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Discover the Foyles Books of the Year 2020

Descend into the murky depths of Mordew with a signed edition

Every book is special; every book is unique. And sometimes books seem to be that little bit more unique—so we’ve put together some of our favourite ones-of-a-kind from this year for your perusal. These are the innovators, the genre-benders, the irreverents, the killer conceits; the interdisciplinaries, the stranger-than-fictions, the where-do-I-put-thats; they’re the magical realists and the really magicalists, the curious for the curious and the singular for the singular.

Leading the pack are new-in signed copies of Alex Pheby’s Mordew, a mammoth modern fantasy and a morbidly magical city of slums, sewers and Living Mud—above which the Master’s luxurious palace sits, its magic cascading down, and against whose sea walls the rival Mistress bombards her firebirds. It’s through the Living Mud that young Nathan Treeves wades, searching for a way to cure his father’s lungworms and extricate his mother from prostitution; the Living Mud that conjures to life abortive sprats and longer-lasting flukes. And it’s Nathan's secret power to Itch and Scratch, to Spark, that sends him on a journey from the slums to the Merchant City, to the pleasures of the palace and the horrors of its engines, crossing paths with child catchers and gill-men and street gangs and demons and living books—on a journey to the edge of Mordew and beyond, that will leave his world forever changed and reveal his own past and future.

The first in an upcoming trilogy, Mordew is a true one-of-a-kind; a kind of neo-Dickensian mudpunk modern fantasy casting shades of Gormenghast and His Dark Materials, yet entirely its own strange thing. Don’t miss it!

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Signed edition: Strange Beasts of China
SIGNED
Humans and humanoid beasts live side by side in this whimsical Chinese fantasy

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Signed: Tales from the Café
SIGNED
New stories from the time-travelling chair of Before the Coffee Gets Cold

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Signed bookplate edition: Luminous Republic
SIGNED BOOKPLATE
The child cult of this horror fable will make you rethink evil and innocence

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Signed edition: Why Visit America
SIGNED
Scratch your Black Mirror itch with these satirical tales of an alternate America

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Earthlings
£12.99 £10.99
Sayaka Murata's alien-invaded, cuddly toy-worshipping tale of outsiders

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XX
Cross-media storytelling and literary SFF collide in one graphic novel triumph

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When We Cease to Understand the World
£14.99 £12.99
Extrapolating scientific history into stories of abominable science

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The Liar's Dictionary
£14.99 £12.99
Linguaphiles will love this dexterous debut of lexical forgeries 

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“The book is both scintillating and arch, playful and preposterous, a searing indictment and an effulgent display.” Discover Eley Williams’ five favourite books from this year

The Animals in That Country
£14.99 £12.99
A pandemic sends Jean on a road trip across Australia with a talking dingo

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Lote
Artistic obsession and erased history are at the core of this truly dazzling debut 

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The World Doesn't Require You
The ruthless and magical stories that could have emerged from a town founded by slaves

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The Wandering
Choose-your-own-adventure of displacement, demon lovers and magical shoes 

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I Am Not Sidney Poitier
Hilarious take on race and class following protagonist Not Sidney Poitier

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Unknown Language
SF meets speculative mysticism when a 12th century saint is received in 2020 and beyond

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People From My Neighorhood
Dreamy, weird and touching super-shorts from the author of Strange Weather in Tokyo

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Tender is the Flesh
Page- and stomach-turning novel set in an industrialised cannibal dystopia

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Grab our Books for Everyone tote bag
Books for Everyone Tote Bag

There hasn't been a bag this bookish since Santa's sack: our glorious 100% organic cotton tote bag, adapted from our Christmas artwork and sporting a slogan every reader will relate to. Needless to say, it's one of a kind—and gone when it's gone!

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My Meteorite
Glorious subject-hopping criticism-meets-memoir on self, text and coincidence

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The Museum of Whales You Will Never See
Guide to Iceland’s many, tiny, strange collections, including Reykjavik's Penis Museum

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Sealand
True history of an independent sea fort micronation off the coast of Suffolk

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Entangled Life
£20 £17.99
The smash-hit book on fungi you never knew you absolutely had to read

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“The mayor of the city is a corrupt thoroughbred race horse and the protagonist is an alpaca assistant to the commissioner of records.” Discover Merlin Sheldrake’s favourite reads from 2020

Strangers
Essay collection that rends boundaries between human and nonhuman

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18 Tiny Deaths
£16.99 £14.99
Biography of the female forensics pioneer who built dollhouse crime scenes

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An Inventory of Losses
£20 £17.99
Inventive and enthralling study of works and places lost to the world forever

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Phallacy
What can we learn of man’s place in nature from the variety of animal penises?

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How to Hold Animals
Everything you've ever wanted to know about holding furry and scaly friends

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Accidently Wes Anderson
Sometimes life looks like a Wes Anderson film, this collection confirms

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Murder Maps
Dissect 19th century crime scenes with this macabre and transfixing tome

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The Madman's Library
Compendium of peculiar books across history—toxic, invisible or made of cheese

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Lots of gift ideas in our Christmas selection!




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