Fiction

Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down. In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street. A mother dies. A man falls to his death. Couples seek escape in distant lands. The new novel from one of the most distinctive writers of the age, Parade sets loose a carousel of lives. It surges past the limits of identity, character, and plot, to tell a true story-about ar

In the summer of 1980, astrophysics professor Joan Goodwin begins training to be an astronaut at Houston's Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond; mission specialists John Griffin and Lydia Danes; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer. As the new astronauts prepare for

'Hall makes language shimmer and burn.' - Damon Galgut
'Hall's writing is alchemical, magnificent, divine, bodily.' - Daisy Johnson
'I can think of no other British writer whose talent so consistently thrills, surprises and staggers.' - Benjamin Myers

A wondrous, elemental novel from 'a writer of show-stopping genius' (Guardian).