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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,...

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...

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...

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....

Marcus Conway has come a long way to stand in the kitchen of his home and remember the rhythms and routines of his life....

Forty years after John Edgar Wideman’s first book of stories, comes this stunning collection that is vital reading for anyone...

A pregnant mother of two finds herself increasingly in thrall to her help, Nat. For Joad, the discovery of a haunting typewritten...

This is the story of Mary, a young girl born in a beautiful city full of rose gardens and fluttering kites. When she is still...

‘My oshi was on fire. Word was he’d punched a fan’
High-school student Akari has only one passion in her life: her oshi, her...

Ranging from the seventeenth century to our current moment, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives’ stories and...

Veronica is late, and Julian is increasingly convinced she won't ever come home. To pass the time, he improvises a story about...

South London in the 1980s. Sixteen-year-old Brenton Brown is the mixed-race child of a mother he has never met. He's been living...

New York Times Bestselling author Craig T. Bouchard creates a daring, unique, and an action-packed new genre in his novel...

Quentin Jacobsen has always loved Margo Roth Spiegelman, for Margo (and her adventures) are the stuff of legend at their high...

When faced with betrayal, can you find peace?

Hope and Jack Langley's marriage gets off to a promising start: they spend their...

In 1613 the missionary Father Pedro Velasco's dream comes true. For the first time, the Japanese are going to cross the Pacific...

The final novel in the Harold Fry trilogy, this is a heart-stopping story told from the view point of his wife Maureen as she...

You are a young, ambitious, college-educated feminist. And you've just landed a job in television.

To climb the ranks, you do...

Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading.

Well-written stories entertain us, make us...

'Oh, you're not crazy, Denise. I think this is probably the sanest you've ever been...'

Two women. An open road. The trip of a...

'A funny and touching insight into music, autism and motherhood' Dawn French

'A truthful book that dives headfirst into the...

The collapse of her brief marriage has stalled Bea Nightingale's life, leaving her middle-aged and alone, teaching in an...