Butter, Sophia And Other Stories

Praise for PalmaresA 2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 'Gayl Jones is a literary legend . . . A once-in-a-lifetime work of literature, the kind that changes your understanding of the world' Yara Rodrigues Fowler, Guardian'A story woven with extraordinary complexity, depth and skill . . . After suffering the author's absence for far too long, we can rejoice at her return' Robert Jones, Jr, The New York Times 'Page after breathtaking page, her prose is intricate, mesmerising and endlessly inventive and subversive' Deesha Philyaw, Author of The Secret Lives of Church LadiesPraise for The BirdcatcherA 2022 National Book Award Finalist 'A fascinating meditation on Black female creativity . . . Vivid characters shimmer through the pages' Suzy Feay, Guardian'Jones constructs a novel that is part mystery, part thriller, and wholly captivating . . . Jones is an outstanding writer . . . A shining segment of the American literary canon has been restored' Kate Webb, TLS'[A novel with] the plush scenery of a travelogue, the misshapen soul of a noir and the anarchic spirit of a trickster tale' The New Yorker (Books of the Year)