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Drysalter
Jonathan Cape

Drysalter

Michael Symmons Roberts

Within the severe constraint of 150 fifteen-line poems, religious resonance, urban reality, bodily sensation, and metaphysical thought intersect. The compressed structure intensifies the layered feel of experience and the unease of the world.

Cannibals (Modern Plays)
Methuen Drama

Cannibals (Modern Plays)

Rory Mullarkey

Rory Mullarkey's debut full-length play follows Lizaveta as war and upheaval push her across a brutal, mythic landscape. The play mixes folklore and contemporary unease to explore survival, identity, and historical violence.

Azazeel
Atlantic Books

Azazeel

Youssef Ziedan, Jonathan Wright

A historical novel set in the early Christian world, following a Coptic monk as he moves from Upper Egypt to Alexandria and Syria while faith, power, and doubt collide.

Mother Departs
Stork Press Ltd

Mother Departs

Tadeusz Rozewicz, Barbara Bogoczek

An autobiographical farewell to the author's mother, Stefania, built from memoir, poetry, and fragments of recollection. It is both a family record and a meditation on grief and inheritance.

419
Penguin Canada

419

Will Ferguson

A novel in which a mother travels to Nigeria after a fraud disaster and tries to trace the truth behind it.

失われた時を求めて 3 第2篇 (光文社古典新訳文庫 Aフ 4-4)
光文社

失われた時を求めて 3 第2篇 (光文社古典新訳文庫 Aフ 4-4)

マルセル プルースト, Marcel Proust, 高遠 弘美

The second volume of In Search of Lost Time, Within a Budding Grove follows the narrator as he moves from adolescent longing toward a more self-aware youth during his stay at Balbec. Seaside landscapes, Swann family society, and encounters with Elstir gradually shape the novel's reflections on memory, desire, and art.