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Book prize announcements are coming thickand fast - look out for no fewerthan five dotted throughout this Mixed (Book)Bag.
In other news this week, we commended the last novel written by Nobel laureate Gabriel Garca Mrquez, two novels featuring murderous Victorians and an 'inverse Lolita'.
While popular topics in non-fiction included memory, the clash between religion and science in the 19th century, a close read of Genesis, a delicious cookbook and you can alsoeavesdrop on another conversation between a Sapiens and a Neanderthal.
Our featured graphic novel introduces acontemporary French cartoonistlittle known outside of France...until now.
Animal Bottoms, a big bad wolf and a visually arresting story for teens round out the Children's selections.
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The big one - over 1,300 books out this week
Featured Non Fiction
Book: Reading Genesis
Reading Genesis
Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Humanities Medal, presents a thrilling, radiant interpretation of the first book of the Bible.
Through her sensibility as a novelist and close reading of the text she illustrates its greatness as literature, for its rich articulation and exploration of themes that resonate through the whole of Scripture.
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US edition available here
"Reading Genesisis not a book with a single argument to make. It invites us to take time in reading the stories again, in the company of one of the foremost novelists today in the English language. Many readers of Robinson's fiction have spoken of the sense of "authority" in her writing... it isa work of exceptional wisdom and imagination."
Rowan Williams
Book: Why We Remember
Why We Remember
The Science of Memory and How it Shapes Us
Charan Ranganath
A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. InWhy We Remember, pioneering neuroscientist and psychologist Charan Ranganath radically reframes the way we think about the everyday act of remembering. Combining accessible language with cutting-edge research, he reveals the surprising ways our brains record the past and how we use that information to understand who we are in the present, and to imagine and plan for the future.
"Why We Remember is a complete, much needed, appealing, poetic, and practical view of the field of memory - and there is no one better positioned than Ranganath to guide readers on a tour of this inner landscape."
David Eagleman, author of Livewired
Book: Vulture Capitalism
Vulture Capitalism
Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom
Grace Blakeley
Arguing that neoliberalism has always sought to wield state power to maximize profits for the rich, Blakeley paints a persuasive picture that although were told we live in free market democracies that protect human freedom, in fact, our lives are controlled by capital.
Her timely manifesto illustrates how corporate and political elites have used planned capitalism to advance their own interests at the expense of the rest of us - and how we can take back our economy for all.
"A galvanising takedown of neoliberalism's "free market" logic, one rooted as much in history as it is in current events. Blakeley's argument iswell researched, clear and devastating. Most important of all,she charts a path forward based in hope, democracy and liberation."
Naomi Klein, author of Doppelganger
Book: Impossible Monsters
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Impossible Monsters
Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion
Michael Taylor
Told through the lives of the nineteenth-century men and women who found proof of the existence of dinosaurs forcing people to confront a profoundly disturbing possibility: the Bible, as a historical account of the Earth's origins, was wildly wrong.
Taylor has a rare, brilliant and very welcome ability to tell history that leaps of the pages.
US edition (due July 16) available here
"A truly marvellous book: superb research and a sparkling narrative dramatize an epic battle of ideas and an intellectual thriller. Michael Taylor succeeds in reanimating those famous dinosaur wars of the 19th century with real brilliance, and makes them as fresh and furious as ever. Exuberant, stylish and brilliantly sustained throughout."
Richard Holmes, author of The Age of Wonder
Book: Easy Wins
Easy Wins
Anna Jones
Anna Jones is a cook, writer and the voice of modern vegetarian cooking. Shebelieves that vegetables should be put at the centre of every table and her new bookgives her golden rules for easy wins in the kitchen with super-simple recipes that are bursting with flavour and kind to the planet.
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Flicking through the pages of Easy Wins
"A peek into Annas kitchen cupboards and her best-kept secrets. For when its 8pm, youre starving and you want a Tuesday night triumph. An easy, honest, delicious win."
Yotam Ottolenghi, author of Simple
Image from The Oxherd Boy
Book: The Oxherd Boy
The Oxherd Boy
Parables of Love, Compassion, and Community
Regina Linke
The three friends youll meet - the ox, the oxherd boy, and the rabbit - take shape around the Three Harmonious Teachings, which are the pillars of Chinese philosophical thought.
Through their eyes, The Oxherd Boy draws our attention to the beauty found in daily work of love, compassion and community.
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The Jhalak Prize - longlist announced
Seeking to celebrate books by British / British resident BAME writers, the longlist features books fiction, poetry and non-fiction.
You can find the longlist for the Children's prize further down.
Collection: The Jhalak Prize 2024 longlist
More noteworthyhardback non fiction published this week
More noteworthyhardbacknon fiction published this week
Written to empower parents,How to Raise a Healthy Gamer sets out a clear road map to building healthy gaming habits that will equip your child for a fulfilling future.
Claudia Goldin, Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics, says of The Shortest History of Economics If you read just one book about economics, make it Andrew Leighs clear, insightful, remarkable and short work.
Find encouragement and inspiration with 50 bits of wisdom from adorable, charming, and fluffy Therapy Chickens.
More noteworthy Hardback non fiction
Book: Death as told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Death as Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal
Juan Jos Mills Garca (author),Juan Luis de Arsuaga (author),Thomas Bunstead (translator),Daniel Hahn (translator)
Following the stunning success of Life as Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthalthe alchemic duo of an award-winning novelist and a Professor of Paleantology reunite for a second book,this time focussing on why we age and why we die.
Full of humour, wisdom and insight.
US edition (due June 4) available here
More noteworthy paperback non fiction published this week
The Hidden World shows how insects sustain life on earth today and will shape our lives tomorrow.
Shakespeare's Book charts, for the first time, the manufacture of the First Folio against a turbulent backdrop of seismic political events and international tensions that intersected with the lives of its creators.
A Terribly Serious Adventure isan entertaining and informative homage to philosophers at Oxford from 1900-60.
More noteworthy Paperback non fiction
Featured Fiction
International Booker longlist
The 13 books chosen by this years judges represent the very best in translated fiction, published in the English language in the UK and Ireland.
Collection: International Booker longlist
Book: Until August
Read a preview of Until August
Until August
The Lost Novel
Gabriel Garca Mrquez (author),Anne McLean (translator)
No doubt you'll be aware of the story behind this 'lost' novel from the Nobel-winning godfather of magic realism - part written towards the end of his life as he suffered from Alzheimers he did not want it to be published - apparently saying(it) doesnt work. It must be destroyed.
However there are trademark glimpses of the genius of Marquez in this novella that centres aroundAna Magdalena Bach who although she is happily married, each August she travels by ferry to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover.
Spanish edition available here
"The master of magic realisms slim and inventive last novel is a tale of forbidden love in later life. I read it straight through in one sitting, then got up the next day and did it again."
David Mills, The Times
Book: Your Absence Is Darkness
Your Absence Is Darkness
Jn Kalman Stefnsson (author),Philip Roughton (translator)
Give me darkness, and then Ill know where the light is
A man wakes up in a churchyard having lost all memory and makes his way to the farmlands in Icelands more sparsely populated northern reaches. What follows is an astonishing, free-wheeling narrative of an amnesiacs search for meaning.
This is a wonderful family saga, pieced together through memories, myths, legends. Page after page, the characters emerge from the background, step closer, come alive. You just want to spend more time with them and never leave their world.
"The Icelandic Dickens . . . He has the same gift of writing with great understanding, an empathy with troubled souls and a skill at laugh-out-loud comedy."
Tina Neylon, Irish Examiner
Book: Sherlock Holmes and Dorian Gray
Read a preview of Sherlock Holmes and Dorian Gray
Sherlock Holmes and Dorian Gray
The Classified Dossier Book 3
Christian Klaver
Book 3 inthe Classified Dossier series, a hugely fun mash up of Victorian mystery and horror.
This time our intrepid detective meets not only the world's most eccentric party boy, but a mysterious circus made up of performers with seemingly unnatural talents...as told by an authentic Dr. Watson.
"I honestly couldn't put it down... You'll hold your breath, I promise. It's quite simply the most believable Holmes / fantasy crossover I've ever read."
Age of Steam (ofSherlock Holmes and Count Dracula)
Book: High Vaultage
High Vaultage
Chris Sugden,Jen Sugden
An unsolvable murder in an unending city. Welcome to Even Greater London, 1887.
Fans of the incredibly popular detective comedy podcastVictoriacity will lap this up. If the podacst is unknown to you but you fancy a twisty, inventive, and joyously funny slice of murderous Victoriana then you will also lap this up.
"It is everything I hoped it would be (everything the radio show led me to think it would be) and more: a masterly comic writing and a superb piece of worldbuilding, as perfect a piece of neo-Victoriania as I remember since ... well, since the actual Victorian epoch, which I remember well. You will laugh, you will cry (with laughter), and most of all you will frantically turn the pages. Unlike Queen Victoria, we are most assuredly amused."
Adam Roberts, author of The Thing Itself
Nero Book Awards - Gold Prize Book of the Year
The judges - including the wonderful David Coates from our Manchester shop have chosen the inaugural winner of the Nero Book Awards.
"The writing is both accomplished and highly readable, the characters shine, and the family members individual story arcs are all equally compelling and gripping."
2023 Fiction judges
Book: The Bee Sting
More noteworthyhardback fictionpublished this week
More noteworthyhardbackfictionpublished this week
Listen for the Lie is worthy of inclusion based soley on its first line A podcaster has chosen to ruin my life, so I'm buying a chicken.
From a Hugo Award-winning author ofJumpnauts is a gripping SF thriller in which three unlikely allies attempt a desperate mission of first contact.
Black Wolf is the second serving in Juan Gmez-Jurado's internationally bestselling serial killer thriller series featuring a very special female protagonist.
More noteworthy Hardback fiction
Book: Swanna in Love
Jennifer will be in conversation about Swanna in Love at Blackwell's, Oxford on April 22nd and Blackwell's, Manchester on April 30th.
Swanna in Love
Jennifer Belle
Swanna Swain is 14 and shes having an affair with a 37-year-old married man.But love seldom obeys rules, and even a tough, smart, city girl like Swanna might not be able to handle falling in love...
Jennifer Belle returns with a kind of inverseLolitathat explores adolescent desire from the girls point of view. In turns hilarious and wildly shocking,Swanna in Lovewill keep your feathers ruffled and the pages gliding by.
US hardback edition available here
"Swanna in Loveis an addictive read, a book as genuinely funny as it is transgressive. Jennifer Belle captures the bravado and vulnerability of adolescence in a voice that jumps off the first page and ventures into some dangerous territory."Tom Perrotta, author of Tracy Flick Cant Win
More noteworthypaperbackfiction published this week
A dazzling entry-point to Mick Herrons writing, The Secret Hours is agripping standalone thrillerwith a riveting reveal about a disastrous MI5 mission in Cold War Berlin.
Set in the grungy heavy metal scene of 2010's Norway, in Confessions of an AntichristMarta Skai is on a mission to destroy the world.
We meet beloved cats, George Orwell, a daughter whose mother may or may not be a witch, a cabal of elderly female academics, and an alien tasked with retelling human fairy tales in Margaret Atwood's superb collection of short stories, Old Babes in the Wood.
More noteworthy Paperback fiction
Featured Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga
Book: Masters of the Nefarious
Masters of the Nefarious
Mollusk Rampage
Pierre La Police (author),Luke Burns (translator)
Coming from the underground graphic scene, Pierre La Police published his first drawings in the press at the beginning of the 90s. It is with much excitement then to see him available in English for the first time.
Otherwise it is pretty standard fayre: A tsunami slams into the Maluku Islands. Giant mollusks wreak havoc. An ominous, quadrilateral UFO appears in the night sky. And a mysterious villain watches and waits in the shadows
Pages from Masters of the Nefarious
More noteworthy graphic novels, comics & mangapublished this week
Beth Hetland's graphic novel debut, Tender, is asubversive, psychological thriller about a woman obsessed with her vision for a picture-perfect, curated life.
Anoriginal, full-colour graphic novel, Fall Through is about an underground punk band caught in a loop of an eternally repeating tour.
The winner of multiple Eisner Awards, author Taiyo Matsumoto explores the relationships between a manga editor, manga creators, art, and the rhythm of life in Tokyo These Days.
More noteworthy graphic novels, comics & manga
Featured Children's & Young Adult
The Yoto Carnegies
The Yoto Carnegies, the UKs longest running and most prestigious book awards for children and young people. Their 2024 shortlists for the Medal for Writing and the Medal for Illustration were announced this week.
Collection: Yoto Carnegies Medal for Writing Shortlist
Yoto Carnegies Medal for Illustration shortlist
Browse Shortlists
Book: Animals Brag About Their Bottoms
FOR BABIES AND UP!
Animals Brag About Their Bottoms
Board Book
Maki Saito (author),Brian Bergstrom (translator)
Now available as a board book, this celebration of self love and body positivity will have the tiniest of readers (and their parents) laughing out loud at the backsides of hippos, zebras, pandas, and more ofour favourite animals.
Image from Animals Brag About Their Bottoms
Kids just love reading about bottoms, ha! sure to get lots of laughs from kids, but it also makes a good guessing game and a way for young kids to learn animal names."Book Riot
Book: Diary of a Big Bad Wolf
AGES 7+
Diary of a Big Bad Wolf
Volume 1
Ben Miller (author),Elisa Paganelli (illustrator)
Welcome to The Fairytale Woods
You'll be HOWLING with laughter at this BIG BAD fairytale written by bestseller Ben Miller and hilariously illustrated by Elisa Paganelli.
Perfect for sharing and reading aloud.
(Most importantly) NO GRANDMAS were EATEN in the making of this book...
Hidden jacket image of Diary of a Big Bad Wolf and map of Tje Fairytal Woods
Book: The Book of Denial
AGES 14+
The Book of Denial
Ricardo Chvez Castaeda (author),Alejandro Magallanes (illustrator),Lawrence Schimel (translator)
From award-winning Mexican author Ricardo Chvez Castaeda and the visionary Mexican designer Alejandro Magallanes comes a horror story and ghost story that is both daringly and beautifully told in word and image.
Images from The Book of Denial
Collection: The Jhalak Prize 2024 - Children's and YA longlist
More noteworthy Children's & YApublished this week
More noteworthy children's & YApublished this week
Frank and Bert, the hilarious fox and bear double act are back in The One With the Missing Biscuits.
A haunting and compulsive new dark academia mystery of secrets, lies and revenge, Where Sleeping Girls Lie is set to be the next YA obsession.
Complete Dinosauria is detailed guide to the inhabitants of LEGO Jurassic World is packed with facts about all of your favourite dinosaurs.
More noteworthy Children's and YA titles
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