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Tourists arrive all summer, by boat or seaplane, at Stu and Maureen Jenkins’s Lavender Island Wilderness Lodge in the Kodiak...

When Cy Bellman, American settler and widowed father of Bess, reads in the newspaper that huge ancient bones have been discovered...

1919. The Russian Civil War. It is the harsh dead of winter, as four soldiers set up camp in a forest somewhere near the Romanian...

‘What are you afraid of, he asks me and the answer of course is dentistry, humiliation, scarcity, then he says what are your most...

Fear and destruction take root in a community of women when the Witchfinder General comes to town, in this dark and thrilling...

In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his life while...

In the past year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart...

In the heart of Mexico City a woman, trapped in a house and a marriage she can neither fully inhabit nor abandon, thinks about...

Welcome to the not-too-distant future. Japan, having vanished into the sea, is now remembered as 'the land of sushi'. Hiruko, a...

Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of...

What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In...

As politics slides toward impulsivity, and outrage bests rationality, how can philosophy help us critically engage with the...

Jorge said he wasn’t coming back until I learned how to be a better wife . . . But before he drove off he gave me a new...

Winner of the Whitbread Best First Novel of the Year

In his classic debut novel, Gordon Burn takes Britain's biggest selling...

Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom – and loneliness – marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The...

In the late 1970s, a young boy disappears from a summer cabin in the Swedish woods. His mother claims that he was abducted by a...

Once an officer in the Irish War for Independence, Moran is now a widower, eking out a living on a small farm where he raises his...

Elf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters.

Elf is a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to...

Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her past, Bessy Buckley takes a job working as a maid in a big country house. But when...

This remarkable volume brings together all of John McGahern’s short fiction, fully revised, in a definitive text. McGahern has...

Open with your best gag. Finish with your second best.
Make sure your face matches the material.
Sell your routine . ....

Meet the Troutmans. Hattie is living in Paris, city of romance, but has just been dumped by her boyfriend. Min, her sister back...

Based on a remarkable true story, Don’t Tell Me You’re Afraid is a moving, inspiring novel of a life lived in hope.

Samia...

Madame Zero is a remarkable collection of dark, sensuous stories set in sometimes conflicting landscapes – rural, industrial,...

As I stepped over one of the Germans an impulse made me lift him up from the miserable ditch. Propped against the bank, his blond...

‘Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin . . .‘

The explosion that detonates the...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Our Fathers is a powerful reclamation of the past from one of Britain’s most accomplished...

In a hard-boiled city of crooks, grifts and rackets lurk a pair of toughs: Box and _____. They're the kind of men capable of...

When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into a private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a...

Following the end of the First World War, Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary. With all those around him...