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From being told she couldn't have dance lessons as a kid in Great Yarmouth to having to conform to the stereotypes of the gay scene in London's East End, people have always been trying to put Bimini Bon Boulash in a box. It was only through discovering the art of drag that she began to fight back against those preconceptions, and understand that she had the power to define herself.

In A Drag Queen's Guide to Life, Bimini tells the story of how drag took her from the brink of self-destruction to become a gag-inducing, death-dropping, plant-based superstar. Drawing on her own experience as a nonbinary person in a binary world, as well as inspirational stories from history, politics, pop culture and fashion, she uses all her wit, charm and kindness to show us how to lead the lives we wish we could lead, through the life-changing magic of dragging up.

Between April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A Woman in Berlin wrote about life within the falling city as it was sacked by the Russian Army. Fending off the boredom and deprivation of hiding, the author records her experiences, observations and meditations in this stark and vivid diary. Accounts of the bombing, the rapes, the rationing of food and the overwhelming terror of death are rendered in the dispassionate, though determinedly optimistic prose of a woman fighting for survival amidst the horror and inhumanity of war. This diary was first published in America in 1954 in an English translation and in Britain in 1955. A German language edition was published five years later in Geneva and was met with tremendous controversy. In 2003, over forty years later, it was republished in Germany to critical acclaim - and more controversy. This diary has been unavailable since the 1960s and is now newly translated into English. A Woman in Berlin is an astonishing and deeply affecting account.

"La parole de Dieu est une, elle tourne inlassablement dans l'univers, d'un infini l'autre, crant vie et mouvement, mais l'homme, cette glaise imparfaite, entend mal, il faut tout lui rpter, encore et encore. C'est la mission des prophtes et leur liste ne sera jamais close. C'est ce que je comprenais de mes prcepteurs." En 1916, alors que le premier conflit mondial s'tend au Moyen-Orient, Terah, un vieux patriarche chalden, ayant compris que son fils Abram est la rincarnation d'Abraham, le charge de conduire la tribu vers la Terre promise, comme jadis son anctre de la Gense. Au terme de ce long priple, Abram parviendra-t-il fonder la cinquime Alliance, susceptible de guider les hommes et d'apaiser leurs maux En ces temps de retour angoiss aux questionnements religieux, Boualem Sansal est de ces crivains qui accompagnent les lans spirituels et illustrent leurs drives. En actualisant l'histoire ancienne de la Gense dans le but d'clairer nos temps obscurs, il nous offre ici une parabole sur la puissance et les faiblesses de la pense religieuse.

Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a negro butler. From then on, he was determined to force his way into the upper echelons of Southern society. His relentless will ensures his ambitions are soon realised; land, marriage, children. But in after the chaos of Civil War, secrets from his own past threaten to destroy everything he has worked for.

BY THE WINNER OF THE 2021 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE

'Riveting and heartbreaking ... A compelling novel, one that gathers close all those who were meant to be forgotten, and refuses their erasure' Maaza Mengiste, Guardian

'A brilliant and important book for our times, by a wondrous writer' Philippe Sands, New Statesman, Books of the Year

While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. After years away, fighting in a war against his own people, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away.

Another young man returns at the same time. Hamza was not stolen for the war, but sold into it; he has grown up at the right hand of an officer whose protection has marked him life. With nothing but the clothes on his back, he seeks only work and security – and the love of the beautiful Afiya.

As fate knots these young people together, as they live and work and fall in love, the shadow of a new war on another continent lengthens and darkens, ready to snatch them up and carry them away…

Akimudy to wszystko i nic. Może wyspa, może archipelag, może państwo, może raj. Tam Stalin w drużynie złych gra w siatkówkę plażową z drużyną dobrych i twierdzi, że za życia postępował ściśle według Ewangelii. Tam Franz Kafka rozmawia z Andriejem Płatonowem. Akimudy to także miejsce, w którym mieszka Bóg. Jego wysłannik przybywa do Rosji. Będzie ukrzyżowanie na Placu Czerwonym i zmartwychwstanie.... Jeśli dodamy do tego najście zombie na Moskwę i nieuniknione konsekwencje (żywi nieboszczycy będą domagać się zwrotu mieszkań i odszkodowań za bezzasadne rozstrzelanie lub śmierć w łagrze), otrzymamy charakterystyczną dla Wiktora Jerofiejewa fantastyczną mieszankę prowokacji, sarkazmu, humoru, seksu i absurdu. I, jak zwykle u tego znakomitego pisarza, za barwną fasadą będą kryć się ważne pytania o relacje między człowiekiem a Bogiem, o naszym widzeniu świata, o losy Rosji. Już sam tytuł skłania do zastanowienia, czy Akimudy to wariacja na temat słowa „mudaki” (szeroko rozumiani „frajerzy” lub ludzie określani ostatnio w Polsce mianem „lemingów”), czy też zakamuflowane „A kuda my?” – „Dokąd zmierzamy?”. Każdy czytelnik sam musi znaleźć odpowiedź. A jeśli zamiast odpowiedzi pojawi się jeszcze więcej pytań, tym większa będzie satysfakcja autora. Wydane ostatnio w „Czytelniku” książki Wiktora Jerofiejewa: Dobry Stalin, Bóg X, Świat diabła, Rosyjska apokalipsa.