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It is 2016. Ezra is a queer, Jewish person carrying out their last act of protest outside Trump Tower, New York. While they experience their last moments, their life flashes across time and geography, leaping from memories of childhood to the inherited memory and historical movements of their family.

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Part reportage, part personal essay, part travelogue, False Calm finds Argentinian author Maria Sonia Cristoff writing against romantic portrayals of Patagonia as she journeys from one small town to the next.

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An enduring gem, Joe Brainard's I Remember is a literary and artistic cult classic. As autobiography, Brainard's method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each prefaced by the refrain 'I remember': 'I remember that little jerk you give just before you fall asleep. Like falling.'

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In present-day New York City, an Albanian interpreter reluctantly agrees to work with Alfred, a Kosovar torture survivor, during his therapy sessions. Despite her husband's cautions, she soon becomes entangled in her clients' struggles:

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An evocative meditation on longing and buried resentment, set in the beautiful Croatian city of Zadar.

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In elegant, spare writing, Shapton renders swimming as a mode of experiencing time, movement, and perspective, capable of shaping our lives in every environment. The result is captivating and profound: a modern classic of sport writing and memoir from a singular talent.

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A propulsive, bewitching novel about home and family, the ache of unrealised dreams and the quiet tragedy of unrequited love.

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From the author of All Our Yesterdays and The Little Virtues, an epistolary novel full of humanity, passion, and keen perception.

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The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her conflicts, not her fantasies, in a city (New York) that has done the same.

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A small masterpiece, A Cat, a Man, and Two Women is a study of Japanese society and manners, and an oddball comedy about a love triangle in which the only real rival is feline.

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In A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid candidly appraises where she grew up, and makes palpable the impact of European colonisation and tourism.

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'Our mother rather lost interest in us after the thirst got hold of her and, although our grandfather was vaguely fond of us, he certainly wasn't interested.'

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'One of the Great Italian Writers of the 20th Century.' - The New York Times

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The stunning true story of an untouchable family who become teachers, and one, a poet and revolutionary.

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'A strange and wonderful book, plausible as kitchens, but shapely as a folktale, and with the same disturbing resonance.' - Margaret Atwood

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Twelve writers consider the subject of rivers and how they shape us throughout our lives, demarcating cities as well as moulding our creative consciousness. Tessa Hadley revisits Rumer Goddens The River; Jo Hamya pays homage to Virginia Woolf; Michael Malay goes nightfishing for eels by the river Severn.

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'I can only be overwhelmed by Dorothy Baker's continuing brilliance.' - Carson McCullers

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'This is a heart-warming anthology, celebrating one ofour most beloved animals. Rich with joy and delight,but there is also real depth, poignancy and surprisinglydark humour here.'

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Intimate, enchanting and comedic, Family Lexicon is an unforgettable novel about memory, language, and the lasting power that family holds over all of us.

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In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence.

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In these essays twelve writers consider the joys of cycling, whether in a city late at night, or along country lanes on a summer's day.

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Natalia Ginzburg's most beloved book in Italy and one of her finest achievements, Happiness, As Such is an original, wise, raw, comic novel that cuts to the bone.

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A fierce and moving memoir on returning to Palestine, the meaning of exile and homeland, and the habitual place and status of a person, from Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti.

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An essay collection about gardening and our relationship to nature, following on from the success of At the Pond and In the Kitchen.