Headshot, Rita BullwinkelAn electrifying debut novel from an unusually gifted writer (Lorrie Moore) about the radical intimacy of physical competition An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A familys unrelenting expectation of victory. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed up or stop; to be frighteningly, undeniably good at something. Each of the eight teenage girl boxers in this blistering debut novel has her own reasons for the sacrifices she has made

Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

there is another me at my own funeral

Nellie is engaged to the man of her dreams

Japan will become ripe for conversion to Christianity - with him as Bishop

on the Cornish Coast

and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation

they bring him to Canada

a modern master of science fiction

A Sunday Times Bestseller

000 is in the wind

Inside Bumpin' you'll find:

and fervently religious mother—his teammate