The Moor's Account

Laila Lalami

A new edition of a masterful, multi-award-winning work of historical fiction that imagines the memoirs of the first black explorer of America

In 1527, a conquistador arrived on the coast of modern-day Florida with hundreds of settlers and claimed the region for Spain. Within a year of navigational errors, disease, starvation and fierce resistance from indigenous tribes, only four survivors remained. Three were nobleman, whose stories found their way into the official record. The fourth was known only as Estebanico, a vibrant merchant from Barbary forced nto slavery and a new name, reborn as the first African explorer of the Americas.

This is his story: a journey across the great swathes of the New World, where wouldbe conquerors are transformed into humble servants, fearful outcasts into healers, and the silenced into storytellers.

20 July 2023

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They're Going to Love You

A captivating drama of betrayal and creative ambition

Meg Howrey

A magnetic tale of betrayal, art, and ambition, set in New York City during the AIDS crisis, and present-day Los Angeles

Carlisle Martin dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer like her mother Isabel. She only gets to see her father Robert, and his brilliant but troubled partner James, for a few weeks a year where James educates her in all that he holds dear in life: literature, music, and most of all, dance. As the years go by, Carlisle is desperate to be asked to stay permanently, even as AIDS brings devastation to their community. Instead, a passionate love affair creates a rift between them, with devastating consequences. Nineteen years later, Carlisle receives a phone call which unravels the fateful events of her life.

They're Going to Love You is a gripping and gorgeously written novel of heartbreaking intensity. With psychological precision and a masterfully revealed secret at its heart, it asks what it takes to be an artist, and the price of forgiveness, of ambition, and of love.

Meg Howrey is the author of TheWanderers,TheCranes and BlindSight. Her writing has appeared in Vogue and The LA Review of Books. Meg was a professional dancer with the City Ballet of Los Angeles. She received the Ovation Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the Broadway tour of CONTACT. She lives in Los Angeles.

31 August 2023

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Laila Lalami is the author of four novels, including The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and The Other Americans, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles.

I Walk Between the Raindrops T.C. Boyle

A joyful, freewheeling and profound new collection from one of the most adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today

For one woman, a cross-country train ride becomes a parallel journey into the dark psyche of American manhood. An old man and his neighbour strike up a friendship that might a more sinister battle of wits than he first thinks. A man, waiting for his wife in a bar on Valentine's Day, is plagued by a stranger who claims to be clairvoyant.

In electric prose T. C. Boyle explores myriad facets of society: greed and excess, parenthood and responsibility, the digital world and the way we understand our mortality. Roaming unrestrainedly through the present and near future, he inhabits his characters’ minds with a ventriloquist’s flair, skewering human motivations and revealing us to ourselves with empathy and wry humour.

T. C. Boyle is the bestselling author of seventeen novels and eleven collections of stories. His work has been translated into twenty-six languages. He is the recipient of the Jonathan Swift Prize, the Voice in American Literature Award and the Henry David Thoreau Award. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California.

17 August 2023

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15 June 2023

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