The Book of Form and Emptiness - October 2021 Book of the MonthWinner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022! One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen year old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sense their emotional tone; some are pleasant, a gentle hum or coo, but others are snide, angry and full of pain. When

when the dynamics of the Pacific region have changed forever

a sacred bloodstone which he was planning to donate to the Abbey of St Fulcher-on-Thames

You have shown little or no remorse for your actions and I consider you a danger to society

and the price we pay to protect the people we love most

whose dealings have been known to bring nations to their knees

And so Christmas does not turn out quite as Joe anticipated

this clever

He is thrust into the centre of the search for a serial killer

Nebula- and World Fantasy Award-winner Ken Liu and the first in an monumental new epic fantasy series

during his family summer holiday

What begins as a brilliant piece of soldiering turns into disaster

a tabloid journalist