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From the bestselling author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and
Lanny, Shy is a novel about guilt, rage, imagination and boyhood.
It is about being lost in the dark, and realising you are not
alone. 'Max Porter is one of my favourite writers in the world.'
George Saunders 'Beautiful and haunting.' Kevin Barry 'The
strangest, most beguiling and affecting of all his books.' Ian
Rankin 'A miracle of language.' Irish Times This is the story of a
few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy. You
mustn't do that to yourself Shy. You mustn't hurt yourself like
that. He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his
head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the
people who are trying to love him. Got your special meds, nutcase?
He is escaping Last Chance, a home for 'very disturbed young men',
and walking into the haunted space between his night terrors, his
past and the heavy question of his future. 'An act of humanity and
grace, heightened by its distinctive form and artistry.' Telegraph
From the bestselling author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and
Lanny, Shy is a novel about guilt, rage, imagination and boyhood.
It is about being lost in the dark, and realising you are not
alone. This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a
troubled teenage boy. You mustn't do that to yourself Shy. You
mustn't hurt yourself like that. He is wandering into the night
listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the
people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him. Got
your special meds, nutcase? He is escaping Last Chance, a home for
'very disturbed young men', and walking into the haunted space
between his night terrors, his past and the heavy question of his
future.
** Pre-order Shy, the new novel from Max Porter, now ** A SUNDAY
TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Winner of the 2016
International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Sunday Times/Peter, Fraser
+ Dunlop Young Writer of the Year award and shortlisted for the
Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize. In a London
flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's
sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy
romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness.
In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist,
trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to
the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need
him. This extraordinary debut, full of unexpected humour and
emotional truth, marks the arrival of a thrilling and significant
new talent.
Shortlisted for the 2022 Jhalak Prize Shortlisted for the 2022
Desmond Elliott Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 British Book Awards,
Book of the Year - Discover Award Longlisted for the 2022 Gordon
Burn Prize Longlisted for the 2022 Swansea University Dylan Thomas
Prize Winner of a 2022 Somerset Maugham Award Cabbages . . . The
Turkish variety are prized for their enlarged leaf bud, that's
where we put the heroin . . . There's a stash of heroin waiting to
be imported, and no one seems sure what to do with it . . . But
Ayla's a gardener, and she has a plan. Offering a fresh and funny
take on the machinery of the North London heroin trade, Keeping the
House lifts the lid on a covert world thriving just beneath notice:
not only in McDonald's queues and men's clubs, but in spotless
living rooms and whispering kitchens. Spanning three generations,
this is the story of the women who keep their family - and their
family business - afloat, juggling everything from police
surveillance to trickier questions of community, belonging and
love.
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Lanny (Paperback)
Max Porter
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R237
Discovery Miles 2 370
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize
An entrancing new novel by the author of the prizewinning Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
There’s a village an hour from London. It’s no different from many others today: one pub, one church, redbrick cottages, some public housing, and a few larger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and walking the dogs. This village belongs to the people who live in it, to the land and to the land’s past.
It also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort, a mythical figure local schoolchildren used to draw as green and leafy, choked by tendrils growing out of his mouth, who awakens after a glorious nap. He is listening to this twenty-first-century village, to its symphony of talk: drunken confessions, gossip traded on the street corner, fretful conversations in living rooms. He is listening, intently, for a mischievous, ethereal boy whose parents have recently made the village their home. Lanny.
With Lanny, Max Porter extends the potent and magical space he created in Grief Is the Thing with Feathers. This brilliant novel will ensorcell readers with its anarchic energy, with its bewitching tapestry of fabulism and domestic drama. Lanny is a ringing defense of creativity, spirit, and the generative forces that often seem under assault in the contemporary world, and it solidifies Porter’s reputation as one of the most daring and sensitive writers of his generation.
A bold and brilliant short work by the author of Grief is the Thing
with Feathers and Lanny. 'A little masterpiece.' Irish Times
'Luminous.' Observer 'One of our most exciting writers.' The
Spectator Madrid. Unfinished. Man dying. A great painter lies on
his deathbed. In seven extraordinary written pictures, untethered
from reality, Max Porter translates the explosive final workings of
the artist's mind.
A bold and brilliant short work by the author of Grief is the Thing
with Feathers and Lanny. Madrid. Unfinished. Man Dying. A great
painter lies on his deathbed. Max Porter translates into seven
extraordinary written pictures the explosive final workings of the
artist's mind.
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Lanny (Paperback)
Max Porter
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R398
Discovery Miles 3 980
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Rooted in place, slipping between worlds - a rich collection of
unnerving ghosts and sinister histories. Eight authors were given
the freedom of their chosen English Heritage site, from medieval
castles to a Cold War nuclear bunker. Immersed in the past and
chilled by rumours of hauntings, they channelled their darker
imaginings into a series of extraordinary new ghost stories. Also
includes a gazetteer of English Heritage properties which are said
to be haunted.
Eight authors were given after hours freedom at their chosen
English heritage site. Immersed in the history, atmosphere and
rumours of hauntings, they channelled their darker imaginings into
a series of extraordinary new ghost stories. Sarah Perry's intense
tale of possession at the Jacobean country house Audley End is a
work of psychological terror, while Andrew Michael Hurley's story
brings an unforgettably shocking slant to the history of Carlisle
Castle. Within the walls of these historic buildings each author
has found inspiration to deliver a new interpretation of the
classic ghost story. Relish the imagined terrors at these
exhilarating locations: Kate Clanchy, Housesteads Roman Fort |
Stuart Evers, Dover Castle | Mark Haddon, York Cold War Bunker |
Andrew Michael Hurley, Carlisle Castle | Sarah Perry, Audley End |
Max Porter Eltham Palace | Kamila Shamsie, Kenilworth Castle |
Jeanette Winterson, Pendennis Castle
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Shy (Hardcover)
Max Porter
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R738
Discovery Miles 7 380
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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A moving meditation on grief and motherhood by one of Britain's most celebrated poets.
The British poet Denise Riley is one of the finest and most individual writers at work in English today. With her striking musical gifts, she is as happy in traditional forms as experimental, and though her poetry has a kinship to that of the New York School, at heart she is unaligned with any tribe. A distinguished philosopher and feminist theorist as well as a poet, Riley has produced a body of work that is both intellectually uncompromising and emotionally open.
This book, her first collection of poems to appear with an American press, includes Riley’s widely acclaimed recent volume Say Something Back, a lyric meditation on bereavement composed, as she has written, “in imagined solidarity with the endless others whose adult children have died, often in far worse circumstances.” Riley’s new prose work, Time Lived, Without Its Flow, returns to the subject of grief, just as grief returns in memory to be continually relived.
'I blame the pencil. I hadn't meant to do it. I wasn't thinking. It
just happened that way.' In March 2020, as lockdowns were imposed
around the world, author and illustrator Edward Carey published a
sketch on social media with a plan to keep posting a drawing a day
from his family home in Austin, Texas, until life returned to
normal. One hundred and fifty pencil stubs later, he was still
drawing. Carey's hand moved with world events, chronicling pandemic
and politics. It reached into the past, taking inspiration from
history, and escaped grim reality through flights of vivid
imagination and studies of the natural world. The drawings became a
way of charting time, of moving forward, and maintaining connection
at a time of isolation. This remarkable collection of words and
drawings from the acclaimed author of Little and The Swallowed Man
charts a tumultuous year in pencil, finding beauty amid the horror
of extraordinary times.
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Brody (Paperback)
Max Porter
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R292
Discovery Miles 2 920
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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