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Gayle’s autumn picks 2025

Selected by Gayle Lazda


The publishing world seems to have very specifically considered my personal collection of silly little obsessions when planning their autumn output this year: bookselling, fictional maps, Tim Curry, why they decided to build Hollywood in the middle of a desert, the monstrousness of Klaus Kinski, and – of course – the work of Claire-Louise Bennett

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The things that hold life in place have been lifted off and put away. Uprooted by circumstance from city to deep countryside, a woman lives in temporary limbo, visited by memories of all she’s left behind. The most insistent are those…

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Life at a bookstore in LA through the eyes of a cynical English bookseller - irascible, witty and darkly humourous at his own expense and that of his unfortunate customers'John Tottenham writes with a rare comic intensity' COLM…

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The outrageous, riotous memoir from the cult actor and star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Clue and IT.A celebration of Tim Curry's life’s work - including the iconic Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror…

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A hybrid of memoir, travel and cultural history that explores how water altered LA and the history of film‘Outrageously good … An unforgettable book’ – OLIVIA LAING‘Reverie and…

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A bold and brilliant short work by the author of the Goldsmiths Prize-winning CuddyNovember, 1971. Berlin, Germany. Opening night.Klaus Kinski, Germany's most controversial actor, steps into the spotlight to a crowd of thousands.After…

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Edited by So Mayer and Sarah ShinWhen Ursula K. Le Guin started writing a new story, she would begin by drawing a map. The Word for World presents a selection of these images by the celebrated author, many of which have never been…

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Foreword by Emma ClineFrom the “brilliant forgotten novelist” behind the “ferocious” Lord Jim at Home (The Telegraph) comes a searing tale of a young woman’s unravelling beneath the unforgiving Tuscan…

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Translated by Martin AitkenUnlike anything you’ve read before, The Wax Child is an extraordinary tale of witchcraft from one of the most visionary writers at work today‘Olga Ravn is a master and an alchemist.…

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