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Sophisticated, mature and richly atmospheric, a debut novel about three young people navigating the risks and possibilities of intimacy • For fans of Andre Aciman, Deborah Levy and the Penguin European Writers series • Thora, August and Hugo come from different worlds - one an art school dreamer, one a wealthy scion of the old elite, and one an ordinary boy from out of town. But over the course of two sky-blue summers in Stockholm, they are drawn together magnetically • The novel opens years later, when Hugo, long estranged from Thora and August, is visited by their daughter - who has questions about her parents which she believes Hugo can answer - and the memories of those luminous days come flooding back • Modern yet timeless, poignant and euphoric, The Trio is a novel about the path not taken, the people we might have become, and the relationships which shape and haunt us long after they come to a close

If you eat the bread, you'll die, he said. The statement made no sense, but it filled me with an electric dread • Elodie is the baker's wife. A plain, unremarkable woman, ignored by her husband and underestimated by her neighbours, she burns with the secret desire to be extraordinary. One day a charismatic new couple appear in town - the ambassador and his sharp-toothed wife, Violet - and Elodie quickly falls under their spell. All summer long she stalks them through the shining streets: inviting herself into their home, eavesdropping on their coded conversations, longing to be part of their world • Meanwhile, beneath the tranquil surface of daily life, strange things are happening. Six horses are found dead in a sun-drenched field, laid out neatly on the ground like an offering

The definitive biography of beloved author, Roger Deakin • Roger Deakin, author of the immortal Waterlog and Wildwood, was a man of unusually many parts. A born writer who nonetheless took decades to write his first book, Roger was also variously - and sometimes simultaneously - maverick ad-man, seller of stripped pine furniture on the Portobello Road, cider-maker, teacher, environmentalist, music promoter, and filmmaker. But above all he was the restorer of ancient Walnut Tree Farm in Suffolk, the heartland which he shared with a host of visitors, both animal and human, and wrote about - as he wrote about all natural life - with rare attention, intimacy, precision and poetry • Roger Deakin was unique, and so too is this joyful work of creative biography, told primarily in the words of the subject himself, with support from a chorus of friends, family, colleagues, lovers and neighbours

Spain in the 1990s is beset by a simmering campaign of terror from Basque separatists ETA, with periodic atrocities shattering an illusory calm. Against this backdrop, retired British Secret Service member Tomas Nevinson - now living a quiet life in his hometown Madrid - is approached by his sinister former handler, Bertram Tupra, with an offer to bring him back in from the cold, for one last assignment: a favour for Tupra, for old times' sake, which is also a favour for a powerful Spanish friend • His mission: to go back undercover, in a small Spanish town, to find out which of three women who moved there a decade ago is in fact an ETA terrorist, on loan from the IRA, now on the run and living there incognito • Everything about the assignment is shadowy - from who exactly Nevinson will be working for to the question of what 'justice' he may need to mete out if he is somehow able to unmask one of the three women

For better or worse. For richer or poorer. Till death us do part • We've always done it, we're still doing it. Straight, queer, coupled or uncoupled, none of us live outside the cultural and psychological influence of marriage and all of us are written into its story. But why this highly contested and ancient practice has remained relevant to so many is by no means certain. Is it an act of love, a leap of faith, a holy bond, a contractual commitment, a bid for security, a framework for family, a hedge against being alone? Or could its traditional cover conceal something a bit more radical? Why do we do it at all? • Drawing on philosophy, film, fiction, comedy, psychoanalysis, music and poetry, Devorah Baum considers the marriage plot. What are we really talking about when we talk about marriage? And what are we really doing when we say, 'I do'? • Entertaining, illuminating, candid and consoling, On Marriage is a critique and a celebration of the many contradictions of matrimony - its sorrows as well as its joys - and an enquiry into its effects on us all

A post-humous, autobiographical collection of poetry from John Updike, one of the most celebrated American writers of the twentieth cenury and author of modern classic novel Rabbit, Run • Updike had a boundless capacity for curiosity and delight. This collection of poems from across his career displays his extraordinary range in form and subject: from metaphysical epigrams, and lyrical odes to blank-verse sonnets, on topics from Roman busts to Lucian Freud to postage stamps • These poems are nimble and inventive, exploring art, science, popular culture, foreign travel, erotic love, growth, decay and rebirth. Collected in chronological order, from precocious undergraduate efforts to frequently anthologized classics, this is an autobiography in verse for every Updike fan and a celebration of twentieth century American life

"Мошенничество" - роман известной писательницы Зейди Смит, - это калейдоскопическое произведение исторической фантастики, посвященного судебному разбирательству, разделившему Викторианскую Англию. Роман о том, кто заслуживает того, чтобы рассказать свою историю, и о том, кто заслуживает того, чтобы ему поверили • 1873 год. Миссис Элиза Туше - шотландская экономка и двоюродная сестра когда-то знаменитого романиста, Уильяма Эйнсворта, с которым она прожила тридцать лет • Миссис Туше - женщина со множеством интересов: литература, правосудие, аболиционизм, классовая борьба, ее двоюродный брат и его жена, эта жизнь и следующая. Но она настроена скептически. Она подозревает своего кузена в отсутствии таланта; его преуспевающего друга, мистера Чарльза Диккенса, в том, что он хулиган и моралист; а Англию - в том, что она страна лицемерия, в которой все не совсем то, чем кажется

Энтони Магуайр рос дебоширом. Его младший брат Шон должен был стать другим. Их мать ожидала, что он уедет и никогда не вернётся. Но он вернулся. Приехав обратно домой после окончания университета, он обнаруживает, что Энтони пьёт хуже, чем когда-либо. Тем временем рабочих мест в Белфасте не осталось, диплом Шона не стоит бумаги, на которой напечатан, и никто не обращает на него внимания. Однажды ночью на вечеринке он теряет над собой контроль и нападает на незнакомца, после чего всё погружается в хаос • В дебютном романе, основанном на собственном опыте, Майкл Маги исследует явления, из-за которых страдают молодые люди из рабочего класса. «Close to Home», настоящий подарок ценителям качественной современной литературы, рассказывает захватывающую и эмоциональную историю, которая заставит читателя пережить целый спектр чувств и эмоций

Back in print at last, two pioneering early works by Man Booker-shortlisted writer Deborah Levy • BEAUTIFUL MUTANTS • Lapinski, a manipulative and magical Russian exile, summons forth a number of highly contemporary urban pilgrims. Through them, Levy explores broken dreams and self-destructive desires in a shimmering, dislocated allegory of its times • & SWALLOWING GEOGRAPHY • Like her namesake Jack Kerouac, J.K. is always on the road, travelling Europe with her typewriter in a pillowcase. From J.K.'s irreverent, ironic perspective, Levy charts a new, dizzying, end-of-the-century world of shifting boundaries and displaced peoples

From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the unmissable final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography' • 'I began to wonder what myself and all unwritten and unseen women would possess in their property portfolios at the end of their lives. Literally, her physical property and possessions, and then everything else she valued, though it might not be valued by society. What might she claim, own, discard and bequeath? Or is she the real estate, owned by patriarchy? In this sense, Real Estate is a tricky business. We rent it and buy it, sell and inherit it - but we must also knock it down.' • Following the critical acclaim of Things I Don't Want to Know and The Cost of Living, this final volume of Deborah Levy's 'Living Autobiography' is an exhilarating, thought-provoking and boldly intimate meditation on home and the spectres that haunt it

A stunning early novel by the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home, Deborah Levy • Like her namesake Jack Kerouac, J.K. is always on the road, travelling Europe with her typewriter in a pillowcase. From J.K.'s irreverent, ironic perspective, Levy charts a new, dizzying, end-of-the-century world of shifting boundaries and displaced peoples

'It's like this, Saul Adler.' • 'No, it's like this, Jennifer Moreau.' • In 1988, Saul Adler is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. Apparently fine, he gets up and poses for a photograph taken by his girlfriend, Jennifer Moreau. He carries this photo with him to East Berlin: a fragment of the present, an anchor to the West • But in the GDR he finds himself troubled by time - stalked by the spectres of history, slipping in and out of a future that does not yet exist. Until, in 2016, Saul attempts to cross the Abbey Road again