A love story in the slow lane about loss and getting lost-two childhood sweethearts take a trip via pints, ponds and pitstops to find their future on a road less travelled from Stoke-on-Trent to Wales.
The author, academic and critic Nicholas Royle looks back at the inspiring, autodidactic, no-nonsense presence of his mother across his life, combining the affectionate and the observational in its portrait of family life, bereavement and the characteristics passed down across generations.
A memoir on love, lust and attachment: one woman's remarkable and candid account of transforming a difficult and uncomfortable love triangle into an honest polyamorous relationship
Drawing inspiration from electronic voice phenomena, near-death experiences and apophenia, Jacqueline Haskell delves into the world of the occult to find life after death.
This graphic memoir of a lost homeland is a wordless narrative by an author homesick for a home she has never visited. It is illuminated by the words and portraits of her family, and a brief history of Badhdadi Jews.
Written in the winding-down stages of a severe psychotic episode filled with manic delusions, this extraordinary story chronicles Julja's relationship with drugs, family and friends.
A gripping tale of post-natal depression, this short story reads like a modern retelling of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and has much in common with Sarah Water's The Little Stranger in its realisation of psychological distress as a supernatural phenomenon.
A chance break in a West End theatre production forces a derailed actress to confront her demons and offers her an opportunity to escape her past and live life to the full.
The richest one percent in our society have wild and disproportionate political and cultural influence. Who are these people? What are their lives like? Darryl Cunningham delves into the world of the super-rich and shares their stories with an unbiased eye.
At once timely and timeless, this powerful and absorbing novel by Panos Karnezis explores the price of peace and security through the intimate motivations and moral dilemmas of people bound together by fate and circumstance.
Now a classic of world literature, this beautifully written, funny and piercingly honest story of a contemporary Yoruba woman's coming-of-age in Lagos is a heartfelt drama of family, friendship, community and divided loyalties.
Wole Soyinka Prizewinning author of Everything Good Will Come recasts the international espionage tale by bringing the intrigue and politics of family life to the fore.
A graphic milestone of investigative reporting, Cunningham's essays explode the lies, hoaxes and scams of popular science, debunking media myths and decoding some of today's most fiercely-debated issues.
From the award-winning and bestselling author of Into the Darkest Corner comes a delicious Victorian crime novel based on a true story that shocked and fascinated the nation.
Daring, ingenious and profoundly moving, The Kennedy Moment is masterful storytelling from an author whose career has put him at the heart of international affairs. Shortlisted for the Staunch Book Prize.
A cycle of fifteen fierce and funny feminist stories showing women striving to be employers, employees, daughters, mothers, sisters, artists, wives and girlfriends. The title story won the 2017 Manchester Fiction Prize.
An urgent, funny, shocking, and impassioned memoir by the winner of the UK Spectrum Art Prize 2018, How To Be Autistic presents the rarely shown point of view of someone living with autism.
New collection of short stories from acclaimed Oxford-based South African author that tracks lives across continents from the perspective of the southern hemisphere--its light, its seas, its sensibilities.
