Blowing hot and cold: an intense look at the relationship between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, using previously unpublished letters and other sources to explore their closeness and their later estrangement.

A delightful little buttercup of a book-slash-magazine-slash anthology of fiction, poetry and reviews. This is the first issue. Founded and edited by Tristram Fane Saunders.

A shard of crockery found in the garden of a family home in the Netherlands sets off a series of quiet, intense revelations in this novel about memory, desire, belonging and the idea of home. A perfectly paced debut which has just won the Women's Prize for Fiction.

From the author of The Nightingale, a novel about novelists going on holiday together (never a good idea) one summer in Sicily.

A microscopic book - no larger than of a packet of cigarettes. Collects her essays on mass media, popular culture and art into 200 or so tiny pages. Pieces on Francis Bacon, Annie Ernaux, Kim Kardashian and other luminaries. Good stocking filler, if it's not too ridiculously early to say so.

A dark, funny reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad. Hal is twenty-two, often drunk, drifting between parties, mass and his difficult family, until a shooting accident throws him into the path of an old friend. Shades of Edward St Aubyn, or a kind of evil gay Martin Amis... you have been warned!

Much anticipated biography of this controversial artist, by the author of outstanding biographies of Munch, Strindberg and Nietzsche,

The first print issue of the immensely popular online food magazine. Contributors include Julia Armfield, Jonathan Meades, Eliza Clark, Rebecca May Johnson, Nigel Slater and many others.

Powerful debut novel set in a coastal Irish town, where women must navigate their emotional lives among hard, manipulative men. Fine characterisation and atmosphere.

A selection of his cheerful and unpretentious art criticism.

A memoir of her multifarious travels, rich with culinary ideas - Russian railway pies, Sultanahmet in the snow, Polish cloudberries... Eden's latest book is imbued with her knowledge and love of these places, visited many times in her work as a journalist.

Argues that the greatest threat to democracy is interlinked networks - primarily, state-controlled companies - rather than individuals.

Set on the C?te d'Azur in the 1930s, this novel by the great publisher has never been published before.

From the 50s to the 70s, Tom Wilson produced a dazzling line-up of folk, rock and jazz artists: Sun Ra, Bob Dylan, Nico, John Coltrane, . This is the first book about him. It features essays, interviews and photographs. The publishers, ?ditions 1989, are a tiny Parisian publishing house who specialise in biograpical writing by see more

The irrepressible Ali Smith takes us to a dystopia in which two children come home to find a line of wet red paint encircling the outside of their house...

Two brothers - a chess prodigy and a Dublin lawyer - struggle to connect in the wake of their father's death.

It is nearly thirty years since Aciman's superb memoir of his Alexandrian childhood, Out of Egypt. Since Call Me By Your Name, he has mutated from an academic scholar of Proust into a bestselling novelist. Now he has returned to a teenage year in Rome in the 1960s, between Egypt and America.

Based on her diaries as a teenager, when she was painted several times by her father.

A new novel from the author of the 'Outline' trilogy and other wonders.

A love hotel on Japan's Inland Sea, H.G. Wells, Rebecca West, 1930s' physics: a mesmerising memoir of his parents by the author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

A gardener's control is illusory, thanks to a myriad other organisms that have their own ideas about how things should be run. Here are Mabey's enchanting and erudite observations on the horticultural argument - or conversation - that's been taking place in his own Norfolk garden.