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In a new novel set in the same hallucinatory world as This Is Memorial Device, David Keenan imagines 1960s Airdrie in Industry of Magic and Light. Record collector Teddy Ohm is part of a cult lightshow which creates ‘happenings’. But in making light...
What does a writer do once they’ve won the Booker Prize? If you’re the indefatigable Marlon James, you embark on a wildly ambitious series that defies easy characterisation. The second in the Dark Star trilogy Moon Witch, Spider King draws...
Thomas Mann argued there’s nothing ‘actual’ about time: humans don’t possess an organ that can sense it. Award-winning Bulgarian novelist Georgi Gospodinov plays with this idea in Time Shelter, beautifully translated into English by Angela...
Katherine Webber’s The Revelry is the story of best friends, questionable decisions, bad luck and secrets. When Bitsy and Amy sneak into an off-limits party in the woods, everything starts to unravel, taking their friendship down a murky path. Join...
In her number one Sunday Times bestseller, Gallant, V E Schwab tells the darkly magical tale of a young woman caught between the world and its shadows. In Her Dark Wings, three-time Carnegie-nominated author Melinda Salisbury takes us to the edge of the...
My Struggle was the six-volume autofictional project that established Karl Ove Knausgaard among the world’s most respected writers. Now, the Norwegian author embarks on a new literary odyssey. The Morning Star is a novel steeped in the uncanny,...