VOLUME FLYERS (14.11.26)
Catch these five books!
Let this week’s flyers land on the top of your reading pile.
THE END OF EVERYTHING by M. John Harrison $37
Winner of the 2026 Booker Prize. ’The sky is glitching, and something strange, formless and growing is soon to come out of the sea, to imitate our speech, forms, and customs. Our left-behind inhabitants scavenge where and what they can, provisional alliances are made and broken, shocking violence occurs, and no one can agree on exactly what has happened. A book not just about everything but about now. Shimmering and oblique, it holds the reader to the surface of something very grave and deep.’ —2026 Booker Prize judges’ citation. (More stock due soon! Order your copy now.)
ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME: V by Solvej Balle (translated from Danish by Jennifer Russell and Siphia Hersi Smith) $33
"Solvej Balle is a prodigious writer who, miraculously, finds the subtlest, most fascinating differences in repetition. You have never read anything like On the Calculation of Volume. This unforgettable novel is a profound meditation on the lonely, untranslatable ways in which each one of us inhabits time-and the tenuous yet indelible traces we leave in the world. Day after day." —Hernan Diaz
THE ROUSE by China Miéville $45
Winner of the 2026 Goldsmiths Prize. “Excellent though all the books on the shortlist are, it seemed only right to give this year's Goldsmiths Prize to the one that, in terms of ambition, bold use of history, linguistic experiment and sheer scale, broke most explosively with expectation.” —Francis Spufford, Goldsmiths Prize judge
PARTITA by Barbara Kingsolver $38
"Brilliant, affecting work from one of contemporary literature's masters. A fierce belief that great art is for everyone joins Kingsolver's familiar preoccupations with class distinctions, social injustice, and the complex bonds of family and community in a tender denouement." —Kirkus
MAY WE FEED THE KING by Rebecca Perry $35
May We Feed the King dances between a historical subject who resists the march of progress and a woman who turns to the past to hide from her present, to offer a beguiling meditation on history and storytelling: on what makes a King 'Great', and a life meaningful.