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Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his ‘damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother’ Hugh, Theft: A...

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...

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...

Set in rural Ireland, John McGahern’s second novel is about adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is...

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,...

Those men who are history now; did they feel like this?

A 1950s Hampstead pub; a freezing night. Lois can't tear her eyes...

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...

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...

Brought up in a suffocating, emotionless home in the north of England, Clara finds freedom when she wins a scholarship and moves...

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...

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...

‘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...

Pristina, Kosovo, 1999. Barry Ashton, recently divorced, has been deployed as a civil engineer attached to the Royal Engineers...