The Borough Press

From 18 chillingly brilliant writers of horror & literary fiction:

Susan Barker, JK Chukwu, Bridget Collins, Mariana Enriquez, Michel Faber, Lewis Hancox, Emilia Hart, Ainslie Hogarth, Robert Lautner, Adorah Nworah, Irenosen Okojie, Lucy Rose, Lionel Shriver, James Smythe, Lavie Tidhar, Francine Toon, Evie Wyld & Louisa Young

'Spellbinding…. Chevalier at her fabulous best. A rich, vivid and gently enchanting novel' ELIF SHAFAK

FROM THE GLOBALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING

THE MILLION COPY #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO KILL YOUR FAMILY IS BACK

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‘The best kind of book: the one you didn’t know you were craving until it appeared . . . self-interrogative, intricately perceptive. I absolutely inhaled it’ JIA TOLENTINO

‘A very richly interesting exploration of a complex subject. Begoña Gómez Urzaiz tells the stories with such intelligence and wit and generosity’ TESSA HADLEY

The Ghost Lake is a deeply personal, lyrical and stirring meditation on local history and changing landscapes that intertwines nature writing with an exploration of grief, belonging and the lives and legacies of rural working‐class people.

'A brilliant and luminous writer’ MADELINE MILLER, author of THE SONG OF ACHILLES and CIRCE

Theirs was a love that defied the gods…

MAMELE is a bold and beautiful literary novel about the shape of one woman’s life after a brutal estrangement from her mother.

Gemma Reeves writes with extraordinary deftness and care of the difficult love between mothers and daughters, loneliness and aching desire, cultural inheritance and separation.

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, LOLA IN THE MIRROR is the irresistible new novel from international bestselling author of BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE and ALL OUR SHIMMERING SKIES, Trent Dalton.

'I was totally gripped by this sharp, layered novel' Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain

'A brilliant, riveting fox-trap – an epic mystery' Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace

'A rare gem, an immersive and enthralling literary thriller' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train

‘A playful, powerful debut… A poignant reminder of how tight a hold mental illness can have’ ZAKIYA DALILA HARRIS

‘Chukwu meticulously and brilliantly balances tough topics like depression with biting comedy, crafting a narrative about a young woman trying to survive and help others do the same’ SHONDALAND