Beautiful, moving, heartbreaking, brutal, this feminist tour de force is a prequel to Maresi and Maresi Red Mantle, describing the fantastical world in which the First Sisters broke free from their oppressors and raged against patriarchal violence. The multiple characters and stories in this book show many sides of the feminist struggle that have existed historically, and still exist today. Though technically a Young Adult novel, its horror and magic couln’t fail to make an impression on adult readers too.

Second book in The Red Abbey Chronicles.

‘A rich, detailed and beautifully-written answer to the question ‘how did we get here?’ My European Family is a vital and timely exploration of the genetic, social and cultural threads that connect and unite us.’ – Kat Arney, science broadcaster and author of Herding Hemingway’s Cats (2016).

‘Meticulous, up-to-date, and never tedious, [Bojs] draws from hundreds of scientific results to create a broad-brush picture of human evolution, showing us how DNA research is revolutionizing our knowledge of the past.’ –  Wall Street Journal

‘An extraordinary book … part travel narrative, part family history, part scientific study.’ –  Financial Times

‘Tells the story of all modern Europeans.’ – The New European

A sweet picture book about a grown-up and child trying to negotiate life together. What is Bo supposed to do when Koko’s answer to everything is: “I DON’T WANT TO”?

Longlisted for the 2018 Best Translated Book Award, Johannes Heldén’s Astroecology (translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel, Kirkwood Adams, and the author) begins from an eschatological place: the world as we know it is ending, and this cosmic ending can be witnessed in that most intimate and privileged of places, the private estate. Astroecology finds us in a real house and a real garden, surrounded by endlessly meaningful details, arranged with the precision of a Twin Peaks-like murder mystery. In a series of filmic visual frames and corresponding textual notes, Heldén offers a poetics that twists the organic (plants, pets, decay and growth) and the inorganic (drones, data systems, AI) into each other as a kind of avant-garde Mobius strip. A dazzling intertexuality unfolds: Inger Christensen’s indexical impulse meets Hayao Miyazaki’s surrealism, Chris Marker’s stark montage meets Robert Smithson’s iconography, Ursula LeGuin’s social investigation meets Norbert Weiner’s theory of cybernetics. In letting the reader-viewer get “stuck in the stream of evolution” over and over again, Heldén brings us to profound unanswerable questions about the origins of the universe: its processes, systems, and vanishing species of creature and thought.

A young mother and gangster’s girlfriend is driven to the brink and learns how far she will go to survive on her own terms.