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Happiness comes in all shapes and sizes.

Jo said goodbye to peace and quiet when she got pregnant at 19, but now she has a...

1960s Rural Ireland. Greta Cahill must abandon her quiet village to follow her fearless sister Johanna onto a ship bound for New...

The only gift Charlie wants for his 80th birthday is his family all together again.

Ever since his wife Daphne passed away,...

Eighty-five-year-old Hendrik Groen is fed up to his false teeth with coffee mornings and bingo.

Along with fellow members of...

It's New Year's Eve and House Tricks estate agents are hosting an open viewing in an up-market apartment when an incompetent bank...

The grape harvest at the Cambon family's magnificent Provencal vineyard is always a cause for celebration.

But not this...

From the New York Times Bestselling author of The Vacationers, Emma Straub brings us a sharply observed tale of modern love......

A house in the south of France. A holiday of a lifetime. What could be nicer? What could possibly go wrong?

When Flora, James...

I believe every word you say. That was always my mistake.

Bright, promising Emma is entangled in a toxic romance with her old...

When Daphne Ferber arrives in Berlin for a fresh start in a thrilling new city, the last thing she expects is to run into more...

Nefyn has always been an enigma, even to her brother Joseph with whom she lives in a small cottage above a blustery...

Ronke, Simi, Boo are three mixed-race friends living in London.
They have the gift of two cultures, Nigerian and English.
Not...

Sittenfeld's wryly hilarious and insightful new collection, Help Yourself, illuminates human experience and gracefully upends our...

From her days as a wild child in prohibition America to the blitz and glitz of wartime London, from the rugged shores of New...

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

For Rich, life is golden.
He fizzes with happiness and love.
But Rich has an incurable brain tumour.

When Rich dies, he...

What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object....

Surfacing from the literary underground, Bukowski's wild and immortal stories have become cult favourites. This collection of...

Jimmy Rabbitte is unemployed and rapidly running out of money. His best friend Bimbo has been made redundant at the company where...

A man investigating the death of a friend discovers the dangers of curiosity...

Ben du Toit is an ordinary, decent, harmless...

Discover the second gripping novel in Louis de Bernieres' satricial tragic, hilarious South American trilogy.

Dionisio Vivo, a...

An unforgettable novel that shows how easily a life can be ruined when the police and the media are allowed to run rampage...

The epic finale of the Latin American trilogy following The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts and Senor Vivo and the Coca...

Roddy Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin....

'All Quiet on the Western Front for our era' New Statesman

Kien's job is to search the Jungle of Screaming Souls for corpses....

Lewis Little, precocious thirteen-year-old, is spending summer in Paris with his mother, Alice.

Alice is translating the...

The modern classic that changed the way we thought about sex

'Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same' -...

From the Booker Prize winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Commitments: the story of an ordinary woman whose...

A satiric trilogy about the last days of English Colonialism in Malaya in 1950s.

'Like all good comic writers Mr Burgess lives...

Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about.

The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the soul. Ably managed by Jimmy...