Shortlisted for the 2018 Costa Poetry Award
In this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott creates an uncompromising portrait of love and gay shame. Examining how trauma becomes a part of the language we use, Scott takes us back to our roots: childhood incidents, the violence our scars betray, forgotten forebears and histories. The hungers of sexual encounters are underscored by the risks that threaten when we give ourselves to or accept another. But the poems celebrate joy and tenderness, too, as in a sequence re-imagining the love poetry of Verlaine.
The collection crescendos to Scott's tour de force, 'Oh My Soho!', where a night stroll under the street lamps of Soho Square becomes a search for true lineage, a reclamation of stolen ancestors, hope for healing, and, above all, the finding of our truest selves.
No London neighbourhood more resembles the restless downstream tide of the Thames than the ragged square mile of Soho. Ask the people who live there, …
They were the New York art scene's golden couple until Amanda Oliver was found murdered, and her husband Philip confessed to shooting her. But was he …
Behind the fashionable bars and clubs of Soho lies a fascinating history of criminal activity, featuring some of London's most notorious gangsters. Fr…
'When the respectable Londoner wants to feel devilish, he goes to Soho', wrote Thomas Burke in 1915 - but these words could have been uttered at any p…
In the 1980s Daniel Farson published Soho in the Fifties. This memoir is a sequel from the Eighties, a decade that saw the brilliant flowering of a d…
Shortlisted for the 2018 Costa Poetry Award Hannah Sullivan's debut collection is a revelation - three long poems of fresh ambition, intensity and su…
Shortlisted for the 2018 Costa Poetry Award From the beginning, the poet was a wanderer, a storyteller, an imaginer of bridges between worlds. Zaffar…
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WINNER of the 2018 Costa Poetry Award. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION A war-poem both historic and frighteningly topical,…
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Shortlisted for the 2018 Costa Biography Award Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years is terminally ill, their home and liv…
This is the Number One Bestseller; Winner of the Costa Book of the Year. Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. As a child, Helen Macdon…
This manuscript is ancient, priceless,bamboo-rolled, perfumed with musty spices. Sit comfortably by this good light…
I go down to the shore in the morningand depending on the hour the wavesare rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable,what shall-what sh…
Shortlisted for the 2018 Costa First Novel Award 'An intriguing tale of love and loss . . . written with verve and delivers an amazing twist' Sunday …
