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Dorothy is a grieving housewife in the Californian suburbs; her husband is unfaithful, but they are too unhappy to get a divorce....

Flight Behaviour is a captivating, topical and deeply human story touching on class, poverty and climate change by global...

At his high school basketball try-outs, nerdy sports-obsessed Brian Blum meets new kid Marcus Hayes. As a sportswriter, Brian...

Julia has landed a fresh start as a chef at an up-and-coming city restaurant.
Her ex-boyfriend, Nick, is flirting with sobriety...

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...

Floorboard George Gastin is part of an insurance scam to wreck a pure white, mint condition '59 Cadillac originally intended for...

There’s Grandaddy Jake Santee, 99 years old, an unreformed gambler, cranky reprobate and fierce opponent of the work ethic....

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...

Luke O’Brien has left Dublin to live a quiet life on his family land on the bend of the River Sullane. Alone in his big house, he...

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

The Bachelors displays the best of Sparkian satire, placing her at the heart of a great literary tradition alongside Waugh and...

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....

Lost in Portugal.
Lost to grief.
With nothing but a chimpanzee.
A man thrown backwards by heartbreak goes in search of an...

A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable...

A life-changing app.
The woman who created it.
And the man who took the credit.
When Asha starts work on a revolutionary app...

Forty years after John Edgar Wideman’s first book of stories, comes this stunning collection that is vital reading for anyone...

After a car accident Jarred discovers he’ll never walk again. Confined to a ‘giant roller-skate’, he finds himself with neither...

The Pure Gold Baby is the story of Anna, a little girl with a luminescent quality, her mother, Jess, and the community that...

A pregnant mother of two finds herself increasingly in thrall to her help, Nat. For Joad, the discovery of a haunting typewritten...

What if going back means you could begin again?
Rocked by a terrible accident, homeless Kelly needs to escape the city streets...

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Edinburgh, 2014. Two writer friends, Damaris and Oliver Pablo, escape London, the city that killed his brother. They spend their...

Translated for the first time into English, cult German author Rainald Goetz’s debut novel Insane draws upon his clinical...

Ranging from the seventeenth century to our current moment, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives’ stories and...

Still Born, Guadalupe Nettel’s fourth novel, explores one of life’s most consequential decisions – whether or not to have...

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

International Booker-longlisted author Clemens Meyer returns with Dark Satellites, a striking collection of stories about...