'A memoir about [Flanagan's] parents, interwoven with meditations on Tasmania, genocide, colonialism, the atomic bomb, H.G. Wells and Rebecca West . . . A masterpiece’ Mark Haddon

'Devastating and beautiful, mighty in its rage and tenderness: his most momentous book yet’ Laura Cumming

Who loves longer?

Beginning at a love hotel by Japan’s Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows.

By way of H. G. ...

I lost my son, Mathias, in a tragic accident on a fateful night in November 2021. He was struck while walking with his dog on the highway, completely disoriented due to a benzo he had purchased online.

This book is my account of everything that happened in the following two years, from the heart-wrenching news on that fateful night to the moment I had to bury my child and the realization that I would never truly be able to enjoy life again.

By means of this book, I hope to, along with Mathias...

The sun sets and your surroundings become dark. Nothing is visible, but everything is clear. You let your thoughts consume you until there’s nothing left, but you. It is during those moments, that we face our respective truths. After months of writing and rewriting drafts of ‘a new (self-absorbed) book’, I’ve come to a realization... I don't want to do that anymore.

This book is about the arduous journey of the young Gurubesar (leader, teacher, superior) of the Vishnuh Society.

It tells that he was sent to the Netherlands to peacefully save the name Pencak-Silat (defensive doctrine) from those who so openly misused it as a name for a self-invented sport

This became a very difficult task because those who pretended to want to help him stabbed him in the back. Even his own family did not shy away from it.

They tried everything to get him to go home undone.

This book testifies to his enormous inner strength and perseverance to carry out the tasks of the Vishnuh Society as Gurubesar...

On Boxing Day 2022, in Rome, Hanif Kureishi had a fall. When he came to, in a pool of blood, he was horrified to realise he had lost the use of his limbs. He could no longer walk, write or wash himself. He could do nothing without the help of others, and required constant care in a hospital. So began an odyssey of a year through the medical systems of Rome and Italy, with the hope of somehow being able to return home, to his house in London.

While confined to a series of hospital wards, he fe...