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The End of Everything
A Novel
2026
EN
**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 BOOKER PRIZEA haunting apocalyptic adventure, and a formidable exploration of what it means to be human in a shifting world, from "one of the very great writers alive today." (China Miéville)"A book not just about everything but about now.” —Booker Prize Judge citation**Phillip Tennent makes his living at the tideline, collecting artifacts that wash up from the Channel. It's been years since the crisis changed everything, but its exact natu...
Available Oct 13, 2026
2010
EN
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The disturbing post-apocalyptic novel The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, author of The Day of the Triffids and The Kraken Wakes and dramatised on BBC Radio 4.David Strorm's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses, calling them blasphemies against nature. Little does he realise that his own son, and his son's cousin Rosalind and their friends, have their own secret abberation which would label them as mutants. But as David and Rosalind...
The Course of the Heart
The cult classic from the extraordinary, genre-bending Booker-nominee
2025
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The cult classic novel from the 2026 Booker-longlisted author of The End of EverythingWith an introduction by bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield'A more grown-up version of The Secret History' LUCY SCHOLES'A groundbreaking work' GUARDIAN'The best literary fiction out now' DAILY MAIL...
The End of Everything
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2026
2026
EN
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* LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026 * A TIMES BESTSELLER *'A visionary and brilliant investigation of anxious times' CHINA MIÉVILLE'Elucidates humanity's disintegrating existence with strange clarity' GUARDIAN'Speaks with uncanny indirectness to our deepest fears about collective memory and big tech' TELEGRAPH'Memorable, haunting ... a world that's...
Pen Drawing
An artist's guide to drawing with ink
2026
EN
Learn to draw confidently and creatively with pen PEN DRAWING is an essential guide to mastering pen to create original and expressive artwork. Acclaimed artist and tutor John Harrison shows you how to turn simple lines into striking illustrations that capture form, texture and atmosphere. Packed with inspiration, expert advice and step-by-step demonstrations, this book will help you build your skills, develop your own style and push the boundaries of traditional pen illustration.
Little Deaths
22 Tales of Horror and Sex
2023
EN
A World Fantasy Award–winning anthology of erotic horror stories, including dark tales of desire by Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Dedman, Harry Crews, and others.The title of this acclaimed anthology comes from the French term "la petite mort," a seventeenth-century euphemism for orgasm. It was thought that part of a man's life-force was drained from him each time he climaxed. In Little Deaths, renowned horror editor Ellen Datlow collects twenty-two stories th...
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again
Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2020
2020
EN
*WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2020* *A New Statesman Book of the Year* 'A mesmerising, mysterious book . . . Haunting. Worrying. Beautiful' Russell T. Davis 'Brilliantly unsettling' Olivia Laing 'A magificent book' Neil Gaiman 'An extraordinary experience' William GibsonWinner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2020, this is fiction that pushes the boundaries of the...
2009
EN
By the bestselling author of ‘Cocaine Nights’ and ‘Super-Cannes’ – the world is threatened by dramatic climate change in this highly acclaimed and influential novel.Water. Man’s most precious commodity is a luxury of the past. Radioactive waste from years of industrial dumping has caused the sea to form a protective skin strong enough to devastate the Earth it once sustained. And while the remorseless sun beats down on the dying land, civilization itself begins to crack. Violence e...
2023
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A fragile woman is haunted by a murder that took place in her new home decades earlier in this chilling thriller."Harrison's fiction lingers long after you turn the final page. He's a born storyteller." —Clive BarkerWhen Kathryn Fields moves into a run-down Georgetown townhouse, she hopes that restoring it will help her recover from a recent nervous breakdown that derailed her promising career.But when she discovers a false wall in her bedroom, she ...
Light
A Novel
- Book 1 -
- Kefahuchi Tract
2004
EN
In M. John Harrison’s dangerously illuminating new novel, three quantum outlaws face a universe of their own creation, a universe where you make up the rules as you go along and break them just as fast, where there’s only one thing more mysterious than darkness.In contemporary London, Michael Kearney is a serial killer on the run from the entity that drives him to kill. He is seeking escape in a future that doesn’t yet exist—a quantum world that he and his physicis...
2007
EN
A magnificent city existing on the ringes of the past, and on the brink of destruction, ViriconiumAvailable to American readers for the first time, this landmark collection gathers four groundbreaking fantasy classics from the acclaimed author of Light. Set in the imagined city of Viriconium, here are the masterworks that revolutionized a genre and enthralled a generation of readers: The Pastel City, A Storm of Wings, In Viriconium, and Virico...











