Rachel Long MY DARLING FROM THE LIONS Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2021
We are thrilled that Rachel Long has been shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2021 for her poetry collection My Darling From The Lions, published by Picador. You can read more about the prize here.
Death Takes The Lagoon – Ariel Saramandi on the sinking of the MV Wakashio off the coast of Mauritius
Grainy pictures flash on our phones on the night of 25 July. A ship’s crashed on the reef in Pointe d’Esny, the messages read. I pinch and splay the photos with my fingers. I can make out the ship’s frame, yellow glimmers of light, but not much else. We set out to see the ship for ourselves […]
Breathtaking by Rachel Clarke is a Sunday Times Bestseller
We are thrilled that Rachel Clarke’s Breathtaking is an instant Sunday Times Bestseller, entering the hardback non-fiction chart at Number 7.
Taran Khan’s Shadow City is shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year
The dark side of paradise, illuminated by a novel from Barbados – LA Times review
Baxter Beach, the fictional Barbados setting of Cherie Jones’ first novel, is the kind of place an American might go to soak up sun and margaritas, maybe get a souvenir cornrow in their hair. In another book it would signal paradise, but not in “How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House,” which digs deep into the difficult […]
The dark side of paradise, illuminated by a novel from Barbados
Baxter Beach, the fictional Barbados setting of Cherie Jones’ first novel, is the kind of place an American might go to soak up sun and margaritas, maybe get a souvenir cornrow in their hair. In another book it would signal paradise, but not in “How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House,” which digs deep into the difficult […]
“I’ve been called Satan”: Dr Rachel Clarke on facing abuse in the Covid crisis
Please imagine it, for a moment, if you can bear to. Being wheeled from your home by paramedics in masks who rush you, blue-lit, to a hospital. Then the clamour and lights, the confusion and fear, the faceless professionals, gloved and gowned, who eddy and swirl past your trolley. Your destination is intensive care where […]
“I’m still angry about what has been done to this country” – Francis Spufford is interviewed in The Guardian
Francis Spufford kills off all the protagonists of his new novel in the first chapter. “I want the reader to be looking at life as you do when you are aware that the alternative is death,” he explains of Light Perpetual, the follow-up to his award-winning debut, Golden Hill. “I want life and being in time to […]
“a preternatural sensitivity to the crackling electric currents that run beneath the surface of things” – Olivia Sudjic’s Asylum Road is Book of the day in The Guardian
In 2018, Olivia Sudjic spent two months alone in Brussels. Her debut novel, Sympathy, had been published to critical acclaim and she hoped to make progress with a second. Instead, she found herself in the grip of an agonising spiral of anxiety and self-doubt, unable to write, unable almost to think. She later wrote about the […]
“A one-of-a-kind reading experience” – a Kirkus star for Kate Lebo’s The Book of Difficult Fruit
A cookbook writer and poet offers a set of personal essays and recipes centered on fruits that present unique challenges and rewards to cooks, bakers, and food lovers. Lebo, currently an apprenticed cheesemaker in Spokane, Washington, presents an A-to-Z compendium of her favorite “difficult” fruits. Some, like blackberries, cherries, pomegranates, and vanilla, are familiar. Others, […]