire, fear, death and God. To build a queer community, they must all grapple with the necessary fictions that they carry for survival.'Both deeply earnest and unique'VULTURE'Unabashedly queer, complicated and occasionally outright hopeful'NPR'Osunde is brilliant at character, giving the cast rich, knotty backstories that unfold in bursts of revelation'TLS'Necessary Fiction's Nigerians are inseparable from Nigeria itself: brazen, willful, sexy, dynamic, explosive' MARLON JAMES, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings'Osunde's writing shines ... It's not just beautiful - it's transformative'BASSEY IKPI, author of I'm Telling the Truth But I'm Lying

A stylish, seductive new novel from Rebecca Sarah Ley, winner of a Betty Trask Prize and the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize'A stylish and gripping take on the campus novel - witty, incredibly sharp, and compulsively readable' Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure'I loved it: a bleakly funny, off-kilter examination of the dynamics of power and attraction. I raced through it' Rebecca Wait, author of I'm Sorry You Feel That WaySofie Muller can make you into a better writer.That's why Alice and Walt are desperate to be in her creative writing class. She can spot talent and apply pressure, hone you - if you're good enough, if you want it enough - into something more elegant, original, daring.Alice wants it. She wants Sofie's hand guiding hers to greatness, then the book deal, then the prizes and the plaudits.Still, there is gossip. Sofie will kill your darlings. Sofie will drive you too hard. Sofie's boundary-pushing is not just professional, it is personal. By the time Alice realises the rumours may be true, is it too late to wriggle free? And if not, is it worth it to get what she always dreamed of?BAD FICTION is a timely, brilliant novel about fame and mentorship, betrayal and submission, from one of Britain's brightest young writers.

December 1934. Moscow is in ferment after the assassination of one of Stalin's closest aides, leading to a wave of new arrests and summary executions.Investigator Anton Belkin already thinks he is close to breaking point, when his close friend, the chef Misha Kazakov, is arrested on a trumped-up charge of attempted assassination by poisoning of a senior Moscow official. For Anton the question isn't whether Misha is guilty, but why the secret police want him out of the way.And with Anton's father, a dissenting artist, attracting attention in all the wrong ways, whether Anton can save Misha without becoming ensnared in the ever-more tangled web of conspiracy around him.

December 1934. Moscow is in ferment after the assassination of one of Stalin's closest aides, leading to a wave of new arrests and summary executions.Investigator Anton Belkin already thinks he is close to breaking point, when his close friend, the chef Misha Kazakov, is arrested on a trumped-up charge of attempted assassination by poisoning of a senior Moscow official. For Anton the question isn't whether Misha is guilty, but why the secret police want him out of the way.And with Anton's father, a dissenting artist, attracting attention in all the wrong ways, whether Anton can save Misha without becoming ensnared in the ever-more tangled web of conspiracy around him.

Argues that our experience of becoming engrossed in the fictional world of a novel is connected to the fundamental condition of human being: our capacity for language in all its broadest shapes. <BR><BR>Unlocking the subtle riches of Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics and working across phenomenology, analytic philosophy, and literary criticism, The Experience of Fiction argues that our capacity for language is the bedrock of fiction and of our experience of its worlds. <BR><BR>By harnessing the general structure of fictional worlds that our minds navigate when we read, masterworks of fiction expose our capacity for language for what it is: a capacity to be otherwise and to exceed ourselves. Charting the worlds of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Thomas Jurkiewicz explores the pressures and opportunities that the impulse for coherence places on interpretive experience, arguing that it is finally left to each individual to commit themselves to the actual world.<BR><BR>The Experience of Fiction injects new verve into the burgeoning conversation between literary scholars and philosophers of art and language, bringing hermeneutic philosophy decisively to bear on literary studies. It clears a way between critics invested in critique and those looking for new modes of thinking, appreciating, and taking works of literary fiction seriously, by showcasing how an attitude of openness to experience lays bare both our capacity to reach out towards alterity and to dominate it.

From Blade Runner to The Hunger Games, this book explores costume and dress in science fiction cinema and their impact on fashion and popular culture far beyond the films themselves. <BR><BR>Therèsa Winge considers not only the films' stylistic choices but also their representations of technology and their socio-cultural, political, and philosophical ideologies in order to trace their significant influence on popular trends, culture, and consumption. Fashion Adventures in Science Fiction Cinema looks at sci-fi films such as Barbarella, Mad Max: Fury Road, Dune, and The Matrix in order to understand the intersections between this eclectic genre and society and culture at large. <BR><BR>By exploring the visual and material cultures of the films, Winge reveals the importance of characters' costumes and dress in establishing their identities, story arcs, and style. She examines selected science fiction films' aesthetics that impact popular culture beyond the films, influencing designers such as Hussein Chalayan, Alexander McQueen, and Paco Rabanne to create fashion collections, promotional campaigns, virtual environments, and more. Winge's expertise in fandom and fan culture extends the reach of her analysis to reveal the enormous collective power of the consumer of science fiction, demonstrating the role of sci-fi in popular culture and fashion. <BR><BR>Giving an incisive account of the complex relationship between dress in science fiction and broader culture and society, Fashion Adventures in Science Fiction Cinema is essential reading to all those interested in cinema, popular culture, fashion, and identity.

From Blade Runner to The Hunger Games, this book explores costume and dress in science fiction cinema and their impact on fashion and popular culture far beyond the films themselves. Therèsa Winge considers not only the films' stylistic choices but also their representations of technology and their socio-cultural, political, and philosophical ideologies in order to trace their significant influence on popular trends, culture, and consumption. Fashion Adventures in Science Fiction Cinema looks at sci-fi films such as Barbarella, Mad Max: Fury Road, Dune, and The Matrix in order to understand the intersections between this eclectic genre and society and culture at large. <BR><BR>By exploring the visual and material cultures of the films, Winge reveals the importance of characters' costumes and dress in establishing their identities, story arcs, and style. She examines selected science fiction films' aesthetics that impact popular culture beyond the films, influencing designers such as Hussein Chalayan, Alexander McQueen, and Paco Rabanne to create fashion collections, promotional campaigns, virtual environments, and more. Winge's expertise in fandom and fan culture extends the reach of her analysis to reveal the enormous collective power of the consumer of science fiction, demonstrating the role of sci-fi in popular culture and fashion. <BR><BR>Giving an incisive account of the complex relationship between dress in science fiction and broader culture and society, Fashion Adventures in Science Fiction Cinema is essential reading to all those interested in cinema, popular culture, fashion, and identity.

Focusing on the long-running series Doctor Who and Star Trek, Fantastic Acting examines the non-naturalistic techniques and approaches employed by actors to realize non-human, alien, or monstrous characters on the small screen. <BR><BR>The book draws upon a combination of detailed textual analysis, archive material, and original interviews with actors and directors to unpack the processes required to portray a variety of science fiction archetypes, from the non-human humanoid (humanoid aliens, androids, "possessed"/duplicate humans), through the demonstrably alien or monstrous (other-worldly characters for which prosthetics or visual effects are incorporated as part of the performance) to the robotic or mechanical (for which voice acting plays a more significant role, often in combination with props or CGI). Examining the relationship between this long-established genre and its associated acting styles, Fantastic Acting fills a major gap in the emerging field of television performance studies, shining a much-needed light on a key, yet little-considered aspect of the screen actor's craft.<BR><BR>Utilising long-running television series from both the UK and the US - both of which have now arguably become global phenomena - avoids placing the focus on one particular national performance style. The result is the serious examination of what an actor does with their body, face, and voice to accomplish the fantastic. Ultimately, this study unpacks the relationship between genre and performance in two of television's longest-running and most popular science fiction franchises.

This wide-ranging and timely open access collection of essays is ideal for readers who want to incorporate speculative fiction into their teaching and research across disciplines.<BR><BR>The terms speculation and speculative fictioning are increasingly used in education and interdisciplinary research methods to describe approaches grounded in asking "what if" questions that can unsettle the assumed certainties of the past, present, and future.<BR><BR>An Introduction by editor Sarah E. Truman and a Foreword by Steven Shaviro describe what speculative fiction is and examine its critical implications, offering a theoretical framework for understanding its applications to research and pedagogy. The chapters that follow explore these modes of thinking in practice by drawing on speculative fictions to examine disciplinary concerns related to climate justice, disability justice, racial justice, prison abolition, genetics, AI, the future of work, educational technologies, and gender. Through reflective narratives and critical analyses, twenty-five international contributors engage literary works by authors such as Octavia Butler, Jorge Luis Borges, Ted Chiang, and N. K. Jemisin, alongside films and television series including Gattaca, The Matrix, Severance, and Star Trek, connecting these texts to their own research and thinking. Each chapter also includes discussion and writing prompts for use in classrooms and research seminars.<BR><BR>The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Melbourne.

This wide-ranging and timely open access collection of essays is ideal for readers who want to incorporate speculative fiction into their teaching and research across disciplines.<BR><BR>The terms speculation and speculative fictioning are increasingly used in education and interdisciplinary research methods to describe approaches grounded in asking "what if" questions that can unsettle the assumed certainties of the past, present, and future.<BR><BR>An Introduction by editor Sarah E. Truman and a Foreword by Steven Shaviro describe what speculative fiction is and examine its critical implications, offering a theoretical framework for understanding its applications to research and pedagogy. The chapters that follow explore these modes of thinking in practice by drawing on speculative fictions to examine disciplinary concerns related to climate justice, disability justice, racial justice, prison abolition, genetics, AI, the future of work, educational technologies, and gender. Through reflective narratives and critical analyses, twenty-five international contributors engage literary works by authors such as Octavia Butler, Jorge Luis Borges, Ted Chiang, and N. K. Jemisin, alongside films and television series including Gattaca, The Matrix, Severance, and Star Trek, connecting these texts to their own research and thinking. Each chapter also includes discussion and writing prompts for use in classrooms and research seminars.<BR><BR>The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Melbourne.

Former lovers turned rival tour guides must join forces to overcome scandal—in this steamy second-chance romance from the author of Secret Nights and Northern Lights.<BR><BR>Sadie Stockton has the almost-perfect job leading tours through the former home of her favorite author, the enigmatic recluse Hazel Wilmont. But when the owners of the Wilmont House announce plans to increase the estate’s revenue by hosting an overnight murder mystery set in a cocktail lounge, Sadie is less than thrilled. Yet again, Hazel’s legacy is being tarnished by the fictitious, decades-old rumors she poisoned her husband(s).<BR><BR>Worse? The new tour will mean working with none other than Ryan Pearson—local mixologist, owner of Pearson’s Pub Crawls, and Sadie’s long-standing professional rival and personal regret. She can’t stand him. Or his smug grin. Or his boastful T-shirt declaring his pub crawl the city’s number-one rated tour. And no, she doesn’t still think about their short-lived, meaningless college fling. Ever.<BR><BR>With a potential promotion on the line, Sadie must play nice with Ryan in order to make the “Mixtures & Murder” tour a success. But over late nights and cocktail tastings, all clues indicate a reigniting attraction between the two. And as new discoveries at the mansion unfold, Sadie is forced to confront her own narratives about Ryan, about Hazel, and about the past she’s tried for years to bury.

Exploring nine works of contemporary feminist speculative fiction by Rhoda Lerman, Angela Carter, Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman, this book asks how biblical myths of creation and apocalypse can intensify characters' emotions or distract them from dealing with the more immediate problems presented by climate crisis, conflict, social inequality and other distressing realities.<BR><BR> Engaging with affect theory - the study of emotion - across feminist, womanist and queer biblical reception history, this book argues that certain myths can become, in the words of Sara Ahmed, 'sticky', attaching themselves (and their associated emotions) to certain people, stories or ideas. It asks how and why these stories 'stick', and how this can shine a light on the societies reflected in the novels as they respond to debates within the feminism(s) of their time. The book takes negative emotions such as rage, loneliness, depression and disgust, and explores how these operate on and through fictional characters, who in many cases cannot escape the pull of Eden or the push of apocalypse. These novels impel the reader to identify moments in which such characters may (or may not) 'stay with the trouble', as Donna Haraway would put it, rather than giving in to the seductive dream of beginning afresh.

THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017<BR><BR>SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER<BR><BR>When he receives an invitation to deliver a lecture in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, international lawyer Philippe Sands begins a journey on the trail of his family's secret history. In doing so, he uncovers an astonishing series of coincidences that lead him halfway across the world, to the origins of international law at the Nuremberg trial. Interweaving the stories of the two Nuremberg prosecutors (Hersch Lauterpacht and Rafael Lemkin) who invented the crimes or genocide and crimes against humanity, the Nazi governor responsible for the murder of thousands in and around Lviv (Hans Frank), and incredible acts of wartime bravery, EAST WEST STREET is an unforgettable blend of memoir and historical detective story, and a powerful meditation on the way memory, crime and guilt leave scars across generations.<BR><BR>* * * * * <BR><BR>'A monumental achievement: profoundly personal, told with love, anger and great precision' John le Carré<BR><BR>'One of the most gripping and powerful books imaginable' SUNDAY TIMES<BR><BR>Winner:<BR>Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction<BR>JQ-Wingate Literary Prize<BR>Hay Festival Medal for Prose

A Times best History Book of the Year 2024

'Every page glittering with insight... [a] wonderful book' Dominic Sandbrook
'Brilliantly written... evokes the wonder of an entire civilisation.' Tom Holland
'Takes us beyond the familiar into a real, visceral, far more satisfying Viking world.' Dan Snow

'A fascinating tour ... Barraclough looks beyond the soap-opera sagas to those lost in the cracks of history' The New York Times

It's time to meet the real Vikings. A comb, preserved in a bog, engraved with the earliest traces of a new writing system. A pagan shrine deep beneath a lava field. A note from an angry wife to a husband too long at the tavern. Doodles on birch-bark, made by an imaginative child.

From these tiny embers, Eleanor Barraclough blows back to life the vast, rich and complex world of the Vikings. These are not just the stories of kings, raiders and saga heroes. Here are the lives of ordinary people: the merchants, children, artisans, enslaved people, seers, travellers and storytellers who shaped the medieval Nordic world.

Immerse yourself in the day-to-day lives of an extraordinary culture that spanned centuries and spread from its Scandinavian heartlands to the remote fjords of Greenland, the Arctic wastelands, the waterways and steppes of Eurasia, all the way to the Byzantine Empire and Islamic Caliphate.

A collection of literary essays investigating how diverse aspects of metamodernism manifest in 21st-century English-language fiction.<BR>The authors whose essays are collected in the volume analyze how various theories of metamodernism apply to contemporary fiction and thereby encourage readers to critically engage with this cultural phenomenon.<BR>The collection opens with a discussion of the original construal of metamodernism proposed by Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker and its subsequent development by other theorists, and closes with two polemical essays asking questions about the name and status of the new cultural movement as well as its relation to postmodernism - its direct predecessor. <BR>Literary Manifestations of Metamodernism allows for a new appreciation of various aspects of contemporary fiction - such as its thematics (e.g. ethical concern with social justice and care, ecology, the real, the sense of engagement) and its form (e.g. metafiction, complex narrative structure, autofiction, hopeful tone)-while reinforcing metamodernism as a promising phenomenon that takes advantage of postmodern heritage yet surpasses it to explore the responsibility humans bear for socially-constructed reality.

A new title from Dr Naomi Fisher, author of the bestselling books Changing Our Minds, When the Naughty Step Makes Things Worse and The Teenager's Guide to Burnout.

From bestselling and award-winning author and professor Elizabeth McCracken comes an irresistible look at the art of writing.Writing can feel like an endless series of decisions. How does one face the blank page? Move a character around a room? Deal with time? Undertake revision? The good and bad news is that in fiction writing, there are no definitive answers to such questions: writers must come up with their own. Elizabeth McCracken, author of bestselling novels, National Book Award long-listed story collections, and a highly praised memoir, has been teaching for more than thirty-five years, guiding her many students through their own answers.In A Long Game, she shares insights gleaned along the way, offering practical tips and incisive thoughts about her own work as an artist. The book covers:

• - Understanding and developing characters- Plot, and what to do if it eludes you- Her thoughts on common writing “rules”- And of course, the Butter Cow Lady of the Iowa State Fair and her work as it relates to revision

Writing “is a long game,” she notes. “What matters is that you learn to get work done in the way that is possible for you, through consistency or panic. Through self-recrimination or self-delusion or self-forgiveness: every life needs all three.”
As much a book about the life of a working artist as it is a guide to thinking about fiction, A Long Game is a revelatory and indispensable resource for any writer.

This book presents the first major collection on the intersection of videogames and detective fiction, bringing insights on a variety of topics from a range of leading scholars in this exciting, emerging field.<BR><BR>Although known primarily as a literary genre, detective fiction thrives in contemporary forms of media, such as videogames, where designers experiment with a variety of mechanics and formats. While detective fiction has a rich history in literature, much less has been written about detective fiction in videogames and this is one of the primary objectives of this book.<BR><BR>Each chapter places detective fiction into dialogue with videogames, covering a variety of topics from remediation and adaptation, participatory culture and transmedia storytelling, transcultural exchange-especially between the Anglo-American and Japanese games industries-and the well observed tension between gameplay and story, known as the ludology/narratology debate. <BR><BR>The book takes an experimental and interdisciplinary approach, and by borrowing insights from each field, this fusion sheds new light on the fields of narratology and game design more broadly. As the dominant popular culture of our age, videogames are also uniquely positioned to explore the reasons behind the renaissance of detective fiction in contemporary culture, placing the genre into the wider socio-political landscape.

<BR>Everyone is gripped by Stephen Ronson:<BR><BR> 'A brilliant noir thriller set in the darkest days of the Second World War' Stephen Leather<BR><BR> 'A gripping World War Two thriller . . . Every shadow hides a potential threat and the tension never lets up. A must read' 5 star reader review<BR><BR> 'Ronson delivers a cracking yarn, convincingly told. John Cook is the Jack Reacher of 1940s Britain' Damien Lewis<BR><BR> 'My God, this was great. It left me with a book hangover. I felt like I was there in 1940s England . . . The writing is really 3D. You really feel like you're there. It's very immersive, and I love the witty humour' 5 star reader review<BR><BR> 'A vivid sense of place with tension on every level, The Last Line dripped with historical detail and authenticity. I absolutely loved it' Marion Todd<BR><BR> 'A tough, taut wartime thriller that reads like a cross between Alastair MacLean and Lee Child and atmospherically conjures up the spectre of war, the threat of Nazi invasion and other evils uncomfortably close to home. Dad's Army, it ain't!' Robbie Morrison<BR><BR> 'Thrilling and intriguing in equal measure. Like Jack Reacher on the Home Front in WWII' Mason Cross

Busting open Anglo-centric models of crime fiction that position Sherlock Holmes as a core signifier and originator of the genre to which all other works must relate or respond, this book draws on international and transmedia case studies to challenge narrow academic conceptions of authorship, genre and world crime fiction. <BR><BR>As Harris-Peyton demonstrates, Holmsian-centred models reinforce colonial ideas of the genre that determine how authorship, originality, and textual value is assigned in a global crime fiction marketplace. In exploring works by Conan Doyle with texts by authors writing in postcolonial India and China as well as contemporary internet fandoms, games, and television adaptations, Harris Peyton offers a new model of the crime fiction genre that is neither colonial or hierarchical but that reimagines crime fiction as a genre shaped by its own transnational movement, intercultural traditions and whose membership is determined globally by its participants. Combining crime fiction studies, postcolonial theory, theories of adaptation, and digital humanities methods as means of analysis, the book investigates such texts as A Study in Scarlet, the original works and film and television adaptations of Satyajit Ray's Feluda mysteries, Cheng Xiaoqing's Huo Sang mysteries, Saradindu Bandyopadhyay's Bakshi stories, the TV show Elementary and fan-produced products responding to Sherlock. Within and beyond crime fiction studies, this is an important reminder that lingering colonial models of authorship and textual hierarchy continue to shape our economies of attention in an anglophone cultural marketplace.

Exploring current debates in creative writing about the borders between fiction and creative nonfiction, this collection of essays draws on concepts of the uncanny and hauntology to challenge, subvert and transgress the boundary between forms. Hauntology, as originally defined by Derrida, challenges the certainties of ontology, in a similar way to debates about truth in creative nonfiction; by bringing together authors that undermine the fiction/nonfiction binary, Haunted Writing considers the ways in which real events and experiences haunt writers as they craft their work. Offering insight into how the past - both personal and historical - is experienced and understood in the present, this book includes writing from a diverse group of established and emerging authors who situate their work on genre boundaries and discuss their own creative practice to show how their writing 'haunts' real events.<BR><BR>With essays covering a range of ideas from subjectivity, intersectionality and challenging dominant versions of history, to braiding personal and researched stories, playfulness, experimentation and creating stories from archival documents, this beautifully written collection intervenes in contemporary discussions in creative writing and culture surrounding ownership, appropriation and ethics. Bringing a fresh voice and new perspectives to ever-present questions within creative writing, Haunted Writing uncovers how the past is a spectre that disrupts contemporary writing.

Exploring current debates in creative writing about the borders between fiction and creative nonfiction, this collection of essays draws on concepts of the uncanny and hauntology to challenge, subvert and transgress the boundary between forms. Hauntology, as originally defined by Derrida, challenges the certainties of ontology, in a similar way to debates about truth in creative nonfiction; by bringing together authors that undermine the fiction/nonfiction binary, Haunted Writing considers the ways in which real events and experiences haunt writers as they craft their work. Offering insight into how the past - both personal and historical - is experienced and understood in the present, this book includes writing from a diverse group of established and emerging authors who situate their work on genre boundaries and discuss their own creative practice to show how their writing 'haunts' real events.<BR><BR>With essays covering a range of ideas from subjectivity, intersectionality and challenging dominant versions of history, to braiding personal and researched stories, playfulness, experimentation and creating stories from archival documents, this beautifully written collection intervenes in contemporary discussions in creative writing and culture surrounding ownership, appropriation and ethics. Bringing a fresh voice and new perspectives to ever-present questions within creative writing, Haunted Writing uncovers how the past is a spectre that disrupts contemporary writing.

This intellectual and literary history explores the entanglement of historical imagination and left-wing politics in interwar Europe. <BR><BR>Contrary to the popular perception of historical continuity and revolutionary action as incompatible, the connections between the two phenomena prove to be as vital and productive as they are messy and complicated. Revolution, She Wrote offers a novel way of studying these phenomena by focussing on three cases from interwar Europe whence the revolutions and revolutionary figures of the past became the subject of historical fiction authored by women. It argues that these works, despite their fictional status, functioned as carriers of radical knowledge. <BR><BR>Stanislawa Przybyszewska (1901-1935) wrote plays about the French Revolution of 1789 that caused unexpected agitation in Poland's theatrical world and beyond. Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) made a transgressive contribution to the British Cultural Front with her novel set in 1848 Paris. And Olga Forsh (1873-1961) carved out her place among the cultural workers of the new Soviet state by writing histories of the Bolshevik revolution's ancestors. All three authors belonged on the left side of the political spectrum and remained at the periphery to the cultural markets and intellectual milieus in their countries. Their fictionalized revolutions are thus marked, on the one hand, by sympathy and engagement, and on the other, by their ex-centric positions. <BR><BR>Revolution, She Wrote demonstrates the dynamic entanglement of national and pan-European historical cultures, breaking with the defeatist perception of interwar left-wing intellectual activism to advance historical writing as a locus of hope and resistance.

Step into the dark heart of small-town Australia in this gripping follow-up to the award-winning The Unbelieved – perfect for fans of Chris Hammer’s Scrublands and Jane Harper’s The Dry. <BR><BR> After a calm start to the summer holiday season, the small coastal town of Deception Bay is rocked by a report of a missing baby. Detective Antigone Pollard steps up to lead the team searching for the kidnapper, but the case is complicated by the return of her old boss, Bill Wheeler, who seems determined to thwart her progress.<BR>  <BR> To make matters worse, the frantic investigation is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Antigone’s mother in need of her help. As family secrets threaten to spill over, and with time running out to find the missing baby, Antigone finds herself fighting on two fronts and facing the same two questions. Who’s protecting the women? And what happens when we don’t believe them?<BR>  <BR> ‘Delivers on absolutely every page. Vikki Petraitis is the real deal!’ HAYLEY SCRIVENOR, award-winning author of Dirt Town <BR>  <BR> ‘Crackles with tension’ CHRISTIAN WHITE, author of The Ledge<BR>  <BR> ‘A must-read’ JACQUELINE BUBLITZ, author of Before You Knew My Name

* From the author of the magnificent, award-winning GILEAD comes a masterpiece novel that returns to the people and places of Gilead. Winner of the ORANGE PRIZE

From the author of Housekeeping, Gilead is the long-hoped-for second novel by one of America's finest writers. Chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the top 6 novels of 2004. 'A beautiful novel: wise, tender and perfectly measured' Sarah Waters

Everyone loves Johanna Bell:<BR><BR> 'A heartwarming story of women discovering their inner strength . . . I couldn't put it down' Vicki Beeby<BR><BR> 'I absolutely loved this book series, it's one of those where you feel lost when you've finished, like what am I going to do now? A definite must read' 5 star reader review<BR><BR> 'This is a story that needed to be told . . . I love Johanna Bell from the bottom of my heart for giving a voice to the women who first made a way for me and countless others' Penny Thorpe<BR><BR> 'Outstanding once again! When does the next book come out?! This is an exceptional series . . . lots of little twists and turns that make it hard to stop reading' 5 star reader review<BR><BR> 'Filled with richly drawn characters that leap from the page, and a plot that's so well researched and well written you will believe you are in the thick of wartime . . . A must-read for all saga fans' Fiona Ford<BR><BR> 'I'm so taken with the Blitz girls . . . The pacing was perfect and I was on the edge of my seat with the unravelling of plot lines and story development - I was super invested. The ending was perfection' 5 star reader review<BR><BR> 'If you haven't read any of this author's books you are missing out so much' 5 star reader review<BR><BR> 'Absolutely mind-blowingly good' 5 star reader review<BR><BR> 'Oooh what a book! Couldn't put it down, amazing characters and the storyline was great, felt as if I was there' 5 star reader review

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2026A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK A VOGUE BEST DEBUT 2026'Stunning' Sunday Times'Profoundly moving' Elif Shafak'A wonderfully heartfelt debut' Marie-ClaireA stunning and deeply moving novel of grief, loss and female friendship, set against the backdrop of two cataclysmic natural eventsWhen six-year-old Marissa loses her mother, she is taken by her father to live on a small Thai island in the Andaman Sea. There, she forms a deep friendship with Arielle and together they explore the fragile wonders of its forests, reefs, and beaches. Holding their breath for minutes at a time, they learn to dive into the deep, as effortlessly synchronized as the manta rays they come to know by name. Then, on Boxing Day 2004, when the Indian Ocean tsunami makes landfall, they are swept up by the first wave and separated.Eight years later, Marissa is living in New York. She spends her days wandering through the city and her nights seeking solace in the beds of strangers. As the city prepares for a devastating storm, Marissa reflects on her past and learns how to sustain herself in a precarious world.Under Water is a story about friendship and grief, but also ecological change and natural disasters. It is a meditation on loss, a tribute to our dying oceans and forests, and a love letter to the disappearing coral reefs.'The horrors of 2004 are told with verve in this debut about a woman haunted by survivor guilt . . . there are stunning descriptions of island wildlife . . . Tara Menon tells the story with confidence and style' Sunday Times____Readers love Under Water'A beautiful read. Haunting and visceral and profound, magical and tragic, but mostly very, very well written''I loved it''This is writing of the highest order and it will reward focussed reading. Definitely one of this year's best reads so far''Highly, highly recommended''Beautiful and devastating''I loved this, even though it made me cry!''The best books change my perception, bring something I thought I knew into a different light. This is one of those'

Exciting and intriguing new literary fiction coming soon from Fleet.

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Fonda Lee comes a searing science fiction epic in which a battleworn samurai's final mission thrusts her deep into a world of corporate espionage, dark secrets and tarnished honour. There, she will uncover a conspiracy that could upend society on an isolated colony planet.

From the bestselling M. R. Carey, winner of the Philip K. Award, comes an epic and exhilarating science fiction tale about a distant colony planet at war with itself - where one half is forever in sunlight and the other in endless night.HUMANITY CAN'T SURVIVE THE NIGHTSIDEOn the distant colony world of Tessix, the sun never moves in the sky. One side of the planet burns under endless noon, whilst the other is a frozen wasteland in perpetual darkness. Human life is only possible in a narrow strip of land where the terraforming project almost worked.Growing up on the borderland between light and dark, under the fading sun globes of Tanner's Hook, fifteen-year-old Bead Plessey clings to his friends and his fantasies. Bead dreams of one day escaping the grim realities of life on Tessix - the declining population, the ruthless autocracy of the Noonday government, and the monstrous Daspa that come out of the nightside to feed on human blood.When a stranger turns up at Bead's home asking for lodgings, he brings the possibility of change. But who is Jud Valery, and where has he come from? Is his interest in Bead benign or sinister? And how is he connected to the disappearance of Bead's mother, Omrid, eight years before? Looking for answers, Bead assembles an ill-assorted band of allies - but their investigation takes them far beyond Tanner's Hook, into the nightside and into the long-buried secrets that shaped their world.

Discover this thrilling standalone science fiction novel from M. R. Carey, author of the Philip K. Dick Award-winning Outlaw Planet and Infinity Gate (a New York Times Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of the Year), perfect for fans of Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alasdair Reynolds and Peter F. Hamilton.Praise for M. R. Carey:'AN IMMENSE ACHIEVEMENT: AN IMPECCABLY CRAFTED BOOK' New York Times 'A GENUINE TREAT FOR SF FANS' Kirkus 'A FASCINATING WINDOW ONTO A DANGEROUS AND MULTIFACETED UNIVERSE' Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time

'Visceral, incandescent stories' NEW YORK TIMES
'One of Australia's finest writers'¿OBSERVER¿
'Exacting, airtight . . . Garner's stylistic range dazzles' JONATHAN ESCOFFERY

A woman sends postcards to her lover from the sun-soaked Gold Coast.

A chorus of hometown voices gossip about a wayward friend returned.

A young girl, limping around with her foot stuck through a bucket, discovers a hidden box of horrors.

Helen Garner is best known for her frank, unsparing portraits of Australian life. This collection of her short fiction bursts with the joys and sorrows of ordinary days and nights, explores what it means to be a stranger, and illuminates the events - no matter how small - that have the power to transform us.

Each one is a perfect piece, but together they showcase the fearless, flinty brilliance of Garner's inimitable literary voice.A W&N Essential

The multiple-award-winning science fiction master continues the epic adventure that began in Hyperion, where the opening of the Time Tombs threatens to alter the very fabric of time and space, in the second novel in the ground breaking Hyperion Cantos.The mysterious Time Tombs are opening and the Shrike that has risen from them may well control the fate of all mankind. The Ousters are laying siege to the Hegemony of Man and the AIs we created have turned against us to build the Ultimate Intelligence; God. The God of Machines. His genesis could mean annihilation for man.Something is drawing the Hegemony, the Ousters, the AIs, the entire universe to the Shrike.Readers love Hyperion, where the story first began:'One of the best epic, old mythology, and literature inspired, mindblowing, amazingly ingeniously written space operas' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'The scope of imagination, wordplay, and critical analysis of humankind is astounding . . . this is a story-driven narrative, and the stories that we're given are well worth the entry into a brave, new, unfamiliar world' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'Hyperion has that indescribable, almost Lovecraftian terror, dread and brooding present throughout' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'Combine the artful poetry of John Keats with a science fiction retelling of the Canterbury Tales . . . what you have is Hyperion. A masterpiece of literature' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'A science fiction classic . . . If you count yourself a SF fan you need to read this. If you just want to read a damn good book this is also for you' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

**THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'Prescient, dark, and ultimately hopeful' PIERCE BROWN
'Excellent' PETER F. HAMILTON
'A menacing experience' FONDA LEE
'Science fiction at its finest' SUNYI DEANIn this brand-new blistering science fiction epic, Sunday Times bestselling author Richard Swan presents a thrilling tale of survival and an eviscerating examination of totalitarianism.

WHO GIVES YOU LIFE?
PATER AETERNUS.

Katherine Fuller's husband is dead. As an esteemed member of Pater Aeternus - governing party of the fascist, galaxy-spanning Decurion Empire - he has left behind an estate of immeasurable wealth. And Katherine is going to inherit it.WHO GIVES YOU PURPOSE?
PATER AETERNUS.

Life under the Eternal Father is rigidly stratified, surveilled, and controlled - each new day to be endured, not lived. But with Katherine's newfound fortune, she is presented with a rare and dangerous opportunity: purchase a virgin world, and create a better, fairer society.WHO GIVES YOU JOY?
PATER AETERNUS.

But the Empire cannot allow its wayward daughter to succeed. And as Katherine works in secret, recruiting allies she's not even sure she can trust, she will discover exactly how far Pater Aeternus is willing to go to stop her. Because Katherine is going to create something nobody has seen for many years.A democracy.1984 meets The Man in the High Castle in gripping sci-fi The Infinite State from Richard Swan, which begins at a flashpoint in the lives of a widowed party member, a disgraced investigator, and a hypersled pilot - entangled in a plot to escape the suffocating authority of a fascist state.'A thrilling vision of resistance to dystopian fascism' J.T. GREATHOUSE
'Absorbing and thought-provoking' SCOTT DRAKEFORD
'Richard's writing is scapel-sharp' NICHOLAS EAMES
'A masterclass in storytelling' DAILY MAIL

'Garner is a fascinating companion on the page' THE TIMES
'Her piercing intellect, fearlessness and compassion shine through in every word' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
'Helen Garner's work is a thrilling discovery' DUA LIPAHelen Garner is one of Australia's most widely loved and critically acclaimed authors. She has published classic novels, true crime narratives, scripts, diaries, stories and plays. But, between it all, she paid the bills with journalism.

True Stories collects the revered Australian writer's short non-fiction written over a period of almost fifty years. In its pages, Garner visits the morgue and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, gets the sack for teaching her students about sex, attends a school dance and a gun show. She writes about dreaming, about turning fifty, about days spent in courtrooms following murder trials.

The result is an intoxicating, masterly collection of short non-fiction pieces, united by Garner's trademark honesty, humility and humour. A perfect companion to Garner's Baillie Gifford Prize-winning diaries How to End a Story, True Stories gives further insight into the life, mind and notebooks of a brilliant writer.

'A born noticer, someone on whom nothing is lost' COLM TÓIBÍN
'One of Australia's finest writers' OBSERVER
'Garner's unillusioned eye makes her clarity compulsive' NEW YORKER

Two unlikely housemates. Two tragic dating lives. One mission to try and find love...<BR><BR>Maddie didn't expect to find herself single at the age of 34 after being dumped by her boyfriend so he can 'find himself'... but here she is. Semi-homeless and heartbroken, she is on a mission to find 'the one', no matter how many awful dates it takes.<BR><BR>Life is going exactly to plan for Violet. She lives in a beautiful flat in Notting Hill, is working her dream job as a vet, and is saving herself for marriage. She's also been obsessively waiting for the man in her church to confess his love to her. (It'll happen any day now...)<BR><BR>When Maddie and Violet catch up at an old friend's wedding and Violet offers Maddie her spare room, Maddie jumps at the chance.<BR><BR>United by their quest to find their soulmate, will Maddie and Violet survive the bad dates life throws at them, and finally get lucky in love?

From the bestselling M. R. Carey, winner of the Philip K. Award, comes an epic and exhilarating science fiction tale about a distant colony planet at war with itself - where one half is forever in sunlight and the other in endless night.HUMANITY CAN'T SURVIVE THE NIGHTSIDEOn the distant colony world of Tessix, the sun never moves in the sky. One side of the planet burns under endless noon, whilst the other is a frozen wasteland in perpetual darkness. Human life is only possible in a narrow strip of land where the terraforming project almost worked.Growing up on the borderland between light and dark, under the fading sun globes of Tanner's Hook, fifteen-year-old Bead Plessey clings to his friends and his fantasies. Bead dreams of one day escaping the grim realities of life on Tessix - the declining population, the ruthless autocracy of the Noonday government, and the monstrous Daspa that come out of the nightside to feed on human blood.When a stranger turns up at Bead's home asking for lodgings, he brings the possibility of change. But who is Jud Valery, and where has he come from? Is his interest in Bead benign or sinister? And how is he connected to the disappearance of Bead's mother, Omrid, eight years before? Looking for answers, Bead assembles an ill-assorted band of allies - but their investigation takes them far beyond Tanner's Hook, into the nightside and into the long-buried secrets that shaped their world.

Discover this thrilling standalone science fiction novel from M. R. Carey, author of the Philip K. Dick Award-winning Outlaw Planet and Infinity Gate (a New York Times Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of the Year), perfect for fans of Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alasdair Reynolds and Peter F. Hamilton.Praise for M. R. Carey:'AN IMMENSE ACHIEVEMENT: AN IMPECCABLY CRAFTED BOOK' New York Times 'A GENUINE TREAT FOR SF FANS' Kirkus 'A FASCINATING WINDOW ONTO A DANGEROUS AND MULTIFACETED UNIVERSE' Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time

Multiple-award-winning science fiction master Dan Simmons concludes the renowned Hyperion Cantos with this magnificent 'full-blooded action novel' (New York Times).The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, one-time shepherd and convicted murderer, must help her deliver her startling message to her growing army of disciples. But first they must embark on a final spectacular mission to discover the underlying meaning of the universe itself. They have been followed on their journey by the mysterious Shrike - monster, angel, killing machine - who is about to reveal the long-held secret of its origin and purpose. And on the planet of Hyperion, where the story first began, the final revelation will be delivered - an apocalyptic message that unlocks the secrets of existence and the fate of humankind in the galaxy.Readers love Hyperion, where the story first began:

'One of the best epic, old mythology, and literature inspired, mindblowing, amazingly ingeniously written space operas' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'The scope of imagination, wordplay, and critical analysis of humankind is astounding . . . this is a story-driven narrative, and the stories that we're given are well worth the entry into a brave, new, unfamiliar world' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'Hyperion has that indescribable, almost Lovecraftian terror, dread and brooding present throughout' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'Combine the artful poetry of John Keats with a science fiction retelling of the Canterbury Tales . . . what you have is Hyperion. A masterpiece of literature' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'A science fiction classic . . . If you count yourself a SF fan you need to read this. If you just want to read a damn good book this is also for you' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Endymion is a story about love and memory, triumph and terror - and the third book of one of the science fiction's greatest sagas, the Hyperion Cantos, introducing new characters who bear the fate of time itself in their hands.Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With help from a blue-skinned android named A. Bettik, Raul and Aenea travel the river Tethys, pursued by Father Captain Federico de Soya, an influential warrior-priest and his troops. And the Shrike is far from gone. It will reappear on their journey, as Raul's quest raises as many questions as it provides answers.Readers love Hyperion, where the story first began:

'One of the best epic, old mythology, and literature inspired, mindblowing, amazingly ingeniously written space operas' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'The scope of imagination, wordplay, and critical analysis of humankind is astounding . . . this is a story-driven narrative, and the stories that we're given are well worth the entry into a brave, new, unfamiliar world' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'Hyperion has that indescribable, almost Lovecraftian terror, dread and brooding present throughout' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'Combine the artful poetry of John Keats with a science fiction retelling of the Canterbury Tales . . . what you have is Hyperion. A masterpiece of literature' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'A science fiction classic . . . If you count yourself a SF fan you need to read this. If you just want to read a damn good book this is also for you' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Sonic fiction is everywhere: in conversations about vernacular culture, in music videos, sound art compositions and on record sleeves, in everyday encounters with sonic experiences and in every single piece of writing about sound. Where one can find sounds one will also detect bits of fiction.<BR><BR>In 1998 music critic, DJ and video essayist Kodwo Eshun proposed this concept in his book "More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction". Originally, he did so in order to explicate the manifold connections between Afrofuturism and Techno, connecting them to Jazz, Breakbeat and Electronica. His argument, his narrations and his explorative language operations however inspired researchers, artists, and scholars since then. Sonic Fiction became a myth and a mantra, a keyword and a magical spell. <BR><BR>This book provides a basic introduction to sonic fiction. In six chapters it explicates the inspirations for and the transformations of this concept; it explores applications and extrapolations in sound art and sonic theory, in musicology, epistemology, in critical and political theory. Sonic fiction is presented in this book as a heuristic for critique and activism.

**THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'Prescient, dark, and ultimately hopeful' PIERCE BROWN
'Excellent' PETER F. HAMILTON
'A menacing experience' FONDA LEE
'Science fiction at its finest' SUNYI DEANIn this brand-new blistering science fiction epic, Sunday Times bestselling author Richard Swan presents a thrilling tale of survival and an eviscerating examination of totalitarianism.

WHO GIVES YOU LIFE?
PATER AETERNUS.

Katherine Fuller's husband is dead. As an esteemed member of Pater Aeternus - governing party of the fascist, galaxy-spanning Decurion Empire - he has left behind an estate of immeasurable wealth. And Katherine is going to inherit it.WHO GIVES YOU PURPOSE?
PATER AETERNUS.

Life under the Eternal Father is rigidly stratified, surveilled, and controlled - each new day to be endured, not lived. But with Katherine's newfound fortune, she is presented with a rare and dangerous opportunity: purchase a virgin world, and create a better, fairer society.WHO GIVES YOU JOY?
PATER AETERNUS.

But the Empire cannot allow its wayward daughter to succeed. And as Katherine works in secret, recruiting allies she's not even sure she can trust, she will discover exactly how far Pater Aeternus is willing to go to stop her. Because Katherine is going to create something nobody has seen for many years.A democracy.1984 meets The Man in the High Castle in gripping sci-fi The Infinite State from Richard Swan, which begins at a flashpoint in the lives of a widowed party member, a disgraced investigator, and a hypersled pilot - entangled in a plot to escape the suffocating authority of a fascist state.'A thrilling vision of resistance to dystopian fascism' J.T. GREATHOUSE
'Absorbing and thought-provoking' SCOTT DRAKEFORD
'Richard's writing is scapel-sharp' NICHOLAS EAMES
'A masterclass in storytelling' DAILY MAIL

Sonic fiction is everywhere: in conversations about vernacular culture, in music videos, sound art compositions and on record sleeves, in everyday encounters with sonic experiences and in every single piece of writing about sound. Where one can find sounds one will also detect bits of fiction.<BR><BR>In 1998 music critic, DJ and video essayist Kodwo Eshun proposed this concept in his book "More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction". Originally, he did so in order to explicate the manifold connections between Afrofuturism and Techno, connecting them to Jazz, Breakbeat and Electronica. His argument, his narrations and his explorative language operations however inspired researchers, artists, and scholars since then. Sonic Fiction became a myth and a mantra, a keyword and a magical spell. <BR><BR>This book provides a basic introduction to sonic fiction. In six chapters it explicates the inspirations for and the transformations of this concept; it explores applications and extrapolations in sound art and sonic theory, in musicology, epistemology, in critical and political theory. Sonic fiction is presented in this book as a heuristic for critique and activism.

Discover some of the great Canadian authors and titles you've been missing. This guide describes and organizes according to reading interests more than 500 of the best contemporary Canadian fiction titles available today.<BR><BR>Canadian fiction offers a wealth of diverse pleasures to readers, from high-toned literary works to down-and-dirty genre fiction. However, apart from the big names and superstars, many of these authors are not well known outside of Canada. Designed to help readers' advisors in the United States, Canada, and other English-speaking countries make informed reading recommendations to their patrons, this guide provides readers' advisors and readers with an overview of Canadian fiction, covering more than 650 popular titles-mainstream and genre fiction- most published within the past decade. The guide categorizes mainstream titles according to primary appeal features (language, character, setting, and story), and identifies the secondary appeal when there is one. Genre fiction, covered in a separate section, is organized according to standard genres (fantasy, romance, etc.), with subdivisions for subgenres and themes. For each title bibliographic information and a brief annotation is provided. Subjects are listed, along with awards, and an indication of whether the title is appropriate for book groups. A read on section with references to some 2,400 titles, leads you to titles with similar features. Indexes cover author/title and subject (including awards, genre, series character names). An appendix contains information on Canadian Book Awards. A readers' advisory guide and reference tool, this book is also an important aid for collection development.

Ever since Ezra Pound's exhortation to 'make it new', experimentation has been a hallmark of contemporary literature. Ranging from the modernists, through the Beats to postmodernism and contemporary 'hyperfiction', this is a unique introduction to experimental fiction. Creative exercises throughout the book help students grapple with the many varieties of experimental fiction for themselves, deepening their understanding of these many forms and developing their own writing skills.<BR><BR>In addition, the book examines the historical contexts and major themes of 20th-century experimental fiction and new directions for the novel offered by writers such as David Shields and Zadie Smith. Making often difficult works accessible for the first time reader and with extensive further reading guides, Experimental Fiction is an essential practical guidebook for students of creative writing and contemporary fiction. <BR><BR>Writers covered include: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Ralph Ellison, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Gibson, Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, Don Delillo, Caitlin Fisher, Geoff Ryeman, Xiaolu Guo, Tom McCarthy, James Frey and David Mitchell.

'This is an excellent starting place for someone exploring the art and craft of writing fiction.' Publishers Weekly.<BR>'An honest engaging guide with lessons every writer, at any stage, will benefit from.' Jhumpra Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies<BR>'The<BR>strength of this book is its accessibility: It explains all the basics<BR>of writing fiction in a simple, easy-to-understand manner that doesn't<BR>intimidate.' The Writer<BR><BR>Gotham Writers' Workshop teaches the craft of writing in a way that is practical, accessible, and entertaining. <BR><BR>Inside you'll find: The fundamentals of fiction craft - character,<BR>plot, point of view, etc, illustrated with passages from great works of<BR>fiction; The complete text of Cathedral by Raymond Carver - a<BR>masterpiece of contemporary short fiction that is analysed throughout<BR>the book; Exercises that let you immediately apply what you learn to<BR>your writing.<BR><BR>Written by Gotham Writers Workshop expert instructors, Writing Fiction<BR>offers the same methods and exercises that have earned the school<BR>international acclaim. Once you've read - and written - your way<BR>through this book, you'll be able to turn your ideas into effective<BR>short stories and novels. You will be a writer.

Visions of post-apocalyptic worlds have proved to be irresistible for many 21st-century writers, from literary novelists to fantasy and young adult writers. Exploring a wide range of texts, from the works of Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, Tom Perrotta and Emily St. John Mandel to young adult novels such as Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games series, this is the first critical introduction to contemporary apocalyptic fiction.<BR><BR> Exploring the cultural and political contexts of these writings and their echoes in popular media, Apocalyptic Fiction also examines how contemporary apocalyptic texts looks back to earlier writings by the likes of Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells and J.G. Ballard. Apocalyptic Fiction includes an annotated guide to secondary readings, making this an essential guide for students of contemporary fiction at all levels.

Ever since Ezra Pound's exhortation to 'make it new', experimentation has been a hallmark of contemporary literature. Ranging from the modernists, through the Beats to postmodernism and contemporary 'hyperfiction', this is a unique introduction to experimental fiction. Creative exercises throughout the book help students grapple with the many varieties of experimental fiction for themselves, deepening their understanding of these many forms and developing their own writing skills.<BR><BR>In addition, the book examines the historical contexts and major themes of 20th-century experimental fiction and new directions for the novel offered by writers such as David Shields and Zadie Smith. Making often difficult works accessible for the first time reader and with extensive further reading guides, Experimental Fiction is an essential practical guidebook for students of creative writing and contemporary fiction. <BR><BR>Writers covered include: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Ralph Ellison, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Gibson, Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, Don Delillo, Caitlin Fisher, Geoff Ryeman, Xiaolu Guo, Tom McCarthy, James Frey and David Mitchell.

Confident with the basics of your craft? Looking to take your writing to the next level? Advanced Fiction gives you the tools to hone your skills by thinking more deeply and systematically about deploying them on the page. Friendly and down-to-earth, Amy Weldon guides you through the realities of craft and process, combining a broad anthology of landmark stories with instruction on the more advanced aspects of fiction writing.<BR>Featuring interactive prompts, exercises and suggestions for further reading, this book guides you from larger philosophical issues to subtler technical ones, from topics as diverse as the intricate principles of storytelling to navigating artistic and political landscapes conscientiously and building a writing career. <BR>Beginning with a brief recap of the basics, the text goes on to examine:<BR>- The psychology of writing and revising<BR>- Practical methods for drafting and notebook-keeping<BR>- Taking personal and technical risks with ideas, images, and forms<BR>- Making responsible decisions about representing identities, bodies, and histories on the page<BR>- Complex craft concepts such as world-building, structure, time, and moving from short forms to novels <BR>Placing students' own work in conversation with established stories, the accompanying anthology selections range widely in culture, technique and time period, including authors of dystopia, historical fiction, satire, and fiction in translation as well as literary realists tackling themes like economic inequality, climate change, and identity.<BR>Thoughtful and essential, this book provides excellent guidance for students and budding authors on the complexities of fiction writing from the beginning of a writing project - short story or novel - to the end.

Offering a fresh perspective on women's fiction for a broad reading audience-fans as well as librarians-this book defines and maps the genre, and describes hundreds of relevant titles.<BR>Women's Fiction: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests celebrates the books in this broad genre-titles that explore the lives of female protagonists, with a focus on their relationships with family, friends, and lovers. <BR><BR>After a brief introductory history and a chapter that defines the characteristics of women's fiction, the author showcases annotations and suggestions of approximately 300 titles by more than 100 authors. She explains how women's fiction differs from romance fiction, enabling readers to appreciate this rich body of literature that encompasses titles as diverse as Meg Cabot's lighthearted chick lit to the more serious novels of Elizabeth Berg and Maeve Binchy. The book identifies some of the most popular and enduring women's fiction authors and titles, and provides invaluable reading lists and readalike suggestions that will be appreciated by both librarians and general readers.

The first fantasy-writing textbook to combine a historical genre overview with an anthology and comprehensive craft guide, this book explores the blue prints of one of the most popular forms of genre fiction. The first section will acquaint readers with the vast canon of existing fantasy fiction and outline the many sub-genres encompassed within it before examining the important relationship between fantasy and creative writing, the academy and publishing. A craft guide follows which equips students with the key concepts of storytelling as they are impacted by writing through a fantastical lens. These include:<BR><BR> - Character and dialogue<BR> - Point of view<BR> - Plot and structure<BR> - Worldbuilding settings, ideologies and cultures<BR> - Style and revision<BR><BR> The third section guides students through the spectrum of styles as they are classified in fantasy fiction from Epic and high fantasy, through Lovecraftian and Weird fiction, to magical realism and hybrid fantasy. An accompanying anthology will provide students with a greater awareness of the range of possibilities open to them as fantasy writers and will feature such writers as Ursula Le Guin, China Miéville, Theodora Goss, Emrys Donaldson, Ken Liu, C.S.E. Cooney, Vandana Singh, Sofia Samatar, Rebecca Roanhorse, Jessie Ulmer, Yxta Maya Murray, and Rachael K. Jones. With writing exercises, prompts, additional online resources and cues for further reading throughout, this is an essential resource for anyone wanting to write fantastical fiction.

In a time defined by uncertainty, change and inequality, speculative fiction is fast-becoming the genre of the 21st century. Straddling genres such as fantasy, science fiction, dystopia, alternative history, and horror, this book is a comprehensive introduction to the art of writing in this imaginative, fluid, and inclusive mode. An all-in-one textbook combining a craft guide with an extensive, diverse anthology, Speculative Fiction explores the multiplicity of influences that the genre has consumed and incorporated, digs into techniques specific to speculative writing, and gives writers exercises and prompts to begin their own works.<BR><BR> In addition, Speculative Fiction features:<BR> - Annotated stories to showcase speculative techniques in practice<BR> - Interviews with authors about the use of craft in their speculative work<BR> - Detailed exploration of techniques from world-building to creating characters to plots and conflict in a specifically speculative mode<BR> - Chapters on finding a speculative writing community and workshopping writing within the genre<BR><BR>Featuring the works of such authors as George Saunders, Carmen Maria Machado, Joyce Carol Oates, Sofia Samatar, Rebecca Roanhorse, and many more, this book gives writers the resources to write boldly, differently and freely as they embrace stories that defy, undermine, and subvert reality to welcome hitherto censored or silenced voices, visions, and points of view.

This unique exploration of Russian prose fiction about the Soviet labour camp system since the Stalin era compares representations of identity, ethics and memory across the corpus.<BR><BR>The Soviet labour camp system, or Gulag, was a highly complex network of different types of penal institutions, scattered across the vast Soviet territory and affecting millions of Soviet citizens directly and indirectly. As Gulag Fiction shows, its legacies remain palpable today, though survivors of the camps are now increasingly scarce, and successive Soviet and post-Soviet leaders have been reluctant to authorise a full working through of the Gulag past. This is the first book to compare Soviet, samizdat and post-Soviet literary prose about the Gulag as penal system, carceral experience and traumatic memory. Polly Jones analyses prose texts from across the 20th and 21st centuries through the prism of key themes in contemporary Soviet historiography and Holocaust literature scholarship: selfhood and survival; perpetration and responsibility; memory and post-memory.

FROM GRANTA BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST AND WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE<BR>SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2026<BR><BR>'Glaringly fresh and true' COURTTIA NEWLAND<BR>'Full of originality and raw, pure, gutsy talent' CHRISTIE WATSON<BR>'Masterful' TROY ONYANGO<BR><BR>Loneliness means you don't have to disappoint anyone until you develop the habit of talking to yourself<BR><BR>At nineteen, Marcus is young and in love . . . again. When his latest crush, Adwoa, starts showing him true affection, Marcus is ready to reconsider his lifestyle - the drugs, the casual encounters. At least for a little while.<BR><BR>Now, before he knows it, Marcus is twenty-five. And history risks repeating itself.<BR><BR>Told through two parallel narratives - one past, one present - Borderline Fiction is a highly original and deeply affecting contemporary tale written with an intensity of emotion and vulnerability. The novel is a close-up, sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes funny examination of what it means to be a young black man navigating today's world.<BR><BR>Tortured, beautiful, anxious and poetic, Borderline Fiction is a memorable glimpse into the inner world of a young man searching for an authentic way to love and be loved.

Insofar as literary theory has addressed the issue of literature as a means of communication and the function of literary fiction, opinions have been sharply divided, indicating that the elementary foundations of literary theory and criticism still need clarifying. Many of the "classical" problems that literary theory has been grappling with from Aristotle to our time are still waiting for a satisfactory solution. <BR><BR>Based on a new cognitive model of literature as communication, Farner systematically explains how literary fiction works, providing new solutions to a wide range of literary issues, like intention, function, evaluation, delimitation of the literary work as such, fictionality, suspense, and the roles of author and narrator, along with such narratological problems as voice, point of view and duration. <BR><BR>Covering a wide range of literary issues central to literary theory, offering new theories while also summarising the field as it stands, Literary Fiction will be a valuable guide and resource for students and scholars of the theory of literature.