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Ruby Tandoh

Ruby Tandoh

Sarah Perry

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Torrey Peters

Torrey Peters

Attica Locke

Attica Locke

Carmen Maria Machado

Carmen Maria Machado

Chris Kraus

Chris Kraus

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

Saidiya Hartman

Saidiya Hartman

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Gurnaik Johal

Karen Joy Fowler

Karen Joy Fowler

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#FlowersFromTheVoid by Gianni Washington is out today in paperback 💀🥀

Looking for a spooky read to kick off October? Look no further than these 13 deliciously uncanny, delectably creepy tales…

A reaper readies herself for her next gruesome assignment, a bereaved African witch prepares for a showdown with a white Salem coven, a strange new arrival develops a fascination with eyeballs and an outcast teenage boy is lured into a pact with a schoolfriend that will cost him far more than he ever imagined.

Hauntingly macabre and piercingly insightful, these gothic short stories lead us into a labyrinth of other possible worlds, each one darker than the last and with the vivid intensity of your worst nightmare.
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We’re pleased to say that International Booker-longlistee #Eurotrash by Christian Kracht has been chosen as one of Waterstones’ Paperbacks of the Year!
 
The cult translated hit of 2024-25, #Eurotrash is a road trip novel like you’ve never read before from one of Europe’s most acclaimed writers.
 
Pre-order the new paperback edition via Waterstones now.
 
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‘We’re going to give this money away... squander it. To whomever, randomly. And you’re going to help me do it…’
 
Our new edition of the International Booker-longlisted #Eurotrash by Christian Kracht, translated by Daniel Bowles, has landed in time for its October publication. This cult translated hit has fans from Karl Ove Knausgaard to Nell Zink and takes readers on a journey like never before…
 
A middle-aged man embarks on a dubious road trip through Switzerland with his eighty-year-old mother, recently discharged from a mental institution. Driving across the country, they attempt to give away her arms-industry wealth, but a fortune of such immensity is hard to squander. Haunted in different ways by the figure of her father, an ardent supporter of Nazism, mother and son can no longer avoid delving into the darkest truths about their past.
 
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#AllConsuming by @ruby.tandoh is out today!

🧋 ‘Brilliant and original’ @nigelslater 

🍓 ‘Ruby is a rare and singular voice. I loved this book’ Anna Jones @we_are_food 

Ruby Tandoh’s startlingly original analysis traces this extraordinary transformation over the past seventy-five years, making sense of this electrifying new era by examining the social, economic, and technological forces shaping the foods we hunger for today.

Exploring the evolution of the cookbook and light-speed growth of bubble tea, the advent of TikTok critics and absurdities of the perfect dinner party, Tandoh’s laser-sharp investigation leaves her questioning: how much are our tastes, in fact, our own?

🍽️ ‘A fascinating, sometimes shocking, eye-opener that is also brilliantly funny’ Claudia Rosen

🍦 ‘An essential read for everyone interested in how we eat now’ @rebeccamayjohnson
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Gentle giant Florian Herscht is an orphan, adopted by a neo-Nazi who has apprenticed him as a graffiti cleaner. The Boss, a Bach fanatic, is enraged that someone is spraying wolf emblems across the monuments to the famed composer in their east German town. He is determined to punish the culprit and Florian has no choice but to join his gang as they devise a plan to catch him. But Florian has bigger things to worry about: having attended Herr Köhler’s adult education classes in physics, he can see that the world might end at any moment.

Written in one cascading sentence with the power of atomic particles colliding, Krasznahorkai’s novel is a tour de force, a moving character study, a blistering satire and devastating encapsulation of our helplessness at the moral and environmental dilemmas we face today.

#Herscht07769 by Laszlo Krasznahorkai is out in paperback tomorrow!
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7 books to read this #WomenInTranslationMonth ☀️

☀️ Tongueless by Lau Yee-Wa
☀️ Savage Theories & Mons by Pola Oloixarac
☀️ Cold Nights of my Childhood by Tezer Ozlu
☀️ Love Me Tender, Playboy and Name by Constance Debré

Which books are you adding to your TBR? 💗
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