Amnion
By: Stephanie Sy-Quia
4.26
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
What does it mean to be a person of many countries and heritages? Amnion excavates migratory histor…
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1. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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2. Blue Horses
By: Mary Oliver
4.24
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her l… read more
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3. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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- poetry
4. Close to Home
By: Michael Magee
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more
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5. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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6. After Sappho
By: Selby Wynn Schwartz
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. … read more
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"The death of a child makes a barbaric sound, even in print."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"But some of us have always seen the modern world as a sea meant to drown us."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"We were going to be sappho, but how did Sappho begin to become herself? P.40"-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"There is always this risk, in life, that we have our parts in a tragedy and we do not know it."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
7. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
8. I'm a Fan
By: Sheena Patel
3.32
Format: 207 pages, None
In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more
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"It is toxic. I am familiar"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
9. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
10. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
By: Warsan Shire
4.21
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more
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"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
11. C+nto and Othered Poems
By: Joelle Taylor
4.25
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2021. The female body is a political space. C+nto enters the priv… read more
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12. Kala
By: Colin Walsh
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for t… read more
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"Vapers are cunt wands,' Donna snaps."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"I just want to switch myself off. Disconnect from everything."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"So much of the night's vague. A film strip with half the frames missing."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk."-Colin Walsh, Kala
13. The Long Form
By: Kate Briggs
4.09
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Helen and her young baby, Rose, are awake. It is first thing on a new morning. They move, they rest… read more
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"For what if it were easier to love a pattern when you were a pattern yourself? When social life required that you fall into its established patterns, starting with the basic division of day and night…"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
"The novel, by working with the interplay of durations, and inviting the reader to interact with them, has the capacity to pay a double, triple, multiple allegiance to the weird workings of time, to o…"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
"The world is surprising. It had undiscovered stores. It is not yet wholly given. There will be new gestures, new questions, new forms of life. The capacity to welcome them, to make room for them (to …"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
"I know time. I know time differently now. I know it because I am unlearning it. I know it because the baby is teaching me that the rhythms of the clock and the calendar, and even the most elemental d…"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
14. The Premonition
By: Banana Yoshimoto
3.43
Format: 133 pages, Hardcover
The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and he… read more
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"I'd never known a love before that could blot out the world around like this."-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition
"Later, for the first time in a very long time, I heard my aunt play the piano. Its tone was soft, and just like I remembered it. At the kitchen window one overcast afternoon, I watched its beautiful …"-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition
15. None of This Is Serious
By: Catherine Prasifka
3.10
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Dublin student life is ending for Sophie and her friends. They've got everything figured out, and S… read more
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"I'm tired of crying over stupid boys who aren't worth it."-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious
"I'm trapped by the concept of the present, by the idea that time is moving forward and I'm witnessing it."-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious
"I need him, like this, right now. The problem is I can't need him any more. I don't want to stop being with him, but I can't be with him."-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious
"Isn't it weird to think that everything is so unstable? Like, we all believe in the magic of technology; it feels so permanent but, just like that, it's gone."-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious
16. La Papeterie Tsubaki
By: Ito Ogawa
4.17
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
Hatoko a vingt-cinq ans et la voici de retour à Kamakura, dans la petite papeterie que lui a léguée… read more
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"Mourir, c’était peut-être vivre éternellement."-Ito Ogawa, La Papeterie Tsubaki
"Elle s'est levée. Elle était sublime. Elle était l'incarnation personnifiée de cette vieille expression qui dit qu'une femme debout a la grâce de la pivoine de Chine, celle de la pivoine arbustive qu…"-Ito Ogawa, La Papeterie Tsubaki
"- C'est la formule secrète du bonheur, que j'ai appliquée toute ma vie, a-t-elle dit en riant. - Apprenez-la moi ! - Eh bien, il faut se dire à l'intérieur : « Brille, brille. » Tu fermes les yeux et…"-Ito Ogawa, La Papeterie Tsubaki
17. Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more
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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
18. Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more
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- poetry
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
19. Small Worlds
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.32
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more
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"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
20. 100 Queer Poems
By: Mary Jean Chan
3.82
Format: 175 pages, Hardcover
Andrew McMillan and Mary Jean Chan's luminous anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thril… read more
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21. Consent
By: Annabel Lyon
3.50
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A smart, mysterious and heartbreaking novel centred on two sets of sisters whose lives are braided … read more
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"We take so much into us when we lose someone we love,"-Annabel Lyon, Consent
"Loneliness sends you into your body instead of your brain."-Annabel Lyon, Consent
"That was life, wasn't it? It didn't seem like you were falling."-Annabel Lyon, Consent
"I was her punishment, certainly, she thinks, taking the empty suitcase out from under the bed. As she was mine. But remind me again of our crime?"-Annabel Lyon, Consent
22. feeld
By: Jos Charles
4.17
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Selected by Fady Joudah as a winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, Jos Charles’s revolutionary… read more
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23. 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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24. Now Go: On Grief and Studio Ghibli
By: Karl Thomas Smith
3.55
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Grief is all around us. At the heart of the brightly coloured, vividly characterised, joyful films … read more
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25. Notes on the Sonnets
By: Luke Kennard
3.87
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
A Poetry Book Society Recommendation Shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Collection … read more
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26. 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. The End of Nightwork
By: Aidan Cottrell-Boyce
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Pol suffers from a very rare hormonal disorder that ages him erratically; when he was thirteen, his… read more
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29. Amnion
By: Stephanie Sy-Quia
4.26
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
What does it mean to be a person of many countries and heritages? Amnion excavates migratory histor… read more
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30. Are You Judging Me Yet?: Poetry and Everyday Sexism
By: Kim Moore
4.63
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In these lyric essays, prize-winning poet Kim Moore negotiates being a woman poet and public perfor… read more
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31. Bi+ Lines: An Anthology of Contemporary Bi+ Poetry
By: Helen Bowell
4.45
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
The first-ever anthology of poems written by those who identify under the bi+ umbrella, Bi+ Lines i… read more
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