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Mara's island is one of stories and magic, but every story ends in the same way. She will finish her days on the cliff, turned to stone and gazing out at the horizon like all the islanders before her. Mara's parents - a boxer and a ballerina - chose this enchanted place as a refuge from the turbu...

This collection celebrates life and draw on the poet's, often outrageous, experiences.

Lemn Sissay's first poetry collection was written aged 18 and hand-sold to miners on the picket lines of Warrington. Since then his poems have been sculpted in iron and built from concrete, declaimed in over 20 countries. He has performed to thousands of football fans at the FA Cup Final, to hund...

The sequel to 'Martha's Girls', this novel is a moving wartime saga that takes the reader to the very heart of a close-knit, fiery, loving family - perfect for fans of Maureen Lee, Mary Larkin, and Pam Weaver.

A story ingeniously recounted through Roderick Macrae's memoir, trial transcripts, and newspaper reports, this book is a riveting literary thriller that will appeal to fans of Hannah Kent's 'Burial Rites'.

Baxter Stone, a film maker and television veteran, a lifelong Londoner (who thinks he sees better than others) is having problems in the postbrain, crumbling capital. Swindled by an insurance company, he's in debt; a Lamborghini is blocking his drive and MI6 is blocking his mobile reception. He h...

Emma Jane Unsworth's stylish debut novel is a witty and romantic exploration of love, longing, and not getting what you want.

This title contains some of the greatest poems of the 19th century.

In this dual language English-Spanish collection, the poems of Darío Jaramillo Agudelo offer a relentless interrogation of time; an ecstatic celebration of life lived, and the melancholy induced by its transience.