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When, on the night of their wedding, Ned asks his new wife Rose to promise that she will never leave him, Rose is quick to give...

The first novel by Joseph O'Connor, bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay.

Eddie Virago, proud owner of the...

In the summer of 1989, at Tel-Kedar, a small settlement in the Negev Desert, the long time love affair between Theo, a...

A sensational short story collection from Britain's master of the genre.

Charting tantrums, funerals, pregnancy and love...

'A brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact that tells the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak...

Philip Roth's writing career spans a remarkable five decades, a period that has seen him rise to become one of the greatest...

At college in 1980s Luton, Robbie Goulding, an Irish-born teenager, meets the elusive Fran Mulvey, an orphaned Vietnamese...

Dai Wei lies in his bedroom, a prisoner in his body, after he was shot in the head at the Tiananmen Square protest ten years...

The hugely influential book that set Ma Jian on the road to exile from China.

'Outstanding' Irish Times

A Chinese writer...

For the inhabitants of the damp little Irish town of Ballinacroagh, the repertoire of gastronomic delights has never extended...

Georgy is young, gregarious and fun - she is also large, self-confessedly ugly and desperate for love. Georgy bears her fate...

In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic...

Following the wild success of his novel, Carnovsky, Nathan Zuckerman has been catapulted into the literary limelight. As he...

Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where...

'The Anatomy Lesson is a ferocious, heartfelt book - lavish with laughs and flamboyant inventions' John Updike

With his...

In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to...

One day, out of the blue, Henry Nagel inherits a sumptuous apartment in St John's Wood. Divine intervention? Or his late father's...

'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain......

When Klara appears in Paris, two months after the end of the war and years after her disappearance into Auschwitz, her best...

A gripping time-slip novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-longlisted Treacle Walker

Here John Turner was cast away in...

Every week, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor meet for dinner. They are unlikely friends - one of...

What do men run away from? Not war, not physical hardship, but the day-to-day emotional demands of impossible domestic...

Charles Highway is every mother’s worst nightmare.

Precociously intelligent, mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed,...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, an enthralling, wrenching novel about the lives and choices of one...

A powerful, heart-breaking story about tempting fate and living with the consequences

Arthur and Jake are brothers yet worlds...

A hilarious dose of British farce from Tom Sharpe, the bestselling author of Wilt and Porterhouse Blue.

Frensic and Futtle is...

'A very fine collection of connected short stories - funny, disturbing, ironic and bloody' - Annie Proulx, Daily...

The enchanting story of a very remarkable dog from the author of the bestselling Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

‘In early 1998 I...

'Beautifully accomplished and memorable' The Times

Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the...

Shalimar the Clown was once a figure full of love and laughter. His skill as a tightrope walker was legendary in his native home...