Sonnets for Albert
By: Anthony Joseph
3.99
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
With Sonnets for Albert, Anthony Joseph returns to the autobiographical material explored in his ea…
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1. Averno
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarde… read more
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"Is it possible to miss the opportunity of one's life?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes."-Louise Glück, Averno
"If your soul died, whose life are you living, and when did you become that person?"-Louise Glück, Averno
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3. Versed
By: Rae Armantrout
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2010) Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award (20… read more
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- poetry
4. Heroides
By: Ovid , Harold Isbell
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myt… read more
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5. Morning Breaks In The Elevator
By: Lemn Sissay
4.49
Format: 563 pages, Paperback
Six years after his last solo publication, Lemn Sissay brings together the experiences of those int… read more
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6. Deaf Republic
By: Ilya Kaminsky
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more
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"A man should smell better than his country"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
7. Shy
By: Max Porter
3.63
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more
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"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."-Max Porter, Shy
"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."-Max Porter, Shy
"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"-Max Porter, Shy
"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"-Max Porter, Shy
8. Nothing Special
By: Nicole Flattery
3.06
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
New York City, 1966. Seventeen-year-old Mae lives in a rundown apartment with her alcoholic mother … read more
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9. Black Butterflies
By: Priscilla Morris
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more
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10. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
11. Western Lane
By: Chetna Maroo
3.51
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more
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12. Quiet
By: Victoria Adukwei Bulley
4.12
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO POETRY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE … read more
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13. Hungry Ghosts
By: Kevin Jared Hosein
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From an unforgettable new voice in Caribbean literature, a sweeping story of two families colliding… read more
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"Sorrow felt selfish."-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts
"You aint need to ask scorpions to sting, Lata."-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts
"If they were to kill her, her ghost would still be dancing."-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts
"A man in the day and a man in the night is two different creatures."-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts
14. God's Children Are Little Broken Things: Stories
By: Arinze Ifeakandu
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In nine exhilarating stories of queer love in contemporary Nigeria, God’s Children Are Little Broke… read more
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15. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
16. Rainbow Milk
By: Paul Mendez
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative from a thrilling new voice, Rainbow Milk follow… read more
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17. Weird Fucks
By: Lynne Tillman
3.17
Format: None pages, None
Fiction. Women's Studies. Art by Amy Sillman. The long out-of-print 1978 novella by the brilliant L… read more
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18. Bad Diaspora Poems
By: Momtaza Mehri
4.29
Format: 115 pages, Hardcover
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE 2023*Diaspora is witnessing a murder without getting blood on yo… read more
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19. Bright Fear
By: Mary Jean Chan
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Following their award-winning debut, Flèche (2019), comes Mary Jean Chan's gleaming second collecti… read more
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20. England's Green
By: Zaffar Kunial
4.08
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Zaffar Kunial is a proven master of taking things apart, polishing the fugitive parts of single wor… read more
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"There is something locked-in about grief, but there is something horribly unlocked about grieving. - Ings "-Zaffar Kunial, England's Green
21. Self-Portrait as Othello
By: Jason Allen-Paisant
4.02
Format: 88 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023 Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 Long… read more
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22. All the Men I Never Married
By: Kim Moore
4.34
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
All The Men I Never Married is the highly anticipated second collection by Kim Moore. The author po… read more
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23. A Portable Paradise
By: Roger Robinson
4.40
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
Roger Robinson’s range is wide: the joys and pains of family life; the ubiquitous presence of racis… read more
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"in the car park a young father whispers weed smoke about how his life feels, like that burnt-out car that never moves, the one with the shattered windows leaving diamond tears in the asphalt."-Roger Robinson, A Portable Paradise
"How is it I'm begging you for housing, when you burnt my building down? You all ain't even playing fake-nice, like those other murderers. You are all cut-eye and snarls, all straight jargon, and noth…"-Roger Robinson, A Portable Paradise
"You fooled us. Render your work, not your lives. This seems like the newest answer to an old question. Cheap muscle and blood to build you an Empire- that we can't stay in. Gran's gone missing from S…"-Roger Robinson, A Portable Paradise
24. The Home Child
By: Liz Berry
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a true story, a beautiful novel-in-verse about a child far from home. From award-winnin… read more
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25. Soho
By: Richard Scott
4.09
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
In this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott creates an uncompromising portrait of love and gay … read more
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26. Scaffolding
By: Lauren Elkin
3.86
Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more
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27. Manorism
By: Yomi Sode
4.30
Format: 106 pages, Paperback
Manorism is a poetic examination of the lives of Black British men and boys: propped up and hemmed … read more
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28. Sonnets for Albert
By: Anthony Joseph
3.99
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
With Sonnets for Albert, Anthony Joseph returns to the autobiographical material explored in his ea… read more
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29. The Wrong Person to Ask
By: Marjorie Lotfi
4.10
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Marjorie Lotfi’s award-winning debut collection is a book of two halves, each a meditation on the i… read more
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30. We Play Here
By: Dawn Watson
4.28
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A Guardian Poetry Book of the Year 2023; shortlisted for the John Pollard International Poetry Priz… read more
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31. More Sky
By: Joe Carrick Varty
4.62
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
More Sky is a remarkable and remarkably various debut collection from Eric Gregory Award winner, Jo… read more
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