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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...

Years on from Trainspotting Sick Boy is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler,...

On opposite sides of the world, half-siblings Cassie and Christo have built their lives around work, intent on ignoring their...

Chinatown, New York. After a chance encounter with an old friend, Simon Hanlon, an Irish architect, experiences a seizure, his...

Gridlock is when a city dies.

Killed in the name of freedom. Killed in the name of oil and steel. Choked on carbon monoxide...

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

'She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic'

This is the story of Fenfang who, determined to carve out a life more...

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

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

Everyone is moving on... and then, there's Hanna

By thirty, Hanna expected to have it all (or at least some of it)

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Best friends and sisters, the four Padavano girls bring loving chaos to their close-knit Italian American neighbourhood. William...

Best friends and sisters, the four Padavano girls bring loving chaos to their close-knit Italian American neighbourhood. William...

Can you live a lie without spilling the truth?...

Once, Iris was happy. She had the home, the husband, the promise of a...

The Benefactor is Susan Sontag's first book and first novel. It was originally published in 1963, and introduced a unique writer...

Ten years ago, Harold Fry set off on his epic journey on foot to save a friend. But the story doesn't end there.
Now his wife,...

A collection of sparkling award-winning stories from Maggie Shipstead, epic storyteller and astonishing chronicler of the daring...

No one speaks to strangers on the train. What would happen if they did?
Find out in the feel-good read of the year.

Every day...

From the prize-winning author of Reasons to be Cheerful comes a story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a...

Harold is an ordinary man who has passed through life, living on the side lines, until he goes to post a letter one day...and...

The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing maps the progress of Jane Rosenal as she sets out on a personal and spirited expedition...

Friday January 2nd

I felt rotten today. It's my mother's fault for singing 'My Way' at two o'clock in the morning at the top...

A taut, groundbreaking new novel about a writer's relationship with her larger-than-life mother - and about the very nature of...

A witty exploration of family, money, love and heartbreak

This unputdownable debut follows three women in an old Brooklyn...

Glue is the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the experiences and the secrets that...

Discover an exhilarating novel about power and corruption set in a nation trapped in a cycle as old as time.

This is the story...