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Helen Charman & Lola Olufemi: Mother State
In Mother State (Allen Lane), Helen Charman uses this provocative insight to write a new history of Britain and Northern Ireland. Beginning with Wome…
1 year, 3 months ago
Sarah Moss & Octavia Bright: My Good Bright Wolf
Best known for her novels – most recently, 2021’s The Fell – now Sarah Moss has turned her hand to life-writing. My Good Bright Wolf unflinchingly de…
1 year, 3 months ago
Abi Palmer & Zarina Muhammad: Slugs – A Manifesto
Why be a slug? Slugs: A Manifesto (Makina Books) explores a creature that survives by being disgusting. Weaving together manifesto, memoir and poetic…
1 year, 3 months ago
Sinéad Gleeson & Douglas Stuart: Hagstone
In her first novel Hagstone (Fourth Estate), Sinéad Gleeson – who has, in the words of Anne Enright, ‘changed the Irish literary landscape through he…
1 year, 3 months ago
Catherine Lacey & Jen Calleja: Biography of X
In Catherine Lacey’s dystopian thriller, recently published in paperback by Granta, CM Lucca, widow of a recently deceased avant-garde artist, sets o…
1 year, 4 months ago
Yasmin Zaher & Sheena Patel: The Coin
Palestinian writer and journalist Yasmin Zaher’s debut novel The Coin (Footnote Press) has been hailed as ‘already a masterpiece’ (Slavoj Žižek), ‘a …
1 year, 4 months ago
Eley Williams & So Mayer: Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good
‘There are very few writers with as clear and thrilling a love for the stuff of language as Eley Williams’, writes Jon McGregor. Moderate to Poor, Oc…
1 year, 4 months ago
Michael Longley & Declan Ryan: Ash Keys
Published to coincide with the poet’s 85th birthday, Ash Keys (Jonathan Cape) presents a new selection of Longley’s finest works. Born in Belfast in …
1 year, 4 months ago
Ralf Webb & Philippa Snow: Strange Relations
Strange Relations (Sceptre) explores the crisis in mid-century masculinity through the lives and works of four bisexual writers who fought to express…
1 year, 5 months ago
Juliet Jacques & Orit Gat: The Woman in the Portrait
Juliet Jacques is one of the most electrifying short fiction writers working in the UK today; The Woman in the Portrait (Cipher) collects her publish…
1 year, 5 months ago