Is This Working?'Utterly compulsive' The Times 'Fascinating and often moving' The Sunday Times 'Unique and unexpectedly moving: it's a choral work of frustration, pride and despair' The Telegraph 'Charlie Colenutt's intense and revealing interviews capture the raw voices of people talking honestly about work . . . Read this, as each one opens a hidden window on the way we live now' Polly Toynbee For the best part of two years Charlie Colenutt travelled the country to

wry and at times

and this book is the result

where a young black man has died in suspicious circumstances

public or private

Azeem Rafiq

This satirical romance of an eccentric knight-errant in La Mancha

frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organization the Set - with his late uncle and his sister among their leaders - since they started kidnapping people with the power of Allomancy in their bloodlines

and a crucial part of the solution - what we eat - is being ignored

local archaeologists are called in

he would soon find himself caught up in the new and uncertain world order taking shape following the election of President Trump

across the Atlantic Ocean

nurse and childminder sometimes all at once and believed the world would end in 1975