Winner Booker Prize 2023
Prophet Song
Paul Lynch
A brilliant, satirical skewering of our obsession with nostalgia and the past, written by a master of European literature.
Top 10 English Fiction
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Literature - Just arrived
Literature - Paperback
Poetry
Winner National Book Award for Fiction 2023
Blackouts
Justin Torres
Thrillers
Fantasy & SF
Young Adult
Children’s Books
Winner Gordon Burn Prize
Kick the Latch
Kathryn Scanlan
A searing satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lanka beset by civil war Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali. He has seven moons to try and contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to a hidden cache of photos that will rock Sri Lanka.