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Anthony Whitelands, an English art historian, is invited to Madrid to value the collection of a Spanish duke. At a welcome lunch...

I lived for and loved a bird-heart that summer; I only knew it afterwards.

Sunday Forrester lives with her sixteen-year-old...

Twenty-year-old Lilja is in love.

He is older and beautiful, a Derrida-quoting intellectual.

He is also a serial cheater,...

Bill Gray, a famous, reclusive novelist, emerges from his isolation when he becomes the key figure in an event staged to force...

Three women. Three countries. One unforgettable journey. The Braid is a vibrant and singular reminder of what connects us all –...

Winner of the Betty Trask Award, Never Mind is the first in Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels,...

Amelia is no stranger to sex and death.

Her job as a cosmetic mortician at her family's funeral parlour might be unusual but...

A beautiful and moving first novel about grief, sisterhood and a teenage girl's struggle to transcend herself.

Eleven-year-old...

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou is an uproarious and bighearted satire – alive with sharp edges, immense warmth, and a cast...

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...

Set in an unnamed African country, V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River is narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of...

Ranging from Texas, to Chile, to New Mexico and New York, in Evening in Paradise Berlin writes about the good, the bad and...

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,...

Heart-rending and darkly comic, V. S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr Biswas has been hailed as one of the twentieth century’s finest...

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

In Manhattan, just after the century's turn, three thirty-year-old friends, Danielle, Marina and Julius, are seeking their...

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...

The epic literary adventure that has transfixed readers and critics alike in Spain
Almost four hundred passengers are on board...

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....