The Haunting of Mr and Mrs Stevenson is a gothic delight. It tells the story of Robert Louis Stevenson's friendship with the charming Eugene Chantrelle and the murder mystery that contributed to Robert's need to create a novel focused on the dualistic nature of the psyche.

From a seance with the Shelleys at Boscombe Manor to a haunted wardrobe made by an infamous Scottish criminal, the novel is underscored by the story of two writers very much in love. Fanny and Robert were married in 1880, when she was forty and he was twenty-nine. An American who divorced her philandering husband to marry Robert, she was already the mother of children, a self-supporting writer, and with intelligence and wit very much the rock in their relationship.

Brilliantly told in Fanny's voice, this atmospheric novel is both the story of an unconventional literary relationship and a page-turning mystery that reveals the truth about the people, objects and events that inspired Stevenson to write The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Praise for Belinda Lyons-Lee's Writing

'It's an exhilarating ride, and the writing is astute, and often elegant.' Thuy On, Sydney Review of Books

'Lyons-Lee can absolutely craft a ripping yarn.' Jodie Sloan, The AU Review

'Fully researched, but never lets the learning dominate. Rather the sense of a lost time is palpable ...' Lucy Sussex, The Australian

As a child in Pakistan, Jahan was raised on her grandmother's stories, influenced by the demons of folklore, and the memory of violence and forced displacement caused by the British partition of India tales that taught her to be wary of the world. But her grandmother's life, filled with quiet defiance, hints at another truth. Jahan rebels against the constraints she lives under as a young woman growing up in Lahore, and migrates to Australia, where she meets her husband, whose family is Arabic. As she reckons with the unruliness of her body after a miscarriage, and the bushfires which threaten their home and their horses on the rural outskirts of Sydney, she is forced to confront the violence that haunts her, against women, animals, and in nature

A feminist anti-tale, written in a unique, compelling and expressive style, What Kept You? explores survival, metamorphosis, and the radical freedom of choosing one's own ending.

In a London call centre, Jimmie helps holiday makers with myriad problems, but he is hardly a model employee. He doesn't simply provide customer service to his clients and advice to his colleagues, he gets involved in their fantasies and frustrations, and now he's about to be hauled up in front of the boss.

From perfecting his roles as an undertaker and as a clown to performing duties above and beyond his employment contract, he debates the importance of the optimum shade for lipstick and bathroom walls, the pros and cons of nudist versus textile, as well as the psychological impacts of an Italian mother and an emotional support animal. This is the second, ribald, scatological novel from the brilliant author of The Appointment. Jimmie's sly, sharp, melancholy insights into the indignities of a world which aims to eliminate the human will make you laugh, weep and never look the same way at an electric carving knife again.

'This book is filled with brilliant dialogue, unexpected turns, some very dirty talk with sudden bursts of hilarity, and then fierce sadness. It exudes dark energy. It is highly original. It gives pleasure on every page.' Colm Tibn, author of Brooklyn and Long Island

'Raucous, incisive and wholly original.' Eley Williams, author of Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good

'Her work is a hand grenade thrown against the falsities of good taste.' Carlos Fonseca, author of Austral

'Katharina Volckmer's jokes are always consequential, and her novel ends up saying much that is profound about work and isolation and capitalist estrangement.' Lily Isaacs, The TLS

Julia Walden a Synth was designed for one reason: to compete on The Proposal and claim the heart of bachelor Josh LaSala. Her casting is controversial, but Julia seems to get her fairy-tale ending when Josh gets down on one knee.

Fast-forward fifteen months, and Julia and Josh are married and raising their baby in small-town Indiana. But with haters around every corner, Julia's life is a far cry from the domestic bliss she imagined. Then her splintering world shatters: Josh goes missing, and she becomes the prime suspect in his murder.

With no one left she can trust, Julia takes the investigation into her own hands. But the explosive truths she uncovers will drive her to her breaking point and isn't that where a person's true nature is revealed? That is...if Julia truly is a person.

'The Bachelor meets Black Mirror (with a splash of Barbie gone dark) in this captivating, empowering, and wildly original thriller... A spectacular debut.' Megan Collins, author of Thicker Than Water

'A deftly crafted, stunningly original debut. I loved it from the clever first pages all the way to the jaw-dropping conclusion.' Andrea Bartz, author of The Spare Room

'Made for You is a thrill ride that never stops twisting and turning. With its smart fusion of reality TV, murder mystery, and social commentary, this story promises an addictive and thought-provoking reading experience, while feeling unlike any other book you've ever read.' Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, author of The Girls Are All So Nice Here

'It's Mary Shelley in the Bachelor era, as unpredictable as it is inevitable, and feminist as hell.' Katie Gutierrez, author of More Than You'll Ever Know

'A genre-blending romp that kept me riveted. Satterthwaite has established herself as a force in the mystery universe, and I can't wait to see what she does next.' Kristen Bird, author of Watch It Burn

'A Black Mirror-esque story combining AI, reality TV drama and a murder mystery...' Soaliha Iqbal, Missing Perspectives

Jason Cashman has reached the goal he spent the last twenty years seeking: raising a million dollars forcharity. But instead of feeling content, henowfeels empty.What comes next?When he meets Alexandra Lopez - adeterminedten-year-old girl facing deportationand uncertainty - he is inspired by his old friend, Murray McBride, tohelpherfulfillfive wishes before she must leave. Jason and Alexandra set out to check off as many of her wishes as possible, but when his transplanted heart begins to fail, he must choose between his obligations to the past and his hope for a future.

This rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet and professor, Refaat Alareer, brings together his marvellous poetry and deeply human writing about literature, teaching, politics, and family.

The renowned poet and literature professor Refaat Alareer was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City alongside his brother, sister, and nephews in December 2023. He was just forty-four years old, but had already established a worldwide reputation that was further enhanced when, in the wake of his death, the poem that gives this book its title became a global sensation. "If I Must Die" is included here, alongside Refaat's other poetry.

Refaat wrote extensively about a range of topics: teaching Shakespeare and the way Shylock could be appreciated by young Palestinian students; the horrors of living under repeated brutal assaults in Gaza, one of which, in 2014, killed another of his brothers; and the generosity of Palestinians to each other, fighting, in the face of it all, to be the one paying at the supermarket checkout.

Such pieces, some never before published, have been curated here by one of Refaat's closest friends and collaborators. This collection forms a fitting testament to a remarkable writer, educator, and activist, one whose voice will not be silenced by death but will continue to assert the power of learning and humanism in the face of barbarity.

"Her best yet. A classic story with well concealed and ingenious clues, sufficiently difficult to leave us properly surprised by both murderer and method." Spectator, 1953

Originally serialised as a competition with a prize for the readers that could answer Berkeley's direct challenge of 'who was the poisoner?', Not to Be Taken remains one of the most fiendish exercises in subtle cluework and detection from the Golden Age of Crime.

'...now we have Not to Be Taken, a compact and fascinating essay in the art of home detection.' Torquemada in The Observer, 1938

'The murder is by arsenic; and although the number of suspects is strictly limited the construction is so ingenious that to attain the correct solution of the problem requires all the reader's concentration; to skip is fatal.' Times Literary Supplement, 1938

With stories of mycological possession alongside dark, pulpy science fiction monstrous fruiting bodies run amok, this new anthology collects the classic with the lost and obscure to trace our fascination with a spore-infested branch of British and American fiction.

Featuring a riot of monsters, murderesses and madness from a mixture of lesser-known writers and some surprises such as Lucy M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables, this new selection also includes a 1980s story by Tanith Lee, one of the great proponents of Weird Tales magazine's revival era, and a recently discovered tale by the fantasy writer Evangeline Walton.

'In addition to being one of the UK's foremost cultural institutions, the British Library has a publishing arm that is dedicated to resurrecting and reintroducing the works of forgotten and under-appreciated writers and it is them we have to thank for this fantastic volume of works by women writers whose literary endeavours fall squarely into that category.' In Daily, QLD

This new edition will feature a new introductory essay discussing Wharton's indelible influence on the ghost story genre, as well as rarely anthologised tales from the British Library's editions of the legendary author's extensive oeuvre.

Set over the course of a summer, The Spring Begins follows the autonomous awakenings of three women at various stages of life and at different levels of employment within households. There's the young orphan Lottie, employed as a nursemaid to the wealthy Kellaway children and terrified by the world of men; the scullery maid Maggie, 19, and unafraid of seeking out pleasure where it is offered to her; and Hessy Price the older governess to a local clerical family whose worldview shatters when her younger sister becomes engaged. As each woman tries to navigate their physical desires alongside social propriety, the currency of beauty and youth alongside the toll domestic work and poverty takes on their bodies, each comes to find happiness in their own unique way.

This human drama is set against the Kellayway's beautiful country house, though the house is often little more than the anchor to the vast garden and the wild stretch of coast owned by the family. It is against the bloom of flowers and the crash of waves that these springs of attraction and longing play out.

Lizzie's search for answers takes her from the smoke-filled rooms of fashionable gambling houses, where politicians mix ambition with pleasure, to the violent streets of Soho, ready to erupt with riots in the sultry summer heat. All the while, she is navigating her complicated feelings for the magistrate's trusted assistant, Will Davenport, and a disturbing situation at home.

Then a gambling house owner is brutally murdered, and Lizzie finds herself tangled in a chaos that she cannot control. The darkest of secrets threatens to turn Davenport against her forever; its exposure will send her to the gallows.

Praise for Georgina Clarke

'A gripping page-turner with a sassy and fabulously original heroine in the form of Lizzie Hardwicke I loved it!' - Annie Lyons, author of Eudora Honeysett is Quite Well, Thank You

'From sumptuous depravity to brutal murder, Death and the Harlot is a wild ride through the seedy side of 1750s London, while its heroine, Lizzie Hardwicke, is razor sharp and brilliantly original. I couldn't put it down' - Joe Heap, author of When the Music Stops

'Fans of Sarah Waters and Kate Atkinson will adore this compelling, evocative and utterly gripping tale... It deserves to be huge' - Red Magazine on The Dazzle of the Light

'A marvellous read... Two fabulous protagonists, you will be rooting for them both' - Prima on The Dazzle of the Light

'A vibrant story of survival, feminism, misogyny and living life on the edge' - Sunday Express S Magazine on The Dazzle of the Light

'Cinematic' - Daily Mail on The Dazzle of the Light

Wealthy and devout, Michael and Julia Glynn are the envy of their neighbors and the model Irish Catholic couple, bearing Michael's increasingly painful and crippling arthritis with stoicism. In hope of a miracle, their priest suggests a family pilgrimage to Lourdes. Yet these pious holiday plans are thrown into disarray when anonymous, obscene letters begin to arrive, full of terrible accusations.

Banned in Ireland on its first publication in 1961, Broderick's debut arrived 'like an incendiary device' (Sunday Independent). The Pilgrimage anticipated the deep shifts that would soon turn the country's theocratic society upside down. It is a darkly comic, blasphemous, and sexually charged chamber drama laying bare the hypocrisies of a small Irish town 'as watchful as the jungle', and teetering on the brink of catastrophe. In the words of Colm Tibn, in his foreword to this edition, The Pilgrimage 'cleared a space in the jungle so that its wildness could be more easily seen'.

Colm Tibn is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island; The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; The Testament of Mary; and Nora Webster; as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and has been named as the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 20222024 by the Arts Council of Ireland. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tibn lives in Dublin and New York.

As months turn into years without word, Jayne and her husband, Rodger, a rising star of New York's journalism scene, strive to give the children the opportunity to flourish and feel loved. When Jayne and Rodger finally have a child of their own, a seemingly stable home is built. But then, after nearly a decade, Bunny resurfaces and sets a chain of events in motion that detonates all their lives.

As adults, their children try to reassemble the pieces and solve the mystery that has always haunted them: who were their parents? What really happened between them? And who is ultimately to blame for the destruction?

'Kraus perfectly captures the ache and stretch of adolescence, the grief and rage of middle age and the loss and doubt that form the drumbeat beneath it all. Consistently surprising in all the best ways, this book is a beacon!' - Catherine Newman, author of Sandwich

'A unique, deeply moving story told with heart, depth and humor' - Rebecca Serle, author of In Five Years

'So heartbreaking and so good I couldn't stop reading... Like Ann Patchett, Kraus gets at the heart of how people can disconnect from their truest selves, and how, if they're lucky, they can find their way back' - Caroline Leavitt, author of Pictures of You

'Writing with grace and intelligence, Kraus explores the complex intersection of memory and loyalty in a sweeping story about a broken family and the women who knit together the remains. Perfect for book clubs' - Sarah Pekkanen, author of House of Glass

'Kraus deftly shows how the fog of generational trauma can finally give way to clarity and understanding when the grown children in a uniquely blended family learn how their mothers' painful pasts shaped them all' - Laura Zigman, author of Small World

In Khartoum, a single mother makes her way in a world that wants to keep girls and women back. As civil war swells, the political intrudes into the personal and her position in the capital becomes untenable. She must return to the village.

A Mouth Full of Salt uncovers a country on the brink of seismic change as its women decide for themselves which traditions are fit for purpose and which prophecies it's time to rewrite.

'Lively and engaging ...Gaafar's village characters are vivid and skilfully drawn ... A Mouth Full of Salt gives up its secrets slowly, a trait that only enhances the reading pleasure of this intricate jewel of a novel.' New Internationalist

'A Mouth Full of Salt skillfully recounts the nuanced history of two countries that were divided long before they had any say in the matter. Gaafar approaches this narrative with compassion, confronting uncomfortable truths head-on.' The New Arab

'Insightful, elegant and compelling, with a profound sense of place. Gaafar shows brilliance in the ways she weaves destinies together.' Karen Jennings, author of Crooked Seeds

'An impressive debut. I was gripped until the very last sentence.' Leila Aboulela, author of River Spirit

'It's in times like these that Sudanese storytelling must be elevated more than ever so these stories are not forgotten.' Soaliha Iqba, Missing Perspectives

From the mystical imagery of the Qur'an and the colourful stories of The Thousand and One Nights, to the powerful verses of longing of Mahmoud Darwish and Nazik al-Mala'ika, this captivating collection includes translated excerpts of works by the major authors of the period, as well as by lesser known writers of equal significance.

Desert Songs of the Night showcases the vibrant and distinctive literary heritage of the Arabs. Beautifully produced, this is the ideal book for lovers of world literature and for those who seek an acquaintance with gems of Arab thought and expression.

'Desert Songs of the Night is a wonderful introduction to fifteen centuries of a literature still largely unknown in the West, without which much of our civilizations would not have developed as they have, from the rediscovery of Aristotle by Arab commentators to the lyric poetry of Europe, from the magical world of the Arabian Nights to the modern revolutionary poets of Palestine. Absolutely essential reading for our troubled times.' Alberto Manguel, author of A History of Reading

'At a time when the world is obsessing about violence and bloodletting in the Arab world, this remarkable anthology, which spans 1,500 years of Arab literary genius, is a stark reminder of the real story we keep missing about the region.' Hanan al-Shaykh, author of One Thousand and One Nights

'This is a beautiful-looking book and inside the romance and beauty continue ... a valuable volume' Sunday Herald

'This is some of the most beautiful poetry in the world ... Timeless.' Tracey Emin

'The range of female poets from radically different eras is extraordinary, as is how fearlessly they speak about their desires' Mona Eltahawy

'A unique anthology that transcends love and liberation' Moris Farhi

'An outspoken and controversial book that provides many moments for both enjoyment and reflection.' Denys Johnston-Davies

'The very process of anthologizing the names of so many unfamiliar poets has provided a useful historical survey.' Roger Allen

A New Statesman, TLS and White Review Book of the Year

The female body is a political space.

C+nto enters the private lives of women from the butch counterculture, telling the inside story of the protests they led in the '90s to reclaim their bodies as their own their difficult balance between survival and self-expression. History, magic, rebellion, party and sermon vibrate through Joelle Taylor's cantos to uncover these underground communities forged by women.

Part-memoir and part-conjecture, Taylor explores sexuality and gender in poetry that is lyrical, expansive, imagistic, epic and intimate. C+nto is a love poem, a riot, a late night and an honouring.

'This writing is visionary ... I loved it.' Hollie McNish

'Joelle Taylor has produced one of the most astonishing and original poetry collections of recent years.' Bernardine Evaristo, New Statesman Book of the Year

'A real treat ... in the vivid bar-set poems, Taylor brings a close-knit community to life ... inventive, powerfully moving work.' The Telegraph

'Absolutely incredible ... A celebration and a tribute to the dyke bars and the butches who left their mark, this book reminds the reader that to exist as we do is a form of protest. This is work that should not be missed.' Diva Magazine, Book of the Month

'Joelle Taylor is a fighter on the page ... Bold, combative and moving ... There is swank, swagger and firecracker protest in [Taylor's] writing... powerful.' The Observer

In these stories of human connection in a contemporary, alienated world, people come together to share pieces of their lives, then part. We meet the women who share a house after the outbreak of war before going their separate ways once it is over; the man who lives in a succession of rooftop apartments; the diverging lives of two brothers who are raised as latch-key kids by factory workers; the old ramen restaurant that endures despite the demolition of all surrounding buildings; people who watch a new type of spaceship lift off from a pier that once belonged to an island resort; and more.

These 34 tales from all over the planet have the compulsive power of news reports, narrated in a crisp yet allegorical style.

Polly Barton is an award-winning translator based in the UK. Her translations include Spring Garden by Tomoka Shibasaki (Pushkin Press, 2017), Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda (Tilted Axis / Soft Skull Press, 2020), There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura (Bloomsbury, 2021), and So We Look to the Sky by Misumi Kubo (Arcade, 2021). After being awarded the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, in 2021 she published Fifty Sounds, her reflections on the Japanese language. Her translations of stories by Aoko Matsuda, Tomoka Shibasaki, and Kikuko Tsumura appear in MONKEY New Writing from Japan.

A girl takes on a series of identities to survive, shrouding herself in layers of secrets, until years later when she is forced to reckon with her past.

On an ordinary day in an upscale Atlanta suburb, Maya is making breakfast for her two sons, when her husband drops a red-and-blue striped envelope on the counter and asks a devastating question: Who is Sunny?

Maya is sent reeling back to her childhood in Guyana a time when Sunny was her only name. Unbeknownst to her husband, Maya is not who she claims to be. The letter, from her long-lost sister Roshi, now threatens to expose her true identity and shatter the seemingly perfect existence Maya worked so hard to build.

As she frantically weighs the impact of the truth on her future, Maya relives the details of her childhood journey to America from Guyana and the traumatic events that forced her to leave her past behind. Through the eyes of Maya's innocent and scared younger self, we discover the power of hope, empathy, and the possibility of beginning again.

It's 1593, Elizabeth I is Queen and everyone is terrified of the worst outbreak of plague in a generation. Shakespeare has only written six plays and is lagging behind his friend Christopher Marlowe, London's leading playwright. When Marlowe is stabbed to death in mysterious circumstances, rumours abound but the one that won't go away is that Shakespeare did it to remove his greatest rival.

Will is determined to clear his name, and teams up with his old flame, Marlowe's sister Ann, who has plenty of secrets of her own. In their search to solve the crime, Will and Ann uncover a dark world of treachery, murder, and corruption which in turn provides Shakespeare with scenes and characters which will appear in his greatest plays.

'Clever, funny, ingenious and endearing' Lissa Evans

Back in print for the first time since 2013, Dead Space is back to haunt and frighten. Experience the terror again as the dead mutate into horrific creatures with their sights set on the remains of a distraught human colony.

When P-SEC Sgt. Abraham Neumann encounters a reanimated corpse, he fights off wave after wave with one goal in mind: Survival. After the discovery of an Alien artefact prompts mysterious incidents to occur, the colony is shaken through psychological and vicious threats that break down their security. With the Church of Unitology slowly moving to awaken the Marker and push humanity to extinction. The onslaught grows as a gruesome undertaking takes place. Dead Space is the first instalment in a three-volume epic.

In 1948, Will Eisner produced the first issue of 'John Law Detective', which he intended to add to a line of self-published comics. However, after Eisner's 'Baseball Comics', 'Kewpies', and 'Pirate Comics' failed to find an audience, John Law never made it to the newsstand and was quietly dropped, with much of the original artwork reworked in 1950 for his most famous creation, The Spirit.

Featuring original stories by Will Eisner, Gary Chaloner's award-winning reboot from 2004, including a previously unpublished John Law Story, and a forward by long-time Eisner publisher Denis Kitchen, this is a must-have for not just Eisner fans but comic collectors of all ages.

Will Eisner. Born March 6, 1917. Cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur. He was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in the American comic book industry, and his series The Spirit (1940-1952) was noted for its experiments in content and form. In 1978, he popularised the term 'graphic novel' with the publication of his book A Contract with God. He was an early contributor to formal comics studies with his book Comics and Sequential Art (1985). The Eisner Award was named in his honour and is given to recognize achievements each year in the comics medium; he was one of the three inaugural inductees to the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram Stoker Award (R)-nominated and Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke.

Four devastating tales from a master of modern horror...

This Skin Was Once Mine. When her father dies under mysterious circumstances, Jillian Finch finds herself grieving the man she idolised while struggling to feel comfortable in the childhood home she was sent away from nearly twenty years ago by her venomous mother. Then Jillian discovers a dark secret in her family's past - a secret that will threaten to undo everything she has ever known to be true about her beloved father and, more importantly, herself. It's only natural to hurt the things we love the most...

Seedling. A young man's father calls him early in the morning to say that his mother has passed away. He arrives home to find his mother's body still in the house. Struggling to process what has happened he notices a small black wound appear on his wrist-the inside of the wound as black as onyx and as seemingly limitless as the cosmos. He is even more unsettled when he discovers his father is cursed with the same affliction. The young man becomes obsessed with his father's new wounds, exploring the boundless insides and tethering himself to the black threads that curl from inside his poor father...

Prickle. Two old men revive a cruel game with devastating consequences...

All the Parts of You That Won't Easily Burn. Enoch Leadbetter goes to buy a knife for his husband to use at a forthcoming dinner party. He encounters a strange shopkeeper who draws him into an intoxicating new obsession and sets him on a path towards mutilation and destruction...

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