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Art, reality and the strange ways the two imitate one another are at the core of Muriel Spark's delightful Loitering with Intent,...

One October evening five London couples gather for a dinner party, enjoying ‘the pheasant (flambe in cognac as it is)’ and...

Under his railway arch in Loughborough Junction, South London, Robert Sutton is taking leave of a lifetime of hard work. His...

At the age of five, a blind African-American boy is handed over to a brutal state home. Here Ludlow Washington will suffer for...

In 1964, two years after the critically lauded release of his debut novel A Different Drummer, William Melvin Kelley published...

June, 1957. One afternoon, in the backwater town of Sutton, a young black farmer by the name of Tucker Caliban matter-of-factly...

The bestselling author of The Lemon Tree Hotel returns with an enchanting new summer read about family bonds and following your...

Almost-true stories for a post-truth world

Wrong! Not Nice! Sad!

A Manhattan party on election night. Liberal media types...

A woman on the edge of the sea finds a girl on the edge of life.

On the flooded coast of Cornwall, Ia Pendilly ekes out a...

Sophie is only a quarter Italian. But that quarter is her charismatic grandfather Cesare, and he has instilled in her a great...

A heart-warming tale of sibling rivalry, secrets, love and death, steeped in local colour and noise and tender in its depiction...

They were the Amazing Telemachus Family, who in the mid-1970s achieved widespread fame for their magic and mind reading act. That...

When Sarah falls for Matthew, she falls hard.

So it doesn't matter that he's twenty years older. That he sees her only in...

Nancy de Freitas is the glue that holds her family together. Caught between her ageing, ailing mother Frances, and her struggling...

In a small town where everyone knows everyone, Emma O'Donovan is different. She is the special one - beautiful, popular,...

Claire goes missing the night her father agrees to give her up for adoption. Her mother died when she was born. In the tiny...

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...

Haya's reflection on her Catholicized Jewish family's experiences deals unsparingly with the massacre of Italian Jews in the...

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,...

Eleanor Flood knows she's a mess. But today will be different. Today she will shower and put on real clothes. She will attend her...

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...