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I sei protagonisti di \"Cloud Atlas - L'atlante delle nuvole\" vivono in punti e momenti diversi del mondo e del tempo, eppure fanno parte tutti di un unico schema, una specie di matrioska composta da sei personaggi uniti l'uno all'altro dal filo sottile e inestricabile del caso. Le loro anime si spostano come nuvole, passando dal corpo di un notaio americano di metà Ottocento, giunto su un'isola del Pacifico per assistere ai devastanti effetti del colonialismo, al giovane musicista che s'intrufola nell'esistenza di un celebre compositore belga tra le due guerre mondiali. Da un'intrepida giornalista che indaga sull'omicidio di uno scienziato antinucleare in piena guerra fredda, a un editore inglese in fuga dai creditori nella Londra anni Ottanta, sino a un clone schiavizzato nella Corea del prossimo futuro. Per arrivare infine all'alba del nuovo mondo - all'indomani dell'Apocalisse - e al suo primitivo, stupefatto abitante. Con una nuova prefazione firmata dall'autore.

Tutto inizia – o finisce – con un giovane notaio americano dell'Ottocento in viaggio tra le isole del Pacifico, alla scoperta delle popolazioni indigene. Poi via via si risalgono gli anni e i continenti e si incontrano nuovi personaggi: un giovane musicista in cerca della composizione perfetta nell'Europa degli anni Trenta; una coraggiosa giornalista californiana che, nel 1975, indaga su una centrale nucleare; un editore britannico in fuga da un gruppo di gangster. La narrazione prosegue fino ad arrivare a un prossimo futuro, in cui Seul sarà sommersa dalle acque e popolata di cloni, e oltre, all'alba di un nuovo mondo post-apocalittico. Come in una matrioska, ogni storia ne contiene un'altra, le vite si rincorrono, i destini si rispecchiano, le anime si incontrano.

'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' Independent\n\nShortlisted for the Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, winner of Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year and a BBC Two Between the Covers Book Club pick\n\n'Miraculous'\nSunday Times\n\n'A masterful feast'\nEvening Standard\n\n'Shamelessly exciting'\nSpectator\n\n'Remarkable'\nGuardian\n\n'Stunning'\nDaily Mail\n\nA novel of mind-bending imagination and scope from the author of Ghostwritten and Utopia Avenue\n\nSouls cross ages like clouds cross skies . . .\n\n Six interlocking lives - one amazing adventure. In a narrative that circles the globe and reaches from the 19th century to a post-apocalyptic future, Cloud Atlas erases the boundaries of time, genre and language to offer an enthralling vision of humanity's will to power, and where it will lead us.\n\n *Please note that the end of p. 39 and p. 40 are intentionally blank*\n\n\nPRAISE FOR DAVID MITCHELL\n\n'A thrilling and gifted writer'\nFinancial Times\n\n'Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good'\nDaily Mail\n\n'Mitchell is, clearly, a genius'\nNew York Times Book Review\n\n'An author of extraordinary ambition and skill'\nIndependent on Sunday\n\n'A superb storyteller'\nThe New Yorker

'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENT\nWinner of the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize \n'Astonishingly accomplished'\nTHE TIMES\n\n'Remarkable'\nOBSERVER\n\n'Gripping'\nNEW YORK TIMES\n\n'Fabulously atmospheric'\nGUARDIAN\n\n'Engrossing'\nDAILY MAIL\n\nA magnificent achievement and an engrossing experience, David Mitchell's first novel announced the arrival of one of the most exciting writers of the twenty-first century.\nAn apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro, but what links him to a jazz buff in downtown Tokyo? Or to a Mongolian gangster, a woman on a holy mountain who talks to a tree, and a late night New York DJ?\n\nSet at the fugitive edges of Asia and Europe, Ghostwritten weaves together a host of characters, their interconnected destinies determined by the inescapable forces of cause and effect.\n\nPRAISE FOR DAVID MITCHELL\n'A thrilling and gifted writer'\nFINANCIAL TIMES\n\n'Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good'\nDAILY MAIL\n\n'Mitchell is, clearly, a genius'\nNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\n\n'An author of extraordinary ambition and skill'\nINDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY\n\n'A superb storyteller'\nTHE NEW YORKER

«Ascesa e caduta di una rock band tra droga, sesso e voglia di farcela È l’ultimo romanzo dell’autore di “ Cloud Atlas” che mette in scena un viaggio psichedelico nella Swinging London» - Enrico Franceschini, RobinsonSiamo a Londra alla fine degli anni Sessanta. Quattro giovanissimi musicisti squattrinati si trovano per caso riuniti in un gruppo da un talent scout, per sostituire una band famosa che si è sciolta. Jasper alla chitarra, Griff alla batteria, Dean al basso e Elf, unica ragazza, alle tastiere decidono di suonare insieme, sono bravi, scrivono le loro canzoni e - dopo un esordio piuttosto confuso - entrano in sintonia. E se all'inizio si chiamano Way Out (visto che hanno salvato una serata buca), ben presto decidono di cambiare nome: saranno gli Utopia Avenue. Mentre le loro vite personali si complicano - Dean si mette nei guai con donne altrui e droghe psichedeliche, Jasper sembra rivivere vite passate, in particolare quella del suo avo Jakob de Zoet, Elf si perde in storie con uomini pessimi e scrive canzoni bellissime; l'unico che sembra solido è Griff, naturalmente - la loro carriera prende il volo, in una scena musicale straordinaria. Gli Utopia Avenue incontreranno i più grandi musicisti della storia, da Dylan a Cohen, dai Beatles a Bowie, mentre il mondo cambia per sempre. E da Londra, la band parte alla conquista dell'America. Da New York alla West Coast, tra feste pazze e un mare di soldi, i quattro ragazzi britannici sono in piena corsa. Mentre il grande orologiaio conta il ticchettio del tempo.

A SPECTATOR AND EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020\n\n'A joy. Each chapter instantly became my favourite' David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas\n\n'Wonderful' Lucy Mangan\n\n'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.'\n\nThis is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, scrawl in their margins or just curl up with them in bed. Taking us on a journey through comfort reads, street book stalls, mythical libraries, itinerant pedlars, radical pamphleteers, extraordinary bookshop customers and fanatical collectors, Canterbury bookseller Martin Latham uncovers the curious history of our book obsession - and his own. \n\nPart cultural history, part literary love letter and part reluctant memoir, this is the tale of one bookseller and many, many books.\n\n'If ferreting through bookshops is your idea of heaven, you'll get the same pleasure from this treasure trove of a book' Jake Kerridge, Sunday Express

'I loved this novel's brain and heart'\nDAVID MITCHELL, AUTHOR OF CLOUD ATLAS\n\n'A first-rate speculative thriller, by turns fascinating, brutal, powerful, and redemptive'\nJEFF VANDERMEER, AUTHOR OF ANNIHILATION\n\nThere are creatures in the water of Con Dao. \nTo the locals, they're monsters. \nTo the corporate owners of the island, an opportunity. \nTo the team of three sent to study them, a revelation. \n\n Their minds are unlike ours. \nTheir bodies are malleable, transformable, shifting. \nThey can communicate. \nAnd they want us to leave.\n\nWhen pioneering marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen is offered the chance to travel to the remote Con Dao Archipelago to investigate a highly intelligent, dangerous octopus species, she doesn't pause long enough to look at the fine print. DIANIMA- a transnational tech corporation best known for its groundbreaking work in artificial intelligence - has purchased the islands, evacuated their population and sealed the archipelago off from the world so that Nguyen can focus on her research.\n\nBut the stakes are high: the octopuses hold the key to unprecedented breakthroughs in extrahuman intelligence and there are vast fortunes to be made by whoever can take advantage of their advancements. And no one has yet asked the octopuses what they think. And what they might do about it.\n\nWhat readers are saying about The Mountain in the Sea:\n\n'Poetic, thrilling, and sent my imagination into overdrive . . . packed full of wholly original, mind-expanding ideas about consciousness and communication' Goodreads reviewer, ? ? ? ? ?\n\n'A masterfully spun poem of a story that explores power differentials, what we do to each other, and what we do to the species with which we share our planet' Goodreads reviewer, ? ? ? ? ?\n\n'Kicks off from first contact with an intelligent octopus species and the exploration of its language and culture to a broader reflection on intelligence, consciousness, and self. Ray Nayler does an outstanding job' Goodreads reviewer, ? ? ? ? ?\n\n'Fans of the short story/movie Arrival, take note of this one . . . If you want to read a fun twist on an \"alien encounter\" story with a great mix of thrills and brains, I would strongly recommend this' Goodreads reviewer, ? ? ? ? ?\n\n'It's completely unique, and I loved it . . . fascinating and complex' Goodreads reviewer, ? ? ? ? ?\n\n'I cannot put my finger on exact thing that kept me in this story and made me finish in one sitting . . . It expands the perspective. I can go on and on about this book, but I would recommend that all sci-fi and sea lovers read this' Goodreads reviewer, ? ? ? ? ?

'I loved this novel's brain and heart'\nDAVID MITCHELL, AUTHOR OF CLOUD ATLAS\n\n'A first-rate speculative thriller, by turns fascinating, brutal, powerful, and redemptive'\nJEFF VANDERMEER, AUTHOR OF ANNIHILATION\n\nThere are creatures in the water of Con Dao.\n To the locals, they're monsters.\n To the corporate owners of the island, an opportunity. \n To the team of three sent to study them, a revelation.\n\n Their minds are unlike ours.\n Their bodies are malleable, transformable, shifting.\n They can communicate.\n And they want us to leave.\n\n When pioneering marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen is offered the chance to travel to the remote Con Dao Archipelago to investigate a highly intelligent, dangerous octopus species, she doesn't pause long enough to look at the fine print. DIANIMA - a transnational tech corporation best known for its groundbreaking work in artificial intelligence - has purchased the islands, evacuated their population and sealed the archipelago off from the world so that Nguyen can focus on her research.\n\nBut the stakes are high: the octopuses hold the key to unprecedented breakthroughs in extrahuman intelligence and there are vast fortunes to be made by whoever can take advantage of their advancements. And no one has yet asked the octopuses what they think. And what they might do about it.\n\nLocus Award 2023 - Winner of First Novel award\nNebula Award 2023 Finalist.\nRay Bradbury Prize 2023 Finalist.\nShortlisted for the 2024 Arthur C. Clarke Award

'Sunlit and dark, painful and joyous' David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas\n\nIn 1931, Gregory Hemingway's life begins in Kansas City, Missouri. The third and favourite child of an overbearing father, Greg is a paragon: a star athlete, a crack shot, bright and handsome and built like a pocket battleship.\n\nIn 2001, Gloria Hemingway's life ends in a Miami women's correctional institution. Complex and contradictory, radiant and resilient, it is a life that has flourished against the odds and been lived to the full.\n\nInspired by true events and spanning seventy years of the last century, this is the story of a miraculous existence, told with beauty and compassion. Transporting the reader back and forth in time, from Cuba to New York and Montana to Florida, The Broken Places explores what it means to grow up in the shadow of a man famous for his masculinity, to bear the weight of expectation and a tragic family legacy, and to finally step out into the light.

1) This book analyses the role of cosmopolitan ideals in the science fiction cinemas of twenty-first century. 2) It deals with diverse topics like economic precarity, climate change, kinship, romance, networks, and colonialism through films like Elysium and Cloud Atlas, among others. 3) This book will be of interest to departments of film & media studies and cultural studies across UK.

'Epic . . . weaves a Cloud Atlas-style narrative of humanity under pressure and nature under threat' Guardian, BOOKS OF THE YEAR\n\n'A little piece of magic' Sunday Independent, BOOKS OF THE YEAR\n\n'Enthralling . . . A timely musing on what and who are lost to history' The Economist, BOOKS OF THE YEAR\n\n'Truly outstanding' Mail on Sunday\n\n'Mason teases out the joy and meaning in the sometimes small lives of his characters. North Woods has been heaped with praise and hype, and deservedly so. This is a book that treats life as a miracle and demands the proper awe from its readers' Antonia Senior, The Times \n\n'This is a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic . . . The only constants are the land and Mason's genius' Washington Post \n\n'Daniel Mason's latest novel is one of those rare books that truly deserves the description \"spellbinding\" ' Observer\n\n'A tapestry at once intimate and epic' TLS\n\n'Extraordinary characters . . . a tour de force' Independent, Best Books for Autumn \n\nFOUR CENTURIES. A SINGLE HOUSE DEEP IN THE WOODS OF NEW ENGLAND. \n\nA young Puritan couple on the run. An English soldier with a fantastic vision. Inseparable twin sisters. A lovelorn painter and a lusty beetle. A desperate mother and her haunted son. A ruthless con man and a stalking panther. Buried secrets. Madness, dreams and hope.\n\n All are connected. The dark, raucous, beautiful past is very much alive.\n\nExhilarating, daring and playful, NORTH WOODS will change the way you see the world.\n\n'A monumental achievement' Maggie O'Farrell\n\n'Ambitious, alive, and lush with generosity . . . an immersive sprint through time' Tess Gunty

'This life-stuffed novel is Aleksandar Hemon's masterpiece' - David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas\n\nThe epic, cross-continental tale of a love so strong it conquers the Great War, revolution, and even death itself.\n\nAs the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and grinding tablets behind the counter at the pharmacy he inherited from his father. It's not quite the life he had expected during his poetry-filled student days in libertine Vienna, but it's nothing a dash of laudanum, a summer stroll and idle fantasies can't put in perspective.\n\nAnd then the world explodes. In the trenches in Galicia, fantasies fall flat. Heroism gets a man killed quickly. War devours all that they have known, and the only thing Pinto has to live for are the attentions of Osman, a fellow soldier, a man of action to complement Pinto's introspective, poetic soul; a charismatic storyteller and Pinto's protector and lover.\n\nTogether, Pinto and Osman will escape the trenches and find themselves entangled with spies and Bolsheviks. As they travel over mountains and across deserts, from one world to another, all the way to Shanghai, it is Pinto's love for Osman that will truly survive.

'A stand-out triumph' - Sunday Times\n\nThe spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of CLOUD ATLAS and THE BONE CLOCKS, 'one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' (Independent).\n\nUtopia Avenue might be the most curious British band you've never heard of. \n\nEmerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967, folksinger Elf Holloway, blues bassist Dean Moss, guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet and jazz drummer Griff Griffin together created a unique sound, with lyrics that captured their turbulent times. The band produced only two albums in two years, yet their musical legacy lives on.\n\nThis is the story of Utopia Avenue's brief, blazing journey from Soho clubs and draughty ballrooms to the promised land of America, just when the Summer of Love was receding into something much darker - a multi-faceted tale of dreams, drugs, love, sexuality, madness and grief; of stardom's wobbly ladder and fame's Faustian pact; and of the collision between youthful idealism and jaded reality as the Sixties drew to a close. \n\nAbove all, this bewitching novel celebrates the power of music to connect across divides, define an era and thrill the soul.\n\n'The great rock and roll novel - an epic love letter to the greatest music ever made and the book the music has always deserved' Tony Parsons

'Engaging, smart and wise, Mini-Philosophy is a diverse taster menu of ideas on life, the mind and the world. Nutritious, bite-sized portions of philosophy that whet the appetite for more' - David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks\n\n Why do people enjoy watching scary movies? Should we bet on the existence of God? Why is pleasure better than pain? And when is a duck not a duck?\n\n Mini Philosophy is a fascinating journey into what some of the greatest minds of the last 2500 years have to say about the big questions in life, and why they are relevant to us today.\n\n Covering everything from Sun Tzu's strategy for winning at board games to Freud's insights into our 'death drive'; why De Beauvoir believed the mothering instinct is a myth to why Schopenhauer probably wasn't much fun at parties, these mini meditations will expand your mind (and bend it too).

'A hymn to life, love, family, and spirit' DAVID MITCHELL, author of Cloud Atlas\n\nThe vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of an artist born with disabilities who searches for freedom and connection in a society afraid of strange bodies.\n\n***WINNER OF THE BARBELLION PRIZE***\n\nIn 1958, amongst the children born with spina bifida is Riva Lehrer. She endures endless medical procedures and is told she will never have a job, a romantic relationship or an independent life. But everything changes when as an adult Riva is invited to join a group of artists, writers, and performers who are building Disability Culture. Their work is daring, edgy, funny, and dark, and it rejects tropes that define disabled people as pathetic, frightening or worthless, instead insisting that disability is an opportunity for creativity and resistance. Riva begins to paint their portraits - and her art begins to transform the myths she's been told her whole life about her body, her sexuality, and other measures of normal.\n\n'A brilliant book, full of strangeness, beauty, and wonder' Audrey Niffenegger\n\n'Wonderful. An ode to art and the beauty of disability' Cerrie Burnell\n\n'Stunning' Alison Bechdel\n\n***SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD***

***THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER***\n 'Fans of Cloud Atlas and Never Let Me Go will love The History of Bees' Good Housekeeping\n'Dystopian and electric, this book is set to blow minds everywhere' Stylist\n'Haunting and poignant ... an important and wonderful book' Dave Goulson, bestselling author of Bee Quest\n\n In the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this dazzling and ambitious literary debut follows three generations of beekeepers from the past, present, and future, weaving a spellbinding story of their relationship to the bees - and to their children and one another - against the backdrop of an urgent, global crisis.\n\nEngland, 1851. William is a biologist and seed merchant, who sets out to build a new type of beehive-one that will give both him and his children honour and fame.\n\nUnited States, 2007. George is a beekeeper and fights an uphill battle against modern farming, but hopes that his son can be their salvation.\n\nChina, 2098. Tao hand paints pollen onto the fruit trees now that the bees have long since disappeared. When Tao's young son is taken away by the authorities after a tragic accident-and is kept in the dark about his whereabouts and condition-she sets out on a grueling journey to find out what happened to him.\n\nHaunting, illuminating, and deftly written, The History of Bees joins these three very different narratives into one gripping and thought provoking story that is just as much about the powerful relationships between children and parents as it is about our very relationship to nature and humanity.\n\n Praise for The History of Bees:\n 'Spectacular and deeply moving. Lunde has elegantly woven together a tale of science and science fiction, dystopia and hope, and the trials of the individual and the strengths of family' Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author\n\n 'Such is the genius of debut novelist Maja Lunde that her tale of three eras-the long past, the tenuous present and the biologically damned future-is strung on the fragile hope of the survival of bees' Jacquelyn Mitchard, New York Times bestselling author\n\n 'As a lover of honeybees and a fan of speculative fiction, I was doubly smitten by The History of Bees. Maja Lunde's novel is an urgent reminder of how much our survival depends on those remarkable insects. It is also a gripping account of how-despite the cruelest losses-humanity may abide and individual families can heal' Jean Hegland, author of Into the Forest\n\n 'By turns devastating and hopeful, The History of Beesresonates powerfully with our most pressing environmental concerns. Following three separate but interconnected timelines, Lunde shows us the past, the present, and a terrifying future in a riveting story as complex as a honeycomb' Bryn Greenwood, New York Times bestselling author\n\n'Here is a story that is sweeping in scope but intimate in detail' Laura McBride, author of We Are Called to Rise\n\n'A brilliant and beautiful novel' Jan Askelund, Stavanger...

'A stand-out triumph' - The Sunday Times\n\nThe spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of CLOUD ATLAS and THE BONE CLOCKS, 'one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' (Independent).\n\nUtopia Avenue might be the most curious British band you've never heard of.\n\nEmerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967, folksinger Elf Holloway, blues bassist Dean Moss, guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet and jazz drummer Griff Griffin together created a unique sound, with lyrics that captured their turbulent lives and times. The band produced only two albums in two years, yet their musical legacy lives on.\n\nThis is the story of the band's brief, blazing journey from Soho clubs and draughty ballrooms to the promised land of America, just when the Summer of Love was receding into something much darker - a multi-faceted tale of dreams, drugs, love, sexuality, madness and grief; of stardom's wobbly ladder and fame's Faustian pact; and of the collision between youthful idealism and jaded reality as the Sixties drew to a close.\n\nAbove all, this bewitching novel celebrates the power of music to connect across divides, define an era and thrill the soul.\n\nDavid Mitchell's seven novels include Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks. He has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize and lives in Ireland.

David Mitchell is one of the most critically acclaimed authors in contemporary global writing. Novels such as Ghostwritten, Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks demonstrate the author’s dazzling literary technique in an oeuvre that crosses genres, genders and borders, moving effortlessly through time and space.\n\n David Mitchell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives brings together leading scholars of contemporary fiction to guide readers through the full range of the author's writings, including discussions of all of his novels to-date plus his shorter fictions, essays and libretti. As well as offering extended coverage of Mitchell’s most popular work, Cloud Atlas, the authors explore Mitchell’s genre-hopping techniques, world-making aesthetics, and engagements with key contemporary issues such as globalization, empire, the environment, disability, trauma and technology. In addition, this book includes an expansive interview with David Mitchell as well as a guide to further reading to help students and readers alike explore the works of this tremendously inventive writer.

'CENSUS is a vital testament to selfless love; a psalm to commonplace miracles; and a mysterious evolving metaphor. So kind, it aches.' David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas\n\nA father and son who are census takers journey across a nameless country from the town of A to the town of Z in the wake of the father's fatal diagnosis. Knowing that his time is menacingly short, the father takes his son, who requires close and constant adult guidance, on this trip of indefinite length. Their feelings for each other are challenged and bolstered as they move in and out of a variety of homes, meeting a variety of different people. Census is about the ways in which people react to the son's condition, to the son as a person in the world. It is about discrimination and acceptance, kindness and art, education and love. It is a profoundly moving novel, glowing with wisdom and grace, roaring with a desire to change the world.

David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas meets Octavia Butler's Earthseed series, as acclaimed author Monica Byrne (The Girl in the Road) crafts an unforgettable piece of speculative fiction about where humanity came from, where we are now, and where we're going-and how, in every age, the same forces that drive us apart also bind us together.\n\n\"A stone-cold masterpiece.\"-New Scientist\n\nThe Actual Star takes readers on a journey over two millennia and six continents-telling three powerful tales a thousand years apart, all of them converging in the same cave in the Belizean jungle.\n\nBraided together are the stories of a pair of teenage twins who ascend the throne of a Maya kingdom; a young American woman on a trip of self-discovery in Belize; and two dangerous charismatics vying for the leadership of a new religion, racing toward a confrontation that will determine the fate of the few humans left on Earth after massive climate change.\n\nIn each era, a reincarnated trinity of souls navigates the entanglements of tradition and progress, sister and stranger, and love and hate-until all of their age-old questions about the nature of existence converge deep underground, where only in complete darkness can they truly see.

A SPECTATOR AND EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020\n\n'A joy. Each chapter instantly became my favourite' David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas\n\n'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.'\n\nThis is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, scrawl in their margins or just curl up with them in bed. Taking us on a journey through comfort reads, street book stalls, mythical libraries, itinerant pedlars, radical pamphleteers, extraordinary bookshop customers and fanatical collectors, Canterbury bookseller Martin Latham uncovers the curious history of our book obsession - and his own. \n\nPart cultural history, part literary love letter and part reluctant memoir, this is the tale of one bookseller and many, many books.\n\n'If ferreting through bookshops is your idea of heaven, you'll get the same pleasure from this treasure trove of a book' Jake Kerridge, Sunday Express

'This life-stuffed novel is Aleksandar Hemon’s masterpiece' - David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas\n\nThe World and All That It Holds is the epic, cross-continental tale of a love so strong it conquers the Great War, revolution, and even death itself.\n\nAs the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and grinding tablets behind the counter at the pharmacy he inherited from his father. It’s not quite the life he had expected during his poetry-filled student days in libertine Vienna, but it’s nothing a dash of laudanum, a summer stroll and idle fantasies can’t put in perspective.\n\nAnd then the world explodes. In the trenches in Galicia, fantasies fall flat. Heroism gets a man killed quickly. War devours all that they have known, and the only thing Pinto has to live for are the attentions of Osman, a fellow soldier, a man of action to complement Pinto’s introspective, poetic soul; a charismatic storyteller and Pinto’s protector and lover.\n\nTogether, Pinto and Osman will escape the trenches and find themselves entangled with spies and Bolsheviks. As they travel over mountains and across deserts, from one world to another, all the way to Shanghai, it is Pinto’s love for Osman that will truly survive.

'Sunlit and dark, painful and joyous' David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas\n\nIn 1931, Gregory Hemingway's life begins in Kansas City, Missouri. The third and favourite child of an overbearing father, Greg is a paragon: a star athlete, a crack shot, bright and handsome and built like a pocket battleship.\n\nIn 2001, Gloria Hemingway's life ends in a Miami women's correctional institution. Complex and contradictory, radiant and resilient, it is a life that has flourished against the odds and been lived to the full.\n\nInspired by true events and spanning seventy years of the last century, this is the story of a miraculous existence, told with beauty and compassion. Transporting the reader back and forth in time, from Cuba to New York and Montana to Florida, The Broken Places explores what it means to grow up in the shadow of a man famous for his masculinity, to bear the weight of expectation and a tragic family legacy, and to finally step out into the light.

'A Wizard of Earthsea reads like the retelling of a tale first told centuries ago, and whose twists and turns have been handed down through generations of storytellers. It is timeless. . . . Le Guin's words are magical. Drink this magic up. Drown in it. Dream it' David Mitchell, author of CLOUD ATLAS\n\n'[This] trilogy made me look at the world in a new way, imbued everything with a magic that was so much deeper than the magic I'd encountered before then. This was a magic of words, a magic of true speaking' Neil Gaiman\n\n\nThe third book of Earthsea in a beautiful hardback edition. Complete the collection with A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan and Tehanu.\n\nWith illustrations from Charles Vess\n\nDarkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: the world and its wizards are losing their magic. Despite being wearied with age, Ged Sparrowhawk - Archmage, wizard, and dragonlord - embarks on a daring, treacherous journey, accompanied by Enlad's young Prince Arren, to discover the reasons behind this devastating pattern of loss. Together they will sail to the farthest reaches of their world - even beyond the realm of death - as they seek to restore magic to a land desperately thirsty for it.\n\n'[This] trilogy made me look at the world in a new way, imbued everything with a magic that was so much deeper than the magic I'd encountered before then. This was a magic of words, a magic of true speaking' Neil Gaiman\n\n'Drink this magic up. Drown in it. Dream it' David Mitchell

'A hymn to life, love, family, and spirit' DAVID MITCHELL, author of Cloud Atlas\n\nThe vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of an artist born with disabilities who searches for freedom and connection in a society afraid of strange bodies.\n\n***WINNER OF THE BARBELLION PRIZE***\n***SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD***\n\nIn 1958, amongst the children born with spina bifida is Riva Lehrer. At the time, most such children are not expected to survive. Her parents and doctors are determined to 'fix' her, sending the message over and over again that she is broken. That she will never have a job, a romantic relationship, or an independent life. Enduring countless medical interventions, Riva tries her best to be a good girl and a good patient in the quest to be cured.\n\nEverything changes when, as an adult, Riva is invited to join a group of artists, writers, and performers who are building Disability Culture. Their work is daring, edgy, funny, and dark-it rejects tropes that define disabled people as pathetic, frightening, or worthless. They insist that disability is an opportunity for creativity and resistance. Emboldened, Riva asks if she can paint their portraits-inventing an intimate and collaborative process that will transform the way she sees herself, others, and the world. Each portrait story begins to transform the myths she's been told her whole life about her body, her sexuality, and other measures of normal.\n\nWritten with the vivid, cinematic prose of a visual artist, and the love and playfulness that defines all of Riva's work, Golem Girl is an extraordinary story of tenacity and creativity. With the author's magnificent portraits featured throughout, this memoir invites us to stretch ourselves toward a world where bodies flow between all possible forms of what it is to be human.\n\n'Riva Lehrer is a great artist and a great storyteller. This is a brilliant book, full of strangeness, beauty, and wonder' AUDREY NIFFENEGGER\n\n'This astonishing, heart soaring and often shocking memoir of a Jewish woman with spina Bifida born in the 50's is bright and dark, terrifying and wonderful. An ode to art and the beauty of disability' CERRIE BURNELL

This is the first full-length exploration of the relationship between religion, film, and ideology. It shows how religion is imagined, constructed, and interpreted in film and film criticism. The films analyzed include The Last Jedi, Terminator, Cloud Atlas, Darjeeling Limited, Hellboy, The Revenant, Religulous, and The Secret of my Success.\n \n Each chapter offers:\n - an explanation of the particular representation of religion that appears in film\n - a discussion of how this representation has been interpreted in film criticism and religious studies scholarship\n - an in-depth study of a Hollywood or popular film to highlight the rhetorical, social, and political functions this representation accomplishes on the silver screen\n - a discussion about how such analysis might be applied to other films of a similar genre\n \n Written in an accessible style, and focusing on Hollywood and popular cinema, this book will be of interest to both movie lovers and experts alike.