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The Mothers is a dazzling debut about young love, a big secret in a small community and the moments that haunt us most • All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret, plucked too soon, stolen and passed around before its season • It's the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it's not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance - and the subsequent cover-up - will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth

A profoundly unsettling story of a plantation slave's desperate escape into a rainforest beyond human control, with his master and a ferocious dog on his heels • This flight to freedom takes them on a journey that will transform them all, as the overwhelming physical presence of the forest and its dense primeval wilderness reshapes reality and time itself • In the darkness, the old man grapples with the spirits of all those who have gone before him; the knowledge that the past is always with us, and the injustice that can cry out from beyond the grave • From a Prix Goncourt writer hailed by Milan Kundera as the "heir of Joyce and Kafka," The Old Slave and the Mastiff fearlessly portrays the demonic cruelties of the slave trade and its human costs - a wise, loving tribute to the Creole culture of Martinique, and a vividly told journey into the heart of Caribbean history and human endurance

Meet Charles Ignatius Sancho: his extraordinary story, hidden for three hundred years, is about to be told • I had little right to live, born on a slave ship where my parents both died. But I survived, and indeed, you might say I did more • It's 1746 and Georgian London is not a safe place for a young Black man, especially one who has escaped slavery. After the twinkling lights in the Fleet Street coffee shops are blown out and the great houses have closed their doors for the night, Sancho must dodge slave catchers and worse. The man he hoped would help - a kindly duke who taught him to write - is dying. Sancho is desperate and utterly alone • So how does Charles Ignatius Sancho meet the King, write and play highly acclaimed music, become the first Black person to vote in Britain and lead the fight to end slavery? • It's time for him to tell his story, one that begins on a tempestuous Atlantic Ocean, and ends at the very centre of London life

A heartbreaking, lyrical story for all of those who have fantasised about escaping their daily lives and starting over • Michael Kabongo is a British-Congolese teacher living in London on the cusp of two identities. On paper, he seems to have it all - he's loved by his students, popular with his colleagues, and enjoys the pride of his mother who emigrated from the Congo. But behind closed doors, he's been struggling with the overwhelming sense that he can't improve the injustices he sees - from his efforts to change the lives of his students, to his attempts to transcend the violence that marginalises young Black men around the world • Then Michael suffers a devastating loss, and his life is thrown into a tailspin. As he struggles to find a way forward, memories of his fathers' violent death, the weight of being a refugee, and an increasing sense of dread threaten everything he's worked so hard to achieve

Аида — выдающаяся рок-звезда своего времени; за каждым ее шагом наблюдает группа преданных до одержимости поклонников. Когда девушка бесследно исчезает, растворяясь в бурных и сложных любовных отношениях, фанаты полны решимости найти своего идола • Аида и Эхсан воссоединяются после десятилетней разлуки в надежде вернуть невинную, утраченную любовь своей юности. Однако по мере того, как тени прошлого просачиваются в настоящее вместе с ревностью и тайнами, напряжение в отношениях пары только возрастает… • "The Giant Dark" — отмеченный наградами дебютный роман о любви и славе, при создании которого автор вдохновлялась мифом об Орфее и Эвридике. В книге описаны разрушительные последствия использования возлюбленной в качестве музы • Это издание книги в мягкой обложке подойдёт в качестве подарка для любителей истории, мифологии, тайн и захватывающих сюжетов

Аида — выдающаяся рок-звезда своего времени; за каждым ее шагом наблюдает группа преданных до одержимости поклонников. Когда девушка бесследно исчезает, растворяясь в бурных и сложных любовных отношениях, фанаты полны решимости найти своего идола • Аида и Эхсан воссоединяются после десятилетней разлуки в надежде вернуть невинную, утраченную любовь своей юности. Однако по мере того, как тени прошлого просачиваются в настоящее вместе с ревностью и тайнами, напряжение в отношениях пары только возрастает… • "The Giant Dark" — отмеченный наградами дебютный роман о любви и славе, при создании которого автор вдохновлялась мифом об Орфее и Эвридике. В книге описаны разрушительные последствия использования возлюбленной в качестве музы • Это издание книги в твердой обложке подойдёт в качестве подарка для любителей истории, мифологии, тайн и захватывающих сюжетов

1987, Hong Kong. Trying to outrun his demons, a young man who calls himself Buddha returns to the bustling place of his birth. He moves into a small Buddhist nunnery in the crumbling neighbourhood of Diamond Hill, where planes landing at the nearby airport fly so close overhead that travellers can see into the rooms of those below • As Buddha begins to care for the nuns and their neighbours, this pocket of the old city is vanishing. Even the fiery Iron Nun cannot prevent the frequent landslides that threaten the nunnery she fights for, and in the nearby shanty town, a faded film actress who calls herself Audrey Hepburn is hiding a deep secret and trying to survive with her teenage daughter who has a bigger fish to fry • But no one arrives in Diamond Hill by accident, and Buddha's ties to this place run deeper than he is willing to admit

It is 1910 and Philadelphia is burning • The last place Spring wants to be is in the rundown, coloured section of a hospital surrounded by the groans of sick people and the ghost of her dead sister. But as her son Edward lays dying, she has no other choice • There're whispers that Edward drove a streetcar into a shop window. Some people think it was an accident, others claim that it was his fault, the police are certain that he was part of a darker agenda. Is he guilty? Can they find the truth? • All Spring knows is that time is running out. She has to tell him the story of how he came to be. With the help of her dead sister, newspaper clippings and reconstructed memories, she must find a way to get through to him. To shatter the silences that governed her life, she will do everything she can to lead him home

A powerful novel about an intersex Nigerian teenager and the courage to be yourself • Raised as a boy in a grand but unhappy family in Nigeria, Otolorin Akinro escapes to boarding school knowing two things: she is truly a girl, and to stay safe, she must hide that truth • Away from the cruelty of her childhood home, Oto blooms even as she strives to be the best boy she can, finding true friendship and working hard to earn a scholarship to an American university, hoping someone out there might help her understand the secrets her body holds • But she cannot stay away forever. Back home for the holidays, though Oto and her beloved twin sister are overjoyed to see each other, their mother's violence erupts once more and when a terrible incident rips their lives apart, Oto is left alone

A striking, psychologically astute debut about the aftermath of trauma • Can Vivian live ecstatically, after what has been done to her? • To the outside observer, Vivian is a success story - a dedicated lawyer who advocates for mentally ill patients at a psychiatric hospital. Privately, Vivian contends with the memories and aftereffects of her bad childhood, compounded by the everyday stresses of being a Black, Latinx woman living in a white society. She lives in a constant state of hypervigilant awareness that makes even a simple tube ride into a heart-pounding drama • For years, Vivian has self-medicated with a mix of dating, dieting, dark humour and smoking weed with her best friend, Jane. But after a family reunion prompts Vivian to take a bold step, she finds herself alone in new and terrifying ways, without even Jane to confide in, and she starts to unravel

In this collection of short stories, offbeat characters are caught up in extraordinary situations that test the boundaries of reality • A love-hungry goddess of the sea arrives on an island inhabited by eunuchs • A girl from Martinique moonlights as a Grace Jones impersonator • Dimension-hopping monks sworn to silence must face a bloody reckoning • And a homeless man goes right back, to the very beginning, through a gap in time • Nudibranch is a dark and seductive foray into the surreal

Can you ever let go of your past? • Cat knows she should be more grateful for her partner James. As a young woman struggling to care for her alcoholic mother, he whisked her away from her council estate home and offered her a taste of middle-class comfort • But twenty years later, the escape he offered has begun to feel stifling and Cat wishes she had made more of her life. She had a place to study at university after finishing sixth form, but her mother was too unwell for Cat to take it. Could she go back now? • At a university open day, Cat finds herself standing before her boyfriend of teenage years, Daniel, now a lecturer. As the spark that drew them together returns, Cat hopes that he can in some way help her reconnect with the drive and optimism of her younger self