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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...

Spain, 1939

Following the wishes of her parents to keep her safe during the war, a young girl, Julia, enters a convent in...

When Tess Angel receives a solicitor’s letter inviting her to claim her inheritance – the Villa Sirena, perched on a clifftop in...

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...

In Jennifer Egan's highly acclaimed first novel, set in 1978, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a...

These eleven masterful stories - the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan - deal with loneliness and longing,...

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...

A queen of punk before her time. A duo on the brink of stardom. A night that will define their story for ever.

Opal is a...

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...

Madame Burova - Tarot Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant is retiring and leaving her booth on the Brighton seafront after fifty...

A firecracker of a novel by the Booker-shortlisted author of A Fraction of the Whole – a scathingly funny and affecting tale of...

A firecracker of a novel by the Booker-shortlisted author of A Fraction of the Whole – a scathingly funny and affecting tale of...

Day Sarah, Макгоуэн...

Elizabeth Bennet has politely declined your friend request and asks that you do not slide into her DMs again.

It is a truth...

A breathtaking collection of stories about our most intimate relationships, and the secrets, misunderstandings and silences that...

The idea of a curse was divisive, but the assertion that I had, for some time now, been 'laden with something dark' was...

Three women. Three decades. The friendship of a lifetime.

Zainab, Funmi and Enitan first meet at University in northern...

A heartwarming and uplifting debut about the power of friendship, facing your fears, and finding the courage to step into the...