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A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations...

As she walks out of her marriage, a woman remembers the day her husband rescued a boy from drowning.

A blind man on his...

Two families. One night. A constellation of lives changed forever.
When retired doctor Ben Wilf comes across ten-year-old Waldo...

Can revelations from the past help them start a new life?

Three women came to the remote Cornish cottage that summer: Jenna,...

As the new school year begins, Jack Sheffield prepares for an even more eventful year than usual. A new teacher is appointed, and...

The year is 1976 and Jack Sheffield never wants to leave his job.

Jack has been the deputy head teacher at Newbridge Primary...

Arun and his two classmates, Aseem and Virendra, are the success stories of their generation. As graduates of the prestigious...

India, 1992. The country is ablaze with riots. In Lucknow, ten-year-old Shubhankar witnesses a terrible act of mob violence that...

Isobel and Jen have spent their entire lives following the rules - of their marriages, and their religion.
But when Isobel's...

In 1992 Arvid Jansen is thirty-eight, divorced and paralysed by grief. More than a year has passed since the tragic accident that...

Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane - his sex doll companion. Life with...

Lifting the Veil is a bold and irreverent collection of writing from India's most controversial feminist writer. These stories...

State Street Chicago, 1999. One summer that changes everything.

An unlikely trio: Felicia 'Fe Fe' Stevens, daughter of...

Without even noticing, Esther Fairchild has become locked into routine.
Living with her adored brother, Christian, she divides...

My name’s Johanna Morrigan. I’m fourteen, and I’ve just decided to kill myself.

I don’t really want to die, of course! I just...

Jamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects,...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is beginning to find his...

Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated...

How did the good life go so wrong?

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