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Summer 1893. In a small Norwegian fishing village, local girl Johanne dutifully gathers berries for tourists and poses barefoot...

A young boy coming of age in British-occupied Jerusalem trades away one possession after another, only to find something much...

The Fen is a liminal land. Real people live their lives here. They wrestle with sex and desire, with everyday routine. But the...

Cockfosters is a funny, frank and forceful story collection dealing with ageing, ambition and the patterns of repetition and...

Shmuel – a young, idealistic student – has abandoned his studies in Jerusalem, taking a live-in job as a companion to a...

Petra's love life is a bit of a car-crash, even in her sixties. But then she falls for Jeremy, an old chum, visiting from abroad....

What happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better?

Five people, in very different...

Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he handed over...

A funny, sharp, delicately woven story of female friendship

Read this funny, sharp, delicately woven story of two women's...

Memed grows up a serf to a vicious overlord on the thistle-clad plains of Turkey’s Taurus region. When his plan to escape is...

A retired widow in rural Connecticut wakes to an unexpected visit from her childhood best friend whom she hasn't seen in...

This book of dark secrets opens with a blaze. On the morning of her daughter's wedding, June Reid's house goes up in flames,...

Nicholas Shakespeare’s collected stories take us around the globe and into the intimate lives of his characters and the dilemmas...

A remarkable early collection of stories by Alice Munro, the bestselling author of Dear Life, and one of the greatest fiction...

London dances to the tune of Gorsky's billions.The most enigmatic of oligarchs, Gorsky desires and gets the best of everything...

The bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Last Runaway returns with a tale of jealousy, bullying and...

If you've ever wondered whether you love your dog more than your partner...

Life hasn't gone according to Judy's plan. Her...

Tender and humorous novel of second chances and life-changing new friendship for fans of Rachel Joyce, Clare Chambers and Barbara...

We all know politics is absurd. But could a Republican be brought down by a stuffed aardvark?
Republican congressman Alexander...

I don't know how you've made it this far . . .

Sami's childhood is much like any other - school with his friends, dinners with...

Brixton 1981. Sixteen-year-old Michael is already on the wrong side of the law. In in his community, where job opportunities are...

Ruth is thirty years old. She works as a nurse in a care home and her fiance has just broken up with her. The only thing she has...

On the banks of the River Seine in 1899, a young woman takes her final breath before plunging into the icy water. Although she...

Dr Jonathan Murray fears his new-born daughter is not as harmless as she seems.

Sammy Agnew is wrestling with his dark past,...

This was how I heard the most important story of my life, the thing that decided me, the story that determined who I was in the...

London, 1996. Robin and Ruth meet in the staff room of an East London school. Robin, desperate for a real connection, instantly...

Jesika is four and a half. She lives in a flat with her mother and baby brother and she knows a lot.

She knows their flat is...

Molly has lived on the streets for nearly a decade. She has close friends but spends most of her nights sleeping rough in...

The first memory I have of you is all knickers and legs. You had flipped yourself into a handstand and couldn't get back down. We...

'Isn't the life of any person made up out of the telling of two tales, after all? The whole world makes more sense if you...