'Engaging, modern fables with a feminist tang' Sunday Times DARK, POTENT AND UNCANNY, HAG BURSTS WITH THE UNTOLD STORIES OF OUR ISLES, CAPTURED IN VOICES AS VARIED AS THEY ARE VIVID. Here are sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant archaeologist unearthing impossible bones and lost children following you home. A panther runs through the forests of England and pixies prey upon violent men. From the islands of Scotland to the coast of Cornwall, the mountains of Galway to the depths of the Fens, these forgotten folktales howl, cackle and sing their way into the 21st century, wildly reimagined by some of the most exciting women writing in Britain and Ireland today. 'A thoroughly original package that has a hint of Angela Carter' The Times 'Sharp writing and cleverly done' Spectator

Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

Literature & Fiction

Glass, Emma

Booth, Naomi

McBride, Eimear

Gowar, Imogen Hermes

Johnson, Daisy

Logan, Kirsty

Okojie, Irenosen

Carthew, Natasha

Snaith, Mahsuda

Little, Liv

Short Stories & Anthologies

Virago

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR "[A] skillfully crafted gothic mystery . . . Johnson pulls off a great feat in this book." --Financial Times "It reminded me, in its general refusal to play nice, of early Ian McEwan." --The New York Times Book Review "Johnson crafts an aching thriller about the dangers of loving too intensely." --Time From a Booker Prize finalist and international literary star: a blazing portrait of one darkly riveting sibling relationship, from the inside out. "One of her generation's most intriguing authors" (Entertainment Weekly), Daisy Johnson is the youngest writer to have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Now she returns with Sisters, a haunting story about two sisters caught in a powerful emotional web and wrestling to understand where one ends and the other begins. Born just ten months apart, July and September are thick as thieves, never needing anyone but each other. Now, following a case of school bullying, the teens have moved away with their single mother to a long-abandoned family home near the shore. In their new, isolated life, July finds that the deep bond she has always shared with September is shifting in ways she cannot entirely understand. A creeping sense of dread and unease descends inside the house. Meanwhile, outside, the sisters push boundaries of behavior--until a series of shocking encounters tests the limits of their shared experience, and forces shocking revelations about the girls' past and future. Written with radically inventive language and imagery by an author whose work has been described as "entrancing" (The New Yorker), "a force of nature" (The New York Times Book Review), and "weird and wild and wonderfully unsettling" (Celeste Ng), Sisters is a one-two punch of wild fury and heartache--a taut, powerful, and deeply moving account of sibling love and what happens when two sisters must face each other's darkest impulses.

Sisters: A Novel

Literary

Riverhead Books

Product Description 
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR“[A] skillfully crafted gothic mystery . . . Johnson pulls off a great feat in this book.” —Financial Times “It reminded me, in its general refusal to play nice, of early Ian McEwan.” —The New York Times Book Review “Johnson crafts an aching thriller about the dangers of loving too intensely.” —Time From a Booker Prize finalist and international literary star: a blazing portrait of one darkly riveting sibling relationship, from the inside out.\n“One of her generation’s most intriguing authors” ( 
Entertainment Weekly), Daisy Johnson is the youngest writer to have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Now she returns with 
Sisters, a haunting story about two sisters caught in a powerful emotional web and wrestling to understand where one ends and the other begins.\nBorn just ten months apart, July and September are thick as thieves, never needing anyone but each other. Now, following a case of school bullying, the teens have moved away with their single mother to a long-abandoned family home near the shore. In their new, isolated life, July finds that the deep bond she has always shared with September is shifting in ways she cannot entirely understand. A creeping sense of dread and unease descends inside the house. Meanwhile, outside, the sisters push boundaries of behavior—until a series of shocking encounters tests the limits of their shared experience, and forces shocking revelations about the girls’ past and future.\nWritten with radically inventive language and imagery by an author whose work has been described as “entrancing” ( 
The New Yorker), “a force of nature” ( 
The New York Times Book Review), and “weird and wild and wonderfully unsettling” (Celeste Ng), 
Sisters is a one-two punch of wild fury and heartache—a taut, powerful, and deeply moving account of sibling love and what happens when two sisters must face each other’s darkest impulses. 
 Review 
Praise for Sisters by Daisy Johnson: ONE OF THE TOP TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR —PUBLISHER’S WEEKLYONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR —VULTURE\n“[A] skillfully crafted gothic mystery . . . Johnson pulls off a great feat in this book.” — 
Financial Times 
 “It reminded me, in its general refusal to play nice, of early Ian McEwan.” — 
The New York Times Book Review 
 “Johnson crafts an aching thriller about the dangers of loving too intensely.” — 
Time 
 “The stories Daisy Johnson tells are at once heart-rending and hair-raising. Her prose is elegantly emotional; her plotting would make Shirley Jackson, a master of upmarket horror, proud. . . . 
 Sisters is an ode to sisterly love—and a warning of how destructive devotion can be.” — 
The Economist “ 
Sisters ends with a magnificent twist, one that will make readers want to start over from page one and see what was right in front of them the whole time.” — 
The Boston Globe\n“As well as the stale, cluttered bedrooms of 
 The Virgin Suicides, it has echoes of Shirley Jackson’s Hill House, the rusty, moss-coated grange in Tennyson’s “Mariana,” the “spiteful” haunted house in Toni Morrison’s 
Beloved, and, inevitably, the bleak landscapes and inseparable, feral childhoods of 
Wuthering Heights.” — 
New Statesman (London)\n“Entrancing . . . Johnson’s own writing summons the just-off-ness of the uncanny; she is capable of passages of exquisite creepiness. . . . Her sentences have an aqueous quality.” — 
The New Yorker 
 “Transcends genres of horror and true crime . . . The creepiest thing I’ve read lately. . . . a thoroughly modern, highly disturbing shocker that is also beautifully written.” — 
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 
 “Read this when you are able to stay up late. 
Sisters is a haunting story. . . . We didn’t see the twist coming. This story is a tight monster.” — 
Goop\n“The ending will blow your socks off with a twist I never saw coming.” — 
Good Housekeeping\n“Johnson expertly layers the Gothic atmosphere with dread.”\n—The New York Times

The electrifying novel from the Booker shortlisted author of Everything Under.'A short sharp explosion of a gothic thriller' ObserverSomething unspeakable has happened to sisters July and September.Desperate for a fresh start, they move across the country to an old family house that has a troubled life of its own. Noises come from behind the walls. Lights flicker of their own accord. Sleep feels impossible, dreams are endless.In their new, unsettling surroundings, July finds that the fierce bond she's always had with September - forged with a blood promise when they were children - is beginning to change in ways she cannot understand.

Sisters

RANDOM HOUSE UK

A singular debut that “marks the emergence of a great, stomping, wall-knocking talent” (Kevin Barry)
Daisy Johnson’s Fen, set in the fenlands of England, transmutes the flat, uncanny landscape into a rich, brooding atmosphere. From that territory grow stories that blend folklore and restless invention to turn out something entirely new. Amid the marshy paths of the fens, a teenager might starve herself into the shape of an eel. A house might fall in love with a girl and grow jealous of her friend. A boy might return from the dead in the guise of a fox. Out beyond the confines of realism, the familiar instincts of sex and hunger blend with the shifting, unpredictable wild as the line between human and animal is effaced by myth and metamorphosis. With a fresh and utterly contemporary voice, Johnson lays bare these stories of women testing the limits of their power to create a startling work of fiction.

Fen: Stories

Graywolf Press

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER PRIZE An eerie, watery reimagining of the Oedipus myth set on the canals of Oxford, from the author of Fen
The dictionary doesn’t contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention. Her mother disappeared when Gretel was a teen, abandoning her to foster care, and Gretel has tried to move on, spending her days updating dictionary entries.
One phone call from her mother is all it takes for the past to come rushing back. To find her, Gretel will have to recover buried memories of her final, fateful winter on the canals. A runaway boy had found community and shelter with them, and all three were haunted by their past and stalked by an ominous creature lurking in the canal: the bonak. Everything and nothing at once, the bonak was Gretel’s name for the thing she feared most. And now that she’s searching for her mother, she’ll have to face it.
In this electrifying reinterpretation of a classical myth, Daisy Johnson explores questions of fate and free will, gender fluidity, and fractured family relationships. Everything Under―a debut novel whose surreal, watery landscape will resonate with fans of Fen―is a daring, moving story that will leave you unsettled and unstrung.

Everything Under: A Novel

BRILLIANCE AUDIO ^

What Happened to Your Dreams, Desires, and the True You?: Four Steps to Overcoming Barriers to Live the Life You Love

Self-Help

Motivational

Independently published

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 'Daisy Johnson is a new goddamn swaggering monster of fiction' Lauren Groff ‘Weird and wild and wonderfully unsettling… Dive in for just a moment and you’ll emerge gasping and haunted’ Celeste Ng It’s been sixteen years since Gretel last saw her mother, half a lifetime to forget her childhood on the canals. But a phone call will soon reunite them, and bring those wild years flooding back: the secret language that Gretel and her mother invented; the strange boy, Marcus, living on the boat that final winter; the creature said to be underwater, swimming ever closer. In the end there will be nothing for Gretel to do but to wade deeper into their past, where family secrets and aged prophesies will all come tragically alive again. ‘As readable as it is dazzling, full of unsettling twists and dark revelations’ Observer

Everything Under: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018

Vintage

JONATHAN CAPE.

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