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Billy Casper is a boy with nowhere to go and nothing to say; part of the limbo generation of school leavers too old for lessons...

In 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with creating the new official division between Northern Ireland and the Irish...

Where the Jackals Howl is prize-winning author Amos Oz's first collection of stories. On publication it received immediate...

Following the bizarre accidental death of his wife, Israeli secret service agent Yoel Ravid retires to the suburbs with his...

A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and...

Unto Death contains two beautiful short novels linked by death and destruction.

Crusade is set in 1096 - a year of sinister...

Returning to Belfast after a long absense, to attend her father`s funeral. Catherine McKenna - a young composer-remembers exactly...

Oscar-winning writer Steve Tesich masterfully creates and destroys the sad, mad world of Saul Karoo.

Karoo is an alcoholic who...

In the last years of British rule in Jerusalem, a lonely, bookish Israeli boy befriends a British soldier in this tale of...

The Hill of Evil Counsel is a fusion of history and imaginative narrative, re-creating the twilight world of Jerusalem during the...

A man finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming paler, more silent and literally smaller; a woman's intimate life is...

Students and journalists, farmers and birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers - and dancing girls. All ordinary people - or are...

Life Before Man explores the lives of three people imprisoned by walls of their own construction and in thrall to the tragicomedy...

A powerful and unique story about connection, showing that miracles can happen – even across a library circulation desk.

The...

''Do you ever wonder if you've lived the life you were meant to?' I ask her. She sighs, and dips her head. 'Even if I do, what...

Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going.

They aren't sure if they have...

As Caravaggio, the libertine of Italy's art world, and the loutish Spanish poet Quevedo aim to settle scores over the course of...

Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Times, Sunday Times and The Economist, and one of the 10 Best Books of 2016 in the New...

A puzzling phone call shatters a writer’s routine. An enigmatic female voice extends an invitation to take part in Documenta, the...

In the brief golden years before the outbreak of World War I, Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in...

This magnificent collection takes us to Glanbeigh, a small town in rural Ireland - a town in which the youth have the run of the...

‘When I finished Sara Baume’s new novel I immediately felt sad that I could not send it in the post to the late John Berger. He,...

You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window: COMPASSIONATE &...

'Salman Rushdie's greatest novel' Sunday Times

Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty...

Susan Frobisher and Julie Wickham are turning sixty. Susan has just discovered that her recently deceased husband was not only a...

'A meticulous and gripping reimagination of the Brighton bomb' Observer, Best Novels of 2015

In September 1984, a man calling...

Kennedy Marr is a novelist from the old school. Irish, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex-addict, his mantra is drink...

God takes a look at the Earth around the time of the Renaissance and everything looks pretty good - so he takes a holiday. In...

Meet the Bradleys.

In lots of ways, they're a normal family:
Zippy is sixteen and in love for the first time; Al is thirteen...

Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing...