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A gripping, darkly comic tale of searing loss, coercive control and the consequences of taking the wrong path.

Every morning...

Possibly the funniest novel of the decade' Sunday Times, Books of the Decade 2010-2019

Solomon Kugel has had enough of the...

Paras is a spirited young racehorse living in a stable in the French countryside. That is until one afternoon when she pushes...

To like something is to want to ingest it and, in that sense, is to submit to the world; to like something is to succumb, in a...

The painter Terry Godden was on the brink of his first success. After a violent crisis, he finds himself outcast.

In his...

The Greengage Summer is Rumer Godden's tense, evocative portrait of love and deceit in the Champagne region of provincial France,...

From the widely acclaimed author of American War, Omar El Akkad, a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic and profoundly...

Natsuki Books was a tiny second-hand bookshop on the edge of town. Inside, towering shelves reached the ceiling, every one...

After the death of his wife, a father raises his two sons alone. His bond with Fus, the eldest, and Gillou, the youngest, is a...

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies is a story of coming-of-age at the end of a life. Utterly heart-breaking yet darkly funny, Maddie...

Danielle Evans is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and X-ray insights into complex human relationships. With The...

An unsparing story of modern-day Britain, told with brilliant flashes of humour and humanity.

In a condemned tower block in...

In the evening of his life, a wealthy man begins to wonder if he might have missed the point.
Park Minwoo is, by every measure,...

Do you ever feel like you’re not speaking the same language?

Swedish immigrant Kristin won’t talk about her pregnancy. Her...

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(verb) to cry, howl, groan, wail, bawl.
(interjection) expression of astonishment or distress.

Taukiri was born into...

A hauntingly beautiful novel about an unforgettable new heroine, and a story of undying love

Nives has recently lost her...

This heartwarming story is about two unlikely friends who give each other the courage to do what they never thought possible....

Diane is raised by a mother so plagued by jealousy of her own daughter that she is incapable of showing affection to her. Despite...

In Igboland, the lives of two Nigerian women change forever…
In the city of Enugu in the 1970s, young Nwabulu dreams of becoming...

Without warning or explanation, a 13-year-old girl is sent away from the family she has always thought of as hers to live with...

June 1994. Twenty-year-old Daniele wakes up in a hospital room surrounded by strangers. Slowly, memories of the previous night...

An emblematic story of the shipwreck of the Arab Spring
At his father’s funeral, to the great consternation of all present,...

An elderly academic is accosted by a homeless woman on his way home from the cinema. She tells him her name is Laura. So begins a...

A moving story of liberation that shatters tired prejudices about womanhood, sex, and society.
Josephine teaches in a high...

Ties is the story of a marriage. Like many marriages, this one has been subject to strain, to attrition, to the burden of...

Following her mother’s untimely death, Delia sets off on a breathtaking odyssey through the chaotic, suffocating streets of her...

By turns dark and hilarious, at times solemn and mysterious, Your Duck Is My Duck cements Deborah Eisenberg’s reputation as one...

Sabine dreams of living as an artist in Paris; Helene has grown up living between her middle-class aunt and uncle and her more...

The Life of the Mind opens with Dorothy sitting on a library toilet, checking her phone and examining the "thick, curdled knots...

The Republic of the Congo, 1964. A young man is facing a firing squad, preparing for his last moment on Earth. He reflects on his...