The first collected edition of legendary writer, actress, and adventurer Cookie Mueller's stories, featuring the entire contents of her 1990 book Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, alongside more than two dozen others, some previously unpublished. Legendary as an underground actress, female adventurer, and East Village raconteur, Cookie Mueller's first calling was to the written word: "I started writing when I was six and have never stopped completely," she once confessed. Muellerís 1990 Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, the first volume of the Semiotext(e) Native Agents series, was the largest collection of stories she compiled during her life. But it presented only a slice of Mueller's prolific work as a writer. This new, landmark volume collects all of Mueller's stories: from the original contents of Clear Water, to additional stories discovered by Amy Scholder for the posthumous anthology Ask Dr. Mueller, to selections from Mueller's art and advice columns for Details and the East Village Eye, to still "new" stories collected and published here for the first time. Olivia Laing's new introduction situates Mueller's writing within the context of her life—and our times. Thanks to recent documentaries like Mallory Curley's A Cookie Mueller Encyclopedia and Chloé Griffin's oral biography Edgewise, Mueller's life and work have been discovered by a new generation of readers. Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black: Collected Stories returns essential source material to these readers, the archive of Mueller's writing itself. Mueller's many mise en scènes—the Baltimore of John Waters, post-Stonewall Provincetown, avant-garde Italy, 1980s New York, an America enduring Reagan and AIDS—patches together a singular personal history and a primer for others. As Laing writes in her introduction, Collected Stories amounts to "a how-to manual for a life ricocheting joyously off the rails . . . a live corrective to conformity, conservatism, and cruelty."

Queer love story meets true crime thriller in the dream factory of 1970s cinema, from the award-winning, bestselling author. Perfect for readers of André Aciman's Call Me By Your Name and Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr Ripley. SHORTLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 A NEW YORK MAGAZINE TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 'Sublime' The New York Times It is September 1974. Two men meet by chance in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema, the designer responsible for realising the spectacular visions of Fellini and Pasolini. Donati is in Venice to produce sketches for Fellini's Casanova. A young - and beautiful - apprentice is just what he needs. He sweeps Nicholas to Rome, into the looking-glass world of Cinecittà, the studio where Casanova's Venice will be ingeniously assembled. Then in the spring, the lovers move together to the set of Salò, Pasolini's horrifying fable of fascism. But Nicholas has a secret and in this world of constant illusion, his real nature passes unseen. Amidst the rising tensions of Italy's 'Years of Lead', he acts as an accelerant, setting in motion a tragedy he didn't intend . . . Praise for The Silver Book: 'Seamlessly inserts a fictional narrative into a real historical world . . . a gripping novel that is, in many ways, a technical tour de force ' Times Literary Supplement ' A great chronicler of male genius, sexuality, loneliness and madness' Observer 'Unabashedly queer and unapologetically erotic' Art in America 'You do not need to be an expert on postwar Italian cinema or politics (or to know the true crime story unfolding here) to savour this novel . Laing describes the filming in dazzling clarity. 1970s Rome swaggers from the page ' The Times ' Laing's vibrant depiction of both real and imagined events is a prescient exploration of the meaning of art in dangerous places ' Washington Post

THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of joy. 'Nigel Slater's prose is the rarest delicacy of all: exquisite yet effortless, filled with heart, tenderness, yearning and humour' ELIZABETH DAY For years, Nigel Slater has kept notebooks of curiosities and wonderings, penned while at his kitchen table, soaked in a fisherman's hut in Reykjavik, sitting calmly in a moss garden in Japan or sheltering from a blizzard in a Vienna Konditorei. These are the small moments, events and happenings that gave pleasure before they disappeared. Miso soup for breakfast, packing a suitcase for a trip and watching a butterfly settle on a carpet, hiding in plain sight. He gives short stories of feasts such as a mango eaten in monsoon rain or a dish of restorative macaroni cheese and homes in on the scent of freshly picked sweet peas and the sound of water breathing at night in Japan. This funny and sharply observed collection of the good bits of life, often things that pass many of us by, is utter joy from beginning to end. 'I loved this. It is a secular book of hours - thoughts and pleasures beautifully cadenced and generously placed' Edmund de Waal '¿Nigel Slater has a magical capacity to find beauty in the smallest moments. A nourishing, sustaining book' Olivia Laing 'His evocative, uplifting observations are a balm for life: a prose-poem for eaters and a spiritual companion for thoughtful cooks. A true and enduring joy' Nigella Lawson 'You can't always feel buoyant and grateful but noticing - and getting pleasure from - the seemingly insignificant is a good way to live. As he says, feel the "small moments of joy"' Diana Henry

A fifty-year-old cold case involving California royalty comes back to life-with potentially fatal consequences-in this gripping standalone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar A magnificent house, vast formal gardens, a golden family that shaped California, and a colorful past filled with now-famous artists: the Gardener Estate was a twentieth-century Eden. And now, just as the Estate is preparing to move into a new future, restoration work on some of its art digs up a grim relic of the home's past: a human skull, hidden away for decades. Inspector Raquel Laing has her work cut out for her. Fifty years ago, the Estate's young heir, Rob Gardener, turned his palatial home into a counterculture commune of peace, love, and equality. But that was also a time when serial killers preyed on innocents-monsters like The Highwayman, whose case has just surged back into the public eye. Could the skull belong to one of his victims? To Raquel-a woman who knows all about colorful pasts-the bones clearly seem linked to The Highwayman. But as she dives into the Estate's archives to look for signs of his presence, what she unearths begins to take on a dark reality all of its own. Everything she finds keeps bringing her back to Rob Gardener himself. While he might be a gray-haired recluse now, back then he was a troubled young Vietnam vet whose girlfriend vanished after a midsummer festival at the Estate. But a lot of people seem to have disappeared from the Gardener Estate that summer when the commune mysteriously fell apart: a young woman, her child, and Rob's brother, Fort. The pressure is on, and Raquel needs to solve this case-before The Highwayman slips away, or another Gardener vanishes.

THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of joy. 'Nigel Slater's prose is the rarest delicacy of all: exquisite yet effortless, filled with heart, tenderness, yearning and humour' ELIZABETH DAY For years, Nigel Slater has kept notebooks of curiosities and wonderings, penned while at his kitchen table, soaked in a fisherman's hut in Reykjavik, sitting calmly in a moss garden in Japan or sheltering from a blizzard in a Vienna Konditorei. These are the small moments, events and happenings that gave pleasure before they disappeared. Miso soup for breakfast, packing a suitcase for a trip and watching a butterfly settle on a carpet, hiding in plain sight. He gives short stories of feasts such as a mango eaten in monsoon rain or a dish of restorative macaroni cheese and homes in on the scent of freshly picked sweet peas and the sound of water breathing at night in Japan. This funny and sharply observed collection of the good bits of life, often things that pass many of us by, is utter joy from beginning to end. 'I loved this. It is a secular book of hours - thoughts and pleasures beautifully cadenced and generously placed' Edmund de Waal '¿Nigel Slater has a magical capacity to find beauty in the smallest moments. A nourishing, sustaining book' Olivia Laing 'His evocative, uplifting observations are a balm for life: a prose-poem for eaters and a spiritual companion for thoughtful cooks. A true and enduring joy' Nigella Lawson 'You can't always feel buoyant and grateful but noticing - and getting pleasure from - the seemingly insignificant is a good way to live. As he says, feel the "small moments of joy"' Diana Henry

SELECTED FOR STYLIST'S FICTION YOU CAN'T MISS IN 2022 - 'AN ESSENTIAL READ' NAMED AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY ESQUIRE, STYLIST, SHEERLUXE AND FOYLES 'A stone-cold masterpiece by a shocking new talent' OLIVIA LAING It's four in the morning, and our narrator is walking home from the club when they realise that it's February 29th - the birthday of the man who was something like their first love. Piecing together art, letters and memory, they set about trying to write the story of a doomed affair that first sparked and burned a decade ago. Ten years earlier, and our young narrator and a boy named Thomas James fall into bed with one another over the summer of their graduation. Their ensuing affair, with its violent, animal intensity and its intoxicating and toxic power play will initiate a dance of repulsion and attraction that will cross years, span continents, drag in countless victims - and culminate in terrible betrayal. At Certain Points We Touch is a story of first love and last rites, conjured against a vivid backdrop of London, San Francisco and New York - a riotous, razor-sharp coming-of-age story that marks the arrival of an extraordinary new talent. 'Lauren John Joseph writes with such wit, glamour, and style! I haven't read a book that so powerfully evokes what it's like to be a wild young artist among other wild young artists since the Bright Young Things' TORREY PETERS, author of Detransition, Baby 'Lauren's debut novel is so exciting. The writing is so fresh, funny and gripping - and carries the trademark wit that I have always loved from Lauren' TRAVIS ALABANZA 'The struggle to find ones place in the world as an artist and lover, creating self and culture as you go along - At Certain Points We Touch captures this fleeting, dazzling moment with glamour and heart' MICHELLE TEA

The first collected edition of legendary writer, actress, and adventurer Cookie Mueller's stories, featuring the entire contents of her 1990 book Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, alongside more than two dozen others, some previously unpublished. Legendary as an underground actress, female adventurer, and East Village raconteur, Cookie Mueller's first calling was to the written word: "I started writing when I was six and have never stopped completely," she once confessed. Muellerís 1990 Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, the first volume of the Semiotext(e) Native Agents series, was the largest collection of stories she compiled during her life. But it presented only a slice of Mueller's prolific work as a writer. This new, landmark volume collects all of Mueller's stories: from the original contents of Clear Water, to additional stories discovered by Amy Scholder for the posthumous anthology Ask Dr. Mueller, to selections from Mueller's art and advice columns for Details and the East Village Eye, to still "new" stories collected and published here for the first time. Olivia Laing's new introduction situates Mueller's writing within the context of her life—and our times. Thanks to recent documentaries like Mallory Curley's A Cookie Mueller Encyclopedia and Chloé Griffin's oral biography Edgewise, Mueller's life and work have been discovered by a new generation of readers. Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black: Collected Stories returns essential source material to these readers, the archive of Mueller's writing itself. Mueller's many mise en scènes—the Baltimore of John Waters, post-Stonewall Provincetown, avant-garde Italy, 1980s New York, an America enduring Reagan and AIDS—patches together a singular personal history and a primer for others. As Laing writes in her introduction, Collected Stories amounts to "a how-to manual for a life ricocheting joyously off the rails . . . a live corrective to conformity, conservatism, and cruelty."

Der Alphacool Eisbecher Aurora Ausgleichsbehälter verwendet eine Echtglasröhre anstatt der ansonsten üblichen Acrylröhren. Der eingelassene 5V Digital RGB LED Ring und das neue Design sorgen für eine eigenständige und edle Optik. Natürlich ist auch wieder der Lighttower Wassereffekt mit an Bord. Die Montage kann über Standfüße erfolgen aber auch direkt an einem 120 oder 140mm Lüfterplatz bzw. auch direkt an einem Radiator. Umfangreiche Montage Möglichkeiten Es gibt zwei grundlegende Montagemöglichkeiten die aber Vielseitig genutzt werden können. Der Eisbecher Aurora Glas Ausgleichsbehälter hat im Lieferumfang Standfüße zum Beispiel für eine Montage am Boden des Gehäuses. Im Lieferumfang befinden sich aber noch Montagerahmen mit denen sich der Eisbecher Aurora auch an einen beliebigen 120 oder 140 mm Lüfterplatz montieren lässt. Dadurch ist natürlich auch eine Montage direkt am Radiator oder an den Lüftern des Radiators möglich. Digital RGB Beleuchtung Ganze 12 aRGB LEDs beleuchten die Glasröhre des Ausgleichsbehälters. Sie sind ringförmig am unteren Ende der Glasröhre untergebracht und von außen erstmal nicht zu erkennen. Die Ausleuchtung ist unten besonders stark und fällt nach oben hin langsam ab. Im Zusammenspiel mit dem Lighttower Wassereffekt erreicht man eine ganz besondere Art der Ausleuchtung. Insbesondere durch die Reflektionen im Echtglas. Die Digital RGB LEDs werden, wie bei allen Alphacool Produkten über einen 3-Pin JST Stecker angeschlossen. Weitere Alphacool Digital RGB Produkte können über den Y-Adapter direkt mit angeschlossen werden. Lighttower Wassereffekt Über die Steigröhrchen wird im Eisbecher Aurora ein besonderer Wassereffekt erzeugt. Wer den Ausgleichsbehälter nicht über die Oberkannte des Steigröhrchen hinaus befüllt, erhält eine Art Springbrunneneffekt. Dabei wird das Wasser an den Seiten des Steigröhrchens rausgedrückt und gegen die Glasröhre gespritzt. Je nach Durchfluss des Kreislaufes ist der Effekt stärker oder schwächer. Es gibt jeweils ein Steigröhren mit diesem Effekt beim unteren Einlass und einen beim oberen Einlass. Pumpen? Dieser Eisbecher Aurora Glas ist mit allen originalen D5 Xylem/Lowara Pumpen Kompatibel und zu allen Alphacool VPP Pumpen. Kompatibilität: - Alphacool VPP / Laing D5 Pumpen Technische Daten Eisbecher Aurora Abmessungen (L x B x H) 77 x 77 x 142mm Höhe inkl. Standhalterung 169mm / 188mm Gewicht 555g Art der Beleuchtung 5V Digital adressierbare LED's (0,3A) Anzahl LED's 12 Material Gehäuse Acetal Material Röhre Glas Material Stege Aluminium Anschlüsse 1x G1/4" Innengewinde IN / 4x G1/4" Innengewinde OUT Kabellänge 40cm Anschluss Digital aRGB 3-Pin JST + 3-Pin 5V Maximale Arbeitstemperatur 60°C

Der Alphacool Eisbecher Aurora Ausgleichsbehälter verwendet eine Echtglasröhre anstatt der ansonsten üblichen Acrylröhren. Der eingelassene 5V Digital RGB LED Ring und das neue Design sorgen für eine eigenständige und edle Optik. Natürlich ist auch wieder der Lighttower Wassereffekt mit an Bord. Die Montage kann über Standfüße erfolgen aber auch direkt an einem 120 oder 140mm Lüfterplatz bzw. auch direkt an einem Radiator. Umfangreiche Montage Möglichkeiten Es gibt zwei grundlegende Montagemöglichkeiten die aber Vielseitig genutzt werden können. Der Eisbecher Aurora Glas Ausgleichsbehälter hat im Lieferumfang Standfüße zum Beispiel für eine Montage am Boden des Gehäuses. Im Lieferumfang befinden sich aber noch Montagerahmen mit denen sich der Eisbecher Aurora auch an einen beliebigen 120 oder 140 mm Lüfterplatz montieren lässt. Dadurch ist natürlich auch eine Montage direkt am Radiator oder an den Lüftern des Radiators möglich. Digital RGB Beleuchtung Ganze 12 aRGB LEDs beleuchten die Glasröhre des Ausgleichsbehälters. Sie sind ringförmig am unteren Ende der Glasröhre untergebracht und von außen erstmal nicht zu erkennen. Die Ausleuchtung ist unten besonders stark und fällt nach oben hin langsam ab. Im Zusammenspiel mit dem Lighttower Wassereffekt erreicht man eine ganz besondere Art der Ausleuchtung. Insbesondere durch die Reflektionen im Echtglas. Die Digital RGB LEDs werden, wie bei allen Alphacool Produkten über einen 3-Pin JST Stecker angeschlossen. Weitere Alphacool Digital RGB Produkte können über den Y-Adapter direkt mit angeschlossen werden. Lighttower Wassereffekt Über die Steigröhrchen wird im Eisbecher Aurora ein besonderer Wassereffekt erzeugt. Wer den Ausgleichsbehälter nicht über die Oberkannte des Steigröhrchen hinaus befüllt, erhält eine Art Springbrunneneffekt. Dabei wird das Wasser an den Seiten des Steigröhrchens rausgedrückt und gegen die Glasröhre gespritzt. Je nach Durchfluss des Kreislaufes ist der Effekt stärker oder schwächer. Es gibt jeweils ein Steigröhren mit diesem Effekt beim unteren Einlass und einen beim oberen Einlass. Pumpen? Dieser Eisbecher Aurora Glas ist mit allen originalen D5 Xylem/Lowara Pumpen Kompatibel und zu allen Alphacool VPP Pumpen. Kompatibilität: - Alphacool VPP / Laing D5 Pumpen Technische Daten Eisbecher Aurora Abmessungen (L x B x H) 77 x 77 x 242mm Höhe inkl. Standhalterung 269mm / 288mm Gewicht 755g Art der Beleuchtung 5V Digital adressierbare LED's (0,3A) Anzahl LED's 12 Material Gehäuse Acetal Material Röhre Glas Material Stege Aluminium Anschlüsse 1x G1/4" Innengewinde IN / 4x G1/4" Innengewinde OUT Kabellänge 40cm Anschluss Digital aRGB 3-Pin JST + 3-Pin 5V Maximale Arbeitstemperatur 60°C

THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of joy. 'Nigel Slater's prose is the rarest delicacy of all: exquisite yet effortless, filled with heart, tenderness, yearning and humour' ELIZABETH DAY For years, Nigel Slater has kept notebooks of curiosities and wonderings, penned while at his kitchen table, soaked in a fisherman's hut in Reykjavik, sitting calmly in a moss garden in Japan or sheltering from a blizzard in a Vienna Konditorei. These are the small moments, events and happenings that gave pleasure before they disappeared. Miso soup for breakfast, packing a suitcase for a trip and watching a butterfly settle on a carpet, hiding in plain sight. He gives short stories of feasts such as a mango eaten in monsoon rain or a dish of restorative macaroni cheese and homes in on the scent of freshly picked sweet peas and the sound of water breathing at night in Japan. This funny and sharply observed collection of the good bits of life, often things that pass many of us by, is utter joy from beginning to end. 'I loved this. It is a secular book of hours - thoughts and pleasures beautifully cadenced and generously placed' Edmund de Waal '¿Nigel Slater has a magical capacity to find beauty in the smallest moments. A nourishing, sustaining book' Olivia Laing 'His evocative, uplifting observations are a balm for life: a prose-poem for eaters and a spiritual companion for thoughtful cooks. A true and enduring joy' Nigella Lawson 'You can't always feel buoyant and grateful but noticing - and getting pleasure from - the seemingly insignificant is a good way to live. As he says, feel the "small moments of joy"' Diana Henry

NOW A MAJOR FILM THE NO.1 FRENCH BESTSELLER 'Stunning and heart-gripping' André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name 'A beautiful, shattering novel about desire and shame, about passionate youth and the regrets of age' Olivia Laing, bestselling author of Crudo Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back to Philippe's teenage years, to a winter morning in 1984, a small French high school, and a carefully timed encounter between two seventeen-year-olds. It's the start of a secret, intensely passionate, world-altering love affair between Philippe and his classmate, Thomas. Dazzlingly rendered by Molly Ringwald, the acclaimed actor and writer, in her first-ever translation, Besson's exquisitely moving coming-of-age story captures the tenderness of first love - and the heart-breaking passage of time. 'It has been years since anything moved me as much as Lie With Me. It will become a classic.' Jonathan Coe, bestselling author of Middle England 'An intense, unforgettable novel, alive with the ache of longing and loss.' Sarah Waters, bestselling, award-winning author of The Little Stranger and Fingersmith 'Devastating and tender; this is the book I wish I'd read when I was 15, and a book I'm glad to have as a companion now' Andrew McMillan, award-winning author of Physical 'A deeply moving depiction of first love, both tender and elegiac.' John Boyne, bestselling author of A Ladder to the Sky and The Heart's Invisible Furies 'A slender, sad, acute novel... absolutely excellent' Sarah Perry, bestselling author of The Essex Serpent and Melmoth 'A tender, sensuous novel' New York Times Book Review 'Full of Proustian echoes, this story of gay adolescence deals with complex issues of class, shame and secrecy' Guardian 'A poignant tale that captures the intensity of first love with all its sadness, longing and regret' Daily Mail 'This novel can be read in a matter of hours, but its impact, like the love affair it details, will echo in the mind' Irish Times

Bloomsbury presents A Cold Spell by Max Leonard, read by Tom Lawrence. Taking us from the beginning of our story to the present day, A Cold Spell examines how ice has shaped our thoughts, actions and societies – and what it means for us that it is rapidly disappearing from our planet 'A warm-hearted tale of the bizarre, something to cuddle up with in the bleak midwinter . . . Astonishing' THE TIMES 'Bracingly original . . . As the earth warms threateningly, there could hardly be a more pertinent time for a story like this' MICHAEL PALIN 'A book of limitless fascinations' OLIVIA LAING 'Brightly written, nimbly researched and really quite delightful' LITERARY REVIEW Ice has confounded, delighted and fascinated us since the first sparks of art and culture in Europe and it now underpins the modern world. Without ice, we would not feed ourselves or heal our sick as we do, and our towns and cities, countryside and oceans would look very different. Science would not have progressed along the avenues it did and our galleries and libraries would be missing many masterpieces. A Cold Spell uses this vital link to understanding our past to tell a surprising story of obsession, invention and adventure – how we have lived and dreamed, celebrated and traded, innovated, loved and fought over thousands of years. It brings together a sacrificial Incan mummy, Winston Churchill's secret plans for unusual aircraft carriers, strange bones that shook Victorian beliefs about the world and a macabre journey into the depths of the human body. It is an original and unique way of looking at something that is literally all around us, whose loss confronts us daily in the news, but whose impact on our lives has never been fully explored. '[An] extraordinary, complete and utter history of the human experience of the cold stuff' JOHN LEWIS-STEMPEL, COUNTRY LIFE 'A thought-provoking chronicle of humanity . . . Leonard consistently frames ice in surprising and insightful ways, and in doing so lends it a magical quality' GEOGRAPHICAL

Winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger in France and the Premio de la Critica in Spain Conversation-starting and prize-winning international fiction: an extraordinary meditation on violence, conspiracy and the many complex afterlives of the Holocaust 'Audacious' Observer 'Provocative' Times Literary Supplement 'Extraordinary' Olivia Laing Eduardo and his brother have been living in the US for three years when their parents send them back to Guatemala for the holidays. It is 1984 and their native country, in the midst of a violent civil war, feels newly alien to them - their Spanish faltering, already half-forgotten. Their grandfather collects the boys from the airport and drives them into the mountains, depositing them at what they're told is a Jewish summer camp. At the camp, the children meet a counsellor called Samuel Blum: a handsome young man with sky-blue eyes who knows about all kinds of things. He shows them how to make a survival shelter out of branches and leaves, and how to kindle a fire using a glass bottle. He sings songs with them and plays games. But he also trains them to march in rank, and salute, and dive for cover. He teaches them the Hebrew words for 'grenade' and 'soldier' and 'silence'. On the fourth day, everything changes. The boys are shaken from their beds at dawn. A terrifying figure, uniformed in black, looms over them, and beyond him is the sound of screaming outside. Eduardo looks into the stranger's face - it is Samuel Blum, but his sky-blue eyes look different now. In his hand he carries a club. Crawling down his left arm is a huge tarantula. Thought-provoking and powerfully ambivalent, Tarantula is an extraordinary meditation on the many complex afterlives of the Holocaust. It is a novel about individual and collective inheritance, individual and collective violence; about memory, trauma, connection and estrangement. It asks what it means to be a Jew in the long wake of the twentieth century, and how the past lives on in the present.

NOW A MAJOR FILM THE NO.1 FRENCH BESTSELLER 'Stunning and heart-gripping' André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name 'A beautiful, shattering novel about desire and shame, about passionate youth and the regrets of age' Olivia Laing, bestselling author of Crudo Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back to Philippe's teenage years, to a winter morning in 1984, a small French high school, and a carefully timed encounter between two seventeen-year-olds. It's the start of a secret, intensely passionate, world-altering love affair between Philippe and his classmate, Thomas. Dazzlingly rendered by Molly Ringwald, the acclaimed actor and writer, in her first-ever translation, Besson's exquisitely moving coming-of-age story captures the tenderness of first love - and the heart-breaking passage of time. 'It has been years since anything moved me as much as Lie With Me. It will become a classic.' Jonathan Coe, bestselling author of Middle England 'An intense, unforgettable novel, alive with the ache of longing and loss.' Sarah Waters, bestselling, award-winning author of The Little Stranger and Fingersmith 'Devastating and tender; this is the book I wish I'd read when I was 15, and a book I'm glad to have as a companion now' Andrew McMillan, award-winning author of Physical 'A deeply moving depiction of first love, both tender and elegiac.' John Boyne, bestselling author of A Ladder to the Sky and The Heart's Invisible Furies 'A slender, sad, acute novel... absolutely excellent' Sarah Perry, bestselling author of The Essex Serpent and Melmoth 'A tender, sensuous novel' New York Times Book Review 'Full of Proustian echoes, this story of gay adolescence deals with complex issues of class, shame and secrecy' Guardian 'A poignant tale that captures the intensity of first love with all its sadness, longing and regret' Daily Mail 'This novel can be read in a matter of hours, but its impact, like the love affair it details, will echo in the mind' Irish Times

Winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger in France and the Premio de la Critica in Spain Conversation-starting and prize-winning international fiction: an extraordinary meditation on violence, conspiracy and the many complex afterlives of the Holocaust 'Audacious' Observer 'Provocative' Times Literary Supplement 'Extraordinary' Olivia Laing Eduardo and his brother have been living in the US for three years when their parents send them back to Guatemala for the holidays. It is 1984 and their native country, in the midst of a violent civil war, feels newly alien to them - their Spanish faltering, already half-forgotten. Their grandfather collects the boys from the airport and drives them into the mountains, depositing them at what they're told is a Jewish summer camp. At the camp, the children meet a counsellor called Samuel Blum: a handsome young man with sky-blue eyes who knows about all kinds of things. He shows them how to make a survival shelter out of branches and leaves, and how to kindle a fire using a glass bottle. He sings songs with them and plays games. But he also trains them to march in rank, and salute, and dive for cover. He teaches them the Hebrew words for 'grenade' and 'soldier' and 'silence'. On the fourth day, everything changes. The boys are shaken from their beds at dawn. A terrifying figure, uniformed in black, looms over them, and beyond him is the sound of screaming outside. Eduardo looks into the stranger's face - it is Samuel Blum, but his sky-blue eyes look different now. In his hand he carries a club. Crawling down his left arm is a huge tarantula. Thought-provoking and powerfully ambivalent, Tarantula is an extraordinary meditation on the many complex afterlives of the Holocaust. It is a novel about individual and collective inheritance, individual and collective violence; about memory, trauma, connection and estrangement. It asks what it means to be a Jew in the long wake of the twentieth century, and how the past lives on in the present.

Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize 2026 A Finalist in the Nota Bene Prize 2026 'Casually magisterial' Guardian 'Endlessly intriguing' Observer 'A marvel of a novel' Ali Smith 'Jane Eyre by way of Patricia Highsmith' BBC Radio 4 'Puts Stevens in the class of Sarah Waters' Financial Times 'There was a painting my family set on fire. It burned to ashes, and then it came back.' Oxfordshire, 1899. Grace Inderwick grows up on the peripheries of a once-great household, an unwanted guest in her uncle's home. She has unusual skills and unusual predilections: for painting, though faces elude her; for lurking in the shadows; for other girls. Then a letter arrives, postmarked Saint Helena. After years missing at sea, Grace's cousin Charles is ready to come home. When Charles returns, unrecognisable and uncanny, a rift emerges between those who claim he is an imposter and Grace's aunt, who insists he is her son. And Grace, whose intimate knowledge of forgeries is her own closely-guarded secret, must decide who and what to believe in, and what kind of life she wants to live. Deftly-plotted and shimmering with Nell Stevens's distinctive intelligence, style and wit, THE ORIGINAL is a novel about the value of authenticity in art and in love, and what it means to be a true original. 'What a bewitching book this is. A sinuous, thrilling meditation on fakes and forgers, with echoes of Daphne du Maurier and Sarah Waters and an audacity that is totally original to Nell Stevens herself' Olivia Laing, author of THE GARDEN AGAINST TIME 'Deliciously engaging and wildly intelligent. I adored this novel about art, authenticity and desire and am a devoted fan of Nell Stevens' Ay¿egül Savä, author of THE ANTHROPOLOGISTS 'A delightful, playful puzzle of a novel, and a brilliant twist on the nineteenth century orphan-makes-good story. THE ORIGINAL asks whether, sometimes, faking it is the right thing to do' Claire Fuller, author of UNSETTLED GROUND 'A wonderful novel about identity, creativity, money and belonging. It's so witty and propulsive you will forget how brilliantly constructed it is, this tale that brims with the beauty of art, of how to triumph in a difficult world. I absolutely loved it' Jessie Burton, author of THE MINIATURIST

Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize 2026 A Finalist in the Nota Bene Prize 2026 'Casually magisterial' Guardian 'Endlessly intriguing' Observer 'A marvel of a novel' Ali Smith 'Jane Eyre by way of Patricia Highsmith' BBC Radio 4 'Puts Stevens in the class of Sarah Waters' Financial Times 'There was a painting my family set on fire. It burned to ashes, and then it came back.' Oxfordshire, 1899. Grace Inderwick grows up on the peripheries of a once-great household, an unwanted guest in her uncle's home. She has unusual skills and unusual predilections: for painting, though faces elude her; for lurking in the shadows; for other girls. Then a letter arrives, postmarked Saint Helena. After years missing at sea, Grace's cousin Charles is ready to come home. When Charles returns, unrecognisable and uncanny, a rift emerges between those who claim he is an imposter and Grace's aunt, who insists he is her son. And Grace, whose intimate knowledge of forgeries is her own closely-guarded secret, must decide who and what to believe in, and what kind of life she wants to live. Deftly-plotted and shimmering with Nell Stevens's distinctive intelligence, style and wit, THE ORIGINAL is a novel about the value of authenticity in art and in love, and what it means to be a true original. 'What a bewitching book this is. A sinuous, thrilling meditation on fakes and forgers, with echoes of Daphne du Maurier and Sarah Waters and an audacity that is totally original to Nell Stevens herself' Olivia Laing, author of THE GARDEN AGAINST TIME 'Deliciously engaging and wildly intelligent. I adored this novel about art, authenticity and desire and am a devoted fan of Nell Stevens' Ay¿egül Savä, author of THE ANTHROPOLOGISTS 'A delightful, playful puzzle of a novel, and a brilliant twist on the nineteenth century orphan-makes-good story. THE ORIGINAL asks whether, sometimes, faking it is the right thing to do' Claire Fuller, author of UNSETTLED GROUND 'A wonderful novel about identity, creativity, money and belonging. It's so witty and propulsive you will forget how brilliantly constructed it is, this tale that brims with the beauty of art, of how to triumph in a difficult world. I absolutely loved it' Jessie Burton, author of THE MINIATURIST

*** Now a Sunday Times bestseller! *** Life can feel overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be. You can make the change - starting with your own brain chemistry. 'If you want to buy just one book this year to make your life better...Get this one. And live by it.' - Chris Evans, as heard on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show, Virgin Radio *** Today's fast-paced world leaves many of us struggling with extreme emotional highs and lows caused by chemical imbalances in our brains, brought on by the pressures of modern life and constant digital connectivity. In The DOSE Effect, neuroscientist TJ Power shares how you can reset and balance your brain chemistry with simple, everyday habits to lead a happier, healthier, and more productive life. Unlock your brain's four key chemicals and discover the powers of: D OPAMINE to get motivated and stay driven O XYTOCIN to build deeper connections with others S EROTONIN to boost your energy and mood E NDORPHINS to destress and find calm TJ's practical approach and straightforward solutions will guide you on an exciting, action-based journey to optimise your brain chemistry and transform your mental health so you can feel happier and healthier in your everyday life. If you're a growth-oriented, forward-looking reader of guides like Atomic Habits, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*uck and Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?, this is the book you need to get your hands on next so you can start changing your life today. *** Readers worldwide are raving: 'This is the book all parents need in their lives.' - This Morning 'This book will help you find more motivation, create deeper connections, energise your body and destress your mind.' - Jay Shetty, author of Think Like a Monk 'The best book I've read on this subject.' - Dr. Julie Smith, author of Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? 'Simple, smart, and genuinely life-changing - TJ knows how to get you feeling good again.' - Jamie Laing TO BE SOLD IN 19 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES! The paperback edition of TJ Power's bookThe DOSE Effect was aSunday Times bestseller w/c 11-01-2026. The paperback edition of TJ Power's bookThe DOSE Effect was a No. 1Sunday Times bestseller w/c 16-03-2026.

*** Now a Sunday Times bestseller! *** Life can feel overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be. You can make the change - starting with your own brain chemistry. 'If you want to buy just one book this year to make your life better...Get this one. And live by it.' - Chris Evans, as heard on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show, Virgin Radio *** Today's fast-paced world leaves many of us struggling with extreme emotional highs and lows caused by chemical imbalances in our brains, brought on by the pressures of modern life and constant digital connectivity. In The DOSE Effect, neuroscientist TJ Power shares how you can reset and balance your brain chemistry with simple, everyday habits to lead a happier, healthier, and more productive life. Unlock your brain's four key chemicals and discover the powers of: D OPAMINE to get motivated and stay driven O XYTOCIN to build deeper connections with others S EROTONIN to boost your energy and mood E NDORPHINS to destress and find calm TJ's practical approach and straightforward solutions will guide you on an exciting, action-based journey to optimise your brain chemistry and transform your mental health so you can feel happier and healthier in your everyday life. If you're a growth-oriented, forward-looking reader of guides like Atomic Habits, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*uck and Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?, this is the book you need to get your hands on next so you can start changing your life today. *** Readers worldwide are raving: 'This is the book all parents need in their lives.' - This Morning 'This book will help you find more motivation, create deeper connections, energise your body and destress your mind.' - Jay Shetty, author of Think Like a Monk 'The best book I've read on this subject.' - Dr. Julie Smith, author of Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? 'Simple, smart, and genuinely life-changing - TJ knows how to get you feeling good again.' - Jamie Laing TO BE SOLD IN 19 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES! The paperback edition of TJ Power's bookThe DOSE Effect was aSunday Times bestseller w/c 11-01-2026. The paperback edition of TJ Power's bookThe DOSE Effect was a No. 1Sunday Times bestseller w/c 16-03-2026.

Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize 2026 A Finalist in the Nota Bene Prize 2026 'Casually magisterial' Guardian 'Endlessly intriguing' Observer 'A marvel of a novel' Ali Smith 'Jane Eyre by way of Patricia Highsmith' BBC Radio 4 'Puts Stevens in the class of Sarah Waters' Financial Times 'There was a painting my family set on fire. It burned to ashes, and then it came back.' Oxfordshire, 1899. Grace Inderwick grows up on the peripheries of a once-great household, an unwanted guest in her uncle's home. She has unusual skills and unusual predilections: for painting, though faces elude her; for lurking in the shadows; for other girls. Then a letter arrives, postmarked Saint Helena. After years missing at sea, Grace's cousin Charles is ready to come home. When Charles returns, unrecognisable and uncanny, a rift emerges between those who claim he is an imposter and Grace's aunt, who insists he is her son. And Grace, whose intimate knowledge of forgeries is her own closely-guarded secret, must decide who and what to believe in, and what kind of life she wants to live. Deftly-plotted and shimmering with Nell Stevens's distinctive intelligence, style and wit, THE ORIGINAL is a novel about the value of authenticity in art and in love, and what it means to be a true original. 'What a bewitching book this is. A sinuous, thrilling meditation on fakes and forgers, with echoes of Daphne du Maurier and Sarah Waters and an audacity that is totally original to Nell Stevens herself' Olivia Laing, author of THE GARDEN AGAINST TIME 'Deliciously engaging and wildly intelligent. I adored this novel about art, authenticity and desire and am a devoted fan of Nell Stevens' Ay¿egül Savä, author of THE ANTHROPOLOGISTS 'A delightful, playful puzzle of a novel, and a brilliant twist on the nineteenth century orphan-makes-good story. THE ORIGINAL asks whether, sometimes, faking it is the right thing to do' Claire Fuller, author of UNSETTLED GROUND 'A wonderful novel about identity, creativity, money and belonging. It's so witty and propulsive you will forget how brilliantly constructed it is, this tale that brims with the beauty of art, of how to triumph in a difficult world. I absolutely loved it' Jessie Burton, author of THE MINIATURIST