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A little Life reading extract

Hanya Yanigihara’s deft depiction of trauma and friendship becomes a dark examination of the tyranny of memory and the limits of human endurance. Read the opening pages from our March Book of the Month here 

Book cover of Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior showing a pink tinted illustration of two women carrying food by a shack on top of a hill.
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Crooked Plow

A fascinating and gripping story about the lives of subsistence farmers in Brazil's poorest region
Pearl by Siân Hughes
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Pearl

Siân Hughes contemplates both the power and the fragility of the human mind in her haunting debut novel, which was inspired by the medieval poem of the same name
2020 Booker Prize shortlist bookstack

Diane Cook, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Avni Doshi, Maaza Mengiste, Douglas Stuart & Brandon Taylor are the authors shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize

Abstract spiral fractal. Watches clock abstract texture pattern background Stylish dial time spiral.

Whether you’re new to Time’s Arrow or have read it and would like to explore it more deeply, our comprehensive guide includes critical analysis, author quotes and discussion points

Four characters from The Testaments TV show stand in a line. They are wearing purple and outisde.

As a new TV series adapted from Margaret Atwood’s Booker Prize-winning novel hits our screens, here is our comprehensive guide to The Testaments – whether you’re new to the book or would like to explore it more deeply 

Paradais
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Paradais

Written in a chilling torrent of prose by one of Mexico’s most thrilling new writers, Paradais explores the explosive fragility of Mexican society