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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...

Shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, and published here as a Penguin Essential for the...

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

Desai... , Моррисон...

A stunning new collection of short stories about motherhood, selected and introduced by Candice Brathwaite.

The story of...

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,...

I'm Johanna Morrigan. It's 1995. I'm nineteen and I live in the epicentre of Britpop. Parklife!

My unrequited love, John Kite,...

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...

Haroun: What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

I asked that question and the Unthinkable Thing happened: my father...

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...

Ghost Children is a compassionate and gritty examination of love and loss from one of Britain's most-loved writers, Sue...

Rube never loved any of them. He never cared about any of them. He just wanted each one because she was next, and why not take...

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...

A woman reeling from a disastrous love affair finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine

After years away from her...

She will change the way you see the world . . .

Elizabeth Finch was a teacher, a thinker, an inspiration. Neil is just one of...

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...

Rebecca Navarro, best-selling authoress of Regency romances, suffers a paralysing stroke. Assisted by her nurse, Rebecca plans...

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...

What happens when the person closest to you has led a life of deception?

No one wants to believe their mother is a liar . ....

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

'As I crammed the cream horn voraciously into my mouth, at once I heard Francin's voice saying that no decent woman would eat a...

'People say that on the first night Francis Sancher spent in Riviere au Sel the wind in its temper screamed down from the...