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A day, crucial and cathartic, in the life of a young Catholic schoolteacher who has returned to Ireland after a year’s sabbatical...

The Book of Chocolate Saints follows the unforgettable character Francis Newton Xavier and his journey towards salvation – or...

Opening like an early Tom Waits barstool-tale, The Motel Life tells the story of two brothers, Frank and Jerry Lee. Taking to the...

Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then banned. The seven...

Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old...

Shahid is a clean-cut student, trying to make an impression on his college lecturer, Deedee Osgood, who gives his spirits a lift...

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...

Plague is not the only killer - an historical epic of murder and mystery, myth-making and nation-building, from the winner of the...

'By the time Nashe understood what was happening to him, he was past the point of wanting it to end . . .'

Paul Auster fuses...

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...

One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don't need things to get any worse, I hear the noises growing louder. I...

That They May Face the Rising Sun was the last novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland’s greatest novelists.

Joe and Kate...

An unnamed man arrives in Berlin as a visiting professor. It is a place fused with Western history and cultural fracture lines....

Moving between the vibrant townships of the poor and the suburbs and country retreats of the rich, The Book of Memory is a...

In Turkish forests or rain-drenched Cumbrian villages, characters walk, drive, dream and fly, trying to reconcile themselves with...

They say boys don't cry.
But Finn's seen his Da do it when he thinks no one's looking, so that's not true.
And isn't it OK to...

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...

After many years away, Andreas returns to his childhood home: a small island off the Norwegian coast where he grew up with his...

Meet Horace Hopper, a twenty-one-year-old farm hand in Tonopah, Nevada, who works for Mr Reece and his wife, the nearest thing...

What, what, am I to do with all of this life?

Maud Martha Brown is a little girl growing up on the South Side of 1940s...

One father. Two sons. An impossible choice.

When thirteen-year-old Paul doesn’t return home one afternoon, even his twin...

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...

Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only girl on the public courts. Lucy's inner...

Meet fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little. Desperate times call for the most unlikely of heroes.

'Startling... explosive and...

Junot Diaz’s new collection, This Is How You Lose Her, is a collection of linked narratives about love – passionate love, illicit...

My mother made a snap decision.
How could we know it would change us forever?

Rage. That's the feeling engulfing the car as...

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,...

‘I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I travelled down there from...