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

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and...

A brilliantly funny and sharply observant novel from one of the most acclaimed American writers of her generation.

This novel...

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

Wild Pets follows Iris, Ezra and Nance in the years after university. They fall in and out of bed with each other, reread The Art...

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...

Welcome to Stanley Donwood’s fictional universe: a landscape of dark streets and high-rise concrete, creeping shadows and...

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and...

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...

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

Osman is a young engineering student when he finds a mysterious and dangerous book that promises him a new and exciting life. He...

When a high-profile businessman is blackmailed by a notorious magazine editor, his comfortable life is threatened by the...

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

18 boyfriends. 23 jobs. One ghost who occasionally pops in to give advice. Welcome to the world of the Temporary.

‘There is...

I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit. 'Amen.'

Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of...

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...

This superb collection, hailed for its power, compassion and elegance, takes in the wide sweep of human experience.
From the...

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