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'If it weren't such a pleasure to read, I'd say that Lord Jim at Home . . . was an instrument oftorture. It's thatgood.' - Ottessa Moshfegh, from the Foreword

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Inspired by a glass of freshly-squeezed juice he drank at Penn Station, Pulitzer Prize-winner John McPhee takes us on an idiosyncratic and remarkable journey in search of the world's most popular fruit.

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'I sometimes wonder what my life would be like if I had found this book earlier.' - The New York Times

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A memoir of gender transition and recovery from addiction, a dance across genres, a ripping-up of the rulebook, Please Miss is unlike anything youve ever read before.

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Combining a history of the village with a detailed study of the vines, this is a fascinating snapshot of a way of life that is disappearing.

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In the town of Rattlebone, a small Black neighbourhood of Kansas City, secrets are hard to keep and growing up is a community affair. As Irene is initiated into adult passion and loss, her family story takes its place in a tightly woven tapestry of individuals whose griefs and joys are as vivid as her own.

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An elegant, brutal and startlingly intimate novel from an electric new voice.

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Can it possibly matter that we allow two young people to imagine that they love one another when in two days' time they will in any event be parted

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It was a livelihood which comprised skill, nerve, an understanding and manipulation of humannature, and risk. The risk made Grace Bradby's cold blood runwarmer and faster.

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In prose rich with allusions to Carson McCullers, Jan Morris and Patti Smith, Some Strange Music Draws Me In is a compassionate, gripping and emotionally charged narrative. In focusing on the pre-transition subject, Griffin Hansbury explores the dangerous forces they often must escape to survive.

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A compelling portrait of the mad intensity, exquisite pain and destructive power of young love.

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'Novey fully renders the inarticulable parts of artmaking - the antagonism of an artist's material, thepleasure in that difficulty, the way it troubles tidy ideasof legacy.' - Raven Leilani

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It was while we were weeding the sorghum field thatMama taught me most of her memories of the Rwandathat used to be. Alas! I've forgotten so many of thesecrets Stefania told me, the secrets a mother tells onlyher daughter.

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'I left the man with whom I had been living one morning in late summer after opening the wardrobe and seeing the tidy line of his collars, white and blue, white and blue. I felt sick.'

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'If Ferrante is a friend, Ginzburg is a mentor.' - Guardian

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Mesmeric and tender, this is the tale of one man's search for love and affection.

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'I really love and admire The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg... She writes beautiful, short essays about very simple things: shoes, food, children, writing itself. Her sentences have great precision and clarity, and I learn a lot when I read her.' - Zadie Smith

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If people were evil, and I wished to be good, then I had tomake sure that I was the opposite of a person.

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'The Twilight Zone is wildly innovative, a major contributionto literature.' - The New York Times Book Review

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From the author of the beloved novel The Towers of Trebizond, a book about Portugal that is part travel-ogue, part history and wholly personal.

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A wry and unsentimental account of the attempt to understand a parent as an independent person with their own history.

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Meet Melvin Ellington, a.k.a. Mouth a Black twenty-something, ex-college radical who has just been released from a five-year prison stretch having been a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War.

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Valentino is the spoiled child of doting parents who have no doubt he will be a man of consequence. His parents dreams are soon undone when, out of the blue, Valentino brings home Maddalena, a wealthy and strikingly ugly wife.

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These are travel stories, ranging in space and time. Some are memories of a re-imagined past, others more personal. Simon Loftus's explorations begin with a performance of Hamlet off the coast of Africa, in 1607, and each of the stories that follow echoes and reflects the opening words of that play, 'Who's there'.