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Polly Barton’s bitingly funny debut novel follows a young woman set on reinvention after moving to a new city. Traversed by violent crushes and a karaoke obsession, What Am I, A Deer? acutely captures the paradoxes and pitfalls of young adulthood in deliriously self-conscious, propulsive prose.
To the untrained eye, the rabbi is far from desirable. He is lofty and unkempt, he is ageing and his congregation is ever diminishing. But to one man, he is the object of obsession. Our narrator adores the rabbi and worships the universe between his legs. But so too does he bristle at being relegated to the peripheries of the rabbi’s life. When they’re apart, he manically contemplates every element of the rabbi’s being: his absent husband; his first (and only) wife and child, both now deceased; his unstable, yet alluring, adopted son. Until, in a bid to help sustain their relationship, our narrator embarks on an increasingly urgent quest to better understand his mercurial lover – one which threatens to upturn the lives of both men.
It’s 1995. Outside their grimy window, the city rushes by. But in the flat there is only Stephen and Eily. Their bodies, the tangled sheets. Unpacked boxes stacked in the kitchen and the total obsession of new love. Eighteen months later, the flat feels different. Love is merging with reality. Stephen’s teenage daughter has re-appeared, while Eily has made a choice, the consequences of which she cannot outrun. Now they face a reckoning for all that’s been left unspoken – emotions, secrets and ambitions. Tonight, if they are to find one another again, what must be said aloud? Love rallies against life. Time tells truths. The city changes its face.
Gorgeously illustrated in Emma Chichester Clark’s signature style, this gentle and comforting tale of friendship is the perfect bedtime story.
‘Exquisite and deeply felt’ VOGUE
‘Beautifully rendered’ GRAZIA
‘Magnificent … melds sharp insight with great heart’ NICOLA DINAN
‘Thoughtful and beautifully compelling’ ALICE WINN
A beautiful, heartbreaking novel about ambition, love and space from the award-winning author of the Women’s Prize longlisted Wandering Souls.
‘Dominic Gregory hasn’t just delivered a survey of courage and determination – Lifeboat at the End of the World is a hymn to human decency, and that makes it a very timely book indeed’ TIM WINTON
Do you really think all lives are worth saving?
A stunning story of obsession and lost glamour, fathers and daughters, for readers of The Hare with Amber Eyes, Laura Cumming and Michael Finkel.
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026
‘Miraculous’ OMAR EL AKKAD
‘Stunning’ MAAZA MENGISTE
‘Beautiful and powerful’ LISA OWENS
‘Wondrous’ NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH
An extraordinary, sweeping novel following one man's itinerant search for home across the globe, after his childhood exile from Palestine.
From the master storyteller behind 2023’s critically acclaimed KILLING THATCHER
The boy and penguin from the much-loved classic picture book Lost and Found return in this cute collection of mini board books.
It is 1987, and in the aftermath of a great storm, Cora sets out with her nine-year-old daughter to register the birth of her son. Her husband intends for her to follow a long-standing family tradition and call the baby after him. But when faced with the decision, Cora hesitates. Going against his wishes is a risk that will have consequences, but is it right for her child to inherit his name from generations of domineering men? The choice she makes in this moment will shape the course of their lives.
When veteran Canadian wheat farmer, Harry Cane is obliged to sell up and sail home to an England transformed by two world wars, his arrival triggers unwelcome self-examination for the family he abandoned, and for whom he has never been more than a distant myth. His daughter feels duty bound to take him in but is riven with doubt and ambushed by a long buried anger she has never before expressed. Harry’s effect on the next generation is less predictable, and enables his granddaughter to deal with an unspeakable trauma, while her gentle husband feels seen for who he truly is. Can Harry stay and make a new life before it’s too late, or will he find himself cast out again, punished for having witnessed and understood too much?
Lajos von Lázár is brought into this world with the dawn of the new century, and his birth is both a miracle and a curse, his true patrimony a secret he will never know. The Lázárs have ruled their Hungarian lands for generations. In their ancient castle by the edge of a dark forest that compels all who enter it to madness, they succumb to every vice and live only to satiate their desires. But the old order is crumbling, and the days of the Hapsburg Monarchy are numbered. When Lajos inherits, they at last have a baron who can reignite the old splendours, but not even his abilities are proof against the ravages of war and occupation. It will fall to his children – a boy who talks to shadows and a girl who eschews her blue blood – to find a way to stand against oppression and take the first faltering steps towards freedom.
A thought-provoking new picture book about finding joy in the everyday from Kes Gray, author of the multi-million-copy selling Oi Frog and Friends series.
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