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Ten women, all called Claire, are tangled up in complex power dynamics with their families, friends, and lovers. Though all are...

When ten-year-old Max is sent to boarding school, his idyllic childhood comes to an abrupt end. Away from the freedom of his...

Sinead Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying secret.

No-one knows it: not her fellow...

Humour, fantasy, rage and despair both help and hinder the protagonists of these stories as they navigate changing circumstances,...

On a hot summer night, a young man sits in a dark cell in a Hungarian prison. The guards do not explain why he is here; he does...

London, 1985. Joe, father to eleven-year-old Matty, has disappeared, and nobody will explain where he's gone, or why.

In the...

When Kate meets Max in the first week of university, a life-changing friendship begins. Over the next four years, the two become...

From the master of historical fiction, this book follows an unforgettable family after the Second World War.

Some bonds are...

A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler...

Happiness comes in all shapes and sizes.

Jo said goodbye to peace and quiet when she got pregnant at 19, but now she has a...

1960s Rural Ireland. Greta Cahill must abandon her quiet village to follow her fearless sister Johanna onto a ship bound for New...

The grape harvest at the Cambon family's magnificent Provencal vineyard is always a cause for celebration.

But not this...

From the New York Times Bestselling author of The Vacationers, Emma Straub brings us a sharply observed tale of modern love......

A house in the south of France. A holiday of a lifetime. What could be nicer? What could possibly go wrong?

When Flora, James...

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

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

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...

Nefyn has always been an enigma, even to her brother Joseph with whom she lives in a small cottage above a blustery...

Ronke, Simi, Boo are three mixed-race friends living in London.
They have the gift of two cultures, Nigerian and English.
Not...

Sittenfeld's wryly hilarious and insightful new collection, Help Yourself, illuminates human experience and gracefully upends our...

Brixton 1981. Sixteen year-old Michael is already on the wrong side of the law. In in his community, where job opportunities are...

For Rich, life is golden.
He fizzes with happiness and love.
But Rich has an incurable brain tumour.

When Rich dies, he...

What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object....

Surfacing from the literary underground, Bukowski's wild and immortal stories have become cult favourites. This collection of...

Discover the second gripping novel in Louis de Bernieres' satricial tragic, hilarious South American trilogy.

Dionisio Vivo, a...

The epic finale of the Latin American trilogy following The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts and Senor Vivo and the Coca...

Lewis Little, precocious thirteen-year-old, is spending summer in Paris with his mother, Alice.

Alice is translating the...

From the Booker Prize winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Commitments: the story of an ordinary woman whose...

Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about.

The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the soul. Ably managed by Jimmy...

Enter Louis de Bernieres' magical, tragic and hilarious South American odyssey.

When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza...

Ball games, cars, and romances: the icons and battlefields of modern life. In twenty-two linked stories, with infinite humour and...