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Tremor

2023 || Paperback || Teju Cole || Faber & Faber

The new novel from the author of the celebrated Open City - a powerful and masterful exploration of what makes a meaningful life in a world of violence and wonder.

Life is hopeless but it is not serious. We have to have danced while we could and, later, to have danced again in the telling.

Tunde, the man at the centre of this novel, reflects on the places and times of his life, from his West African upbringing to his current work as a teacher of photography on a renowned New England campus. H...

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Geneva

2023 || Paperback || Richard Armitage || Faber & Faber

A bold and unpredictable debut thriller set in the biotech world (and deceptive beauty) of Switzerland, by acclaimed actor Richard Armitage.

Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sarah Collier has taken a step back from work to spend more time with her family. Movie nights with her husband Daniel and their daughter Maddie are a welcome respite from the scrutiny of the world's press. As much as it hurts, it's good to be able to see her father more too. He's suffering from Alzheimer's and needs special...

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When Stars are Scattered

2023 || Paperback || Victoria Jamieson e.a. || Faber & Faber

A heart-wrenching true story about life in a Kenyan refugee camp that will restore your faith in real-life happy endings. Omar and his brother Hassan, two Somali boys, have spent a long time in the Dadaab refugee camp.

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Enchantment

reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age

2023 || Paperback || Katherine May || Faber & Faber

A balm for our times from the internationally bestselling author of Wintering.

Our sense of enchantment is not only sparked by grand things. The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all around us, all the time. It is transformed by our deliberate attention. The magic is of our own conjuring.

'A total joy . . . Thoughtful, patient and beautifully written, like walking with a friend as dusk settles, this is the book your soul needs right now.'

CARIAD LLOYD

'Beautifully written.'

PHILIPPA PERRY

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I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

2023 || Paperback || Lorrie Moore || Faber & Faber

Finn is in the grip of middle-age and on an enforced break from work: it might be that he's too emotional to teach history now. He is living in an America hurtling headlong into hysteria, after all.

'America's first lady of darkness and mirth' Guardian

'How lucky we are that we have Lorrie Moore's voice to reflect this lunatic world back to us and show us how to see it in all its devastating hilarity.' Lauren Groff

From one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lorrie Mo...

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Fright Night (Heruitgave)

2023 || Paperback || Miriam Toews || Faber & Faber

'Go Grandma Elvira!' Margaret Atwood

'Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.' The New Yorker

'Glorious.' Sarah Moss

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You are a small thing, and you must learn to fight.

Swiv has taken this advice too literally. Now she's suspended from school, in the care of her foul-mouthed, hilarious grandmother.

Mom is busy being pregnant, so Grandma gives Swiv a very different education. Swiv learns maths with Amish jigsaws and How to Dig a Winter Grave. Grandma's methods may be unorthodox, but...