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Isobel lives an isolated life in North London, working at a nearby library. She feels safe if she keeps to her routines and doesn't let her thoughts stray too far into the past. But a newspaper photograph of a missing local schoolgirl and a letter from her old teacher are all it takes for her ordinary, careful armour to become overwhelmed and the trauma of what happened when she was a pupil at The Schoolhouse to return.The Schoolhouse was diff...

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This impressive debut novel, longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, takes its premise and inspiration from ten of the best-known thought experiments in philosophy-the what-ifs of philosophical investigation-and uses them to talk about love in a wholly unique way.Married couple Rachel and Eliza are considering having a child. Rachel wants one desperately, and Eliza thinks she does, too, but she can't quite seem to wrap her head around the idea. ...

A tense, taut drama' Good Housekeeping Isobel lives an isolated life in North London, where she works at a nearby library. She feels safe, so long as she keeps to her routines and doesn't let her thoughts stray too far into the past. But a newspaper photograph of a missing local schoolgirl and a letter from her old teacher send her spiralling and bring back the trauma of what happened years ago, when she was a pupil at The Schoolhouse. The Sch...

Praise for Sophie Ward's Booker Prize-nominated debut novel Love and Other Thought Experiments'A book that dances and dazzles with ideas and left me thinking long after I finished it' Sophie Kinsella'Breathtaking' Fiona Shaw'Ward's ingenious fiction debut . . . is often moving, exuberant and sensitive . . . gifts of bravura wit and imagination' Guardian'Quite extraordinary . . . [Her] writing is often moving, exuberant and sensitive' Daily Tel...

Philosophy meets fiction in this beguiling and intriguing novel of minds, hearts, other worlds, love, death and everything in between' Sophie KinsellaRachel and Eliza are planning their future together. One night in bed Rachel wakes up terrified and tells Eliza that an ant has crawled into her eye and is stuck there. Rachel is certain, Eliza, a scientist, is sceptical. Suddenly their entire relationship is called into question. What follows is...

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By considering Shakespeare¿s dramatisation of the principles that inform neoliberal education policy, this book aims to contribute to debate on the moral failure of the market mechanism in our schools and higher education system today, and to offer Shakespeare¿s humanism as a corrective to neoliberal ideology.

Out in the Rural is the unlikely story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, which in 1966 opened in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to become the first rural community health center in the United States.

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