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Broken Consort is a chronicle of close attention (to books, films, plays, paintings and life itself) by Will Eaves, author of Murmur (winner of the 2019 Wellcome Prize)

First poetry collection for 8 years from a long-admired poet who has twice been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize

Selected passages from the accounts of nearly thirty travellers, together with Lurcock's informed and entertaining commentary, chart the varied responses of British writers to the making of modern Finland up to 1917, the year of independence.The book includes a section on the Russian War of 1854-5, which brought the British fleet into the Baltic. Among those whose impressions are recorded here are Bartholomew James Sulivan, who was later to serve as Lieutenant on the Beagle and became a close friend of Charles Darwin, and Arthur J. Evans, who later found fame as the excavator of Knossos.'Tony Lurock's rich, enlightening book' - Paul Binding, Times Literary Supplement

Part anthology, part history, Not So Barren or Uncultivated brings to life these forgotten journeys and gives a picture of Finland at a time when it was little known to the outside world. It also presents the familiar figure of the Englishman Abroad in very unfamiliar terms. Lurcock's book is informative, affectionate, and full of surprising and entertaining episodes.'This fascinating survey of the British in Finland' - Paul Binding, Times Literary Supplement

'One of the great American novels' (Salon): first published by Granta in 2003, reissued by CBe in 2020

In June 1819 Henri Beyle (aka Stendhal) is rejected by the woman he loves. Beyle finds himself stranded in an afterlife populated by tourists, shoplifters and characters in novels he hasn't yet written. Footnoting a host of other writers, An Overcoat is an obsessional play upon the life and work of one of the founders of the modern novel.

A memoir in the form of a series of sharply etched vignettes that shift astonishingly in time and mood, and range in place from Africa and the US to the streets of London. It demonstrates that no moment is isolated, and that privilege, conflict, race and gender are inherent in all our encounters, from the banal to the extreme

Part memoir, part fiction, Robinson explores the disfiguring influence of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe on English culture. The latter-day Robinsons of Kafka, Celine, Patrick Keiller and others are surveyed, and Robinson himself has his say as a fictional character.

A new collection by one of the very few mavericks in contemporary British poetry, a flaneur who observes the absurdity of life and brings this to the page with both heartbreak and humour. The poems in this new collection are grouped into three main sections: 'Happiness', 'The Street of Perfect Love' and 'Dear Nosh'.

A series of short pieces on the relationship between reader and writer.

Including critical analyses, an extensive interview with McBride and previously unseen early drafts, About a Girl is a comprehensive account of an unprecedented literary phenomenon that enlarges our understanding of both McBride's novel and the contemporary literary scene.

Second poetry collection by Dan O'Brien based on the experience of the war reporter Paul Watson, taking in the aftermath of the Arab Spring in Syria, Libya and Egypt

Beverley Bie Brahic's previous collection was shortlisted for the Forward Prize, and she is the prize-winning translator of books by Apollinaire and Francis Ponge.

The Absent Therapist is a book of soundings, a jostle of voices that variously argue, remember, explain, justify, speculate and meander ... Sons and lovers, wanderers, wonderers, stayers, leavers, readers and believers. These are gripping narratives, with intriguing shifts of register, but they are also technically experimental and daring. Each .