James by Percival Everett

James by Percival Everett'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' Roddy Doyle Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner

This treasure trove of old stories

As well as holding up the zeitgeist for scrutiny

femininity and the trappings of an 'ideal' life

She was working in the forest service when she first discovered how trees communicate underground through an immense web of fungi

Kate Atkinson

It's the week before Hallowe'en

illustrators

finding herself unable to deal with her own changing body and her mother's self-obsession

the species have been carefully selected to include those that the non-specialist birdwatcher is most likely to see

and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins

a formidable duo

Japanese and Inuit mythology