From the publisher: Turns the familiar story of trafficking across the US-Mexico border on its head, looking at firearms smuggled south from the United States to Mexico and their ricochet effects.
There's been so much lively poetry this year that it's been hard to choose my favourites. To begin with, two massive yellow bricks - J.H. Prynne's late work in one convenient volume, and Mimi Khalvati ...
There were so many incredible books this year. I’ve stuck to poetry: my favourite collection of 2023 was Andrew Wynn Owen’s Infinite in Finite for its combination of technical adeptness and emotional ...
From the publisher: An authoritative survey of British buildings between the wars by the late Gavin Stamp - one of Britain's best-known architecture criticsBritish architecture between the wars is ...
From the publisher: A world history of citrus, from the art of classical antiquity to the science of the modern era.Mandarin, citron, pomelo, bergamot, kumquat... Citrus traces the history of today's ...
My Book of the Year has to be Kaliane Bradley’s debut The Ministry of Time. It’s the kind of book that ruins reading for you for months afterwards, because you know no other book will be as fun, as ...
From the publisher: A beautiful, full-colour guided nature journal from award-winning novelist and nature writer Melissa Harrison.'Nobody writes about the natural world like her' INDIA ...
From the publisher: A gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR—and still provides a model of opposition in Putin’s RussiaBeginning in the 1960s, the Soviet ...
Every ten years, Granta magazine names their 20 best British novelists under 40, and it’s always an influential list – Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Jeanette Winterson and Zadie Smith are among the ...
From the publisher: A new memoir from renowned political activist and author of Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the SixtiesThe revolutionary upsurge of 1968–1975 jump-hopped continents with ...
Our Author of the Month for May is the novelist, essayist and literary critic Sarah Moss, currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University College Dublin.