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A quiet night in the neighbourhood pub is shattered by the arrival of a sword-wielding fugitive. A funeral party teeters on the...

Quirky, charming and suffused the footloose spirit of the sixties, this is the irresistible story of an English woman who decides...

To tell the truth, religious faith is really just a matter of believing stories. The world is governed by stories, and it is for...

Grandmothers is the story of three very different women and their relationship with the younger generation: fiercely independent...

Twenty-one year old Wang Er, stationed in a remote mountain commune, spends his days herding oxen, napping and dreaming of losing...

I say, 'Don't lose your heart, Rube.' And very clearly, without moving, my brother answers me. He says, 'I'm not tryin' to lose...

Self-consciously staging itself in the psychotherapy sessions of a disturbed young man, Peter Shaffer's Equus is a shocking...

The new novel from the bestselling author of The Idiot follows one young woman's quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad...

As the 1982 school year begins, Jack Sheffield returns to Ragley village school for his sixth year as headteacher. Nora Pratt...

An explosive and daring novel about bodies, sex, politics and disability by the prize-winning Spanish writer Cristina...

In a time more turbulent than any of us could have ever imagined, a woman is attempting to write a book about prophecy in the...

There's a superstition in our family about falling...

Marta's great-great-grandfather Jiri was said to have given a gentle...

In this stellar collection of short stories, Helen Simpson explores independence, solitude, marriage, sex and babies with her...

The unmissable new work from Ali Smith, following the dazzling Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartet

One day in post-Brexit,...

In an apartment building in Belfast, two women wrestle with the sorrows and spectres of love and loss.

Since her mother's...

Eleanor Bennett won't let her secrets die with her . . .

When Eleanor's estranged children Benny and Byron reunite for her...

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...

On the battlefields of the Crimea, William Gale cradles the still-warm body of his brother. William's experience of war will...

How did the good life go so wrong?

Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood. When their families make the leap...

Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his...

After fifty years in London, Alice wants to live out her days in the land of her birth. Her children are divided on whether she...

Since the 1990 publication of her first collection, Four Bare Legs in a Bed, Helen Simpson has been hailed as one of the best...

A student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes, renting an apartment from a painter, Agnes, who lives in another town with...

On opposite sides of the world, half-siblings Cassie and Christo have built their lives around work, intent on ignoring their...

Chinatown, New York. After a chance encounter with an old friend, Simon Hanlon, an Irish architect, experiences a seizure, his...

Gridlock is when a city dies.

Killed in the name of freedom. Killed in the name of oil and steel. Choked on carbon monoxide...

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

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

Everyone is moving on... and then, there's Hanna

By thirty, Hanna expected to have it all (or at least some of it)

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Best friends and sisters, the four Padavano girls bring loving chaos to their close-knit Italian American neighbourhood. William...

Ten years ago, Harold Fry set off on his epic journey on foot to save a friend. But the story doesn't end there.
Now his wife,...