‘Exuberant and audacious’ Observer
‘Near perfect . . . [a] small gem of storytelling’ Scotland on Sunday
£7.99 ISBN 978 0 85786 198 6
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WILDWOOD
COLIN MELOY
ILLUSTRATIONS BY CARSON ELLIS
Who dares to enter the forbidden wilderness?
Prue McKeel is keeping out of trouble. Or trying to. Then her baby brother is abducted by crows and hauled off to the woods beyond the city. It is up to Prue to bring him back. On her mission she is plunged into the world of Wildwood and there she meets more trouble – and magic – than she ever thought possible.
‘Once I stepped inside I never wanted to leave’ Lemony Snicket, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events
‘A beautiful object and a beautiful read. One half fairy tale, one half coming-of-age story, one half unrepentantly gorgeous work of art, this book is overflowing with gifts’ Jonathan Safran Foer
‘Dark and whimsical, with a true and uncanny sense of otherworldliness, WILDWOOD is the heir to a great tradition of stories of wild childhood adventure. It snatched me up and carried me off into a world I didn’t want to leave’ Michael Chabon
£10 ISBN 978 0 85786 324 9
£7.99 ISBN 978 0 85786 326 3
£15.99 ISBN 978 0 85786 365 2
BED
DAVID WHITEHOUSE
Winner of the 2012 Betty Trask Prize
Every family has a story. Mal was ours.
He was always different from the other kids. Larger than life. Trips to pantomimes were ruined by him stripping off his clothes. But people loved him. Especially Lou; it seemed like their love would last forever. Then something happened that changed everything . . . Mal grew up.
Bed is a coming-of-age story like no other. It chronicles what love, loss and family can do to you in a lifetime.
‘Hilarious and tragic; a perfectly brilliant debut’ Times
‘Staggering, inventive and heartbreakingly beautiful’ Esquire
‘A story [about] families and the love that sustains and smothers. Bed is brilliantly imagined’ Daily Mail
£7.99 ISBN 978 1 84767 982 6
£7.99 ISBN 978 0 85786 066 8
GROW UP
BEN BROOKS
‘Ben Brooks is a magical imp who pumps out dark nuggets of poetry and makes you snort with laughter’ Noel Fielding
Jasper wants to get on in the world, but life is distracting. He’s got his A-levels to contend with, his mother pushing him to overachieve, weekly visits to his psychologist, come-downs, YouTube suicides and pregnant one-night-stands. And then there’s his step-dad – the murderer.
Hilarious and heartbreaking by turns, Grow Up is the ultimate twenty-first-century coming-of-age novel. It paints a vivid portrait of the pills and thrills and bellyaches of growing up today. Funny, smart and twisted, it is the story of one young man transformed.
‘Liquid gold’ Observer
Grow Up is absolutely knockout – Brooks is blessed with a blinding grasp of terse, lyrical prose, and has the timing of a genius stand-up comic. Top class’ Richard Milward, author of Apples
‘Sickeningly good. So confident, so stylish. An unacceptably witty and original debut’ Tim Key
£8.99 ISBN 978 0 85786 187 0
£8.99 ISBN 978 0 85786 188 7
£10.99 ISBN 978 0 85786 230 3
THE DEATH OF BUNNY MUNRO
NICK CAVE
‘Put Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka and Benny Hill together in a Brighton seaside guesthouse and they might just come up with The Death of Bunny Munro. A compulsive read’ Irvine Welsh
The world is a hard place to be good in . . .
Struggling to keep a grip on reality after his wife’s death, Bunny Munro does the only thing he can think of: with his young son in tow, he hits the road. An epic chronicle of one man’s judgement, The Death of Bunny Munro is also an achingly tender portrait of the relationship between father and son.
‘Cocksman, Salesman, Deadman; Bunny Munro might not be Everyman, but every man ought to read this book. And read it half in stitches, half in tears’ David Peace
‘Cave stands as one of the great writers on love of our era’ Will Self
‘Cave’s second novel is everything you would hope for: wild, hallucinatory, redemptive and linguistically electrifying . . . who else would dare to create a protagonist like Bunny Munro?’ Sunday Telegraph
£7.99 ISBN 978 1 84767 378 7
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£21 ISBN 978 1 84767 833 1
BUDDHA DA
ANNE DONOVAN
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Award
In her acclaimed debut Anne Donovan tells an endearing, humorous yet unsentimental story of a working-class Glaswegian man who discovers Buddhism, rejects old habits and seeks a life more meaningful, only to alienate his immediate family in the process.
Moving seamlessly between three family members, Donovan’s clear-eyed, richly expressive prose sings from the page. Each character’s voice has its own subtle rhythm and the conclusion is a poignant mixture of hope and lingering reservations. Buddha Da is a delight from one of Britain’s best writers.
‘An enchanting novel in which ordinary lives are illuminated with extraordinary charm’ Daily Telegraph
‘Like a Scottish Roddy Doyle, dealing with potentially heavy issues with an addictive blend of pathos and humour’ Observer
‘Her deliciously corkscrewed tale flows with the sap of everyday life’ Sunday Times
£8.99 ISBN 978 1 84767 345 9
£8.99 ISBN 978 1 84767 552 1
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