'A savvy, subtle chronicler of contemporary malaise.' Financial Times From the author of Perfidious Albion, a darkly comic and profoundly affecting novel about resistance, radicalism and redemption. Maya is homeless.
Come Let Us Sing Anyway is a brave, exciting and adult collection that entertains with wit, shocks with frankness, and engages both intellect and emotion. Shortlisted for the Salt Publishing Scott Prize.
When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison. But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with.
She didn't mean to become a revolutionary. She thought she was going on a rural retreat... A cross between Cold Comfort Farm, Tamara Drewe and a Danny Boyle film.
The centenary edition with a new introduction by Paul Theroux: three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti. Hiding behind their actors masks, they hesitate on the edge of life afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself."
When Henry's girl dumps him, his life seems pointless. There's obviously only one place to go, Hollywood. Armed with only a few ideas, and the desire to be a screenwriter, he joins the myriad hopefuls. As Henry acquires an agent and does the round of the studios, the book provides an insider's glimpse of how Hollywood really works.
Colin and Mary are a couple whose intimacy knows no bounds. Away on a holiday together in a nameless city, they get lost one evening in a labyrinth of streets and canals. They happen upon Robert, a stranger with a dark history, who takes them to a bar and ushers them down into a subterranean land of violence and obsession.
Okri brings both poetry and story together in a fascinating new form, using writing and image pared down to their essentials, where haiku and story meet.
Set at the beginning of the Second World War, Coming Up for Air describes suburban insurance agent George Bowling's return to his birthplace, a sedate Oxfordshire village. This new edition of one of George Orwell's early pre-war works explores the historical and political context of the novel.
George Bowling, forty-five, mortgaged, married with children, is an insurance salesman with an expanding waistline, a new set of false teeth - and a desperate desire to escape his dreary life. He fears modern times - since, in 1939, the Second World War is imminent - foreseeing food queues, soldiers, secret police and tyranny.
Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about. The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the soul. Ably managed by Jimmy Rabbitte, brilliantly coached by Joey 'The Lips' Fagan, their twin assault on Motown and Barrytown takes them by leaps and bounds from the parish hall to the steps of the studio door.
A celebration of working-class voices, bringing together established and emerging writers including Kit de Waal, Malorie Blackman, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Louise Doughty and Lisa McInerney