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

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...

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...

The unmissable new work from Ali Smith, following the dazzling Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartet

One day in post-Brexit,...

In an apartment building in Belfast, two women wrestle with the sorrows and spectres of love and loss.

Since her mother's...

The extraordinary new story collection from one of Ireland's greatest writers and bestselling author of Mindwinter...

Eleanor Bennett won't let her secrets die with her . . .

When Eleanor's estranged children Benny and Byron reunite for her...

On the battlefields of the Crimea, William Gale cradles the still-warm body of his brother. William's experience of war will...

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...

Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his...

Seven Londoners are invited to an opulent dinner party. From a brutal hedge-funder to a lovelorn barrister, a Polish footballer...

After fifty years in London, Alice wants to live out her days in the land of her birth. Her children are divided on whether she...

In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt...

The brilliant new novel from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

On the eve of Angolan independence, Ludo...

A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo-porn-star and...

Since the 1990 publication of her first collection, Four Bare Legs in a Bed, Helen Simpson has been hailed as one of the best...

When Mercy Garrett moves herself out of the family home, everyone determines not to notice.

All she wants is space and...

A student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes, renting an apartment from a painter, Agnes, who lives in another town with...