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One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe’s biggest issue

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Jeanne moves from room to room. In the anonymous hotel bedrooms of Paris – Hotel Agate, Hotel Prince Albert, Hotel Prince...

Dinesh is a young man trapped on the frontlines between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers. Desensitized to the horror all...

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Set in 1795, "Water Music" is the rambunctious account of two men's wild adventures through the gutters of London and the...

Teenage Silvie and her parents are living in a hut in Northumberland as an exercise in experimental archaeology. Her father is a...

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Frances is a young graduate student spending a summer volunteering in rural France, in the hope that tending vegetables and...

From the prize-winning author of To Be a Machine – meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world

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Gonzalo is a frustrated would-be poet in a city full of poets; poets lurk in every bookshop, prop up every bar, ready to debate...

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Kate and Ben meet at a party and immediately fall in love. It is the first year of the new millennium, the first...

Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of ’97. His parents are psychologists, his mom a famous author in the field....

Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan’s many ‘old-elderly’; men and women who...

Adam is a stay-at-home dad who is also working on a history of the bombing and rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral. He is a good man...

It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother”s former care-giver, Rani, has died in...

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It is 1988, the year before the Berlin Wall came down. Jonathan Fabrizius, a journalist living in West Germany, is asked to...

Tourists arrive all summer, by boat or seaplane, at Stu and Maureen Jenkins’s Lavender Island Wilderness Lodge in the Kodiak...

When Cy Bellman, American settler and widowed father of Bess, reads in the newspaper that huge ancient bones have been discovered...

1919. The Russian Civil War. It is the harsh dead of winter, as four soldiers set up camp in a forest somewhere near the Romanian...

‘What are you afraid of, he asks me and the answer of course is dentistry, humiliation, scarcity, then he says what are your most...

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to...

Fear and destruction take root in a community of women when the Witchfinder General comes to town, in this dark and thrilling...

In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his life while...

In the past year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart...

In the heart of Mexico City a woman, trapped in a house and a marriage she can neither fully inhabit nor abandon, thinks about...

Welcome to the not-too-distant future. Japan, having vanished into the sea, is now remembered as 'the land of sushi'. Hiruko, a...

Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of...