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Karishma Jobanputra – The Body of the Thing

Karishma Jobanputra The Body of the Thing review and information of the first book written by the British Indian author. And Other Stories will publish the Karishma Jobanputra stories on August 11, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “Heady and visceral, sharp and intoxicating, these absorbing stories portray human desires, appetites and obsessions in all their unruly beauty. Karishma Jobanputra is a bold and gifted writer – one to celebrate and one to watch.” (Ben Hinshaw)
  • “Arresting, beautiful, humorous, observant, serious, all at the same time.” (Paul Beatty)

Karishma Jobanputra The Body of the Thing

The Body of the Thing

  • Author: Karishma Jobanputra (Britain)
  • Book type: stories, debut
  • Publisher: And Other Stories
  • To be released: August 11, 2026
  • Length: 256 pages
  • Sizes: 12,9 x 19,8 cm
  • Weight: 190 gram
  • Format: paperback
  • Prize: £ 14.99 / £ 11.99
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Blurb of the first Karishma Jobanputra book

A lyrical and visceral short story collection, The Body of the Thing unpicks the hierarchies that thrum under our relationships, from first loves and lusts to motherhood and miscarriages, from sexual awakenings to final confrontations with death.

Traversing bougie neighbourhoods in Manhattan, sun-drenched piazzas in Italy, coastal Maine, and the bustle of London, these stories chase the fallout when women’s bodies are valued for their beauty and youth, dismissed and discarded when ill, or made useful as parents and caregivers.

Fluid, sensual, and fearless, The Body of the Thing is about looking at and living in the female body – and all of its complicated realities and wonders.

Karishma Jobanputra is a British-Indian writer currently based in London. A graduate of Columbia University’s MFA Fiction Programme, where she was awarded a partial merit scholarship, a Chair’s Fellowship, and the Dean’s Travel Grant, her work has been listed for the Brick Lane Short Story Prize and The Disquiet Literary Prize.

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Rosalind Belben – Is Beauty Good

Rosalind Belben Is Beauty Good review and information of the 1989 novel by the English author. And Other Stories will publish the reissue of the Rosalind Belben novel on July 14, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “Rosalind Belben, in Is Beauty Good, takes the most extreme formal risks with painful elegance . . . Belben has written pages about sexual desire, frustration and loss which are clearer and more compelling than any I can think of in literature. She has a photographic eye for natural beauty, and is also tough-minded and funny.” (Maggie Gee, The Observer)
  • “Spare, lucid prose, reminiscent of Woolf’s The Waves.” (Christina Kooning, The Guardian)
  • “A beautiful work… it says a great deal about the world we live in… more life-like and more alive than most fiction.” (Michael Hamburger)

Rosalind Belben Is Beauty Good

Is Beauty Good

  • Author: Rosalind Belben (England)
  • Book type: English novel from 1989
  • Publisher: And Other Stories
  • To be released: July 14, 2026
  • Length: 240 pages
  • Sizes: 13,1 x 19,7 x 1,5 cm
  • Weight: 164 gram
  • Format: paperback
  • Prize: £14.99
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Blurb of the Rosalind Belben Berlin novel from 1989

‘That the music may be polyphonic is no grounds for not listening,’ scribbles a man for his stone-deaf friend. In Is Beauty Good there are many such voices. People talk to various listeners, even to silent ones. They talk to themselves, they resort to handwriting. The inanimate too may be granted a whimsical presence: a child’s tricycle, an antique chest. But, witty and ironic, the novel speaks with one voice of the things that speak, and don’t speak to us: ‘I drank carrot juice, beetroot juice. Disgusting. It seemed undignified, to be so desperate as to drink beetroot juice. Yet people do it without a second thought.’

It begins in Berlin by the Wall. It ends in Berlin – still before 1989 – in the Tiergarten Zoo, to the boom and roar and moan of animals. More often we find ourselves in mountains or an English garden, in the natural world, the loss of which Is Beauty Good so memorably laments.

Rosalind Belben was born on 1 february 1941 in Dorset in the rural southwest of England where she spent her early childhood. From the age of nine she was at boarding school on the edge of Dartmoor, in Devon. Almost straight from school she went in 1959 to work for the next two years in theatre, meaning to become a writer of stage plays. That didn’t happen. Her subsequent life has been nomadic, her experience and employment varied – with sometimes, nevertheless, years on end passed in a single place. The countryside of Dorset has been both inspiration and recurrent setting. Quite as much, ‘abroad’ has exerted a powerful draw. There have been many adored destinations. Südtirol or the Alto Adige, the German-speaking Alpine region in the north of Italy, from 1978 – or in the 1990s Tunisia, with its myriad Roman and Phoenician remains and Islamic culture. Many epiphanies. In 1987 Belben was in West Berlin as a Fellow of the Artist in Residence Program, staying for fifteen months. New editions of Dreaming of Dead People, Is Beauty Good and Choosing Spectacles are forthcoming from And Other Stories. Among her other novels are The Limit, Hound Music and Our Horses in Egypt, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction in 2007.

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Kae Tempest – Having Spent Life Seeking

Kae Tempest Having Spent Life Seeking review and information new and second novel of the English writer en spoken word poet. Jonathan Cape will publish the second Kae Tempest novel on April 30, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “If books can still change the world, this one most likely will.” (Colum McCann)
  • “A wonderful, moving and enlightening state-of-Britain novel.” (Irvine Welsh)
  • “A scorching story of love, change, homecoming and forgiveness.” (Dawn French)
  • “A master-craftsman of deep feeling and linguistic intimacy.” (Max Porter)

Kae Tempest Having Spent Life Seeking

Having Spent Life Seeking

  • Author: Kae Tempest (England)
  • Book type: English novel
  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape
  • To be released: April 30, 2026
  • Length: 352 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 18.99 / £ 9.99 / £ 14.00
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Blurb of the new Kae Tempest novel

Rothko Taylor has washed up with the tide, back in their hometown, Edgecliff. Fifteen years since they left it behind.

The past is accelerating towards them: the skateboard kids on the high street that remind them of their teenage years, the splintered benches looking out to sea, where their mum Meg clutched her cans. The nice bit of town, where their dad Ezra tried and failed to build a happy home. And Dionne’s block. Beautiful, extraordinary Dionne, the only person who had ever looked at them and seen what was there.

Back then, overwhelmed and full of fear, they sank beneath the surface into chaos. But they made it out alive. And this time, Rothko is determined that things will be different.\

A decade since Kae Tempest’s last novel, Having Spent Life Seeking is about family and forgiveness; redemption and atonement; desire and abandon; selfhood and community. The things we seek when we are hiding, and what finds us, if we can let ourselves be seen.

Kae Tempest was born in 1984 in Westminster, London. He has been putting words together since he was a teenager. He has published plays, poetry collections, non-fiction, a Sunday Times-bestselling novel and has released six studio albums. In 2013 Tempest won the Ted Hughes Award, making him the youngest ever poet to receive it. He was named a Next Generation Poet in 2014, a once-in-a-decade honour, and in the same year he received the first of two Mercury Prize nominations. He is the only person to have achieved both accolades. In 2021 he was awarded the Silver Lion in Venice for his work as a playwright and in 2023 he won an Ivor Novello for his songwriting. His books have been translated into multiple languages and published to critical acclaim around the world. He hopes he will continue putting words together for the rest of his life.

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Rosemary Tonks – Businessmen as Lovers

Rosemary Tonks Businessmen as Lovers review and information of the content of the 1969 novel by the English writer. New Directions will publish the reissue of the Rosemary Tonks novel, on March 24, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Rosemary Tonks Businessmen as Lovers review

  • “Tonks throws out aphorisms, and scorn, like loose change.” (London Review of Books)
  • “Uncommonly good.” (The Guardian)

Rosemary Tonks Businessmen as Lovers

Businessmen as Lovers

  • Author: Rosemary Tonks (England)
  • Book type: English novel from 1969
  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing
  • Released: March 24, 2026
  • Length: 160 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 16,95
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the 1969 novel by Rosemary Tonks

Friends and lovers frolic on a sun-soaked Italian vacation—but in classic Tonks style, everything boils over with operatic drama, misanthropy, and arch silliness.

Mimi and Caroline set off to a beautiful Italian island, where they find themselves part of an eccentric cast of expats and vacationers including their debonair host and his mistress, a proud venture capitalist, an Iranian tycoon, and a villainous, slightly tragic local dentist. There is also Mimi’s great love, Beetle, a quiet and unassuming English journalist. As everyone begins to relax and settle into the vacation, drinking and eating away the stress of everyday life, their impish plots culminate in an odd Mediterranean prank involving the dentist’s prize lemon tree.

Back in print after many decades, Businessmen as Lovers is an extraordinarily jubilant and delightful novel by the inimitable Rosemary Tonks: businessmen fall in love, too, but it is with each other.

Rosemary Tonks was born October 17, 1928 in Gillingham, Kent, Engeland. She published two poetry collections and six novels, and wrote for The Observer, The Times, The New York Review of Books, The New Statesman, and Encounter, and presented poetry programs for the BBC. Tonks died on April 15, 2014.

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Ben Tufnell – Paradise

Ben Tufnell Paradise review en information about the new dystopian novel and eco-thriller by the English author. Influx Press will publish the new Ben Tufnell novel, on March 5, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Ben Tufnell Paradise reviews

  • “Paradise is a compelling fusion of literary noir with eco-fable – page turning and profound, I loved this book, Tufnell is a tour de force of imaginative power.” (James Miller, author of Lost Boys)

Ben Tufnell Paradise

Paradise

  • Author: Ben Tufnell (England)
  • Book type: dystopian novel, eco-thriller
  • Publisher: Infux Press
  • To be released: March 5, 2026
  • Length: 332 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 11.99
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Blub of the new Ben Tufnell novel

A world on the brink of collapse. Dense woods, mountains, a standing stone, a barrow, and a very old house. But if you’ve only ever known concrete and glass, how do you live in a place like this

Recruited by a mysterious organisation, Nash thinks things are finally going his way. But when a job goes badly wrong, he is taken to an isolated location to await a decision on his fate

Paradise is a crumbling cottage deep in a forest; Nash is free to leave the house but must not leave the woods. It is winter, and this wild and remote place is unknowable and terrifying. He attempts to map his surroundings to find a way out, but they resist him, the land seemingly shifting and changing. Moreover, he begins to suspect that his employers’ intentions may be much darker than anticipated.

Forming an unlikely friendship, Nash finally begins to understand the consoling power of the place that has become his home. Brigid is sure of herself and at home in the natural world, while he is urban, lost. But she longs for his world, and he longs for hers.

Now the wheel of the year is turning. As winter gives way to spring Nash’s fate has been decided, and they are coming to deliver their verdict.

Paradise is the brilliant new novel from Ben Tufnell, an uncategorizable Kafkaesque eco-thriller combining elements of noir, folk horror and nature writing, addressing the most urgent of contemporary issues.

Ben Tufnell is a writer and curator based in London. His short stories have been published by Conjunctions, Litro, Lunate, Nightjar Press, Storgy and Structo, amongst others, and included in Best British Short Stories 2024 (Salt Publishing). He has been longlisted or highly commended for the BBC National Short Story Award, the Sean O’Faolain Short Story Prize, The White Review Short Story Prize and the Disquiet Fiction Prize, and shortlisted for the Society of Authors’ ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award for short fiction. His debut novel, The North Shore, was published by Fleet (Little, Brown) in 2023.

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