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Haunting and Poetic: A Cure for Suicide by Jesse Ball

‘[A Cure for Suicide is] a puzzle box and a haunting love story...Whatever the source of this book’s elusive magic, it should cement Ball’s reputation as a technical innovator whose work delivers a powerful emotional impact.’ STARRED review, Read more

What Do Women Want? Female Desire and Magic Mike XXL

Image from Magic Mike XXL official teaser trailer

Sales and Marketing Director Kirsty Wilson on Magic Mike XXL and what women really want.

After reading Clem Bastow’s utterly joyful review of the new Steven Soderbergh film Read more

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Letter to His Son

Ta-Nehisi Coates and his son, Samori.

After the Charleston shootings, journalist David Remnick, musician John Legend and others started talking about a powerful new book about the black experience in America: Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me.

Vive la France! Indulge in the French Connection at Text

Don a beret, quaff some champagne and celebrate Bastille Day with some of our great French and French-inspired books—including award-winning history, memoir, thrillers, fiction and coming-of-age stories that celebrate our enduring fascination with France and French culture.

Video: Martine Murray on Her New Book, Molly and Pim and the Millions of Stars

Molly and Pim is wild, whimsical and wonderful. It makes you fall in love with the world and everyone in it.

New in July: Lori Roy’s Let Me Die in His Footsteps

I will not go down under the ground
’Cause somebody tells me that death’s comin’ ’round
An’ I will not carry myself down to die
When I go to my grave my head will be high
Let me die in my footsteps
Before I go down under the ground

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Safety Not Guaranteed: Great Armchair Travels

Are holidays a while away? We know how you feel.

We like holidays as well. But since they’re few and far between, we’ve made up new ways to get out of the country.

What Does It Mean to Become a Man?

Mark is a Day Boy.

In a post-traumatic future the Masters—formerly human, now practically immortal—rule a world that bends to their will and a human population upon which they feed.

Burn: The Rephaim Book 4, #1 on the iBooks YA Bestseller List!

Love. Nightmares. Angels. War.

Burn, the long-awaited finale to Paula Weston’s paranormal Rephaim series, hit the shops last week and went straight to number one on the iBooks bestselling young-adult list.

‘What do you remember?’ Jude keeps his voice low, doesn’t move closer.

School’s Out—Brave, Smart and Adventurous Holiday Reading for Kids

‘We don’t need no education...’

I’d like to think that Roger Waters would think twice about his gloomy 1979 proclamation today.

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