AN ALMANAC OF BIRDS – Maria Popova
THE WAR OF THE ROSES – Warren Addler
OUT OF THE DARK – Caro Ramsay
SWALLOWS – Natsuo Kirino
BREADWINNERS – Melissa Hogenboom
All available now at your favourite local bookshop or at https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/out-today
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AN ALMANAC OF BIRDS
A gorgeous and inspiring book of cards: one hundred “divinations” for daily living, partway between poem and koan yet neither, collaged from the texts and illustrations of 19th-century ornithological books
“Maria's Divinations are her radically beautiful, wise and breathless prayers” NICK CAVE
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THE WAR OF THE ROSES
In this viciously black comedy, the Roses will each do whatever they can to destroy their better half – no matter the cost to themselves . . .
The film version – The Roses, starring Benedict Cumberbatch & Olivia Colman – hits cinemas 29 August.
“The divorcing Roses go to battle over their beautiful home and the objects in it – and take revenge to stunning heights. . . black-hearted and bristling because you’re trapped inside the self-justifying, increasingly mad minds of [Jonathan] and Barbara Rose” GILLIAN FLYNN, author of Gone Girl
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OUT OF THE DARK
A young woman is missing, but has she run away – or been captured?
In this terrifying game of cat and mouse, Caplan must trace where love and control twist together, and question where power lies in any relationship. But the darkest skies hide the darkest secrets . . .
“Dark, unsettling, brutal, and tragic . . . A fine choice for fans of Ian Rankin and Val McDermid” BOOKLIST
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SWALLOWS
Vibrating with the injustices of class and gender, tradition and power, Swallows is an acerbic, witty vision of contemporary Japan by Natsuo Kirino, acclaimed author of the smash hit Out.
“Natsuo Kirino’s novels bring us into direct contact with human life. Her fearless pen forces us to confront the ugliness, intensity and depth of our own desires, to the point that we cannot look away” MIEKO KAWAKAMI
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BREADWINNERS
If we can share power more equally, we can improve not only our own wellbeing but also recognise how to dismantle social structures that are seemingly set in stone. The must-read book on how to address the power dynamics in your work, life and love by award-winning science journalist Melissa Hogenboom
“If I’d understood the weight of the invisible work I was doing as a breadwinner and young mother— if I’d had a book like this — I might have spoken up sooner, especially to myself” MARY PORTAS
