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'Insightful and bracing: a personal and political journey through the seasons' Melissa Harrison, author of All Among the Barley

'A wonderfully unmooring passage through a year that connects to life that is deeper, looser, and more true than the tightly wound, unnatural calendars so many of us keep' Amina Cain, author of Indelicacy

'This book is a precious and life-affirming gift to our hearts and intellects' Rebecca May Johnson, author of Small Fires

At festive gatherings celebrating summer's peak, in reflective moments as winter gave way, Rebecca Tamás began to hear another rhythm. A faint hint that, underneath the rush of clocks and calendars, another, richer kind of time might exist.

As she suffered from grief and burnout, Tamás sought a deeper connection to the movement of the seasons through an immersion in old folkways. She set out on a journey across the UK guided by the Pagan wheel of the year, marking each solstice, equinox and the midpoints between them with a ritual drawn from ancient traditions. From a confrontation with the sharp pains of winter at Samhain in Edinburgh to a giddy experience of collective joy at Padstow's May Day, she found in these traditional practices electric potential for transforming our relationship to the natural world.

Intellectually penetrating and richly lyrical, The Book of Mysteries follows the drumbeat of seasonal ritual towards an immersion in the wild time of the earth. Ecstatic, radical and irreverent, this book is a rallying cry to wrest time away from the structures of work and capital, so as to encounter the life-giving mystery of the natural world.

'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.

'A riotous, dazzling debut' DEESHA PHILYAW

'Reading Shannon Sanders makes me want to visit home' TONY TULATHIMUTTE

The heartfelt celebration of family and the messy beauty of belonging for fans of Blue Sisters and Small Worlds

One family. Thirteen stories.

Meet the sisters - Cassandra, Fay, Lela, and Suzette - and their circle of relatives, friends and lovers. A jostling clan of dropouts and overachievers, bickering siblings and delightfully bossy aunties.

Journeying from a smoky jazz bar to a glittering campus soirée, this is a family portrait that refuses to sit still and a joyful, multigenerational celebration of belonging.

Further praise for Company...

'There are undeniable shades of Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other. . . Sanders has fun playing with her characters as alignments and allegiances shift' Marie Claire

'A deftly woven tapestry that scrupulously depicts familial ties and estrangement' New York Times

'Offers sharp and original insight into the intimate politics of race and class' Danielle Evans, author of The Office of Historical Corrections

'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

'A near-flawless novel from an Irish writer who just gets better and better' IRISH TIMES

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

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

'Nimble, evocatively rendered' TLS

'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

'For readers seeking a book that will shake them, Queen Mab casts its eerie spell slowly, steadily deepening a spiral of misgivings and dread and changelings, until they are entirely entranced' Doireann Ní Ghríofa, author of Said the Dead

A changeling child. A mother away with the fairies.

Madeleine is in her early twenties when she conceives on the night of a full moon. Having the baby will mean putting her doctoral studies on hold. Yet from the first flutter of new life, she feels its lure.

Then baby Maud arrives, sweet and tiny, worth every moment of a difficult labour. But when she is returned to Madeleine's arms, something feels wrong. The child won't stop crying. Her eyes glint with an ancient cunning. Could she be an imposter, switched while Madeleine wasn't watching?

Meanwhile, the world carries on. Buses rumble through the city. Baristas steam milk. Alone in the crowd, Madeleine searches for a way to rid herself of this ravenous creature. On her walks with the pram, voices heckle from the hedgerows and mists unfurl across the pavement, beckoning her towards fairyland.

Full of lingering magic and riveting menace, Queen Mab is the story of the most elemental forms of transformation, and one woman's path back to herself.

'Smart, unsettling and tender' Claudia Durastanti, author Strangers I Know

'Perfectly captures those psychedelic, feral postpartum days' Madeleine Watts, Elegy, Southwest

'Darkly funny and devastating' Rebecca Sarah Ley, author of Bad Fiction

'Brave and powerful' Samantha Hunt, author of The Dark Dark

'Strange and bold. It takes no prisoners' Claire Oshetsky, author of Chouette

'A spellbinding account of early motherhood' Lana Bastašic, author of Catch the Rabbit

'A near-flawless novel from an Irish writer who just gets better and better' IRISH TIMES

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

Two couples. Twenty years. One unforgettable story.

Dylan, Stevie and Ben have been inseparable since their days at Trinity, when life pulsed with possibility. A single glance can still summon their younger selves: dancing beneath flashing lights, salt on their skin after swims in Dublin Bay.

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

''Nimble, evocatively rendered' TLS

'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