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Never Far From Nowhere is the story of two sisters, Olive and Vivien, born in London to Jamaican parents and brought up on a...

Better opportunity that s why Angela s dad sailed to England from America in 1948 on the Empire Windrush. Six months later her...

The night Eva shared a smile with Pat, something started. Two weeks later, lying together in her bed, Pat said, 'You can't live...

An unforgettable story of loneliness, isolation and finding your way. Heart-wrenching, wise and wryly funny, this novel will make...

When your mother considers another country home, it's hard to know where you belong. When the people you live among can't...

A heartbreaking, lyrical story for all of those who have fantasised about escaping their daily lives and starting...

An internationally bestselling debut novel: an energetically told, funny and moving book about how strangers become family....

The Mothers is a dazzling debut about young love, a big secret in a small community and the moments that haunt us most.

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Mitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighbourhood in America's whitest city, Portland, Oregon. In the '90s, those...

You can see it in them; all that anger inside, it's toxic. Throw some drink into it and everything bubbles over. People say that...

In this collection of short stories, offbeat characters are caught up in extraordinary situations that test the boundaries of...

A terminally ill old man returns to his hometown, Cherry Village, to live out the remaining days of his life. Kang Dae-su...

A young farmer named Chinonso prevents a woman from falling to her death. Bonded by this strange night on the bridge, he and...

A grandfather who learns to let go. A grandson who learns to love.

Eighty-five years old, a rebel, a retired boxer, Napoleon...

The scent of freshly baked biscuits, lemon and aniseed reminds Elettra of her mother's kitchen. But her mother is in a coma, and...

Growing up in Zagreb in the summer of 1991, 10-year-old Ana Juric is a carefree tomboy; she runs the streets with her best...

Knotshead is a school catering for the children of the rich, famous, liberal - and deluded. With its progressive curriculum,...

Filth (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon after the War....

This gripping, moving and hiliarious novel introduces seven characters, each of whom has a profound effect on each other s lives....

Released from prison after serving his sentence for the assisted death of his wife, his health failing and his chronic impatience...

Alice and her husband, Jake, own a barbecue restaurant in Austin, Texas. Hardworking and popular in their community, they have a...

Norman is the clever one of a close-knit Jewish family in the East End of London. Infant prodigy; brilliant barrister; the apple...

As well as its advantages, there are drawbacks to the enlightened village that is twenty-first-century Edinburgh, where every...

To the casual observer, the great enlightened city of Edinburgh, home of no-nonsense philosophers and cream teas, might appear...

Long-suffering child genius Bertie Pollock has much to contend with in the latest instalment of life at 44 Scotland Street, not...

In Espresso Tales, Alexander McCall Smith returns home to Edinburgh and the glorious cast of his own tales of the city, the...

An exciting and atmospheric novel which will continue to expand the audience for Simon Mawer

As Dee Denham, once a beautiful...

It is a wet day in Dorset, and walking to a luncheon party is Sir Edward Feathers QC, followed by two elderly friends: his...

Rob and Jamie are great friends from childhood. They have grown up together and become top climbers, but have since become...

Marigold Green calls herself 'hideous, quaint and barmy'. Other people calle her Bilgewater, a corruption of Bill's daughter....