Boy Parts by Eliza Clark

Boy Parts by Eliza ClarkIrina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self destructive tailspin, centred around Irina's

as well as historical background on the places once revered throughout Christendom

Arlo The Lion Who Couldn't Sleep is a beautifully illustrated story with a gentle mindfulness message from award-wining author-illustrator Catherine Rayner

the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun

and how far she will go for what she believes

But now they say his old nemesis is back in town

from Prague to Oslo

and unwilling to take no for an answer

when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books

which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death

he begins to realise that he needs more than the city can provide

foul-tempered and foul-mouthed husk of a man who thinks little of the publication he edits

He writes candidly about the stiff upper lip attitudes and toxic masculinity that coloured his childhood