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A black comedy, set in suburbia, about one woman¿s struggle to be free. When Winona Dalloway begins her day ¿ in the peaceful early hours before her children, that `tiny tornado of little hands and feet¿, wake up ¿ she doesn¿t know that by the end of it, everything in her world will have changed. On the outside, Winona is a seemingly unremarkable young mother: unobtrusive, quietly going about her tasks. But within is a vivid, chaotic self, tee...

What does it take to report from conflict zones? What good is neutrality in the face of suffering, and how much difference can one person make? From her first journalistic assignment in Gaza to covering the Arab Spring in Egypt, Sherine Tadros searched for ways to change people¿s lives for the better. It wasn¿t until her life fell apart that she found the courage to pursue her true purpose. With compassion and verve, Tadros now shares her rema...

Following a highly successful hardback publication, this will be our lead paperback for the season, with outdoor advertising, sales promotions, special packs and events for book clubs, POS, and a renewed festivals push. A retelling of the Persephone myth in light of climate change, a sumptuous novel about mothers, daughters, and finding your own agency, for readers of Madeleine Miller, Rumaan Alam, and Scribe¿s own Michael Christie.

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Æschylus is often regarded as the father of Greek tragedy, he moved play writing from the simple interaction of a single character and a chorus to one where many characters interact and thereby create more dynamic and dramatic situations. Æschylus, was the son of Euphorion, and a scion of a Eupatrid or noble family. He was born at Eleusis 525 B.C., or, as the Greeks calculated time, in the fourth year of the 63rd Olympiad. He first worked at a...

Frances Burney was born on June 13th, 1752 in Lynn Regis (now King's Lynn). By the age of 8 Frances had still not learned the alphabet and couldn't read. She now began a period of self-education, which included devouring the family library and to begin her own 'scribblings', these journal writings would document her life and cover the next 72 years. Her journal writing was accepted but writing novels was frowned upon by her family and friends....

A crucial addition to school reading lists. With new educational content and illustrations, it is the perfect conversation starter for educators to teach young people about the reality of the Holocaust from lived experience. The book¿s structure and language is easy to read and understand. Questions are answered with the greatest care for their young readers. A wonderful companion piece to Art Speigelman¿s Maus.

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A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call for humans to address the ways we invade these critical soundscapes ¿ from an award-winning science writer. For centuries humans ignored sound in the `silent world¿ of the ocean, assuming that what we couldn¿t perceive, didn¿t exist. But we couldn¿t have been more wrong. Marine scientists now have the technology to record and study the complex int...

The sequel to bestseller Tokyo Vice, now a major HBO drama, with a second season coming in 2024. It¿s been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only gaijin crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. The global economy is in shambles, Jake is off the police beat but still chain-smoking clove cigarettes, and Tadamasa Goto, the most powerful boss in the Japanese organised-crime world, has been banished from the yakuza, giving Adelstein one less enem...

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An extraordinary, gripping survival story that also reveals the struggles for social justice of the indigenous people of Colombia and the Amazon. The June 2023 rescue of four indigenous children - Lesly, Soleiny, Tien, and Cristin - after forty days in the Colombian Amazon has been heralded as one of the great survival stories. Through interviews with the family, members of the indigenous and military search teams, and elders from Colombia's ...

A panoramic novel of European history, by an internationally bestselling writer. The whole truth, as the name implies, is the collective knowledge of all those involved. Which is why you can never piece it together again properly afterwards. Because a few of those who possessed a part of it are always already dead. Or lying, or their memories are bad. It's 1989, and in a small town on the Austria-Hungary border, nobody talks about the war, the...

A Guardian book to look out for in 2024 An insightful exploration of the nature of inequality by the internationally bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century. In his newest work, Thomas Piketty explores how social inequality manifests itself very differently depending on the society and epoch in which it arises. History and culture play a central role, inequality being strongly linked to various socio-economic, political, civi...