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How good are people? Let me tell you, Dee: people are as good as the pair of eyes they believe is on them...

When Claudia...

During the chaotic months leading up to the Iranian Revolution, four young people navigate the increasingly dangerous situation...

A Man Called Ove meets Inspector Montalbano, Auntie Poldi leaves no stone unturned in her quest for answers.

Wine and murder -...

The twelve stories in this startling collection range over centuries and across the world.

There are stories about those who...

After an eventful start to his first ever teaching post in the sleepy village of Risingdale, Tom Dwyer is hoping for a bit of...

In a field outside Bromsgrove, two elderly brothers live in adjoining railway carriages. No one visits and they never speak to...

When the meaning of 'home' is complicated, we strive for a sense of connection.

Yet sometimes being alone feels like the...

Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their...

Wildly funny and unceasingly surprising, Quicksand is both a satirical masterpiece and an unforgettable story of fate, family and...

Driven by money, power and success, Gabriel has worked ruthlessly to get to the very top of the banking game. He's not going to...

For several months Marnie, a middle-aged poet and mother, has experienced sightings of her long-dead identical twin sister,...

A fearless and savagely funny examination of masculinity under late capitalism, from an electrifying new voice

Set in Philly...

One minute Lou is happily employed, with a perfect flat. The next, her home and job have gone. Suddenly she has to start...

Iraq, 2002.
As night falls in Huda's fragrant garden of apricot trees, a breeze sweeps in from the desert, warning of visitors...

With words come power. But do you speak out or shut up?

Everywhere Sara Javed goes - online or outside - everyone is...

Ireland, 1959. Young Christopher Hurley is a tinker, a Pavee gypsy, who roams with his father and extended family from town to...

Summer in Paris. Leah, bored of tedious dead-end jobs, is intrigued to spot a job advert posted by the famous author Michael...

An adrenaline-fuelled story of lives upended and privilege lost in a swiftly changing world.

Daphne Larsen-Hall has every...

Two young girls.
One hot, long, sultry summer.
And a rambling old English manor house where nothing is as it seems…

A...

Naomi Ishiguro's fresh, magical and delightfully speculative short story collection merges the inventiveness of David Mitchell...

Lydia Perez owns a bookshop in Acapulco, Mexico, and is married to a fearless journalist. Luca, their eight-year-old son,...

London, 2004. Frankie didn't always have it easy. Growing up motherless, she was raised by her grandmother, who loved her - and...

Olivia Croft's life is at a crossroads.

After yet another fruitless audition and the cancellation of her TV show, Crofty...

Eve Moore is in a rut.

Stuck in a steady, predictable relationship, and a job where she's no longer challenged, Eve and her...

Three Decades of Stories is a unique collection of Patrick Gale's two volumes of dark, moving, often witty and eccentric stories,...

Laura, a laundress, meets her young husband when they are both placed in service in Teignmouth in 1914. They have a baby,...

Domina Tey is a playwright, celebrated by friends, her husband, and the public alike, yet she fears losing her vital edge. Her...

American Professor Evan Kirby, moving to Barrowcester to research Paradise after a successful book on Hell, expects a very...

August 1939

At peaceful Summerhill, orphaned Maddy hides from the world and the rumours of war. Then her adored sister...

As a young boy, aged seven, Jimmy loses a lower limb to an attack dog - the first of many disasters that shape him for the...