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Christie Malry is a simple man. As a young accounts clerk at a confectionery factory in London he learns the principles of...

The eponymous Albert is an architect by training but a supply teacher out of necessity. Feeling that he is failing at both, and...

Bad News is the second of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and...

Some Hope is the third of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical series, The Patrick Melrose Novels, filmed for Sky Atlantic and...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mother's Milk is the fourth of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose...

The award-winning Tigers in Red Weather is a book that simmers with tension, threat and an intoxicating cocktail of money, sex,...

One long last summer for Dad Lewis in his beloved town, Holt, Colorado. As old friends pass in and out to voice their farewells...

One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unravelling,...

Young couples gather to participate in an annual 'chainsaw party', cutting down trees for firewood in anticipation of the winter....

All That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. The life is that of Philip Bowman and we see his...

Set in Kent Haruf's fictional landscape of Holt County, Colorado, Plainsong is a story of simple lives told with extraordinary...

Following the astonishing Plainsong, Eventide is Kent Haruf's second novel set in his imaginary landscape of Holt,...

Last Night is a spellbinding collection of stories about passion - by turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive,...

On the day that Ester Nilsson, a poet and a sensible person in a sensible relationship, meets renowned artist Hugo Rask, her...

So this is happiness, she thought. Or this, at least, is what adds up to happiness. The prospect of never running after men and...

A classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning novel is an exploration of love, art and identity.

This was the night...

That's when it hits me. I'm staring at a war zone. In South Central.

On an April night in 1992, Payasa learns that her older...

Like John Williams' Stoner or Denis Johnson's Train Dreams, A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler is a tender book about finding...

A stunning new collection of stories from the Man Booker Prize and Whitbread Prize shortlisted author.

Many of Legoland's...

Set in Kent Haruf's fictional landscape of Holt County, Colorado, Plainsong is a story of simple lives told with extraordinary...

Henry, Lee, Kip and Ronny grew up together in rural Wisconsin. Friends since childhood, their lives all began the same way, but...

Noah is four and wants to go home. The only trouble is he's already there.

Noah is a little boy who knows things he shouldn't...

How to be Luminous is a heart-wrenching story about the aftermath of tragedy and the power of self-belief and love. Harriet...

Jen B's been surviving at the nightmarishly brutal MLK High School just like everybody else: by following the rules. She avoids...

Inseparable through university, Eva, Benedict, Sylvie and Lucien graduate into an exhilarating world on the brink of the new...

He walks into the living room and June is dead.
He centres her, checking the light. Focusing, he clicks the shutter.
He'll ask...

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.

It is the...

An emotional journey portraying the multiple frustrations, pressures and hidden agonies of four women. City of Friends is the...

Camp Chippewa, 1962.

This is the summer that everything changes for lonely thirteen-year-old Nelson, marking the beginning of...

Ithaca, the ferociously funny and unbelievably poignant debut novel from Alan McMonagle, combines a fiercely emotional story with...