In the near future bees are extinct - until five unconnected individuals, in different parts of the world, are stung. Immediately...

A real-time five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside:...

Frank Brill, a retired small-town newspaper editor, has just been given a terminal diagnosis.

Rather than compile a bucket...

The Cold War is at its height, and a spy may be a friend or neighbour, colleague or lover.

At the end of a suburban garden, in...

Essen, 1946. Clara Falkenberg, once an iconic heiress, is on the run. With the city in ruins and her dear friend Elisa missing,...

When Lucie Tang Churchill meets George Zao at a lavish wedding in Capri, she can't stand him. She can't stand that he gallantly...

‘When I finished Sara Baume’s new novel I immediately felt sad that I could not send it in the post to the late John Berger. He,...

On the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding, Salma reads the girl’s future in a cup of coffee dregs.

Although she keeps her...

A disturbing look at obsession, delusion and the way boundaries between the domestic and the wild can blur, HOW TO BE HUMAN marks...

'A past more dramatic than Chekhov, more tragic than Tolstoy and more romantic than Pasternak'
Between the first revolution in...

When Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta in 1946, she finds herself in a...

It is 1946, and seventeen-year-old Laura Telling is stagnating in her dilapidated Sussex family home, while her eccentric parents...

This summer, Clover Quinn wants to find the missing pieces of her story.

Clover Quinn was a surprise. She used to imagine she...

A dark and powerful debut novel set in the hardscrabble American heartlands.

'If I knew for a certain’ty that a man was coming...

A razor-sharp portrait of a morally bankrupt and gleefully wicked modern man, Worst. Person. Ever. is Douglas Coupland's...

Bucharest, 1940. The city is on the brink of invasion and Guy and Harriet Pringle find their position growing ever more...

Athens, 1941. Harriet Pringle feverishly awaits news of her husband, trapped in the spoilt city of Bucharest. Yet when the young...

A brilliant historical crime novel, set in Los Angeles and Mexico during the pulse-pounding aftermath of the attack on Pearl...

The Shore. A collection of small islands sticking out from the coast of Virginia into the Atlantic Ocean that has been home to...

Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane - his sex doll companion. Life with...

2019 marked the centenary of Stanley Middleton's birth. Holiday, winner of the 1974 Booker Prize, remains the most celebrated and...

Meet the Bradleys.

In lots of ways, they're a normal family:
Zippy is sixteen and in love for the first time; Al is thirteen...

Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing...

An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose...

Summer, 1965.

Late one night, thirteen-year-old Charlie Bucktin is startled by a knock on his window.

His visitor is Jasper...

VIENNA, 1911. Greta Goldbaum has always dreamed of being free to choose her own life's path, but the Goldbaum family, one of the...

Susan Frobisher and Julie Wickham are turning sixty. Susan has just discovered that her recently deceased husband was not only a...

Kennedy Marr is a novelist from the old school. Irish, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex-addict, his mantra is drink...

Gary is a sweet and decent man. Only two things would improve his life - having children with his gorgeous wife Pauline, and a...

We spend more time than ever online, and the digital revolution is rewiring our sense of what it means to be human. Smartphones...