New York Times Bestseller

A devastating look at how mental health ‘care’ has been historically used to oppress the Black community in the United States – told through the prism of a segregated asylum, Crownsville Hospital for the Negro Insane in Maryland.

‘A force to be reckoned with and utterly tireless… With typical laser focus, she repeatedly questions which things society pays attention to and which we consider insignificant.’ — Laura Bates, Guardian

Draws on first-hand experiences of war in countries as diverse as Ukraine, Syria and Northern Ireland to show how women’s wars are not men’s wars.

‘Will burrow under your skin and live forever in your darkest dreams’ — Bust

Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authors – including Margaret Atwood, Raven Leilani, and Cassandra Khaw – to explore, subvert, and reinvent one of the most vital subgenres of horror.

‘An anthology to treasure and return to’ — Elinor Cleghorn

A first-of-its-kind anthology of nature writing by authors living with chronic illness and physical disability.

‘This book is a must-read. A timely reappraisal of the very notion of comparing people, objects and places.’ — Aiden Sidebottom

Bullsh*t Comparisons will challenge the way you think about the political use and social abuse of the metaphors and metrics that warp our understanding of an unequal world.

‘A real celebration and ode to women who hold up the art of cinema.’ — Mollie Goodfellow

Leading film critic of her generation offers an unflinchingly honest and humorous account of her mixed-race millennial journey towards self-acceptance through a cinematic lens.

‘Paul Baker captures essence of an essentially uncapturable phenomenon making it just knowable enough for all. My dear, she’s on fire!’ — Damian Barr

By the bestselling author of Fabulosa! and Outrageous!, this reappraisal of camp across time and in all its glorious forms shows how an inescapable part of popular culture has also played an important role in equality movements as a form of protest or resistance.

‘Moskovich writes sentences that lilt and slink, her plots developing as a slow seduction and then clouding like a smoke-filled room’ — Guardian

A vibrant, muscular genre-bending novel set in the coldest night of a Berlin winter as decades of Russian and Ukrainian history unfold alongside a broken love affair. The Waste Land for our times, this is a forceful, dark and unexpectedly erotic anthem for doomed youth.

‘Edifying and enlivening’ — Kate Baer

Linguist and writer Malwina Gudowska unpicks the myths surrounding multilingualism and the political, emotional and gendered weight of passing down language to your children

Foreword by Bernardine Evaristo

‘Extraordinary conversations with many of the greatest minds and most inspiring figures of our age… Together they form a snap-shot of where the peoples of the Black diaspora stand, today in the early 21st Century, and how much has been overcome to get here.’ — David Olusoga

‘Skinner goes in search of a different way of life… a sensitive and colourful account’ — New Statesman

A journey around the UK’s communes, eco-villages and co-living spaces to find more compassionate, connected and sustainable ways to live.