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It's our latest Classic! And it's a wild masterpiece by a Nobel prize winner championed by influential writers such as Karl Ove Knausgaard and Doris Lessing... 'Knut Hamsun founded the modernist and postmodernist novel at once' writes James Wood in his introduction to this seminal work. A young man called John Nagel arrives to spend a summer in a small Norwegian coastal town, a stranger in a loud yellow suit who begins to behave very curiously. He shocks, bewilders and beguiles with his open defiance and erratic self-revelations. Nagel's presence acts as a catalyst for the hidden impulses, concealed thoughts and darker instincts of the townsfolk. Cursed with the ability to understand the human soul, especially his own, Nagel can foresee, but cannot prevent, his own destruction. Born in 1859, Knut Hamsun published a stunning series of novels in the 1890s: Hunger (1890), Mysteries (1892) and Pan (1894). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920 for Growth of the Soil and has been recognised as one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. We're so proud to add him to our Classics list, along with other Nobel winners Herta Müller, Elfriede Jelinek and Kenzaburō Ōe. #knuthamsun #mysteries #growthofthesoil #nobelwinner #nobelprize #nobelprizeforliterature #bookstagram #igreads #modernclassic #classicliterature
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Today we're breaking with photographic tradition to bring you news of utmost importance: this April we are publishing @kaitlyngreenidge’s extraordinary, unforgettable novel, LIBERTIE. LIBERTIE is the Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club pick for May 2021 and was named one of the most-anticipated books of the year by O, The Oprah Magazine, The Millions, Refinery29, Publishers Lunch, BuzzFeed, The Rumpus, BookPage and Harper’s Bazaar. The novel’s many fans include Jacqueline Woodson, Brandon Taylor, Garth Greenwell and Nafissa Thompson-Spires. LIBERTIE is set in a richly-imagined 19th century New York and Haiti and was inspired by the fascinating life of Dr Susan Smith McKinney Steward, one of the first Black female doctors in the United States. We highly recommend you pre-order now! More info - follow the link in our bio. Bring on Libertie. #libertie #kaitlyngreenidge #roxanegay #comingsoon #bookannouncement #garthgreenwell #jacquelinewoodson #bookstagram
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We're so excited that this extraordinary book - that so many of you loved and posted about in hardback - is out now in paperback. 'If you're a fan of Sally Rooney's work, then you can't go wrong by picking up a copy of Topics Of Conversation ... She's a fresh voice, and one that it's certainly worth listening to. 'Vogue 'Miranda Popkey's debut explores the paradox of longing to assert control and longing to lose it ... She depicts what it feels like to exist, actually live, at that intersection, which can so often bring about paralysis.' New Yorker What is the shape of a life? Is it the things that happen to us? Or is it the stories we tell about the things that happen to us? From the coast of the Adriatic to the salt spray of Santa Barbara, the narrator of Topics of Conversation maps out her life through two decades of bad relationships, motherhood, crisis and consolation. The novel unfurls through a series of conversations - in private with friends, late at night at parties with acquaintances, with strangers in hotel rooms, in moments of revelation, shame, cynicism, envy and intimacy. Sizzling with enigmatic desire, Miranda Popkey's debut novel is a seductive exploration of life as a woman in the modern world, of the stories we tell ourselves and of the things we reveal only to strangers. #mirandapopkey #topicsofconversation #novel #debutnovel #paperback #outnow #sallyrooney #rachelcusk #fiction #bookstagram
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Swipe for incredibly exciting news out of Essex... ➡️ Claire Danes has been cast as Cora in the @appletv adaptation of THE ESSEX SERPENT! We had a very excitable zoom call with @sarah_grace_perry yesterday who revealed she had been speaking to our lead actress about the role 🤩 we don’t think Cora could have been more perfectly cast. The Essex Serpent is coming to Apple TV in 2022. Link in bio. #theessexserpent #clairedanes #appletv #sarahperry #bookstagram
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We're incredibly excited to announce that @carmenmmachado’s In the Dream House has been shortlisted for the 2021 @rathbones_folio Prize! The winner will be announced on 24th March - we have everything crossed 🤞🧡 #rathbonesfolioprize #carmenmariamachado #inthedreamhouse #memoir #bookprize #boomstagram #lgbtq
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Couldn’t resist a snowy photo of one of our favourite Classics - the unforgettable cult novel Jernigan by David Gates. If you loved Stoner but felt it didn’t go far enough, this is for you. Jernigan goes far too far, in fact. You’ll have to read it to see what we mean... #jernigan #davidgates #cultclassic #classicfiction #bookstagram
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