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Format: Paperback Book type: Anthology ISBN-13: 9781912697571 Published: 01 Jun 2022
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Sale!The new novel from the twice Booker Prize-nominated Sarah Hall. An electrifying novel of passion, connection and transformation from "a writer of show-stopping genius" (The Guardian) ''In many ways ... Burntcoat feels like a culmination of Hall’s work and, in my opinion, it is her finest yet" - Ruth Gilligan, The Independent"You were the last one here before I closed the door of Burntcoat, before we all shut our doors. In the bedroom above her immense studio at Burntcoat, the celebrated sculptor Edith Harkness is making her final preparations. The symptoms are well known: her life will draw to an end in the coming days. Downstairs, the studio is a crucible glowing with memories and desire. It was here, when the first lockdown came, that she brought Halit. The lover she barely knew. A presence from another culture. A doorway into a new and feverish world." (Excerpt) Special Offer: This book is being offered p&p free (shown as £3.20 off the RRP) for a limited period, to tie in with our re-scheduled author event which is a part of our Autumn Weekend programme. Please note, signed bookplates are available with this book, just add one to your basket if you would like to have one included free with your order."Burntcoat is a book full of wisdom about the crisis of our times" - Sarah Gilmartin, Irish Times"Burntcoat hovers somewhere between the literal truth and what, during the worst moments of the pandemic, many of us feared the truth might be" - Claire Allfree, The Times
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Sale!"Marvellous and terrifying” – Sunday Times "Superb” – Daily Mail Special Offer: We are offering this title at 50% off the publisher’s RRP
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N.B. As one of our Litfest 2022 titles this book is being offered at £2 off the Publisher's RRP until 31st March 2022. The electrifying novel from the Booker shortlisted author of Everything Under. 'A short sharp explosion of a gothic thriller' Observer
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N.B. As one of our Litfest 2022 titles this book is being offered at £2 off the Publisher's RRP until 31st March 2022.
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Sale!What happens to Ordinary lives when international concerns intrude? What does it mean to belong when the various strands of our identity are brought into conflict? How do we survive to re-invent ourselves when we have seen the world torn apart? Special Offer: We are offering this title at 50% off the publisher’s RRP
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In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flaneur named Gaustine opens a 'clinic for the past' that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time. As Gaustine's assistant, the unnamed narrator is tasked with collecting the flotsam and jetsam of the past, from 1960s furniture and 1940s shirt buttons to scents and even afternoon light. But as the rooms become more convincing, an increasing number of healthy people seek out the clinic as a 'time shelter', hoping to escape from the horrors of our present - a development that results in an unexpected conundrum when the past begins to invade the present. Published 2023 Paperback: 304 pages ISBN: 9781474623070
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ISBN: 0954791312 Genre: Fiction Publisher: Tindal Street Press
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Terminal Boredom has been selected as Litfest's International Fiction Book Club (IFBC) choice for January 2022. Learn more about the IFBC here. Translated by Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Aiko Masubuchi, and Helen O’Horan Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Thrillist, The Millions, Frieze, and Metropolis Japan The first English-language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural icon.
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Welcome to the Hollow in the Land: from its neglected high streets to the isolated wilderness of the surrounding moors, this Lancashire valley bursts with unforgettable characters, minor intrigues and all the rich strangeness of life in England today. Published 2021 Paperback: 272 pages ISBN: 9781788163521
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Thomas Speake comes to London to look for his father but finds Sanderson instead, a larger-than-life TV presenter who hosts 'midweek madness' parties where the punch is spiked with acid. There Speake meets Marnie and promises to help her find her adoptive child, who has been taken by her birth mother to live off-grid in a hippie commune in the Lake District. Published 2023 Hardback: 320 pages ISBN: 9781788163538
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Paris, 1939: The pavement rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs Elysees. A young writer, recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes one last cigarette with his lover before the city they know is torn apart. Soon, he will put is own life and those of his loved ones in mortal danger by joining the Resistance... Spies, artists, deprivation, danger and passion: this is a story of life at the edges of human experience, and of how one man came to translate it all into art.
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If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah thought, she would be more careful not to trudge through muddy fields. It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and raw. Domestic life below stairs, ruled with a tender heart and an iron will by Mrs Hill the housekeeper, is about to be disturbed by the arrival of a new footman, bearing secrets and the scent of the sea. Published 2014 Paperback: 448 pages ISBN: 9780552779517
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'Impressive and satisfying . . . a novel that succeeds both in creating pages that turn themselves, and in continually feeding the reader's sense of wonder' Daily Telegraph Riveting and unforgettable, The Midnight News is a tour de force from acclaimed and bestselling author Jo Baker - a love story, a war story, and an unforgettable journey into the fragile mind and fierce heart of an extraordinary young woman. Published 2023 Hardback: 432 pages ISBN: 9781399602242
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When a young writer accepts a job at a university in the remote countryside, it's meant to be a fresh start. But when one of her students starts sending in chapters from his novel that blur the lines between fiction and reality, the professor recognises herself as the main character in his book - and he has written her a horrific fate. Will she be able to stop life imitating art before it's too late? Published 2020 Paperback: 288 pages ISBN: 9781784164522
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N.B. As one of our Litfest 2022 titles this book is being offered at £2 off the Publisher's RRP until 31st March 2022. A WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR 'It leaves the reader moved and subtly changed, as if she had become part of the story' Hilary Mantel 'So moving and delicate and terrifying and haunting' Maggie O'Farrell
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N.B. As one of our Litfest 2022 titles this book is being offered at £2 of the Publisher's RRP until 31st March 2022. A Story Told In Poems By Joseph Coelho, illustrated by Kate Milner Nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal 21, and shortlisted for CILLIP Carnegie Medal 21 Intense imaginative power combines with brilliant poetic technique in a major new work by one of the leading poets writing for young people.
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Swearing to his dying mother that he'll find the father he has never met, a certain Pedro Paramo, Juan Preciado sets out across the barren plains of Mexico for Comala, the hallucinatory ghost town his father presided over like a feudal lord. Between the realms of the living and the dead, in fragments of dreams and the nightly whispers of Comala's ghosts, there emerges the tragic tale of Pedro Paramo and the town whose every corner holds the taint of his rotten soul. Published 2014 (in this translation) Paperback: 160 pages ISBN: 9781781253168
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N.B. As one of our Litfest 2022 titles this book is being offered at £2 of the Publisher’s RRP until 31st March 2022. "Lyrical, moving, revealing." - Tracy Chevalier "Such beautiful writing… A little bit Rear Window, a little bit Home Fire, a little bit Shameless. I loved it" - Louisa Young "Daring and devastating" - Fiona Mozley "Compelling and original, Silence Is a Sense is uncomfortably close to the bone, depicting a country riven by racism and violence" - Observer
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize "A remarkable novel” - The Irish Times "An unputdownable read" - The Scotsman Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher's RRP
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Sale!A Man Booker Prize shortlisted author "heartbreaking and compelling” - The Observer "shimmers with edgy brilliance" - Sunday Herald Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher's RRP
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Sale!Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize "Remarkable” - Daily Mail "A true virtuoso" - Sunday Telegraph "a novel of extraordinary power" - Guardian Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher's RRP
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The first thrilling Ben Koenig book from The Sunday Times bestselling author of Dead Ground and The Botanist, featuring a brand-new American hero. Five million reasons why Ben Koenig had to disappear. Only one to bring him back . . . Ben Koenig is a ghost. He doesn't exist any more. Published 2023 Hardback: 448 pages ISBN: 9780349135601
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Winner of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2023 'I swear I'm one bad mood away from calling it black magic and going home...' Detective Sergeant Washington Poe can count on one hand the number of friends he has. And he'd still have his thumb left. There's the insanely brilliant, guilelessly innocent civilian analyst, Tilly Bradshaw of course. He's known his beleaguered boss, Detective Inspector Stephanie Flynn for years as he has his nearest neighbour, full-time shepherd/part-time dog sitter, Victoria. Published 2022 Paperback: 448 pages ISBN: 9780349135557
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Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 2021 It's Christmas and a serial killer is leaving displayed body parts all over Cumbria. A strange message is left at each scene: #BSC6 Called in to investigate, the National Crime Agency's Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw are faced with a case that makes no sense. Why were some victims anaesthetized, while others died in appalling agony? Why is their only suspect denying what they can irrefutably prove but admitting to things they weren't even aware of? And why did the victims all take the same two weeks off work three years earlier? Published 2020 Paperback: 400 pages ISBN: 9781472131942
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Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award 2019 A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District's prehistoric stone circles. He leaves no clues and the police are helpless. When his name is found carved into the charred remains of the third victim, disgraced detective Washington Poe is brought back from suspension and into an investigation he wants no part of . . . Published 2019 Paperback: 368 pages ISBN: 9781472127457
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On the edge of Fort de France, the capital of Martinique, squats a shanty town. It goes by the name of Texaco. One dawn, a stranger arrives - an urban planner, bearing news. Texaco is to be razed to the ground. And so he is lead to Marie-Sophie Laborieux, the ancient keeper of Texaco's history, who invites her guest to take a seat and begins the true story of all that is to be lost. Texaco is a creole masterpiece. Translated by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokurov. Published 2018 Paperback: 400 pages ISBN: 9781783784349
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Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2022 'An artfully plotted tale about race, privilege and guilt... careful reading proves richly rewarding' - Lucy Poescu, The Observer 'Phenotypes underscores how difficult antiracist projects can be at any scale...Scott's characters quickly abandon the possibility of a comprehensive solution in favor of stopgap measures that may or may not work. Such are the inadequacies, the novel asserts, of treating entrenched and systemic issues as if they are only skin-deep.' - The New York Times Book Review 'A compelling exploration of the fraught reality of race relations in Brazil ... there is much that English-speaking readers stand to gain from the considered, quiet fury of Paulo Scott's novel, not least the expansion of and challenge to modern-day discourses on race.' - Laura Garmeson, Times Literary Supplement
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Translated from the Spanish by Roy Kesey Published 2020 Paperback 216 pages ISBN 978-1641291309
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Sale!Each story places us inside the desperate world of a child trying to make sense of abuse, and what it is doing to her, or at least to the part of her able to speak. Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
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Sale!"Its emotional tenor remains buoyant and unfaltering from the first page to the last" - TLS Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
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Sale!"Sue Gee's stories are remarkable for their precision and economy - this is a lovely collection" - Penelope Lively " A consummate artist" - Shena Mackay "Poignant and haunting, immensely readable” - Salt Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
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Sale!"Hugely enjoyable and rewarding" - Independent "Riveting and affecting" - Guardian Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
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Sale!"A wonderful novel... transforms the stuff of life into art" - Philippa Gregory in The Sunday Times Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
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Sale!"Unashamedly romantic and sensual, but also so sparely written that the economy of her writing is breathtaking... a beautiful, redemptive book" - Glasgow Herald Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
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N.B. As one of our Litfest 2022 titles this book is being offered at £2 off the Publisher's RRP until 31st March 2022. 'A delightfully engaging mystery.' - Katherine Woodfine 'A magical rollercoaster of a ride.' - Marie Basting 'Satisfyingly sprinkled with clues to sniff out, this is a timeless, accessible and well-paced mystery with bags of atmosphere.' - Booktrust
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Sale!Hardback, 1st edition, in d/w Published by Faber & Faber, 2007 Number of pages: 224 We are offering this book at 25% off the publishers RRP
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Sale!"I read The Loney in one sleepless night, and it has haunted me ever since" - Daily Telegraph Paperback, 360pp Special Offer: We are offering this title at 50% off the publisher’s RRP
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Sale!Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2010), John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (2010) Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
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Affectionate reminiscences of Lancaster's The Storey building. Home of Lancaster Litfest.
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ISBN: 9781842993484 Genre: Fiction Publisher: Barrington Stoke
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Sale!An ancient evil is waiting... Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
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Sale!An anthology of stories edited by Geoff Ryman. Collaborating between leading scientists and literary authors, this unique experiment creates a new strain of science fiction by extending the repertoire of the genre beyond the common places of space travel, time travel, and artificial intelligence. Through the use of diverse, credible, and contemporary research areas - from Planck length to plankton and virtual conversations between Wittgenstein and Turing to future civilizations torn asunder by differences over particle physics - these stories reinstate the furnace of scientific endeavour. Text taken from Fantastic Fiction."'Highly engaging and fascinating... this thought-provoking collection reminded me why I used to like science fiction so much... Eventually, one hopes, science fiction will regain its rightful place - as once again stranger than science.'” - The Guardian Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher's RRP
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