A very happy (yet belated) new year to all of our lovely customers!
This is the first instalment of a monthly roundup of all the new releases we're looking forward to having on our shelves. It will include a mix of well-loved authors that we know you'll want to hear about and some debut and indie titles you otherwise might never have heard of...
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We Do Not Part by Han Kang 6th February (£18.99)
From the winner of The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024, 'We Do Not Part' is a haunting and visionary novel which takes us on a journey from contemporary South Korea into its painful history. It is a hymn to friendship, a eulogy to the imagination and above all an indictment against forgetting.
Beartooth by Callan Wink 13th February (£14.99)
Set in the Montana backcountry, two brothers run a saw mill and do a little poaching on the side. When a menacing figure offers them a risky but potentially lucrative hunting job in Yellowstone National Park, the brothers can't refuse, but before long the precarious nature of their lives and their bond is exposed.
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates 6th February (18.99)
Written at a dramatic moment in American and global history, this work from one of our most important writers is about the urgent need to embrace the liberating power of even the most difficult truths.
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad 13 February (£16.99)
This is an urgent and necessary reckoning about what it means to live in the West today. El Akkad believed the West offered freedom and justice for all but after 20 years reporting on the various Wars on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests, and now, watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, he comes to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie.
Woman in Blue by Douglas Bruton 20th February (£9.99)
In the Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam, there is a painting called Woman in Blue Reading a Letter. Each day a man visits to gaze at it. He is irresistibly drawn to it. Obsessed by it. For she has a story of her own to tell. With a delicate balance of truth and fiction, past and present, Bruton masterfully explores the intersection between art, artist and viewer, arriving at a profound meditation on love and creation.
The Stolen Heart by Andrey Kurkov 27th February (£20.00)
The second instalment in the International Booker nominated Kyiv Mystery series, 'The Stolen Heart' sees Samson Kolechko being assigned a most perplexing case.
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte 13th February (16.99)
An audacious and original novel-in-stories following a cast of intricately linked characters as rejection throws their lives and relationships into chaos. Sharply observant and outrageously funny, Rejection is a provocative plunge into the thorniest problems of modern life: sex, relationships, identity and the internet.
Minority Rules by Ash Sarkar 27th February (£18.99)
In her eye-opening debut, Ash Sarkar reveals how minority elites rule majorities by creating the culture wars that have taken over our politics, stoking fear and panic in our media landscape.
The City Changes Its Face by Eimear McBride 13th February (£20.00)
It's 1995. Outside their grimy window, the city rushes by. But in the flat there is only Stephen and Eily. Unpacked boxes stacked in the kitchen and the total obsession of new love. Eighteen months later, the flat feels different. Love is merging with reality and now they face a reckoning for all that's been left unspoken - emotions, secrets and ambitions.
This Immaculate Body by Emma Van Straaten 6th February (£16,99)
"Baby Reindeer meets Convenience Store Woman" Kirsty Logan. Alice has been cleaning Tom's flat every Wednesday for a year and been spiralling deeper into infatuation. As she prepares for the moment when they will finally meet face-to-face, she discovers that love might not be the cure she thought it was. A story of obsession and of the way women view the world and the ways that the world views them.
Hungerstone by Kat Dunn 13th February (£16,99)
A fierce, powerful Sapphic reworking of Carmilla, the book that inspired Dracula; need we say more?
I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY by Marni Appleton 20th February (£12.99)
Exceptional short stories featuring young millennial women, blending dark fantasy and quasi-horror with humour and intellectual dash. Announcing the arrival of a major talent, 'I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY' is more a warning than a wish.
plus the books you've been waiting to come out in paperback!
