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Ben Eastham – The Floating World

Ben Eastham The Floating World review and information of the novel by the English author. Fitzcarraldo Editions will publish the debut novel written by the British author Ben Eastham, October 8, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “An immersing, crystalline debut novel that reaches out to a world in crisis; elegant, emotional, deeply serious and gloriously witty.” (Deborah Levy, author)
  • “Channelling Adolfo Bioy Casares, Eastham carries a vision of art’s complicity with power to its endgame. If Art Basel is now globalized, then so is Minneapolis. Looping civilization back to end where it began, in Athens, he proposes that the only counterforce to fascism is love.” (Tom McCarthy, author)
  • “Startlingly imaginative, The Floating World is at times like the work of a J. G. Ballard for the 2020s, at others like the reincarnation of Italo Calvino. Eastham is as deft with a finely observed comic riff as he is with a heart-stoppingly lovely description of a city, a gesture, a connection. In his hands, what could have been a satire of art-world hubris becomes something so attuned to the world – its wonder and its clear and present danger… I don’t want to sound mawkish, but ultimately it’s a novel about our boundless potential to connect, and what we should ultimately value.” (Luke Kennard, author)

Ben Eastham The Floating World

The Floating World

  • Author: Ben Eastham (England)
  • Book type: English debut novel
  • Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • To be released: October 8, 2026
  • Length: 276 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 14.99
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Blurb of the Ben Eastham novel

On a remote island in the Aegean, a billionaire named Morel is building a refuge for the super-rich from the chaos consuming the outside world. When a struggling journalist is hired to work on the spectacular exhibition that will inaugurate this exclusive new utopia, he jumps at the chance to restart a career that stopped with the death of his wife. Yet he comes to suspect that beneath the dazzling surface of this collaboration between art and power run currents of real violence.

As the inauguration of the Floating World approaches, he finds it more difficult to distinguish dream from reality. Who is excluded from this paradise? On what traumas is it being constructed, and are they poised to return? And can art redeem us from the death of our loved ones and the end of the world?

A dystopia, satire and Bildungsroman, steeped in ancient mythology and contemporary politics, The Floating World is a deeply moving, often hilarious and beautifully written debut novel that heralds an exciting new voice in contemporary fiction.

Ben Eastham is an art critic and editor based in London. The editor-in-chief of e-flux Criticism, and a regular contributor to the Guardian, he was previously a founding editor of The White Review and an editor at ArtReview. He has edited books on Luis Camnitzer, Arshile Gorky, Fabio Mauri and Stephen Spender, worked on exhibitions including the Shanghai Biennale and documenta, and is on the advisory panel of EVA International. He began his career as a journalist at the BBC reporting on global mass media and propaganda, and has lived in Athens and Rome. His previous book, The Imaginary Museum (TLS Books, 2020), is about how works of art change the way we see the world.

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Jacqueline Rose – Two Women

Jacqueline Rose Two Women review and information of the novel by the English author. Fitzcarraldo Editions will publish the new novel written by the British author Jacqueline Rose, November 6, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “t’s really hard for me to overestimate how important Rose’s
    work has been for me… I don’t feel like that about very many
    writers.” (Maggie Nelson)
  • “Jacqueline Rose has no peer among critics of her generation.
    The brilliance of her literary insight, the lucidity of her prose,
    and the subtlety of her analyses are simply breathtaking.” (Edward W. Said)
  • “‘As a literary scholar and psychoanalytic thinker, Rose has
    long insisted that we pay close attention to the subterranean
    fears, fantasies and narratives that structure our most pressing
    sociopolitical problems.” (Merve Emre, The Nation)

Jacqueline Rose Two Women

Two Women

  • Author: Jacqueline Rose (England)
  • Book type: English novel, feminist novel
  • Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • To be released: November 6, 2026
  • Length: 320 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 14.99 / £ 8.99
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In Two Women, Jacqueline Rose fictionalizes and intertwines the lives of two remarkable figures whose stories trace the contours of the twentieth century: Edith Stein, the German-Jewish philosopher, Catholic convert and saint; and Gillian Rose, philosopher of German-Jewish thought, also a convert, and Jacqueline’s sister.

Through a luminous weaving of fiction and history, Rose traces the parallels and distances between these women – their intellect, faith, suffering and courage – while also confronting the mysteries of love, loss and belonging that shape every human life. A deeply moving work, Two Women is at once an act of remembrance and a daring work of imagination by one of the most important feminist writers of our time.

Jacqueline Rose was born 1949 in London. She is internationally recognized as one of the most important living feminist and cultural critics. She is the co-director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, a cofounder of Independent Jewish Voices, and a fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Literary Society. Rose is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books and the Guardian, among many other publications. Her books include Sexuality in the Field of Vision, The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, States of Fantasy, Women in Dark Times, Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty, On Violence and On Violence Against Women and The Plague.

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Jacqueline Crooks – Sky City

Jacqueline Crooks Sky City review and information of the content of the London novel by the English author. Jonathan Cap will publish the second Jacqueline Crooks novel on August 6, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “Hypnotically beautiful, almost weightless, Sky City is the literary equivalent of an out-of-body experience. In the best ways it pole-axed me.” (Louise Kennedy)
  • “Visceral, shocking, moving – Jacqueline Crooks proves yet again that she is an absolutely fantastic writer.” (Bernardine Evaristo)

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Sky City

  • Author: Jacqueline Crooks (England)
  • Book type: London novel
  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape
  • To be released: August 6, 2026
  • Length: 384 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: £ 18.99 / £ 8.99 / £ 14.00
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Blurb of the second Jacqueline Crooks novel

A spellbinding portrait of 90s London and three lives brought together by chance, from the Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of Fire Rush.

After years in a hostel for young homeless women, Jaycee finally has a room of her own high up in Sky City, a housing estate in north London carved out of the glow-in-the-dark sky. But the past is not so easily forgotten and her childhood continues to haunt her. When an old classmate, Sol, reappears, he seems to offer her a lifeline. Sol was her first love, and the only person who looked out for Jaycee when they were kids. Can she trust him now?

Her best friend from the hostel is Ella-G, who has left London for the glamorous world of the New York music scene. Both Jaycee and Ella-G are daughters in search of fathers. When Jaycee finds a rare record that seems to lead to Ella-G’s father, the two women go searching for answers in Atlantic City. What Jaycee encounters there brings her to the edges of her identity. Back in London, can Jaycee, Sol and Ella-G find justice and healing, even as their worlds threaten to crash together and splinter apart?

Jacqueline Crooks was born in Jamaica and grew up in 70s and 80s Southall, part of London’s migrant community carving out a space through music, culture and politics. Fire Rush, her first novel, was shortlisted for multiple prizes including the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and the Jhalak Prize. It won the PEN American Open Book Award and the Paul Torday Memorial Prize. It was also chosen as an Observer Best Debut Novel of the Year. For her short stories, a selection of which was published in the collection The Ice Migration, she has been nominated for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize and BBC National Short Story Award.

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M. John Harrison – The End of Everything

M. John Harrison The End of Everything review and information on the novel by the English writer. Serpent’s Tail will publish the new novel by M. John Harrison, the author from England, on June 18, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication. The novel has been included on the longlist for the 2026 Booker Prize.

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  • “Confounding, brilliant … What drives it is the tension from all that strangeness being reported in calm, often drily witty prose.” (The Times)
  • “Extremely beautiful and terrifyingly remote. Reading it hit me like a truck … It’s a novel that destabilises you – quite savagely – in the course of its reading. But you’re absolutely not walking away. You’re locked in, and you’re having the time of your life.” (Helen Macdonald, Observer)
  • “Dreamlike and baffling, The End of Everything elucidates humanity’s disintegrating existence with strange clarity.” (Michel Faber, The Guardian)
  • “This is a formidable book: dusky, casually horrifying, unexpectedly compassionate.” (Financial Times)
  • “A memorable, haunting work … a world that’s all the more uncanny on account of its proximity to our own.” (Irish Times)
  • “A slyly satirical and unsettling post-apocalyptic adventure into the limits of human understanding from the acknowledged master of science fiction.” (Booker Prize 2026 Jury)

M. John Harrison The End of Everything

The End of Everything

  • Author: M. John Harrison (England)
  • Book type: English novel, dystopic novel
  • Publisher: Serpent’s Tail
  • To be released: June 18, 2026
  • Length: 208 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook
  • Prize: £ 16.99
  • Longlist Booker Prize 2026
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Blurb of the M. John Harrison novel

Phillip Tennent makes his living at the tideline, collecting artefacts that wash up from the Channel. It’s been years since the crisis changed everything, but its exact nature remains obscure. Government barely functions, the seas are full of new creatures, Europe has been mislaid. It feels like the end.

Now Phillip has fished out of the water an object he can’t keep. A creature that keeps changing. An artefact he must take inland, before it destroys everything he thinks he knows. The End of Everything is a slyly satirical and unsettling post-apocalyptic adventure into the limits of human understanding from the peerless master of contemporary fiction.

Michael John Harrison was born July 26, 1945 in Rugby, Warwickshire, England. He is the author of, among others, the Viriconium stories, The Centauri Device, Climbers, The Course of the Heart, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, Signs of Life, Light and Nova Swing. He has won the Boardman Tasker Prize (Climbers), the James Tiptree Jr Award (Light), the Arthur C. Clarke Award (Nova Swing) and the Goldsmiths Prize (The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again). He lives in Shropshire.

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Aldous Huxley – Antic Hay

Aldous Huxley Antic Hay review and information of the contant of the 1923 novel by the English writer about Londen after World War I. Dalkey Archive Presss wil publish the reissue of the novel by Aldous Huxley on January 20, 2026. On this page you can read information about the content of the novel, the author, reviews and ordering options

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  • “Huxley is the creator-god of a beautiful new world which is wholly and peculiarly his own and which he peoples with antic folk whose adventures, always keenly intelligent and sparkling with wit, are elo­quently and continually amusing.” (Detroit News)
  • “T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is recalled by the casual allusions to classical lore, the devilishly clever garbling of familiar quotations and the total effect of dissolution. Mr. Huxley has the American poet’s flair for topical wit of a distinctly metropolitan flavor. . . . It is a brilliant, entertaining satire, with a faint suggestion of ‘ungestured sadness.” (The New York Times)
  • “Antic Hay has the literary delights of the intelligence questionnaire, characters who don’t talk in conversations but in charades, with satire japing sophistication as well as the more obvious targets, engaging naughtiness narrated for its own sake, rising and falling in broad com­ edy and in episodes deliciously strange and tender.” (New Republic)

Aldous Huxley Antic Hay

Antic Hay

  • Author: Aldous Huxley (England)
  • Afterword”John O’Brien
  • Book type: English novel from 1923
  • Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
  • To be released: January 20, 2026
  • Length: 225 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: € 15,95 / € 8,95
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A social satire dissecting morally bankrupt London society just after World War I, from the author of Brave New World.

Like Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, Aldous Huxley’s Antic Hay portrays a world of lost souls madly pursuing both pleasure and meaning. Fake artists, third-rate poets, pompous critics, pseudo-scientists, con-men, bewildered romantics, and cock-eyed futurists all inhabit this world spinning out of control, as wildly comic as it is disturbingly accurate. In a style that ranges from the lyrical to the absurd, and with characters whose identities shift and change as often as their names and appearances, Huxley has here invented a novel that bristles with life and energy.

Aldous Huxley was born on July 26, 1894 in Godalming, Surrey, England. He was an English writer who spent the latter part of his Antic Hay Aldous Huxley 1923 novel by the English writer first editionlife in the United States. Though best known for Brave New World, he also wrote countless works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and essays. A humanist, pacifist and satirist, he wrote novels and other works that functioned as critiques of social norms and ideals. Aldous Huxley is often considered a leader of modern thought and one of the most important literary and philosophical voices of the 20th century. Huxley died on November 22, 1963 at the age of 69 in Los Angeles County, California in the United States.

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