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'An astounding debut, so full of wonder, outrage, invention, fireworks, sheer brilliance' Edward Carey, author of Little

'Subversive, hilarious and shockingly original' Rosanna Pike, author of A Little Trickerie

'A true, unique talent' Kat Dunn, author of Hungerstone

Step into the past. Rush headlong at the future. The Age of Calamities is here.

Henry VIII wants Anne Boleyn dead, but there's just one small problem: she's alive again by morning, sipping tea at the breakfast table. In the gilded hush of the Winter Palace, the Romanov sisters slip through time and waltz aboard a spaceship bound for the stars. A woman on the run strikes a sinister bargain with the ghost of Joan of Arc, but can she reclaim her body before sunrise?

With flickers of horror and dark humour, The Age of Calamities catapults us through sentient houses, looping timelines and haunted histories. Fiercely inventive and wickedly playful, these stories mark the arrival of a bold new voice in fiction-inviting the reader to confront the past, the present and themselves, all at once.

'Surreal, funny and endlessly thought-provoking' Dazed

'An addictive blend of imagination and wit' Katherine J. Chen, author of Joan

'Full of imaginative daring and electrifying humour' Naomi Booth, author of Animals at Night

'The past comes to unexpected, vivid life in these speculative short stories' Publishers Weekly

'Wonderful writing that had me in its grasp to the very last sentence' Nydia Hetherington, author of Sycorax

'Stunning in its power, purpose and ambition' Maggie Su, author of Blob: A Love Story

'Dazzlingly inventive' Kelly Link, author of White Cat, Black Dog

'Wild, incantatory, upending' Claire Oshetsky, author of Evil Genius

'I loved Ahmad's perilously playful journeys to other timescapes' Leon Craig, author of Parallel Hells

A moving, witty memoir about a Jewish childhood in apartheid-era South Africa

'Hilarious and heart-breaking' William Kentridge

What kind of bar mitzvah lasts only thirty minutes? As South African author Denis Hirson gradually reveals the details of his highly unusual ceremony, he explores the familial and political themes that thread their way through his story.

Recreating 1960s apartheid-era Johannesburg through his adolescent eyes, he writes of the silences that surrounded his Jewish heritage, and of the day that one of the family's secrets finally exploded. With the surprising help of his eleven-year-old daughter, Hirson is able to finally confront the troubles of his past with wisdom, humour and subtle lyricism.

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025: the profound and life-affirming memoir about finding our way in a chaotic world

'A sumptuous, surprising, dark delight' Carmen Maria Machado

'Fast-moving, deftly balanced, full of surprises' Guardian's Book of the Day

'A bold and original blend of memoir and science' Elizabeth Buchanan

If fish don't exist, what else do we have wrong?

As a child, Lulu Miller's scientist father taught her that chaos will come for us all. There is no cosmic destiny, no plan. Enter David Starr Jordan, 19th-century taxonomist and believer in order. A fish specialist devoted to mapping out the great tree of life, who spent his days pinning down unruly fins, studying shimmering scales and sealing new discoveries into jars of ethanol.

At a time when Lulu's life is unravelling, David Starr Jordan beckons. Reading about Jordan's sheer perseverance after an earthquake shattered his collection, Lulu stumbles upon an unexpected antidote to life's unpredictability. But lurking behind the lore of this mighty taxonomist lies a darker tale waiting to be told: one about the human cost of attempting to define the form of things unknown.

This is a story unlike any other you've read before. It's about a very tall man with a walrus moustache, the injustices and unexpected deliverances of the universe, love that strikes like lightning and about why fish don't exist after all.

'This book is a fever dream, a mood, a spell, an entire climate filled with a particular kind of desert winter light - harsh, unsparing, and beautiful' Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters

'Astonishingly and chillingly prescient . . . a rare kind of writing where every page offers something to linger on' FT

Eloise has known only two great loves: her husband, Lewis, and the desert. An academic living in Brooklyn, she is mesmerized by tales of the American Southwest, that paradise built on quicksand with less water every passing year. When the couple set out on a road trip tracing the course of the Colorado River, Eloise researches its lakes and dams, while Lewis grieves his mother in the prickly wasteland where he never felt quite at home.

Together they cruise past gaping canyons, glittering casinos and motels gone to seed, travelling through the red-gold light of nearby wildfires. They are young and they have each other, and for a moment the whole world seems to shimmer with glorious possibility. But within the close confines of the car a chasm starts to open between them.

This is a hauntingly beautiful love story about the mystery of other people - at once an excavation of a relationship, and an elegy for a desert running dry.

PRAISE FOR ELEGY, SOUTHWEST:

'Exquisite'TLS

'Haunting and precise' Spectator

'Profound' Service95

'Astounding, heartbreaking, and important' Elvia Wilk

'Strikingly brilliant' Heidi Julavits

'An expansive, ambitious novel' Ellena Savage

'A smart, engrossing, beautifully observed examination of millennial friendship, social media and generational differences' Francesca Hornak, author of So Good to See You

Diana, Justin, Errol and Vivian have been best friends for as long as they can remember. They did everything their strict parents asked: studied hard, attended good universities, only to end up back in their childhood bedrooms with no jobs in sight.

So when Grace - neighbourhood golden girl turned Harvard Law dropout - asks to make a documentary about their post-grad limbo, they agree. It's not like her little movie will ever see the light of day. Until it does. Overnight, the video goes viral, catapulting their most cringeworthy moments to internet stardom and turning private confessions into public punchlines.

Eight years later, can the video that broke them apart also bring them back together? And is it too late to build the lives they once dreamed of?

Razor-sharp and emotionally resonant, Bad Asians is a story of youth, ambition and growing up online - a moving exploration of the friendships that will always feel like home.

PRAISE FOR BAD ASIANS:

'A sharp, propulsive novel about ambition, identity, and the bonds that shape us' Weike Wang, author of Rental House

'Captures the tenderness and mess of youth. A book that reminds us how little we know about the people we treasure most' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Starling Days

'A wild, propulsive ride of a novel that explores the damaging spiral of social media fame with razor-sharp observations' Emma Nanami Strenner, author of The Other Heart

'A story for all the formerly "gifted and talented kids". . . offers a delightful dose of nostalgia - and an affecting interrogation of the personas we put on, both online and in real life' Katie Yee, author of Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD, THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE, THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION AND THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE

'Wonderful' Max Porter

'Unmissable' Olga Tokarczuk

'Startlingly original' Times Book of the Year

There is a space between life and death: it's called waxworks.

Born in Alsace in 1761, the diminutive Marie Grosholtz is quickly nicknamed 'Little'. Orphaned at the age of six, she finds employment in the household of reclusive anatomist Dr Curtius. Soon the eccentric doctor takes an interest in his odd companion, and he begins to instruct her in the fine art of wax modelling, changing the course of her life.

From the gutters of pre-revolutionary France to the luxury of the Palace of Versailles, from clutching the still-warm heads of the Terror to finding something very like love, Little traces the improbable fortunes of a blood-stained crumb of a thing who went on to be the renowned Madame Tussaud.

MORE PRAISE FOR LITTLE:

'Visceral, vivid and moving' GUARDIAN

'A remarkable achievement' SUNDAY TIMES

'Don't miss this eccentric charmer' MARGARET ATWOOD

'Mesmerising' IRISH INDEPENDENT

'A tale as moving as it is macabre' MAIL ON SUNDAY

'Darkly fascinating' SUNDAY EXPRESS

'Clever and intriguing' DAILY MAIL

'Wonderfully weird' CELESTE NG

'We get friendship, lies, recrimination, resentment, jealousy, betrayal and sex, bidden and forbidden. In other words, all the good stuff. . . A near-flawless novel from an Irish writer who just gets better and better' IRISH TIMES

Two couples. Twenty years. One unforgettable story.

Two decades later, their dreams have faltered. Dylan, once a rugby star, is stranded on the sofa, tended by his wife, Rachel. Across town, in their new build, Stevie and Ben's relationship has settled into an airless routine. Then, after countless auditions, Ben lands a role in Pinter's Betrayal.

As rehearsals unfold, the play's shifting loyalties seep into reality, stirring old jealousies and awakening forbidden longings, as each must confront how far they are willing to go in pursuit of desire.

Wry, sexy and deftly observed, Little Vanities is a novel about the perilous thrill of stepping outside the roles we've been given-and the distance between the lives we imagined and the ones we find ourselves living.

'A natural writer' ANNE ENRIGHT

'A sharply told tale of love, desire and the cost of what might have been' MARIE CLAIRE

'Wonderfully authentic, electrifying' CLARE CHAMBERS

'Fantastic at examining the tussles between people in relationships' THE TIMES

'Really enjoyable and thought-provoking' IRISH INDEPENDENT

'Messy, complicated, compelling' EMILIE PINE

'A riveting tale of emotional infidelity' AINGEALA FLANNERY

'We get friendship, lies, recrimination, resentment, jealousy, betrayal and sex, bidden and forbidden. In other words, all the good stuff. . . A near-flawless novel from an Irish writer who just gets better and better' IRISH TIMES

Two couples. Twenty years. One unforgettable story.

Two decades later, their dreams have faltered. Dylan, once a rugby star, is stranded on the sofa, tended by his wife, Rachel. Across town, in their new build, Stevie and Ben's relationship has settled into an airless routine. Then, after countless auditions, Ben lands a role in Pinter's Betrayal.

As rehearsals unfold, the play's shifting loyalties seep into reality, stirring old jealousies and awakening forbidden longings, as each must confront how far they are willing to go in pursuit of desire.

Wry, sexy and deftly observed, Little Vanities is a novel about the perilous thrill of stepping outside the roles we've been given-and the distance between the lives we imagined and the ones we find ourselves living.

'A natural writer' ANNE ENRIGHT

'A sharply told tale of love, desire and the cost of what might have been' MARIE CLAIRE

'Wonderfully authentic, electrifying' CLARE CHAMBERS

'Fantastic at examining the tussles between people in relationships' THE TIMES

'Really enjoyable and thought-provoking' IRISH INDEPENDENT

'Messy, complicated, compelling' EMILIE PINE

'A riveting tale of emotional infidelity' AINGEALA FLANNERY