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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...

The story begins on the Italian coast in 1962. A young innkeeper watches in disbelief as a beautiful American girl gets out of a...

It begins and ends with a sacrifice...

It was a time of brutal tyranny and occupation. Young men and women took to the streets...

2013's most talked about debut comes out in paperback

Meet the Sais, a Nigerian-Ghanaian family living in the United States. A...

Two pensioners and a whippet sail their English narrowboat down America's 1,000 mile long Atlantic Intracoastal...

Having pursued a conventional enough path through school and university, Jason Webster was all set to enter the world of academe...

The war on drugs has been lost but for want of the courage to face the fact that the whole world is rapidly becoming one vast...

Merrion Palmer has been Judge Guy Stockdale's mistress for the last seven years and his wife and two grown-up sons know...

On a peat and heather island off the west coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother Nora take refuge in the large mouldering house...

A family in crisis. A catalyst that threatens to change everything...

The land running down to the River Dean has been farmed...

It's 1991. Raymond Marks is a normal boy, from a normal family, in a normal northern town. Only lately, he's been feeling dead...

Does 'friends' ever really mean just 'friends'?

Gina and Laurence have been the best of friends ever since they were...

One encounter and life is never the same again...

The Logans were an enchanting and admirable couple. Archie had snatched Liza...

Would you take a chance and set something in motion that could change everything?

The Grey House is the final piece in the...

Summer, 1972: In the claustrophobic heat, eleven-year-old Byron and his friend begin 'Operation Perfect', a hapless mission to...

Lee Fiora is a shy fourteen-year-old when she leaves small-town Indiana for a scholarship at Ault, an exclusive boarding school...

'Awfully opinionated for a girl' is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago suburb.

Smart, diligent, and a bit...