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The Poetry of Horses

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Poems about horses by the world's greatest poets

Dog Poems

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Poems about dogs by the world's greatest poets

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'A psychological thriller par excellence' Guardian
'Horribly claustrophobic, in the best possible way' Observer
'Terrifying and amusing ... keeps you guessing till the very end' Times

A nephew. An uncle.
A psychopath - but which of them is it?

Gil knows his nephew Matthew is dangerous. The signs were there early - on a family holiday Gil's daughter was discovered nearly drowning at the bottom of a swimming pool, while Matthew looked on from the deck.

Now seventeen, Matthew is orphaned when his parents die in a car crash. He must leave his Upper East Side Manhattan life behind, to live with Gil, his wife and daughters in rural Vermont. He is insolent, bored, disconnected. At least that's Gil's take. To the women in the family he is charming, intelligent, wry.

But when he disdainfully joins Gil's writing classes at the local university, Matthew's fiction shows a vivid and macabre imagination spilling onto the page. Matthew is clearly announcing his intentions to Gil, taunting him before he does something awful to his family. But why is Gil the only one who can see this? As Gil begins to follow Matthew around, his own behaviour becomes increasingly unstable. Is he losing his mind? Which of the two of them is likely to kill someone?

#aflawinthedesign #nathanoates #debut #thriller #bookstagram

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'Moving, truthful, straight from the heart' – Neel Mukherjee

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'These are excellent stories, told with skill and verve' – Jon McGregor

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Here, beneath the planes circling Heathrow, various lives connect. Priti speaks English and her nani Punjabi. Without Priti's mum around they struggle to make a shared language. Not far away, Chetan and Aanshi's relationship shifts when a woman leaves her car in their drive but never returns to collect it. Gujan's baba steps out of his flat above the chicken shop for the first time in years to take his grandson on a bicycle tour of the old and changed neighbourhood. And returning home after dropping out of university, Lata grapples with a secret about her estranged family friend, now a chart-topping rapper in a crisis of confidence.

Mapping an area of West London, these stories chart a wider narrative about the movement of multiple generations of immigrants. In acts of startling imagination, Gurnaik Johal's debut brings together the past and the present, the local and the global, to show the surprising ways we come together.

The brilliant #WeMove publishes in paperback on 6th April 💫

#Bookstagram #BooksOfIG #Fiction #ShortStory #ShortStories #ShortStoryCollection #ShortStoryWriter #GurnaikJohal #PunjabiWriter #PunjabiWriters

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Springtime is around the corner, and we at Serpent’s Tail have put together a wonderful selection to celebrate and empower the mother figure in your life 🌸✨

🌸#LoveMeTender by Constance Debrè
🌸#agoodhouseforchildren by @katecollinsetc
🌸#InTheDreamhouse by @carmenmmachado
🌸#EssexGirls by Sarah Perry
🌸Detransition, Baby by @torreyadora
🌸#TopicsOfConversation by Miranda Popkey
🌸#SevenCatsIHaveLoved by Anat Levit
🌸#HARUKO by June Jordan

Which one will you be gifting or adding to your TBR this spring? 👀📚

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We’re so sad to hear of the death of the incredible Kenzaburō Ōe.

A magnificent writer, who won the Nobel Prize for A Silent Cry, which we’re proud to have on our Classics list.

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🌹A Stylist 2023 “Non-fiction You Can’t Miss” Selection🌹

#ProstituteLaundry by @charoshane is a deeply thoughtful book about sensuality, money and identity - how these forces can break us and how they can make us whole again

Coming in May, but pre-orders live 📚✨

#bookstagram #bookstagramuk #nonfictionbooks #epistolary #newbooks #springbooks #debutbook

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