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Casting its lines across rainfall and motorways and the lives of the saints alike, mining a wild humour from the vastness of our cultural disarray, Patrick Mackie's new collection gives a new account of what the modern lyric is capable of.

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A new collection of poetry from the author of "The Absent Therapist", which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. Wide-ranging, provocative and funny.

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In June 1819 Henri Beyle (aka Stendhal) is rejected by the woman he loves. Beyle finds himself stranded in an afterlife populated by tourists, shoplifters and characters in novels he hasn't yet written. Footnoting a host of other writers, An Overc...

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Part memoir, part fiction, Robinson explores the disfiguring influence of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe on English culture. The latter-day Robinsons of Kafka, Celine, Patrick Keiller and others are surveyed, and Robinson himself has his say as a fiction...

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Published to mark the 300th anniversary of first publication of Robinson Crusoe, Good Morning Mr Crusoe argues that the legacy of Defoe's novel is racism and misogyny embedded in the fabric of British society.

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In his first collection of poetry after a career as a novelist spanning five decades, Paul Bailey offers in Inheritance an intimate reckoning. The poems mine memories of childhood, illness and lost loves with unflinching honesty, a generous humour...

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The first English translation of a classic novel first published in Germany in 1986 and described as 'One of the best Holocaust novels in postwar German literature"

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Broken Consort is a chronicle of close attention (to books, films, plays, paintings and life itself) by Will Eaves, author of Murmur (winner of the 2019 Wellcome Prize)

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The preoccupations of Brilliant Corners include the tangible damage inflicted by empires, plunder of the global money markets, disfigured lives, and the bitter salves of Western privilege. Engaging with writers and artists in the European canon, t...

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An urgent and insightful response to Covid and the public events of 2020, written in instalments between March and August 2020 in the poem-journal form of Autumn Journal, Louis MacNeice's widely-admired personal response to the rise of Fascism in ...

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Drawing deeply on O'Brien's experience of cancer and of childhood abuse, and of collaboration with a war reporter, the four essays in A Story that Happens offer hard-won insights into what stories are for and the reasons why, 'afraid and hopeful',...

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Memories of growing up in an ordinary but loving family in Lancashire in the 1940s and early 50s, brought to the page with an almost pre-verbal immediacy.

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Flickerbook is the classic autobiography of the writer Leila Berg (1917-2012), who grew up in a Jewish immigrant neighbourhood in Salford, Greater Manchester. It recreates childhood pleasures and fears, relationships with family and lovers, and gr...

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A memoir about books, mostly - and bonfires, cliches, dystopias, failure, happiness, jokes, justice, privilege, publishing, rejection, self-loathing, shoplifting and umbrellas - by an author who has published poetry, fiction and non-fiction under ...

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Coping with the fallout of her relationships with a twin sister, an ex-girlfriend and a boyfriend, Siobhan is forced to acknowledge her own violent logic of self-preservation.

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These are the stories of one boy's adolescence in the USSR. Sovetica grew from Caroline Clark's fascination with a handful of stereo slides made by her Russian husband in the 1980s. Her unforced retelling of his memories - recorded, translated and...

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For over two centuries, Finland has been inspiring, delighting, baffling, and terrifying British visitors and writers. This volume collects a remarkable array of Finnish-British encounters and adventures in both countries - including the perils of...

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Inheritance, Paul Bailey's first book of poems after a lifetime of writing fiction, was acclaimed by Carol Rumens in the Guardian as 'a collection to engage everyone who appreciates elegant craft, shapely storytelling and delicate love lyrics, wit...

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Stretto is both a novel of travel and migration, moving between Ireland, England and Scotland over a twenty-year period, and an exploration of the nature of self and reality. Reconnecting with the modernist energies of Joyce and Beckett, Stretto i...

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Narrated in a series of brief vignettes, The Illiterate is Kristof 's memoir of her childhood, her escape from Hungary in 1956 with her husband and small child, her early years working in factories in Switzerland, and the writing of her first nove...

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Where does the body end and the mind begin? Two texts run parallel: on one side the verbatim transcript of a cancer diagnosis, and on the other side fragments of the writer's past and present, catching on the future.

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There is gridlock on the M40 and a banana skin on every pavement. Lovers are disturbed in bed and my father becomes a rain god. Complacency is mocked. Death hovers. Shit happens. How the messiness of life is translated into fiction is considered a...

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