Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction

Annie, Francie and Archie were inseparable growing up, but in...

The dreamlike story of a young woman in contemporary Beijing forging a different life for herself, from one of our brightest new...

A far-reaching, urgent, and thoroughly engaging exploration of our relationship with animals - from the acclaimed Financial Times...

An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court.

She's drawn into simmering...

Ten women, all called Claire, are tangled up in complex power dynamics with their families, friends, and lovers. Though all are...

A journalist becomes embroiled in a world of secrets and paranoia when a nuclear scientist goes missing.

When John Dyer...

When ten-year-old Max is sent to boarding school, his idyllic childhood comes to an abrupt end. Away from the freedom of his...

I'm not a portrait painter. If I'm anything, I have always been an autobiographer.

In Self-Portrait, Celia Paul reveals a life...

Shelley Klein grew up in the Scottish Borders, in a house designed on a modernist open-plan grid. With colourful glass panels set...

Sinead Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying secret.

No-one knows it: not her fellow...

Humour, fantasy, rage and despair both help and hinder the protagonists of these stories as they navigate changing circumstances,...

Retreat takes us on a stunning journey through the many ways humans step back from daily life, both in today's world and in our...

On a hot summer night, a young man sits in a dark cell in a Hungarian prison. The guards do not explain why he is here; he does...

London, 1985. Joe, father to eleven-year-old Matty, has disappeared, and nobody will explain where he's gone, or why.

In the...

The electrifying novel from the Booker shortlisted author of Everything Under.

'A short sharp explosion of a gothic thriller'...

On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not stop for ten weeks.

The...

A breakneck adventure story following the erotic love affair of party cadres Aijun and Hongmei during China's Cultural...

When Kate meets Max in the first week of university, a life-changing friendship begins. Over the next four years, the two become...

From the master of historical fiction, this book follows an unforgettable family after the Second World War.

Some bonds are...

A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler...

One rainy night, a couple welcomes two strangers needing help into their home. It's an act they will regret for the rest of their...

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

Dionisio Vivo, a...

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....

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

Alice is translating the...

In this final part of the trilogy, we follow Titus, now almost twenty, as he escapes from the Castle, flees its oppressive...

A powerful story set in war-torn Danzig about a teenager's rise from clown to hero by Nobel Prize-winner Gunter Grass.

To...

Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about.

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

Enter Louis de Bernieres' magical, tragic and hilarious South American odyssey.

When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza...

Ball games, cars, and romances: the icons and battlefields of modern life. In twenty-two linked stories, with infinite humour and...