Memory Identity

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2026 WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE A curator is absorbed in the medieval world of a reluctant monarch in this searing debut about what becomes lost over time and what devotion can reanimate. A curator spends her days reconstructing the...

Suspenseful and hilarious, this novel is an outrageously imaginative thriller for readers who like their espionage with a dollop of purple slime. Myfanwy Thomas awakens in a London park surrounded by dead bodies. With her memory gone, she must trust the instructions left by her former in order...

HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE EVOLUTION --- This book provides an in-depth exploration of the processes that have shaped human language over millennia, integrating linguistic, archaeological, cognitive, and sociocultural evidence to illuminate the evolution of languages. Anchoring its analysis in historical linguistics, the book goes into the profound effects of migration, educational systems, trade, and technological innovations on language transformation. The bookunfolds with an examination of migration's necessary place in shaping linguistic territory, from the spread of Indo-...

Hannah doesn’t remember her life before Peter. And in this quiet Victorian neighborhood, that’s exactly how he wants it. The house is charming. The marriage seems perfect. The neighbors are polite in a way that feels rehearsed. But inside this carefully controlled world, one thing stands out—the locked upstairs room Peter insists she never open. He tells her it’s a utility space with dangerous wiring. He tells her her memory loss comes from “a traumatic past” she’s not ready to face. He tells her she’s safe now, that he’s the only one she can trust. But the late-night ...

Every person who dies awakens in the same impossible city. Kings walk beside prisoners, ancient souls encounter descendants born thousands of years after them, and families separated by generations find one another again. Built from the memories carried across the boundary of death, the city contains no living inhabitants—and no one knows where it begins or ends. When Adrian Vale dies unexpectedly, he discovers that death has rules. The dead cannot return physically to Earth, they cannot permanently injure one another, and their continued existence depends upon something far more fragile ...

She looks exactly like me. Same face, same scar, same life. And now she's stealing everything that's mine. When Madisyn Holmes moves in across the street, I can't shake the feeling that this isn't coincidence. She copies my garden design, my home décor, even my professional strategies. It's like watching someone erase me in real time. My husband thinks I'm paranoid. My neighbors think I'm losing it. But I know what I'm seeing. I start gathering evidence—photos, notes, proof of her systematic theft. Because someone has to stop her before she takes everything. The question is: how far will...

Paul Ricoeur Explained: Hermeneutics, Narrative Identity, Memory, Symbolism, and the Meaning of Human Experience offers a practical introduction to a philosopher who asked how people interpret texts, actions, symbols, and their own lives. Ricoeur is often placed within continental philosophy, yet his central concerns are concrete: how a metaphor changes what we can say, how a story gives shape to a life, how memory can guide or mislead, and how interpretation affects moral judgment. This book presents those ideas in clear language for readers who want substance without academic jargon. It ...

Death was just the beginning… now it might be the beginning of my end. Answers finally brought into the light have revealed who switched my body. Or should I say… switched it back. Apparently, it was mine all along. And now I’m finally free of the Shadow Academy. But instead of gaining my...

Two Sisters. Caitlin and Olivia are excited to finally be old enough to stay home alone. But, when they fall asleep, someone turns the handle of the back door and nothing is ever the same again. A Missing Daughter. When their parents return, they find Olivia's bed empty. Their eldest daughter...

Seamus Heaney Explained: Poetry of Place, Irish Identity, Memory, Language, Violence, Nature, History, and the Search for Meaning in a Changing World Discover the life, work, and enduring legacy of one of the most celebrated poets of the twentieth century. Seamus Heaney Explained offers a deeply engaging exploration of Heaney’s major ideas, tracing how his poetry transforms the everyday world of land, labor, and memory into something profound and universal. From his rural upbringing in Northern Ireland to his global influence as a Nobel Prize winning writer, this book reveals how ...

In a heretofore calm pocket of a postapocalyptic world, a few survivors find they are not alone as they face a new reality rife with cosmic horrors. In an isolated village at the edge of a forest, the last of humanity ekes out a spirited existence on an Earth that was ravaged by cataclysm...

"David Stifel provides a confident professorial tone in his narration of [Eric] Kandel's fascinating audiobook. Listeners searching for a fundamental review of neurobiology will find it satisfyingly comprehensive." — AudioFile Magazine Eric R. Kandel, the winner of the Nobel Prize in...

Brought to you by Penguin. Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greatest writers. __________ Hat, ribbon, bird rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any...

You can have a convincing explanation for a decision and still miss what influenced it. The Psychology of Everyday Life explores 100 standalone psychology facts across five themed parts. It follows the research into ordinary situations, from a purchase you are weighing up to a conversation you are still trying to understand. No psychology background is required. Inside, you will explore: The first number you hear. An initial figure can pull an estimate toward it, even when the figure has nothing to do with the question. The moment a goal becomes an action. Discover why a new date can make ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The inspiring true story of transgender actor and activist Nicole Maines, whose identical twin brother, Jonas, and ordinary American family join her on an extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all. Nicole appears as TV’s...

In this spellbinding and provocative novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Miracles, a young mother is struck by sudden and puzzling psychological symptoms that illuminate the mysterious dimensions of the human mind—and of love. A Belletrist Book Club Pick A year after...

Mary has started remembering things that she knows aren't real—but the events feel exactly like her actual memories. Who is she, if she can't be sure she knows her own past? A writer in her 30s struggling to make rent, Mary has moved back to her childhood town to bartend and save money, when...

The World Fantasy Award-winning thriller about a girl no one can remember, from the acclaimed author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K. My name is Hope Arden, and you won't know who I am. But we've met before -- a thousand times. It started when I was sixteen years old. A father...

Nine days after burying his wife, Evan receives a voicemail from her phone. Claire is dead. He signed the papers. He chose the urn. He sat through the funeral while everyone told him to take all the time he needed. Then her voice comes through the speaker at 2:17 in the morning. Her warning is impossible: a man will come to his building claiming to be from the gas company. Do not let him in. When the warning comes true, Evan is pulled into a quiet nightmare of hidden recordings, missing memories, false identities, and secrets Claire took to her grave. Each message leads him deeper into a ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026 From the Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of First Love, The Palm House is a sharply observed, slyly funny novel of enduring friendships and small mercies. ‘This goes straight onto my list of favourite modern novels’ – The Times ‘One of our finest...