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'Marvellous entertainment' Sunday Times

Just married and newly arrived in Los Angeles are Paul and Katherine Cattleman. Paul...

'If you're coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs' Guardian...

Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980s, Cal tells the story of a young Catholic man living in a Protestant area. For Cal, some...

Encountering an eccentric cast of characters along the way, Sebald confronts the frailty of human existence as he voyages along...

'Extraordinarily mature - technically as well as emotionally' Sunday Times

Arthur Machin's life changes when he is picked for...

'If you are looking for an intellectual and artistic honesty, a patient thoughtfulness and detailed insight into other...

Discover the classic, Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel from one of India's finest ever writers.

To the family living in the...

The final novel in world renowned film-maker, Ingmar Bergman's trilogy of novels plotting the fractious marriage of his...

H. is a struggling artist with a commission to paint a portrait of a well-known industrialist. Whilst the industrialist sits for...

Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an...

Salman Rushdie, a self-described ‘emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two’, explores the true meaning of home. Writing with...

Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the day to day realities of fatherhood in the ultimate literary gift for dads.

How to be a good...

‘A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power’ Times Literary Supplement

From his prison cell, Antonio...

'A fine and powerful piece of work… Dark, at times cryptic, and hugely energetic' Irish Times

"No!" is the first word of this...

‘Liquidation, suspenseful and bleakly comic, reads like a treatise on the mystery of the end of life and the mystery of suicide…...

Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to make ends meet. There's the elderly shoemaker and...

This deeply personal work, follows the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family – poor, landless peasants not unlike the...

For two years Solomon the elephant has lived in Lisbon. Now King Dom Joao III wishes to make him a wedding gift for a Hapsburg...

Despite the heavy rain, the officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of...

An illuminating portrait of a world in ferment after the First world War, and a man seeking an authentic life.

Early this...

In his first collection, George Saunders' vision of our near future is as black and funny as you can get. He takes us on a trip...

Escape to the Cornish cliffs in the dizzying heat of August 1939, where five cousins are making the most of the last summer of...

From the corner of a darkened room Joy Stone watches herself. As memories of the deaths of her lover and mother surface unbidden,...

From the infamous Glasgow slum, the Gorbals, Tam Clay chronicles a week in his life, in the last days before the demolishers move...

As a child, Luke’s mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence,...

It is off-season in a remote Highland sea port: twenty-one-year-old Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket,...

You never forget your first love.

18 years ago, Olivia learned to live without Sean Kenyon.

She moved on, building a life...

Do you believe in second chances?

Leanne and her family have many issues, but they're still family. Their crazy but idyllic...

Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch - 'Scout' - returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father,...

Patterson... , de Jonge...

An inspiring story of hope, redemption, and trying to hit the ball straight

A little over a year ago, Travis McKinley, an...