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Highways to a War
Penguin Publishing Group

Highways to a War

Christopher J. Koch

Built around the disappearance of a war photographer, this novel follows memory and testimony across Cambodia. Personal experience and historical violence overlap until the reality of war emerges with unsettling clarity.

Race Traitor
Routledge

Race Traitor

Noel Ignatiev, John Garvey

A provocative essay collection that attacks race as a social construct and argues for radical abolition of whiteness.

Lon Po Po (Paperstar)
Puffin Books

Lon Po Po (Paperstar)

Ed Young

A Chinese retelling of the classic Little Red Riding Hood tale, retold and illustrated by Ed Young. Three sisters are left home alone while their mother visits their grandmother. A cunning wolf arrives disguised as their grandmother, but the clever girls outwit the wolf using a ginkgo nut ruse, ultimately defeating him through their own ingenuity.

Stones And Fires (Chatto poetry)
Random House UK

Stones And Fires (Chatto poetry)

John Fuller

This collection draws together a selection of poems that are both comic and grave. It contains two longer poems: one on the history of Europe, and another - "Stargazing" - which is a meditation on astronomy and the death of a father.

The Smell Of Apples
Abacus

The Smell Of Apples

Prof Mark Behr

'Masterly... A disturbing story which subtly lays bare the twisted logic of apartheid' The Times Marnus is terrified he will not fulfil the expectations of his elite Afrikaner family who are certain of their superiority. But when Mr Smith arrives, things start to change, affecting Marnus's values and everything around him that he he holds dear. Mark Behr's debut novel and the recipient of numerous awards including South Africa's biggest literary prize, the M-Net Award, as well as the Eugene Maris Prize and the CAN Literary Award. In the UK the book was shortlisted for the Steinbeck Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize, and received the Betty Trask Award. In the USA the novel won the Art Seidenbaum Award from the Los Angeles Times.

抱擁 1
新潮社

抱擁 1

A.S.バイアット, 栗原 行雄, 太原 千佳子

A literary mystery that intertwines two scholars, Victorian poets, romance, scholarship, possession, and discovery.

Mukiwa
Picador

Mukiwa

Peter Godwin

A memoir tracing childhood and youth in Rhodesia. Against the end of colonial rule and the reality of violence, it vividly portrays the instability of the white community and one person's coming of age.