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'This is memoir perfection ... I adored it' CARIAD LLOYD

The internationally bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, Miriam Toews, returns with a singular memoir celebrating disobedient memory, wit, writing and life.

'Why do you write?' the organiser of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempted answer from Toews - all of them unsatisfactory to the organiser - surfaces new layers of grief, guilt and futility connected to her sister's suicide. She has been keeping up, she realises, a decades-old internal correspondence, filling a silence she barely understands. And we, her readers, come to see that the question is as impossible to answer as deciding whether to live life as a comedy or a tragedy.

A Truce That Is Not Peace is the first time Toews has written about her own life in nonfiction. Wildly inventive yet masterfully controlled; wrenching and joyful - this is Miriam Toews at her dazzling best, remaking her world and inventing an astonishing new literary form to contain it.

'[Toews] does not shy away from her own vulnerability, and writes with both candour and humour' Observer

'Toews knows exactly how to extract hilarity from horrifying events' The Times

'Nothing short of a masterpiece' San Francisco Chronicle

'There are few writers who so fully inhabit the vulnerable space between violence and grace, criticism and compassion, as Toews does' AnOther Magazine

'Brilliant ... it broke my heart in the best of ways' Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti

'Tragi-comic, and incredibly moving ... essential reading for turbulent times' Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel

'An affirmation of Life in all its richness and variety ... remarkable' Celia Paul, author of Self-Portrait

I would have read another thousand chapters' Catherine Newman, author of Sandwich

'Piercing and distilled, a masterpiece in vulnerability and performance' Hannah Pittard, author of We Are Too Many

A Truce That Is Not Peace was a #1 bestseller in Canada in w/c 06/09/2025

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'There are good publishers and there are great publishers. And then there's Anthony Cheetham.' Richard Dawkins

In November 1966, by way of Mexico City, Eton College, Balliol College, Oxford, and a Norwegian raspberry farm, Anthony Cheetham entered the doors of a publishing company for the first time to begin work as a junior editor. Fifty-eight years later he could look back on a career in which he had shaped the landscape of post-war British publishing to a significant degree, having established such prominent and notably successful companies as Century, Orion, Quercus and Head of Zeus, and launched imprints - from Abacus in 1973 to Zephyr in 2017 - that continue to flourish in the third decade of the twenty-first century.

Starting with Homer's Odyssey and ending with works by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and the German historian Ernst Kantorowicz, Anthony Cheetham has selected fifty books as mileposts with which to map the course of his long and productive career. Many of these are titles that he himself published (Dune, The Thorn Birds, A Suitable Boy, Meetings with Remarkable Trees, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo); some are books he wished he had published (Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time); others are simply masterworks that left an indelible mark on him (The Lord of the Rings, War and Peace).

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WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION 2026

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION 2025

'Unforgettable' SUNDAY TIMES

'Courageous' OBSERVER

A remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance from acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist Yiyun Li as she considers the loss of her son James.

'There is no good way to say this,' Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book.

'There is no good way to state these facts, which must be acknowledged. My husband and I had two children and lost them both: Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose suicide, and both died not far from home.'

There is no good way to say this - because words fall short. It takes only an instant for death to become fact, 'a single point in a timeline'. Living now on this single point, Li turns to thinking and reasoning and searching for words that might hold a place for James. Li does what she can: including not just writing but gardening, reading Camus and Wittgenstein, learning the piano, and living thinkingly alongside death.

This is a book for James, but it is not a book about grieving. As Li writes, 'The verb that does not die is to be. Vincent was and is and will always be Vincent. James was and is and will always be James. We were and are and will always be their parents. There is no now and then, now and later, only, now and now and now and now.' Things in Nature Merely Grow is a testament to Li's indomitable spirit.

As seen in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, LA Times, TIME, and the Paris Review.

'One of the most important books to be published in years' SARA COLLINS

'A memoir unlike others, strange and profound and fiercely determined not to look away' NEW YORK TIMES

'To state that this courageous book is a testament to love is an understatement. One is left altered by it' OBSERVER

'A story of loss that is unlike any other book I've read ... an unforgettable monument to endurance' SUNDAY TIMES

'A profound look at how a parent continues to live in a world without her children' TIME

'A book that has not a single spare word in it ... I loved it so much' ANN PATCHETT

'There are few writers with Li's power' DOUGLAS STUART

'The best book I have read this year' DAVID NICHOLLS

'An extraordinary book' SARAH MOSS

'One of the most astounding memoirs I have ever read' PANDORA SYKES

'I will return to it for the rest of my life' CHARLOTTE WOOD

'A manifesto of living, not dying, and of how we endure the most unimaginable things' SINÉAD GLEESON

'A book unlike any I've read, that brims with rare clarity and intelligence, with love and care. It will stay with me for a long time' CECILE PIN

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