The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication.

Is it possible to die a happy death? This title tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society\'s rules by committing a murder and escaping punishment, then experimenting with different ways of life and finally dying a happy man.

VOLUME ONE OF TWOA genre-defining-and redefining-collection of fiction\'s boldest, most rebellious, and most prescient genre, featuring a smorgasbord of stories from across the globeIn The Big Book of Cyberpunk, award-winning anthologist Jared Shurin brings together over a hundred stories from more than twenty-five different countries. Here are tales that both establish and subvert the classic Cyberpunk

\'Just incredible\' Naomi Klein \'Gripping and shocking...with the pace of a thriller\' The Times A New York Times bestseller, The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas.

Will Eisner is one of the twentieth century\'s great American artists, a man who pioneered the field of comic arts. Here, in his classic Comics and Sequential Art, he refines the art of graphic storytelling into clear, concise principles that every cartoonist, comic artist, writer, and filmmaker meeds to know.

Under the watchful eye of The Company, three characters - Grayson, Morse and Chen - shapeshifters, amorphous, part human, part extensions of the landscape, make their way through forces that would consume them. A blue fox, a giant fish and language stretc

Rocks and mountains have withstood aeons of life on our planet - gradually eroding, shifting, solidifying, and weathering. We might spend a little less time on earth, but humans are also weathering: evolving and changing as we\'re transformed by the shifting climates of our lives and experiences.

SENSATIONAL WINNERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE\'It\'s been a long time since a novel has destroyed me like this . . .One of the boldest writers alive today.\' Max Porter\'A novel of exquisite discomfort and delicious poetry . . .Made me laugh and gasp . . .I\'m in awe.\' Brandon Taylor\'Rejuvenating, glorious, brilliant. A book about obsession with prose that obsessed me from the first line.\'

Classic tales of mystery, terror, and suspense, including The Fall of the House of Usher—the inspiration for the Netflix series from Mike Flanagan, the director of The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass! This volume gathers together fourteen of Edgar Allan Poe\'s richest and most influential tales, including: “The Pit and the Pendulum,” his reimagining of Inquisition tortures; “The Tell-Tale

When three people suffer strokes after seeing dazzling lights over Edinburgh, then awake completely recovered, they\'re convinced their ordeal is connected to the alien creature discovered on a nearby beach... an adrenaline-soaked, deeply humane, life-affirming first-contact novel from one of Scotland\'s most revered authors... **Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers 2023** \'All the drive, curiosity

\'I will write to avenge my people.\' It was as a young woman that Annie Ernaux first wrote these words in her diary, giving a name to her purpose in life as a writer. She returns to them in her stirring defence of literature and of political writing in her Nobel Lecture, delivered in Stockholm on 7 December 2022.

Spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics. *SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE***FROM THE AUTHOR OF TIKTOK SENSATION MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION**Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys\' prison, Eileen Dunlop dreams of escaping to the big city.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER \'Few books are as urgent as Shon Faye\'s debut ... Faye has hope for the future - and maybe so should we\' Independent

FROM THE AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF AGE OF ANGER COMES A GATSBY-ESQUE TALE OF WEALTH AND AMBITION \'A book that demands to be read\' MOHSIN HAMID

\'You must love the land, my children, and ring it in with your love\' On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns fifteen as a sacrifice to the Sea God. Atile\'i however is determined to defy destiny and become the first to survive.

An instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 DYLAN THOMAS AWARD \'A package of dynamite\' Stephen King \'Powerful, compulsive, brilliant\' Marian Keyes An era-defining novel about the relationship between a fifteen-year-old girl and her teacher ALL HE DID WAS FALL IN LOVE WITH ME AND THE WORLD TURNED HIM INTO A MONSTER Vanessa Wye was fifteen-years-old when she first

\'At that time I could not imagine what would become of me, and I didn\'t care. It was not judgement day, but another morning\' This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by working-class evangelists in the North of England to be one of God\'s elect.

\'Such a beacon of pleasure\' KATE ATKINSON \'So smart and funny. Deplorably good\' IAN RANKIN \'A gripping read\' SUNDAY TIMES THE FIRST BOOK IN THE #1 BESTSELLING 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.

In her first contemporary novel since Room, bestselling author Emma Donoghue returns with her next masterpiece, Akin, a brilliant tale of love, loss and family. Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew.

On a trip to the South of France, the shy heroine of Rebecca falls in love with Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower. Although his proposal comes as a surprise, she happily agrees to marry him.