The Boyhood of Cain : 'A new literary star is born . . . dazzling.' The TimesAuthor: Michael Amherst Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published on 12 February 2026 by Faber & Faber in the United Kingdom. Paperback 208 pages 129 x 198 x 17 176g 'A new literary star is born.' The Times'A beautiful and profound novel about a boy's coming to consciousness as his family falls apart.' Mary Costello'A powerful, searing tale.' Andr Aciman'A terrific queer coming of age debut.' Guardian'If none of us can be as we want, then

the Cairngorms and the Isle of Lewis and the Outer Hebrides

have never lost their power

So why not take the first step

Take a journey back to the boom time for Britain's railways

1 bestselling author David Baldacci

while also exploring the role of women in Roman society

We stand at the end-point of an extraordinary transformation in the understanding of what it is to be human: one that can only be fully appreciated by tracing the arc of its parabola over millennia

revealing details in the clothes he encounters

It's just SO funny' - Rob Biddulph

Silverview is the mesmerising story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals

An intensely emotional and gripping companion novel to Laura Nowlin's USA Today and New York Times Bestselling novel If He Had Been With Me about the love that both breaks and heals us

Published on 1 November 2018 by Usborne Publishing Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Illustrated Story Collections' series