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A first novel from a major new literary talent, an anthology edited by Anne Enright, and two moving books from Linda Grant

PIGEON ENGLISH

by Stephen Kelman

"Pigeon English is a triumph." -- Emma Donoghue, author of Room

Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on a London housing estate. The second best runner in his grade, Harri races through his new life in his personalized trainers -- the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker -- blissfully unaware of the very real threat all around him. With equal fascination for the local gang -- the Dell Farm Crew -- and the pigeon who visits his balcony, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of his new life in England: watching, listening, and learning the tricks of inner-city survival. But when a boy is knifed to death on the high street and a police appeal for witnesses draws only silence, Harri decides to start a murder investigation of his own. In doing so, he unwittingly endangers the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to try and keep them safe.

A story of innocence and experience, hope and harsh reality, Pigeon English is a spellbinding portrayal of a boy balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces around him that try to shape the way he falls.

Pigeon English will be published around the world, with film rights sold to Ridley and Tony Scott's Scott Free UK. The story will be adapted for the screen by Jack Thorne, directed by Adam Smith, and produced by Liza Marshall. We can't wait to find out who will play Harri!

Advance reviews of Pigeon English:

"Told with humour, despite the gritty subject matter and setting . . . Pigeon English charms its way into some hard places." -- Financial Times

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THE GRANTA BOOK OF THE IRISH SHORT STORY

edited by Anne Enright

Man Booker Prize-winning author Anne Enright's selection of the best Irish short stories of the last sixty years.

Nostalgic, dark, comic, iconoclastic, the Irish short story has always punched well above its weight. Anne Enright has brought together a dazzling collection of Irish stories written in the last sixty years, by authors from Elizabeth Bowen and Frank O'Connor to Claire Keegan and Kevin Barry. With a pithy and passionate introduction by Enright, The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story traces this great tradition through decades of social change, and shows the ease and pleasure Irish writers continue to take in the short story form. There is no truth so telling as a small truth, or so much fun.

WHEN I LIVED IN MODERN TIMES

by Linda Grant

A stylish reissue of the Orange Prize-winning novel.

It is April 1946. Evelyn Sert, twenty years old, a hairdresser from Soho, sails for Palestine, where Jewish refugees and idealists are gathering from across Europe to start a new life in a brand-new country. In the glittering, cosmopolitan, Bauhaus city of Tel Aviv, anything seems possible -- the new self, new Jew, new woman are all feasible. Evelyn, adept at disguises, reinvents herself as the bleached-blonde Priscilla Jones. Immersed in a world of passionate idealism, she finds love, and with Johnny, her lover, finds herself at the heart of a very dangerous game.

REMIND ME WHO I AM, AGAIN

by Linda Grant

"A skillful, moving, even humorous book. It is more than an elegy for a lost mother or the charting of one human being's decline . . . It is an investigation of memory." -- Scotland on Sunday

At the beginning of the 1990s, Linda Grant's mother, Rose, was diagnosed with Dementia. In Remind Me Who I Am, Again Linda Grant tells the story of Rose's illness and tries to reconstruct the history of their Jewish immigrant family, stalking them from Russia and Poland to New York and London. Writing with humour and great tenderness, Grant explores profound questions about memory, autonomy, and identity, and asks if we can ever really know our parents.