** PRE_ORDER A SIGNED COPY** Manifesto: On Never Giving Up

Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win - the first by a Black woman - was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, teacher and activist, she moved from the margins to centre stage, taking her place in the spotlight at last. Her journey was a long one, but she made it, and she made history.

MANIFESTO is Bernardine Evaristo's intimate and inspirational, no-holds-barred account of how she did it, refusing to let any barriers stand in her way.

**PRE ORDER SIGNED EDITION** Dead Ground

Detective Sergeant Washington Poe is in court, fighting eviction from his beloved and isolated croft, when he is summoned to a backstreet brothel in Carlisle where a man has been beaten to death with a baseball bat. Poe is confused – he hunts serial killers and this appears to be a straightforward murder-by-pimp – but his attendance was requested personally, by the kind of people who prefer to remain in the shadows.

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**PRE-ORDER A LIMITED EDITION SIGNED COPY** Circus Of Wonders

In a coastal village in southern England, Nell picks violets for a living. Set apart by her community because of the birthmarks that speckle her skin, Nell's world is her beloved brother and devotion to the sea. But when Jasper Jupiter's Circus of Wonders arrives in the village, Nell is kidnapped.

Her father has sold her, promising Jasper Jupiter his very own leopard girl. It is the greatest betrayal of Nell's life, but as her fame grows, and she finds friendship with the other performers and Jasper's gentle brother Toby, she begins to wonder if joining the show is the best thing that has ever happened to her.

**PRE-ORDER A SIGNED COPY** And Away...

This is the framework for his hilarious and moving memoir, And Away...

**PRE-ORDER A SIGNED COPY** Felix Ever After

What's worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he's one marginalisation too many - Black, queer and transgender - to ever get his own happily-ever-after. When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages - after publicly posting Felix's deadname alongside images of him before he transitioned - Felix comes up with a plan for revenge. What he didn't count on: his catfish scenario landing him in a quasi-love triangle.

**PRE-ORDER A SIGNED COPY** Slug: And Other Things I've Been Told To Hate`

**PRE-ORDER A SIGNED COPY** The Cat And The City

In Tokyo - one of the world's largest megacities - a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. And, with each detour, she brushes up against the seemingly disparate lives of the city-dwellers, connecting them in unexpected ways.

**PRE-ORDER A SIGNED COPY** The Power Of Hope

**PRE-ORDER A SIGNED COPY** This Is Your Time

**PRE-ORDER A SIGNED COPY** Tornado: In The Eye Of The Storm

**PRE-ORDER A SIGNED COPY** We Run The Tides

One day, walking to school with friends, they witness a horrible act - or do they? Eulabee and Maria Fabiola vehemently disagree on what happened, and their rupture is followed by Maria Fabiola's sudden disappearance - a potential kidnapping that shakes the quiet community and threatens to expose unspoken truths.

**PRE-ORDER** My Farming Life : Tales From A Shepherdess On A Remote Northumberland Farm

**PRE-ORDER** The Storyteller: Tales Of Life And Music

**PRE_ORDER A SIGNED COPY** The Island Of Missing Trees

This is where one can find the best food in town, the best music, the best wine. But there is something else to the place: it makes one forget, even if for just a few hours, the world outside and its immoderate sorrows. In the centre of the tavern, growing through a cavity in the roof, is a fig tree.

**PRE_ORDER A SIGNED COPY** The Wild Laughter

Facing a devastating choice that risks their livelihood, if not their lives, their biggest danger comes when there is nothing to lose.

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Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of Dara McAnulty's world, from spring to summer, autumn to winter, on his home patch, at school, in the wild and in his head.

PRE-ORDER - Hungry: A story of growing up and wanting more

From an early age, Grace Dent was hungry.

As a little girl growing up in Currock, Carlisle, she yearned to be something bigger, to go somewhere better. Hungry traces her story from growing up eating beige food to becoming one of Britain's best-loved food writers.

PRE-ORDER SIGNED BOOKPLATE EDITION - Lean Fall Stand

The highly anticipated new novel from the Costa-award winning, three-times Booker-longlisted author of Reservoir 13.

PRE-ORDER SIGNED EDITION - Male Tears

In Male Tears, a debut collection of stories that brings together over fifteen years of work, Benjamin Myers lays bare the male psyche in all its fragility, complexity and failure, its hubris and forbidden tenderness.

PRE-ORDER SIGNED EDITION - Talking God: Daring to Listen

Listening is a valuable - and often neglected - tool for spiritual learning. Talking God invites you to reflect on the personal beliefs many of us hold towards God through listening in on a series of eleven inspiring interviews with people of Christian or 'Jesus-connected' faith.

PRE-ORDER SIGNED EDITION - The Man Who Died Twice: The New Thursday Murder Club Mystery

It's the following Thursday. Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He's made a big mistake, and he needs her help.

His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster, and a very real threat to his life. As bodies start piling up, Elizabeth enlists Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron in the hunt for a ruthless murderer. And if they find the diamonds too? Well, wouldn't that be a bonus? But this time they are up against an enemy who wouldn't bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians.

Can The Thursday Murder Club find the killer (and the diamonds) before the killer finds them?

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'So smart and funny. Deplorably good' IAN RANKIN

'A gripping read' SUNDAY TIMES

The phenomenally successful first book in The Thursday Murder Club series by TV presenter Richard Osman.

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case.

Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?