Tara Westover, the internationally bestselling author of Educated, returns with a
deeply moving and beautifully-told memoir of what came after.
There are many of us out there, the liars.
Tara Westover grew up at the base of a mountain in Idaho, then she left the mountain and wrote the
story. She wrote about her father’s junkyard and being kept out of school, the family’s preparations for
the End of Days and the confusion she felt when an older brother became violent. Then she published
the story.
The world believed her, but her parents hired a lawyer. What followed was a battle over the past. Who
gets to say what happened? Who gets to be believed? And how can you believe yourself when your
own parents say you’re lying?
Westover was able to believe herself because two of her brothers believed her. “There is a gift
siblings can give to one another,” Westover writes. “It is the gift of a witness.”
But the gift didn’t last. The book became a phenomenon, and soon after, her brothers denied events
they had once confirmed.
Brothers and Sisters is the story of what comes after, and of what it means to step into the world
knowing that you will outlive the story that made you.
In Luke Kennard's audacious new novel, a penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a job working for Dr Blend, a university professor who is conducting a psychological experiment. How will Dr Blend's students react to someone zipped into on oversized bag, sitting at the back of the lecture hall over a series of autumn term lectures? The role, eagerly accepted, soon has unexpected consequences. A professor of post-humanism develops research questions of her own, in particular can you love someone secreted away inside a black bag? Meanwhile, the actor's childhood friend and flatmate forms a vision for monetising this new situation . . .
A warped campus novel, an investigation into the crisis of masculinity and an off-kilter love story, Black Bag is a firework of a novel: blazingly funny and profoundly humane.