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Susan Frobisher and Julie Wickham are turning sixty. Susan has just discovered that her recently deceased husband was not only a...

Kennedy Marr is a novelist from the old school. Irish, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex-addict, his mantra is drink...

Meet the Bradleys.

In lots of ways, they're a normal family:
Zippy is sixteen and in love for the first time; Al is thirteen...

White skin, green eyes, red hair... Blackass

Furo Wariboko - born and bred in Lagos - wakes up on the morning of his job...

Jon is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work, he is a good...

The intoxicating new novel from the number one bestselling author of The Outcast

London 1972. Luke is dazzled by the city. It...

Fidel and Raul Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels.

Rachel K is in...

Before Isabelle I knew nothing of sex.
Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom.
Before Isabelle I knew nothing of...

New York, 1980s

Alice Burns – a young book editor – is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life. The...

Robin knew Paul wasn’t perfect. But he said they were so lucky to have found each other, and she believed it was true.

In the...

'An intricately crafted novel, sharp-eared, current and full of heart' Guardian, Books of the Year

A spirited...

The end of the world
Or the beginning…

On to the shores of Texas a raging sea coughs up two castaways: Jim and Natty,...

One morning Herman Mussert wakes up in a hotel room in Lisbon, where twenty years previously he slept with another man’s wife....

The Hekes are a family in turmoil. A tyrannical, alcoholic, violent patriarch, an alcoholic, ever-trying-to-reform mother, and...

A kiss that just won't happen. A disco at the end of the world. A teenage goth on a terror mission. And OAP kiddie-snatchers, and...

At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book that spans three hundred...

Marie's job as a museum guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and...

Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant...

A beguiling collection of short stories from award-winning author of Free Love, The Past and Late in the Day, Tessa...

A deeply moving collection of stories from the bestselling author of Star of the Sea

Ranging from urgently contemporary London...

A very, very funny novel about country sports, murder, intrigue - and talking pheasants.

It begins for Basil 'Banger'...

The Alms for Oblivion sequence - an extraordinary series of murders, suicides, affairs, fighting, fires and at least one...

Simon Raven's sequence of colourful and funny novels about the English upper-class misbehaving continues against a backdrop of...

28 June 1389, the Field of the Blackbirds. A Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians confront an...

To Arjan Banga, who has returned to the Black Country after the unexpected death of his father, his family's corner shop...

Fifteen-year old Anais Hendricks is smart, funny and fierce, but she is also a child who has been let down, or worse, by just...

From one of Spain's greatest writers, a witty, moving novel about art, life, death and James Joyce.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE...

A transfixing parable of greed, goodness and an extraordinary miracle from the author of The Woman in Black.

Tommy Carr was a...

Kate, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history documentary. Jean...

When Janie Ryan is born, she is destined to be the latest in a long line of Aberdeen fishwives.

Ahead of her lies a life...