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Without even noticing, Esther Fairchild has become locked into routine.
Living with her adored brother, Christian, she divides...

Desai... , Моррисон...

A stunning new collection of short stories about motherhood, selected and introduced by Candice Brathwaite.

The story of...

This book is a self-help book. Its objective, as it says on the cover, is to show you how to get filthy rich in rising Asia. And...

My name’s Johanna Morrigan. I’m fourteen, and I’ve just decided to kill myself.

I don’t really want to die, of course! I just...

Jamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects,...

A quiet night in the neighbourhood pub is shattered by the arrival of a sword-wielding fugitive. A funeral party teeters on the...

To tell the truth, religious faith is really just a matter of believing stories. The world is governed by stories, and it is for...

Grandmothers is the story of three very different women and their relationship with the younger generation: fiercely independent...

Twenty-one year old Wang Er, stationed in a remote mountain commune, spends his days herding oxen, napping and dreaming of losing...

Self-consciously staging itself in the psychotherapy sessions of a disturbed young man, Peter Shaffer's Equus is a shocking...

An explosive and daring novel about bodies, sex, politics and disability by the prize-winning Spanish writer Cristina...

There's a superstition in our family about falling...

Marta's great-great-grandfather Jiri was said to have given a gentle...

In this stellar collection of short stories, Helen Simpson explores independence, solitude, marriage, sex and babies with her...

In an apartment building in Belfast, two women wrestle with the sorrows and spectres of love and loss.

Since her mother's...

Eleanor Bennett won't let her secrets die with her . . .

When Eleanor's estranged children Benny and Byron reunite for her...

When Daphne Ferber arrives in Berlin for a fresh start in a thrilling new city, the last thing she expects is to run into more...

On the battlefields of the Crimea, William Gale cradles the still-warm body of his brother. William's experience of war will...

How did the good life go so wrong?

Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood. When their families make the leap...

Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his...

After fifty years in London, Alice wants to live out her days in the land of her birth. Her children are divided on whether she...

Since the 1990 publication of her first collection, Four Bare Legs in a Bed, Helen Simpson has been hailed as one of the best...

A student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes, renting an apartment from a painter, Agnes, who lives in another town with...

On opposite sides of the world, half-siblings Cassie and Christo have built their lives around work, intent on ignoring their...

Chinatown, New York. After a chance encounter with an old friend, Simon Hanlon, an Irish architect, experiences a seizure, his...

Gridlock is when a city dies.

Killed in the name of freedom. Killed in the name of oil and steel. Choked on carbon monoxide...

I believe every word you say. That was always my mistake.

Bright, promising Emma is entangled in a toxic romance with her old...

Everyone is moving on... and then, there's Hanna

By thirty, Hanna expected to have it all (or at least some of it)

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Ten years ago, Harold Fry set off on his epic journey on foot to save a friend. But the story doesn't end there.
Now his wife,...

A collection of sparkling award-winning stories from Maggie Shipstead, epic storyteller and astonishing chronicler of the daring...

No one speaks to strangers on the train. What would happen if they did?
Find out in the feel-good read of the year.

Every day...