Mister, Mister'Enthralling' Guardian Culture Preview 'Imaginative and provocative' ID Books of 2023 'A vital novel of newness and nowness' Raymond Antrobus 'Devastating. The book we will all be reading in 2023' Nikesh Shukla 'A knockout' Big Issue Idiot, poet, jihadist, son. Who is Yahya Bas? An exuberantly imaginative novel of Britishness and unbelonging from the prizewinning author of In Our Mad and Furious City. When Yahya Bas finds himself in a UK detention

leading the press to christen him The Man of Crows

centuries before their time

Someone who wants to make sure that Charles won't live long enough to save Donald

she has no idea what awaits her

has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships: her existence becomes charged with a meaning which communicates itself to those around her

It used to be a buzzing seaside destination

And she must face the truth about the Forest of Hands and Teeth

exotic fruits

the enormous category-error of violence

I've stolen old magics and been cursed for it

to help an acquaintance in danger

When his mother's prize horse finishes a disappointing last place in a race he should have won