‘Easily one of the truest and best books I’ve read about what it’s like to be alive now, in this country’ Max PorterSleep. Then you think about it all the time, and the less you have the more you think about it. For Samantha Harvey, extreme sleep deprivation resulted in a raw clarity about life itself.

And what will happen if he can’t?Moving back in time towards the moment of Thomas Newman’s death, the story is related by Reve – an extraordinary creation, a patient shepherd to his wayward flock, and a man with secrets of his own to keep.

He has lost his wife, his son is in prison and he is about to lose his past. Jake has Alzheimer's. As the disease takes hold of him, the key events of his life shift, and what until recently seemed solid fact melts into surreal imaginings.

Shortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial PrizeLonglisted for the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for FictionLonglisted for the 2015 Jerwood PrizeIn the middle of a winter’s night, a woman wraps herself in a blanket, picks up a pen and starts writing to an estranged friend.

Een team astronauten verzamelt in een internationaal ruimtestation meteorologische gegevens en voert er wetenschappelijke experimenten uit. Maar meestal observeren ze. Gezamenlijk kijken ze naar de stille blauwe planeet, ze cirkelen eromheen, draaien langs continenten en door de seizoenen, ze zien gletsjers en woestijnen, de toppen van bergen en de deining van oceanen.

Hoewel ze van de wereld afgescheiden zijn, kunnen ze toch niet ontsnappen aan de constante aantrekkingskracht van de aarde. Z...