Jorge said he wasn’t coming back until I learned how to be a better wife . . . But before he drove off he gave me a new...

Winner of the Whitbread Best First Novel of the Year

In his classic debut novel, Gordon Burn takes Britain's biggest selling...

Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom – and loneliness – marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The...

In the late 1970s, a young boy disappears from a summer cabin in the Swedish woods. His mother claims that he was abducted by a...

One warm July morning Mr Phillips climbs out of bed, leaving Mrs Phillips dozing. He prepares for his commute into the city – but...

Once an officer in the Irish War for Independence, Moran is now a widower, eking out a living on a small farm where he raises his...

Elf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters.

Elf is a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to...

Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her past, Bessy Buckley takes a job working as a maid in a big country house. But when...

This remarkable volume brings together all of John McGahern’s short fiction, fully revised, in a definitive text. McGahern has...

Fame, success, fortune, a drink problem slipping over the edge into alcoholism, a dead marriage, the incurable itches of...

Open with your best gag. Finish with your second best.
Make sure your face matches the material.
Sell your routine . ....

Meet the Troutmans. Hattie is living in Paris, city of romance, but has just been dumped by her boyfriend. Min, her sister back...

Based on a remarkable true story, Don’t Tell Me You’re Afraid is a moving, inspiring novel of a life lived in hope.

Samia...

Madame Zero is a remarkable collection of dark, sensuous stories set in sometimes conflicting landscapes – rural, industrial,...

As I stepped over one of the Germans an impulse made me lift him up from the miserable ditch. Propped against the bank, his blond...

‘Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin . . .‘

The explosion that detonates the...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Our Fathers is a powerful reclamation of the past from one of Britain’s most accomplished...

In a hard-boiled city of crooks, grifts and rackets lurk a pair of toughs: Box and _____. They're the kind of men capable of...

When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into a private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a...

Following the end of the First World War, Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary. With all those around him...

What if…?
A large wolf escapes its captors.
A cult leader breaks out of psychiatric care.
A disillusioned woman is forced to...

I spy a cloud go floating by
Where do you go, Cloud, so high?
To the sea
She sings
Where the wild gulls fly
Then catch me if...

Richard Thompson came of age during an extraordinary moment in 1960s Britain — as music began to reflect a great cultural...

Stylish, riveting and appalling, GB84 is a shocking fictional documentation of the violence, sleaze and fraudulence that...

In this new novel Gunter Grass examines a subject that has long been taboo – the sufferings of the Germans during the Second...

In Ignorance, set in contemporary Prague, one of the most distinguished writers of our time takes up the complex and emotionally...

Felicito Yanaque has raised himself from poverty to ownership of a trucking business. His two sons work for him. He receives a...

The Unnamable – so named because he knows not who he may be – is from a nameless place. He speaks of previous selves (‘all these...

Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his ‘damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother’ Hugh, Theft: A...

One by One in the Darkness follows a week in the lives of three sisters shortly before the start of the IRA ceasefire in 1994,...