In this daring, genre-defying work, Alice Oswald goes in search of poetry in its original, wildest form - before it was written down, before it belonged to a single voice - and finds it still speaking all around us.

What begins as an attempt to 'interview' Homer becomes a thrilling exploration of an anonymous tradition existing beyond authorship, spanning a world of singers, storytellers, mourners and listeners.  

From ballads to riddles, AI to sonnets, Rhapsody is a restless exploration of poetry in its most vital form, a resounding manifesto for the oral tradition, and invites us to listen to the voices that shape us and recognise poetry as a communal, essential human inheritance.

In the winner of the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing, we explore Britain's richest habitats, its Ancient woods: rare fragments of our landscape that teem with life from soil to canopy, living in our collective imagination as places best left pristine. But their story has always been one of interdependence with people.

With the benefit of over twenty years' experience rehabilitating ancient woodland, Luke Barley brings us deep into this hidden world and the passionate individuals tending them for future generations. As modern woodlanders judiciously cut and fell, Barley reveals what we stand to gain, as individuals and as a society, by rekindling our ancient connection with these special places.

A few months after her mother dies, the novelist Naomi Alderman sets up a camera that captures the first image of a strange new animal. Low to the ground, flat face, long trunk-like nose, these 'mimmoths' become as common as dogs. And no one knows where they come from.   

As she navigates grief the mimmoths spread across the globe - harmless, but oddly intelligent. Unable to shake the feeling she has a particular connection to the creatures, Alderman is pulled into a world of conspiracy theories and global power struggles.

This thrillingly original and moving novel blurs the line between fiction and reality, inviting us to reconsider what it means to be human. 

2031. America is at war with itself, but for the first time in weeks there is some hope: the Republic of California has been declared, the curfew in LA is lifted, and everyone in the city is going to a party.

Ari, newly released from prison, arrives with her friend Gloria just a new fragile era begins. But there are people at the party who shouldn't be there. Years later in Paris, Ari is haunted by that night. Whatever happened at the party fractured her sense of reality - and may hold the key to a very different world.

From the author of Station Eleven, Exit Party is Emily St. John Mandel's epic new story of crimes committed and loves lost across worlds and decades.

From the bestselling, award-winning master of uncanny fiction comes a defining work, twenty years in the making - an epic of grief, global tumult, and grim conspiracy.

Maur's life has been shaped by an unbearable loss. But in the aftermath of what is an apparently ordinary tragedy, stranger questions arise. Their answers may lie within the dark past of an old soldier who shares Maur's obsessions - and is violently pursued by the same unknown, unquiet forces.

So begins The Rouse, a masterpiece unlike any other: at once a sprawling saga of the bloody twentieth century, and the intimate story of two lives, their loves, regrets and secrets - and a terrifying journey into infinite mystery.

Philip Deval, a soldier recently returned from the beaches of Normandy, arrives in Palestine on a peace-keeping mission in the final days of the British Mandate. War-weary troops marvel at the novelty of oranges and sun in a paradise that belies a fierce new conflict about to erupt.

Some years later, Philip begins work teaching at a school in the English countryside and grows close to an enigmatic woman. But Philip is a changed man, and must confront the scars of all he has lived through - which threaten, even now, to upend his future.

Sebastian Faulks - author of Birdsong - crafts a sweeping and profound novel about faith in all its forms, and a rich portrait of an embattled post-war Britain, asking how, after great suffering, do we retain our humanity.

'Daphne Du Maurier stole my life.'

Mrs Danowski - known as Danni - is the housekeeper of a grand mansion on the wild coast of Cornwall. When glamorous young writer visits Manderville Hall to research her new novel, she and Danni are drawn into a clandestine and intoxicating affair.

For Danni, it is an all-consuming love; for Daphne a submission to long-suppressed desires. But their fragile secret is vulnerable to prying eyes, and when Daphne's novel launches to triumphant success, Danni is distraught to find herself cruelly transformed on the page. Now it's time to tell her own side of the story...

The second collection of short fiction from Tom Cox - author of Everything Will Swallow You - takes us on a wild ride through the portals of his psychedelic imagination, into the kind of parallel world perhaps access through the hollow of an ancient tree... suddenly up-ended worlds holding up a warped mirror to our own.

In Curious Events Lately Occurring In This Neighbourhood, you can find an erudite badger; a poet-prejudiced bookshop owner and his larcenous young apprentice; a worried businesswoman spying on her ex-husband from a tree; a mysterious stone that gives shocking insight into true identities, and many more surreal and humorous scenarios.

After an assassination attempt and in waning health, Naguib Mahfouz became more cautious in his twilight years. In nightly dreams, his imagination began to roam his beloved city, Cairo, with a rare freedom.

In this collection of vivid vignettes linked together by the author's precisely rendered nocturnal wanderings through Cairo, figures from Mahfouz's personal life blend with his anxieties about Egypt's political past and future.

Each dream is layered with philosophical and spiritual musings, hopes and disappointments, building to a rich and complex picture of the subconscious of the Nobel Prize-winning author.

In a reissue of her debut collection, Madeline Cash - the author of Lost Lambs - skewers our late-stage-Capitalist reality into a strange, but ultimately life-affirming collage of stories.

Life is absurd, so is Earth Angel. A biblical plague rains sentient frogs, a childless millennial throws a slumber party, a young couple try experimental drugs to reignite their relationship.

Blending reverence and ridicule, the stories that make up Earth Angel are bizarre, playful, hyper-modern yet timeless, with Cash's undeniable affection for the denizens of this strange and surreal world.  

The life of bookish dreamer Arthur Oakes - student at the beautiful Rackham College - is shattered when local drug dealers force him into a terrible crime: stealing rare books from the college library.  

Trapped and desperate, Arthur turns to his closest friends for help: the wealthy Colin; the brave Allison; the battling twins, Donna and Donovan; and the brainy Gwen Underfoot, Arthur's sweetheart. Together, they plan to summon the fabled dragon King Sorrow to kill Arthur's tormentors.  

But soon, the six stumble backwards into a deadly bargain - choose a new sacrifice for King Sorrow each year, or be his next victim. Unleashing uncontrollable consequences, this promise will, over the next four decades, endanger their lives in way they could never expect.

Everyday life mixes with the magical in this enchanting collection of poems.  

A tiny horse gallops across the table. The moon draws astronauts out into the park. Mountains move, fish fly, and the monster under the bed is surprisingly helpful.  

Playful and fantastical linguistic adventures, When You Were A Cloud is an invitation to look more closely at the world around us and to see nature and language in a new light.

Meet Idris, the teenage giant king on a quest to collect stories. As he travels across Wales in this anthology, he hears stories of vengeful goblins, a ghoulish party and a whole host of fascinating folk reimagined from legend.  

In this beautiful, decorative special edition, a wealth of Welsh myths, legends and ghost stories are given new life, as we explore exciting adventures full of feisty and fun characters living in a mixture of traditional and modern worlds.

Seventeen-year-old Lil is anything but small. She's rebellious, she's loyal; she's figuring out what kind of good person she wants to be. But more than anything? Lil wants to be free.

Because Lil is on probation, and she's trying really hard to be New Lil - follow the rules, keep her head down till her court hearing in three weeks' time. But Old Lil keeps rearing her head...

And when her friend Aldwin's silence turn into something more alarm, even though he's hundred's of miles away, Lil knows she's the only one who can help him. But how can she get to him without putting her future on the line?