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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...

An electrifying, prizewinning short story collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen and My Year of Rest and...

Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys' prison, Eileen Dunlop dreams of escaping...

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...

The only novel from bestselling author Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Catching frogs, grazing knees,...

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...

In the aftermath of Ireland’s financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters...

Melody Shee is alone and in trouble. Her husband doesn't take her news too well. She can’t tell her father yet because he’s a...

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...

A Richard & Judy Book Club and BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.
A truly feel-good book club read - a #1 bestseller in ebook and...

Exquisitely observed and wickedly playful, The Waiter is a novel for lovers of food, wine, and of European sensibilities, but...

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...