BOOK OF THE MONTH

Cursed Daughters

Oyinkan Braithwaite

CURSES ARE LIKE HEARTS. SOME ARE MORE EASILY BROKEN THAN OTHERS… ‘A worthy successor to My Sister, the Serial Killer… Pacey storytelling, nuanced characterisation and sharp dialogue… An immersive page-turner’ Sunday Times–‘A haunting, twisty tale of curses and romance’ Ayòbámi Adébáyò’A sweeping love story… I lost myself within its gorgeous pages’ Jennie Godfrey’Funny and fearless, soaked in secrets, spirit, heartbreak, and love… Impossible to put down’ Abi DaréNo man will call your house his home. And if they try, they will not have peace… So goes the family curse, handed down fr …

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Henry Jeffreys on wine and class to Atlantic

14 October 2025

Clare Drysdale, Group Associate Publisher of Atlantic Books, has bought World English language rights to a new book by Henry Jeffreys from Philip Gwyn Jones at Greyhound Literary. The provisionally titled Sloshed: The Story of Wine and Class from Petronius to Partridge will be published in hardback, audio and ebook in October 2027 on the Allen & Unwin UK imprint. Atlantic has also acquired the rights to Jeffreys’ award-winning Empire of Booze following the collapse of Unbound and will republish in paperback in April 2026. Henry Jeffreys worked in the wine trade and in book publishing befor …