Fish Change Direction in Cold Weather (21 page)
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Authors: Pierre Szalowski
‘Ben Brooks is a magical imp who pumps out dark nuggets of poetry and makes you snort with laughter’ Noel Fielding
Jasper wants to get on in the world, but life is distracting. He’s got his A-levels to contend with, his mother pushing him to overachieve, weekly visits to his
psychologist, come-downs, YouTube suicides and pregnant one-night-stands. And then there’s his step-dad – the murderer.
Hilarious and heartbreaking by turns,
Grow Up
is the ultimate twenty-first-century coming-of-age novel. It paints a vivid portrait of the pills and thrills and bellyaches
of growing up today. Funny, smart and twisted, it is the story of one young man transformed.
‘Liquid gold’
Observer
Grow Up
is absolutely knockout – Brooks is blessed with a blinding grasp of terse, lyrical prose, and has the timing of a genius stand-up comic. Top
class’ Richard Milward, author of
Apples
‘Sickeningly good. So confident, so stylish. An unacceptably witty and original debut’
Tim Key
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THE DEATH OF BUNNY MUNRO
NICK CAVE
‘Put Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka and Benny Hill together in a Brighton seaside guesthouse and they might just come up with
The Death of Bunny Munro
. A
compulsive read’
Irvine Welsh
The world is a hard place to be good in . . .
Struggling to keep a grip on reality after his wife’s death, Bunny Munro does the only thing he can think of: with his young son in tow, he hits the road. An epic chronicle
of one man’s judgement,
The Death of Bunny Munro
is also an achingly tender portrait of the relationship between father and son.
‘Cocksman, Salesman, Deadman; Bunny Munro might not be Everyman, but every man ought to read this book. And read it half in stitches, half in tears’
David Peace
‘Cave stands as one of the great writers on love of our era’ Will Self
‘Cave’s second novel is everything you would hope for: wild, hallucinatory, redemptive and linguistically electrifying . . . who else would dare to create a
protagonist like Bunny Munro?’
Sunday Telegraph
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BUDDHA DA
ANNE DONOVAN
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Award
In her acclaimed debut Anne Donovan tells an endearing, humorous yet unsentimental story of a working-class Glaswegian man who discovers Buddhism, rejects old habits and seeks a
life more meaningful, only to alienate his immediate family in the process.
Moving seamlessly between three family members, Donovan’s clear-eyed, richly expressive prose sings from the page. Each character’s voice has its own subtle rhythm and
the conclusion is a poignant mixture of hope and lingering reservations.
Buddha Da
is a delight from one of Britain’s best writers.
‘An enchanting novel in which ordinary lives are illuminated with extraordinary charm’
Daily Telegraph
‘Like a Scottish Roddy Doyle, dealing with potentially heavy issues with an addictive blend of pathos and humour’
Observer
‘Her deliciously corkscrewed tale flows with the sap of everyday life’
Sunday Times
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