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A modern retelling of Steinbeck's classic Of Mice and Men, this landmark work from DD Armstrong is a poignant look at intimacy,...

Jack and Toni, childhood schoolmates living in the Solomon Islands, set out on a routine boat trip to a neighboring island....

Zvi Luria has begun to lose his memory. At the beginning he only makes small mistakes, forgetting first names and taking home the...

One little cocaine-induced heart attack and it's back to my childhood to start over ... A wry, debut novel about addiction and...

The Francombe & Salter Mercury has served the residents of two South Coast resorts for over 150 years. Hit by both the economic...

Shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, the Saboteur Awards, the Shirley Jackson Award and the Jhalak Prize.

Lovelorn...

A murder investigation in post-war France becomes an exploration of the legacy of German occupation.

From his village in...

The Buddha taught that to live is to experience suffering. Few family sagas, especially first ones, have captured this aspect of...

A.L. Barker dissects the unnerving emotions of everyday life with the sly humour and exquisite feel for language that prompted...

The scene is Naples, against whose ancient and fantastic background the modern action takes place.

Among the protagonists is...

Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to seek their fortunes. Courted...

Twelve-year-old Hans Thomas lives alone with his father, a man who likes to give his son lessons about life and has a penchant...

Set in the cities and islands of the Mediterranean, and linked thematically, the eight stories in The Foxes Come at Night read...

‘Everything changed after Mama found Father lying on top of another woman.’

Blessing and her brother Ezikiel adore their...

The newspaper was founded in Rome in the 1950s, a product of passion and a multi-millionaire’s fancy. Eccentric and beloved, it...

A train stops at a railway station. A young woman jumps off. She has wild hair, sloppy clothes, a distracted air. She looks...

Lillian, a single, well-travelled woman of a certain age, wakes up next to her married lover and looks back at her life. It's not...

Cecilia Banks has a great deal on her plate. But when her son Ian turns up on her doorstep with the unexpected consequence of a...

A kiss, a touch. A smile and a beating heart. Love and sex and dreams, art and drugs and the madness of youth. Betrayal and...

Welcome to LA. City of contradictions.

It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs. Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping...

Sebastian Zollner is set on writing the biography of the painter Manuel Kaminski.
Yet Kaminski – once a pupil of Matisse, now an...

Meet Penelope O'Shaughnessy, Harvard freshman.

Armed with her Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights poster and party conversation...

Seventeen-year-old Alan can't stand rows. But, though the Second World War has ended, peace hangs by a fine thread at home: his...

Grizel Dane, a bold young servicewoman in the US army, arrives at the London home of her great-uncle Sir Rollo Dane seeking...

'The motto was Pax but the word was set in a circle of thorns. Peace, but what a strange peace, made of unremitting toil and...

Harriet is caught between two worlds: her older sister is no longer a playmate, her brother is still a little boy. And the...

High in the Himalayas near Darjeeling, the old mountaintop palace shines like a jewel. When it was the General's 'harem' palace,...

When Rainclouds Gather: Escaping South Africa and his troubled past, Makehaya crosses the border to Botswana, in the hope of...

In Muriel Spark's fantastic first novel, the only things that aren't ambiguous are her matchless originality and glittering...

In affairs of the heart the race is not necessarily won by the swift or the fair.

Imogen, the beautiful and much younger wife...