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White Boy Shuffle is Man Booker-winner Paul Beatty’s electrifying debut novel about teenage-surf-bum Gunnar Kaufman who is forced...

In Ancient Rome all the best stories have one thing in common – murder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city, Caesar was...

If we can save the salmon, we can save the world.
Over the centuries, salmon have been a vital resource, a dietary staple and an...

They had not lost anyone that year, or the ones they had lost were not worth remembering…

Set in the fictional Kenyan town of...

The history of the world is the history of great women.

Marie Curie discovered radium and revolutionised medical science....

Here are three things you should know about my husband:

1. He was the great love of my life despite his penchant for going...

In one of the most talked about and hilarious debuts of the year, Afi Tekple, a bright young seamstress from a small town in...

What do the Greek myths mean to us today?

It's now a golden age for these tales - they crop up in novels, films and popular...

'My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist.'

Secrets

Dana and Chaurisse are sisters, bound together by the life-changing...

New writing from the literary master

Throughout Proust’s life, nine of his short stories remained unseen – the writer never...

From an award-winning Scottish poet, an unforgettable novel about memory and radical forgiveness

How far would you go to...

When twelve-year-old Alex receives an old tin robot in the post, the note from his grandfather simply reads: ‘This one is...

Vacca Vale, Indiana: recently voted number 1 on Newsweek‘s list of dying American cities. According to the developers, however,...

Winner of The Guardian's Not the Booker Prize.
Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984. The year a heatwave...

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Longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize.

Two venturesome women on a journey through the land of their fathers and...

‘He had never married and had never been with one woman for long; he had always remained a collector of first times.’

Edward...

From one of Brazil’s rising literary stars, an acclaimed novella about the violation of a woman and a city, based on true...

Four strangers from around the world arrive in India for a wedding. Together, they climb a mountain - but will they see the same...

The stories in The Safety of Objects are both bizarre and believable, very funny but also frightening and sad. A girl's blonde...

In 1940, Helene, young, naive, and recently married, waves goodbye to her husband, who has enlisted in the British army. Her...

In an old wooden sloop, Philip Marsden plots a course north from his home in Cornwall. He is sailing for the Summer Isles, a...

Neve is a writer in her mid-30s married to an older man, Edwyn. For now they are in a place of relative peace, but their past...

The Big Guy loves his family, money and democracy. Undone by the results of the 2008 presidential election, he taps a group of...

‘Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally...

In New York, Alice, a young editor, begins an affair with Ezra Blazer, a world-famous, much older writer. At Heathrow airport,...

District Attorney Varga is shot dead while picking a sprig of jasmine. Then Judge Sanza is killed. Then Judge Azar. Is this...

In Reading Chekhov Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer and journalist. Her close readings of...

A man is thrown out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen doesn’t...

Set in Romania at the height of Ceausescu’s reign of terror, The Land of Green Plums tells the story of a group of young...