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Black Bag

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026“The funniest and smartest novel I've read in a while.” —Zadie SmithAn out-of-work actor accepts the role of a lifetime—sitting soundlessly in a lecture theater, zipped into a large leather bag—to aid a professor’s psychological experiment. What could possibly go wrong?**In Luke Kennard’s audacious new novel, a penniless actor picks up a job working for Dr. ... Read more

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026“The funniest and smartest novel I've read in a while.” —Zadie SmithAn out-of-work actor accepts the role of a lifetime—sitting soundlessly in a lecture theater, zipped into a large leather bag—to aid a professor’s psychological experiment. What could possibly go wrong?**In Luke Kennard’s audacious new novel, a penniless actor picks up a job working for Dr.
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Holophin

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This book has now completely sold out, but is still available to buy as an ebook: buy it from Amazon here for £2.99.It is 2031 and the must-have gadget is the Holophin: a tiny, dolphin-shaped microprocessor which cures your worst impulses and phobias, comforts you in your grief or boredom and makes everything look much, much prettier.Hatsuka and Max are students at the Takin International School, ... Read more

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This book has now completely sold out, but is still available to buy as an ebook: buy it from Amazon here for £2.99.It is 2031 and the must-have gadget is the Holophin: a tiny, dolphin-shaped microprocessor which cures your worst impulses and phobias, comforts you in your grief or boredom and makes everything look much, much prettier.Hatsuka and Max are students at the Takin International School,
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The Transition

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by Luke Kennard ...

"The sort of book that cuts you off from your family and has you walking blindly through seven lanes of traffic with your face pressed obliviously to the page." —James Marriott, The Times (London)Do you or your partner spend more than you earn? Have your credit card debts evolved into collection letters? Has either of you received a court summons? Has either of you considered turning to a life of ... Read more

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"The sort of book that cuts you off from your family and has you walking blindly through seven lanes of traffic with your face pressed obliviously to the page." —James Marriott, The Times (London)Do you or your partner spend more than you earn? Have your credit card debts evolved into collection letters? Has either of you received a court summons? Has either of you considered turning to a life of
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Truffle Hound

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LUKE KENNARD's first pamphlet in six years – Truffle Hound – kicked off our experimental pamphlet series with a bang in 2018. More resolutely prose than any of his previous books of poetry (although not his novel) here Luke allows his childhood (imagined or otherwise) to flood into the foreground, while his present (factual or fake news) distorts and fractures as if his life were being directed by ... Read more

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LUKE KENNARD's first pamphlet in six years – Truffle Hound – kicked off our experimental pamphlet series with a bang in 2018. More resolutely prose than any of his previous books of poetry (although not his novel) here Luke allows his childhood (imagined or otherwise) to flood into the foreground, while his present (factual or fake news) distorts and fractures as if his life were being directed by
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The Book of Jonah

by Luke Kennard ...

**From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Black Bag.‘Kennard’s distinctive voice – surreal, funny, anxious, always overthinking, and cringingly self-deprecating – has made him one of the most widely liked and imitated British poets’ – Tristram Fane Saunders, TLS**A Telegragh, Irish Times, Guardian and The Week Book of the YearNone of the Old Testament prophets were especially happy or confide. ... Read more

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**From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Black Bag.‘Kennard’s distinctive voice – surreal, funny, anxious, always overthinking, and cringingly self-deprecating – has made him one of the most widely liked and imitated British poets’ – Tristram Fane Saunders, TLS**A Telegragh, Irish Times, Guardian and The Week Book of the YearNone of the Old Testament prophets were especially happy or confide.
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Notes on The Sonnets

by Luke Kennard ...

Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2021Longlisted for the Rathbones folio prizeA Poetry Book society RecommendationLuke Kennard recasts Shakespeare's 154 sonnets as a series of anarchic prose poems set in the same joyless house party.A physicist explains dark matter in the kitchen. A crying man is consoled by a Sigmund Freud action figure. An out-of-hours doctor sells phials of dark ... Read more

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Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2021Longlisted for the Rathbones folio prizeA Poetry Book society RecommendationLuke Kennard recasts Shakespeare's 154 sonnets as a series of anarchic prose poems set in the same joyless house party.A physicist explains dark matter in the kitchen. A crying man is consoled by a Sigmund Freud action figure. An out-of-hours doctor sells phials of dark
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Black Bag

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by Luke Kennard ...

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9 hours 6 min

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026“The funniest and smartest novel I've read in a while.” —Zadie SmithAn out-of-work actor accepts the role of a lifetime—sitting soundlessly in a lecture theater, zipped into a large leather bag—to aid a professor’s psychological experiment. What could possibly go wrong?**In Luke Kennard’s audacious new novel, a penniless actor picks up a job working for Dr. ... Read more

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026“The funniest and smartest novel I've read in a while.” —Zadie SmithAn out-of-work actor accepts the role of a lifetime—sitting soundlessly in a lecture theater, zipped into a large leather bag—to aid a professor’s psychological experiment. What could possibly go wrong?**In Luke Kennard’s audacious new novel, a penniless actor picks up a job working for Dr.
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Planet Shaped Horse

by Luke Kennard ...

Luke Kennard's Planet Shaped Horse is an unhinged blackcomedy poemplay from one of contemporary poetry's most unique voices. When the (anti)hero of the piece is enduring a somewhat 'enforced' stay at Fouracres Halfway House, entanglements ensue. Both terrible and beautiful things happen.Hermits and doctors are not what they seem and neither Miranda nor Simon seem capable of reining in or reforming ... Read more

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Luke Kennard's Planet Shaped Horse is an unhinged blackcomedy poemplay from one of contemporary poetry's most unique voices. When the (anti)hero of the piece is enduring a somewhat 'enforced' stay at Fouracres Halfway House, entanglements ensue. Both terrible and beautiful things happen.Hermits and doctors are not what they seem and neither Miranda nor Simon seem capable of reining in or reforming
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The Book of Jonah

A Telegraph Book of the Year

by Luke Kennard ...

Narrated by Luke Kennard ...

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2 hours 48 min

**From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Black Bag.Read by the author, Luke Kennard.‘Kennard’s distinctive voice – surreal, funny, anxious, always overthinking, and cringingly self-deprecating – has made him one of the most widely liked and imitated British poets’ – Tristram Fane Saunders, TLS**A Telegragh, Irish Times, Guardian and The Week Book of the YearNone of the Old Testament ... ... Read more

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**From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Black Bag.Read by the author, Luke Kennard.‘Kennard’s distinctive voice – surreal, funny, anxious, always overthinking, and cringingly self-deprecating – has made him one of the most widely liked and imitated British poets’ – Tristram Fane Saunders, TLS**A Telegragh, Irish Times, Guardian and The Week Book of the YearNone of the Old Testament ...
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The Transition

A Novel

by Luke Kennard ...

Narrated by Joe Gaminara ...

Unabridged

7 hours 49 min

"Narrator Joe Gaminara keeps listeners right where the author wants them: teetering between perception and reality." — AudioFile MagazineFrom acclaimed British poet Luke Kennard comes The Transition: an intriguing and mysterious debut audiobook.Do you or your partner spend more than you earn? Have your credit card debts evolved into collection letters? Has either of you received a court summons? ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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"Narrator Joe Gaminara keeps listeners right where the author wants them: teetering between perception and reality." — AudioFile MagazineFrom acclaimed British poet Luke Kennard comes The Transition: an intriguing and mysterious debut audiobook.Do you or your partner spend more than you earn? Have your credit card debts evolved into collection letters? Has either of you received a court summons?
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The Sinner

by Caroline England ...

Narrated by Tamsin Kennard, Luke R Francis ...

Unabridged

10 hours 56 min

EVERY SAINT HAS A PAST To the unsuspecting eye Dee Stephens has a perfect life as the vicar's wife: a devoted marriage to her charismatic husband Reverend Vincent, an adoring congregation and a beautiful daughter. EVERY SINNER HAS A FUTURE But beneath the surface, Dee is suffocating. Vincent is in control, and he knows her every sin. Desperate, Dee escapes into a heady affair with Cal, an old ... Read more

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EVERY SAINT HAS A PAST To the unsuspecting eye Dee Stephens has a perfect life as the vicar's wife: a devoted marriage to her charismatic husband Reverend Vincent, an adoring congregation and a beautiful daughter. EVERY SINNER HAS A FUTURE But beneath the surface, Dee is suffocating. Vincent is in control, and he knows her every sin. Desperate, Dee escapes into a heady affair with Cal, an old
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The Renovation

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by Kenan Orhan ...

Narrated by Nadia Albina ...

Unabridged

6 hours 38 min

A New York Times Book Review Book Club PickA woman discovers that her bathroom has been remodeled into a prison cell―where she is an unlikely inmate―in this surreal novel of exile, grief, memory, and migration.In Salerno, Italy, Dilara spends her days caring for her aging father and her hypochondriac husband. Since leaving her native Istanbul, she’s been unable to find a job―adrift, she becomes ... Read more

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A New York Times Book Review Book Club PickA woman discovers that her bathroom has been remodeled into a prison cell―where she is an unlikely inmate―in this surreal novel of exile, grief, memory, and migration.In Salerno, Italy, Dilara spends her days caring for her aging father and her hypochondriac husband. Since leaving her native Istanbul, she’s been unable to find a job―adrift, she becomes
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