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When several children from the same village start succumbing to a mysterious illness, the quest to discover the cause has devastating and extraordinary consequences. ‘Absolutely MAGNIFICENT: dark, witty, charming. I LOVED it.’ MARIAN KEYES ‘Utterly absorbing’ LISA MCINERNEY ‘Heart-rending, hilarious . . . it’s a belter’ LOUISE KENNEDY ‘Blistering…glorious…written from the guts and from the […]

Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. Born at the turn of a new century, Dasani is named for the bottled water that comes to symbolise Brooklyn’s gentrification and the […]

Booker Prize-winner Marlon James once again draws on a rich tradition of African mythology and fantasy to imagine a mythic world, a lost child, a 177-year-old witch and a mystery with many answers

‘A dazzling, funny and elegantly angry demolition of our preconceptions about female behaviour and sex in the animal kingdom … Bitch is a blast. I read it, my jaw sagging in astonishment, jotting down favourite parts to send to friends and reading out snippets gleefully…’ Observer ‘A book that is tearing down the stereotypes and the biases. Absolutely fascinating.’ […]