Brought to you by Penguin.THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICKFrom the winner of a National Book Award and author of The Good Lord Bird, soon to be a TV series starring Ethan HawkeThe year is 1969. In a housing project in south Brooklyn, a shambling old church deacon called Sportscoat shoots - for no apparent reason - the local drug-dealer who used to be part of the church's baseball tea...

WATERSTONES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR OCTOBER 2024THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLERBARACK OBAMA'S BOOK OF THE YEAR PICKAMAZON.COM NO.1 BOOK OF THE YEAR'I loved this book' BONNIE GARMUS'A generous, compassionate book about the power of love and community' LOUISE KENNEDY'I can't recommend this one highly enough ' HARLAN COBEN...

_______________'A triumph' - New York Times Book Review'A startling, tender-hearted tribute to a woman for whom the expression tough love might have been invented' - The Times'As lively as a novel, a well-written, thoughtful contribution to the literature on race' - Washington Post_______________MORE THAN TWO YEARS ON THE NEW YOR...

FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE'A complex, ever-tightening, increasingly suspenseful web'Washington Post'Gripping'New York TimesIn the days before the Civil War, an enslaved woman named Liz Spocott escapes from her captors into the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland's eastern shore, setting loose a drama of violence...

Symmes's Theory of Concentric Spheres is a visionary anthology that delves into the perplexing yet inviting realm of hollow Earth theories, culminating in James McBride's exploration of John Cleves Symmes's lifelong hypothesis. This collection weaves a tapestry of literary narratives and speculative musings, capturing the spirit of curiosity that defined an era of both scientific speculation and creative expression. Readers undoubtedly journey through intricate imaginary worlds crafted wit...

Whisked right from one pain-in-the-ass job to the next, Zelos’s life’s been anything but quiet lately. Discovering an ancient city, fighting a demon, and getting ambushed by a group of heroes has only been the start of it.As he travels to Asuura, the capital of the Artom Empire, he comes across some famous figures from reufayl society—though honestly, he’d rather be done with this whole trip and go home to Santor already. Still, he may just be about to stumble across a secret that ...

Having defeated the dragon ruler and settled a long-standing score with his sister, Zelos is back to his normal life in Santor. Until, that is, Alphia Magus—the Dark God—emerges out of the blue one day to walk the world once more.Zelos had been counting on that, of course...but he hadn’t prepared for it to happen so soon. How is he going to explain the presence of this ‘young’ girl in his house to visitors? And where is a middle-aged man supposed to get underwear for a naked goddes...

* THE HUGELY ANTICIPATED SEQUEL TO THE SMASH-HIT BESTSELLER, THE APPEAL *A New Play. Another Murder. Who Will Speak the Truth?It's a new theatrical season in Lower Lockwood, and the amateur thespians of the Fairway Players are starting rehearsals for their production of Agatha Christie's The Hollow. Despite divisive new arrivals, countless petty jealousies and a near-fatal accident with the lighting rig, surely this will b...

Now a Showtime limited series starring Ethan Hawke and Daveed DiggsWinner of the National Book Award for FictionFrom the bestselling author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, Deacon King Kong (an Oprah Book Club pick) and The Color of Water comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade—and who must pass as a girl to survive.Henry Shackleford is a ...

The New York Times bestselling story from the author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction.Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute ...

From the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird: The modern classic that spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list and that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation.Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musici...

WATERSTONES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR OCTOBER 2024THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLERBARACK OBAMA'S BOOK OF THE YEAR PICKAMAZON.COM NO.1 BOOK OF THE YEAR'I loved this book' BONNIE GARMUS'A generous, compassionate book about the power of love and community' LOUISE KENNEDY'I can't recommend this one highly enough ' HARLAN COBEN'THIS is his best book' A...