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Frances is a young graduate student spending a summer volunteering in rural France, in the hope that tending vegetables and...

Gonzalo is a frustrated would-be poet in a city full of poets; poets lurk in every bookshop, prop up every bar, ready to debate...

Adam is a stay-at-home dad who is also working on a history of the bombing and rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral. He is a good man...

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

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

Elf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters.

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

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...

The Book of Chocolate Saints follows the unforgettable character Francis Newton Xavier and his journey towards salvation – or...

Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then banned. The seven...

Eager to clean up his act after his troubled early twenties, Owen has returned to Kentucky to take a job as a groundskeeper at a...

The vibrant energy of 1990s London. A year of passion and discovery. The anxiety and intensity of new love.

An...

Norman Miller used to be one of Fleet Street's finest. Now he's a middle-aged, burned-out hack with a gift for the sensational...

An unnamed man arrives in Berlin as a visiting professor. It is a place fused with Western history and cultural fracture lines....

In Turkish forests or rain-drenched Cumbrian villages, characters walk, drive, dream and fly, trying to reconcile themselves with...

Capturing the texture of life growing up in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the stories in The Sun on My Head tell us of days...

Meet Horace Hopper, a twenty-one-year-old farm hand in Tonopah, Nevada, who works for Mr Reece and his wife, the nearest thing...

Winner of the Encore Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction

A beguiling, short and yet sweeping prose-poem,...

Meet fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little. Desperate times call for the most unlikely of heroes.

'Startling... explosive and...

For almost a decade Rachel Caine has turned her back on home and worked in Idaho at a reservation for wolves. As one of the few...

Her obsessions devour her. She is helpless to stop them…
Adele has a seemingly enviable life. She is a respected journalist,...

At his high school basketball try-outs, nerdy sports-obsessed Brian Blum meets new kid Marcus Hayes. As a sportswriter, Brian...

Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle...

Ron Rash has been acclaimed as ‘the best American novelist I have come upon in the last twenty years’ (Scotsman), a writer with...

There’s Grandaddy Jake Santee, 99 years old, an unreformed gambler, cranky reprobate and fierce opponent of the work ethic....

This award-winning story collection summons all the laughter, darkness and intensity of contemporary Irish life. A pair of fast...

Aden Grace Sawyer has travelled a long way to begin her new life, and she’ll travel further to protect her secret. But once she’s...

Winner of John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The Millstone is a radical celebration of the mother-child relationship. It is the Swinging...

Anne Marie’s Da, a Glaswegian painter and decorator, has always been game for a laugh. So when he first tells his family that...

At seven years old, Nainoa falls into the sea and a shark takes him in its jaws – only to return him, unharmed, to his parents....

A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable...