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Dear Ally is a treasure for aspiring writers at any stage of their careers. It offers a behind-the-scenes look at how books get...

When superstitious Sab sees a giant black butterfly, an omen of death, she knows that she's doomed! According to legend, she has...

Coconut trees. Carnival. Rum and coke. To many outsiders, these and other sunny images are all they know about life in the...

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019, a powerful, well-researched, fictional account exploring the trokosi tradition...

One little cocaine-induced heart attack and it's back to my childhood to start over ... A wry, debut novel about addiction and...

The Francombe & Salter Mercury has served the residents of two South Coast resorts for over 150 years. Hit by both the economic...

Shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, the Saboteur Awards, the Shirley Jackson Award and the Jhalak Prize.

Lovelorn...

A murder investigation in post-war France becomes an exploration of the legacy of German occupation.

From his village in...

The Buddha taught that to live is to experience suffering. Few family sagas, especially first ones, have captured this aspect of...

A.L. Barker dissects the unnerving emotions of everyday life with the sly humour and exquisite feel for language that prompted...

Twelve-year-old Hans Thomas lives alone with his father, a man who likes to give his son lessons about life and has a penchant...

‘Everything changed after Mama found Father lying on top of another woman.’

Blessing and her brother Ezikiel adore their...

Lillian, a single, well-travelled woman of a certain age, wakes up next to her married lover and looks back at her life. It's not...

Cecilia Banks has a great deal on her plate. But when her son Ian turns up on her doorstep with the unexpected consequence of a...

Meet Penelope O'Shaughnessy, Harvard freshman.

Armed with her Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights poster and party conversation...

'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...

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...

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...

They were the Amazing Telemachus Family, who in the mid-1970s achieved widespread fame for their magic and mind reading act. That...

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

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...

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...