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A wonderful, warm novel from a major new American voice.

Henry Skrimshander, newly arrived at college, shy and out of his...

From the author of the internationally acclaimed, Whitbread Award-winning 'The Harmony Silk Factory' comes an enthralling new...

Now a critically acclaimed film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, co-written by Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan, and directed...

One by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice.
If Davy had remembered to put on a coat.
If Seamie McGeown had...

So we walked in the freezing night air, my daughter weeping into my neck, and me trying to shelter her inside my own thin coat. I...

When Delaney Mossbacher knocks down a Mexican pedestrian, he neither reports the accident nor takes his victim to hospital....

'Tam and I took hold of Mr McCrindle and lowered him into the hole, feet first. We decided to leave his cap on.'

Fencers Tam,...

We'll laugh because we can, until the sun disintegrates and nighttime threatens to set us free just to capture us again, back...

Soul mates from birth, Karim and Raheen finish one another's sentences, speak in anagrams and lie spine to spine. They are...

Two young boys cross a river in the middle of the night. The river is also a border, and their lives depend on this journey. With...

From the incomparable Meg Rosoff, bestselling author of How I Live Now and The Great Godden, comes an alluring coming-of-age tale...

The disquieting story of an unidentified man as told by those who crossed paths with him on the last day of his life, Sheila...

Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive and...

It is the end of the summer. The tourists have already gone, and now the sun is abandoning the Lake District's damp valleys. Only...

Rutherford Calhoun, a puckish rogue and newly freed slave, spends his days loitering around the docks of New Orleans, dodging...

Piracy. Romance. Revenge. Across the seas of the seventeenth century, two seafarers are forced to fight for their love and their...

At the Bottom of the River is Jamaica Kincaid’s first published work, a selection of inter-connected prose poems told from the...

In tiny Merinac, Kansas, Chicken Mimi’s and Chicken Frannie’s have spent a century vying to serve up the best fried chicken in...

Freda and Brenda are friends spending their days in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory in North London. When a works outing...

Set in the Montparnasse district of Paris, the author, Jean, retraces his nocturnal footsteps around the left bank during...

Declan Dolan has always wanted to be a writer, turning the ideas that spiral in his head into stories on the page. He longs to...

Leigh Chen Sanders is sixteen when her mother dies by suicide, leaving only a scribbled note: 'I want you to remember'. Leigh...

Novelist J.B. Blackwood is on a cruise with her husband, Patrick, to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
Her former professor,...

Spanning one torrential paragraph, Ten Storey Love Song follows Bobby the Artist's rise to stardom and decline into horrific drug...

'Though she wounded me beyond pain, I too inflicted deep hurt. Not born to murder her, still I sought to break her... Her name...

'Come along with me on this sh!tty ride or bail out now. It's your choice . . .'

When Freya collapses and wakes up with a...

Frances was not looking for a relationship when she met Elaine in a bar. She was, in fact, looking to drown her sorrows and nurse...

Dan McEvoy doesn't set out to get into violent confrontations with New Jersey's gangster overlords but he's long since found that...

In Rituals, Amsterdam of the fifties, sixties and seventies is viewed from the perspective of the capricious Inni Wintrop. An...

Pearl Winter hasn't been outside in forty-three years.

Since she arrived on Dartmoor as a girl, an isolated family cottage has...