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Two brothers confront each other and themselves to overcome their family legacy, from the doomed coalfields of north-east England to sun-bleached southern Spain 'Thrilling and brilliantly imagined' SARAH HALL 'Extraordinarily tense and tender' GUARDIAN Frank Bridge turned his back on his familys gangland conflicts in Northumberland decades ago. His brother, Gordon, fled to Spain and has not been heard from since. Franks life has taken a different path to the same place: he fell in love with Lorca's poetry and the woman who brought it to him. But when their gangster father, the head of their savage dynasty, dies, Frank feels he must track down Gordon and tell him that their fathers reign of terror is over. Can Franks appearance after twenty-five years prompt a truce a reconciliation even will his arrival merely be the catalyst for more turmoil and brutality? Beneath the scorching, pitiless Andalusian sun, the two brothers are finally brought together for one last reckoning. 'Terse, bloody and vivid' THE TIMES 'A pleasingly thoughtful and atmospheric crime caper' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Savage, sorrowful, superb' NIALL GRIFFITHS 'Vivid, lyrical and propulsive' MALACHY TALLACK 'A compelling, beautifully written story of male heartbreak' RUTH PADEL Autorid: Neil Rollinson

The first of the hilarious novels in the campus trilogy, Changing Places is a funny and wise tale of academic ill-manners - David Lodge at his comic best. When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange: students, colleagues, even wives are swapped as events spiral out of control. And soon both sundrenched Euphoric State university and rain-kissed university of Rummidge are a hotbed of intrigue, lawlessness and broken vows... One of the funniest but much more importantly one of the most truthful of postwar British novelists Jonathan Coe Autorid: David Lodge

From the ground-breaking graphics journalist and author of Palestine, a revelatory investigation of the deadly sectarian riots in 2013 Uttar Pradesh, India, and their urgent global significance today Compared to other episodes of lethal Indian communal violence, the clashes in Uttar Pradesh in 2013, the Muzaffarnagar Riot, were a relatively small-scale affair. It had happened before and will probably happen again: Hindus and Muslims, armed with guns and swords, riled up by vitriolic rhetoric and a tangle of accusations, turn on one another. The truth fragments along religious lines, both in the lead-up to the rampage and in its bloody aftermath. Joe Sacco immerses himself in Uttar Pradesh, speaking to government officials, political leaders, village chiefs, and especially the victims, who were mostly landless peasants, in a quest to understand this riot as an archetype of political violence. In the process, he probes the role of savagery in a democracy; the power of crowds, rather than leaders, to influence the course of events; the collision of competing narratives; and the accounts that perpetrators construct to explain away their participation in bloodshed. Sacco has chronicled the urgent histories that define the world around us, from the Great War to Gaza. Here, the award winning cartoonist turns his masterful visual reportage to a story that is specific to India but with implications and resonance for us all. * PRAISE FOR JOE SACCO: 'One of the masters of his craft' New Statesman 'A pioneer of the genre' TLS 'Formidably talented.' Independent 'The hands-down boss of his particular corner of contemporary literature' Dazed & Confused 'Sacco's brilliant, excruciating books of war reportage are potent territory... He shows how much that is crucial to our lives a book can hold' New York Times Book Review Autorid: Joe Sacco

Todays dominant tech platforms are the most effective tools ever created for extracting wealth, destabilising the societies they plunder by creating vast inequality. One of the world's pre-eminent anti-monopoly experts explains how and why we must take back control. 'Wu is a titan . . . a must-read' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Cuts to the core' CORY DOCTOROW, author of Enshittification 'Essential' KAREN HAO, author of Age of Empire Our world is ruled by a handful of tech platforms. They provide great conveniences and entertainment but also stand as some of the most effective instruments of wealth extraction ever invented, seizing immense amounts of money, data and attention from all of us. An economy driven by tech and AI could enrich us, yet it could also marginalize entire industries, widen the wealth gap and foster a two-class nation. As technology evolves and our markets adapt, can society cultivate a better way? Is it possible to balance economic growth and egalitarianism, or are we too late? Tim Wu, the preeminent scholar and former White House official who coined the phrase net neutrality, tells the story of an internet that promised widespread wealth and democracy, only to aid the spread of autocracy instead. From generative AI and predictive social data to antitrust and cryptocurrency, Wu frames our current moment within key lessons from recent history. And, perhaps most importantly of all, Wu envisions a future where technological advances serve the greatest possible good for everyone. Concise and hopeful, The Age of Extraction offers consequential proposals for reclaiming control to achieve better economic balance and prosperity for all. 'A passionate call for a fairer economy' DARON ACEMOGLU, co-author of Why Nations Fail 'A how-to book on how we can achieve liberty' MATT STOLLER, author of Goliath Autorid: Tim Wu

The first collection of Booker Prize-winning writer Anne Enright's non-fiction writing about culture, literature and her own life 'Anne Enright might just be Irelands greatest living writer' THE TIMES 'A joy to read' MAGGIE O'FARRELL For thirty years Anne Enright has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature and her own life, and gifting us with her precise insights. These essays, collated from across Enright's career, take us from Dublin to Galway, Canada to Honduras. They delve into Enrights own family history, and explore the free voices and controlled bodies of women in society and fiction. She offers new perspectives on writers including Alice Munro, Toni Morrison, James Joyce, Helen Garner and Angela Carter. In Enrights fiction, speech can transform, rupture, enliven and liberate. In these essays, she speaks to us directly. Electrifying, probing and exuberant, this is a defining collection from one of our most distinguished literary voices. 'One of the best essayists alive' MEGAN NOLAN, OBSERVER 'Confirms the intelligence, compassion and humour of the mind behind the novels' INDEPENDENT 'A glorious antidote to the mad, sad world' EIMEAR MCBRIDE 'So alert, so attuned, so alive' LUCY CALDWELL Autorid: Anne Enright

'Elegant and deeply sensory' Katherine May, author of Wintering An exhilarating leap into darkness in all its forms, enchantments and history: the new work of non-fiction from award-winning poet and writer Jean Sprackland Darkness can make the most ordinary activity feel adventurous. Open a door and step through it. You cant see a thing: you could be anywhere. Step over the threshold, into the dark, and feel your way. We humans have a complicated relationship with the dark. We fear it, and make great efforts to blot it out. But we also long for it, especially if we live in cities, or remember the starry skies of our childhoods. Darkness opens us up to risk, delight and transformation. Is it possible to prise it free of its negative associations, which are as old as human thought itself? In her quest for a new, more intimate relationship with darkness, acclaimed poet and writer Jean Sprackland finds herself confronting some of the deepest and darkest questions about who we are and our place in the world. Drawing on memory and imagination, history and ecology, literature and myth, Night Vision is an expansive, thrilling journey into the true dark. Autorid: Jean Sprackland

'...Without surprise I see him now in evil company. A wicked face but oh those eyes could charm Heart, sudden heart, dont beat me to my knees.' Long hidden in an attic, vivid and revelatory poems shine a new light on the life and loves of Iris Murdoch. *As seen in the Guardian* **With an introduction by Booker-shortlisted author Sarah Hall, and an essay from the editors.* In the dusty attic of Iris Murdochs Oxford home lay a battered, black chest. In 2016, when the chest was finally opened, Murdochs life in poems was revealed. Renowned for her fiercely intelligent novels and groundbreaking philosophy, Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Yet she is also known for her equally radical life intense friendships, relationships with both men and women, and an open marriage about which much has, often controversially, been written. Now, her tightly wrought and vivid poems reveal a new, deeply personal account in Murdochs own voice. They range over the preoccupations closest to her heart, from the state of Ireland to memories of a first love lost in the Second World War. Murdoch kept her poems private or addressed them to specific individuals. This did not affect the attention she paid to her craft. Always obsessed with poetry, her technical skill is clear even in the musicality of the early pieces, maturing in the extraordinary, impassioned cycle Conversations with a Prince and in the liberation of free verse. Above all, these are masterful poems about love; there is no writer who reveals its secrets quite like Iris Murdoch. These are essential poems for those who, like her, think deeply about romance and friendship, jealousy and commitment, and about all the shades of love in our lives. Praise for Iris Murdoch: 'Ive always been a big Iris Murdoch fan ... (She] lived her life with an incredibly open heart' Sarah Waters 'More than almost any other writer, she understands the currents beneath the surface' Charlotte Mendelson 'She is particularly good on what might be seen as our uglier feelings ... Murdoch writes so well about what it is to experience those twinges of envy and the cognate emotions, vanity and desire' TLS Autorid: Iris Murdoch, Anne Rowe, Miles Leeson, Rachel Hirschler, Frances White

'My favourite wine w*nker' Jack Whitehall 'An enormously entertaining read' Spectator 'A full-bodied book thats really got legs' Mail on Sunday I like to talk about wine the way normal humans talk about things they love its not about showing off how many fancy wine terms I know. The point is to share something I love with someone else in a way that makes them want to love it too. Thirsty is the story of Tom Gilbey (The Wine Guy) and his life in wine, a celebration of the bleedin beautiful people who make it, and a history of his familys love affair with winemaking and lets be honest, drinking since the 1800s. Learn how to: - read a label (even if you cant speak the language) - talk wine without sounding naff - choose wine in a restaurant - explain why some wine smells like your grannys cardigan Along the way youll discover 100 Wine W*nker approved bottles: wines for friendships and long lunches, for autumn afternoons and winter evenings. Whether yours is a Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Kylie Minogues rosé or God forbid orange wine, Tom will help you find the good stuff, always. Let Tom show you how this gloriously gluggable elixir is, at its heart, made to bring pleasure, and that there is no right or wrong to enjoy wine: just go for it. Entertaining and engaging Helen McGinn of @knackeredmother Autorid: Tom Gilbey