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The Voyage Home
2024 || Hardcover || Pat Barker || Hamish Hamilton
Gliff
2024 || Paperback || Ali Smith || Hamish Hamilton
The first of two novels, Gliff, which is a Scottish/northern word for a shock, a fright, a transient moment, a glance or sudden glimpse, will be followed by a second novel in 2025, called Glyph (a signifying mark – as in ‘hieroglyph’). Glyph, the second novel, will tell a story which is hidden in the first so the two books will belong together but can be read independently.
The two books will form a new step in Ali’s writing journey, different in form and feeling from the Seasonal Qua...
The Voyage Home
2024 || Paperback || Pat Barker || Hamish Hamilton
The exhilarating follow-up to Pat Barker's The Women of Troy and The Silence of the Girls
After ten blood-filled years, the war is over. Troy lies in smoking ruins as the victorious Greeks fill their ships with the spoils of battle.
Alongside the treasures looted are the many Trojan women captured by the Greeks – among them the legendary prophetess Cassandra, and her watchful maid, Ritsa. Enslaved as concubine – war-wife – to King Agamemnon, Cassandra is plagued by visions of his death ...
The Myth of Ameriican Idealism
how U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
2024 || Paperback || Noam Chomsky || Hamish Hamilton
Shattered
2024 || Hardcover || Hanif Kureishi || Hamish Hamilton
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...