Companion Piece

Ali Smith

The unmissable new work from Ali Smith, following the dazzling Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal Quartet'A story is never an answer. A story is always a question.'Here we are in extraordinary times.Is this history?What happens when we cease to trust governments, the media, each other?What have we lost?Wha...

Bloodwood Creek

Kerry McGinnis

'There's a killer roaming the roads and you're out here on your own, picking up strangers ...'When Emily's beautiful cousin Aspen goes missing somewhere in the Outback, no one seems to take it seriously, not even the police. After all, Aspen has a history of drug use and a string of broken relationships...

Love in a Cold Climate and the Pursuit of Love

Nancy Mitford; Laura Thompson (Introduction by)

Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious) family. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin, Fanny ('the Bolter's girl'), on one of her frequent visits to their country estate: Uncle Matthew t...

The Russo-Ukrainian War - The Return of History

Serhii Plokhy

BEST BOOKS 2023: FINANCIAL TIMES * THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE * TLSDo you know what is at stake in Ukraine? Urgent, compelling reading from the author of Chernobyl on the defining conflict of our timesOn 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst o...