Our Strangers by Lydia Davis

Our Strangers by Lydia DavisA FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR: FICTION 'A trailblazer in the world of short form prose' New YorkerLydia Davis is a virtuoso at detecting the seemingly casual, inconsequential surprises of daily life and pinning them for inspection. In Our Strangers, conversations are overheard and misheard, a special delivery letter is mistaken for a rare white butterfly, toddlers learning to speak identify a ping pong ball as an egg and mumbled remarks betray a

until they realise they both have something to gain by pretending to be a couple

or his way

'Imaginative

' Gay Times*Shortlisted for Book of the Year in the British Book Awards*Heartstopper was Children's #1 bestseller in the TCM chart on 23 April 2022

The Golden Bear

Pumkin has a mountain to climb

but her journey to find her kidnapped mother is just beginning

you'll soon be getting in your 30 plants

to his marriage and his many affairs (with both men and women)

The Bell in the Lake does what fiction promises: to steal you away to another world and ask you

With irresistible pink and black artwork throughout by author/illustrator Harriet Muncaster and a totally unique heroine with an out-of-this-world family

John recruits Anna in his efforts to uncover the truth about Ms