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'The motto was Pax but the word was set in a circle of thorns. Peace, but what a strange peace, made of unremitting toil and...

When Rainclouds Gather: Escaping South Africa and his troubled past, Makehaya crosses the border to Botswana, in the hope of...

In affairs of the heart the race is not necessarily won by the swift or the fair.

Imogen, the beautiful and much younger wife...

At the age of five, a blind African-American boy is handed over to a brutal state home. Here Ludlow Washington will suffer for...

In 1964, two years after the critically lauded release of his debut novel A Different Drummer, William Melvin Kelley published...

June, 1957. One afternoon, in the backwater town of Sutton, a young black farmer by the name of Tucker Caliban matter-of-factly...

Almost-true stories for a post-truth world

Wrong! Not Nice! Sad!

A Manhattan party on election night. Liberal media types...

A woman on the edge of the sea finds a girl on the edge of life.

On the flooded coast of Cornwall, Ia Pendilly ekes out a...

Sophie is only a quarter Italian. But that quarter is her charismatic grandfather Cesare, and he has instilled in her a great...

A heart-warming tale of sibling rivalry, secrets, love and death, steeped in local colour and noise and tender in its depiction...

Nancy de Freitas is the glue that holds her family together. Caught between her ageing, ailing mother Frances, and her struggling...

Claire goes missing the night her father agrees to give her up for adoption. Her mother died when she was born. In the tiny...

Where do you run when your heart's breaking all the rules?

When pillar-of-the-community Harry Stewart dies of a sudden heart...

The wager
To poach a salmon, grouse and a deer from three Royal Estates.

The challengers
Three men in a mid-life crisis who...

In this darkly ironic novel - a quest for truth, a satire, an elegy - Joanna Kavenna displays fearless originality and wit in...

A lonely librarian opens her heart...

One morning a librarian finds a reader who has been locked in overnight.

She begins...

Torday... , Torday...

Andrew Landford, MP is driving home one night along a dark country lane when a barn owl flies into his windscreen. It is an...

On a rainy October night in Kentucky, recently divorced therapist Tallie Clark is on her way home from work when she spots a man...

"It was Indiana, it was the dirt she had bloomed up out of, it was who she was, what she felt, how she thought, what she...

Since my baby was born, I have been able to laugh and see the funny side of things. a) As much as I ever did. b) Not quite as...

The Cheffe is born into an impoverished family in Sainte-Bazeille in south-western France, but when she takes a job working in...

In this extraordinary final work, Dasa Drndic's combative, probing voice reaches new heights. In her relentless search for truth...

A searing, provocative satire by one of the most important African-American novelists of the twentieth century that lays bare the...

For reasons that will eventually become clear, Paul Hansen is in prison. He's been in prison for a couple of years now, sharing...

Once upon a time there was a boy whose mother called him "Wolf"

She thought this name would bring him strength, luck, natural...

At eighteen, Somlata married into the Mitras: a once noble Bengali household whose descendants have taken to pawning off the...

Growing up, it was always the three of them: Miller and Olly and Ash. They stuck together, like they were keeping a secret. They...

Milly Dayton became a widow at 26. Two years later, she's got the whole thing down:
Go on the occasional date but bring your...

Meet Darren. An unambitious twenty-two-year-old living with his mother and working at Starbucks. All that changes when a chance...

In crisp, unembellished prose, Choi Eunyoung paints intimate portraits of the lives of young women in South Korea, balancing the...