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The supernatural looms over the grime and sweat of everyday life in Lagos in this dazzling collection of stories from a prize-winning young Nigerian writer.'Thrilling and disturbing' Financial Times'Excellently uncanny' Daily Mail'You'll find it hard…
30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR'Girl, Interrupted is a beautiful, complex story that truly led the way on opening up a new, brave, nuanced approach to talking about women's mental health. It is an intense and personal story…
'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation' Luke HardingIn her international bestseller The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad studied life in Afghanistan before and after the fall of the Taliban regime…
'Mesmerising, heartbreaking ... a wild ride of a novel' Monica AliSLAVE. ESCAPE-ARTIST.MURDERER. TERRORIST. SPY.LOVER. MOTHER. TRICKSTER.At the Golden Sunset retirement home, it is not unusual for residents to invent stories.So when elderly Ms Mook first…
'Women's sports have needed a manifesto for a long time. With Good for a Girl we finally have one' Malcolm Gladwell'The invitation to have a long overdue conversation for a long overdue cultural shift' Alysia Montano, Olympian, co-founder of &Mother,…
The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood ? a manmade plague ? has ended…
1947: Mary Frances Gerety, a young copywriter in an eminent advertising agency, has to convince the world of two things - that marriage means a diamond ring on every woman's finger, and that she is as good at her job as any man. And then, in one moment…
A funny, intimate memoir by Lauren Graham, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls andParenthood, which recounts her experiences on Gilmore Girls - the first and second time - and shares stories about life, love, and working in Hollywood. Intimate, hilarious,…
'A truly gifted writer' Sebastian Barry'Pure gold' Emma Donoghue 'Remarkable' Chigozie Obioma WHAT MAKES A HOME A HOME?TELL ME A STORY I CAN DREAM ON . . . Ba dies in the night, Ma is already gone.Lucy and Sam, twelve and eleven, are suddenly alone and…
Selma Blair has played many archetypal roles: gullible ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Fire-starter in Hellboy. Muse to Karl Lagerfeld. Face of Chanel.Cover model. Advocate for the multiple sclerosis community. But before…
From the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and the New York Times bestselling author of Talking as Fast as I Can comes a candid, insightful, and wildly entertaining essay collection about her years in show business, featuring stories that range from the…