One Wednesday morning in November 1912 the ageing Thomas Hardy, entombed by paper and books and increasingly estranged from his...

The New Start
Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of...

Dark, intelligent crime novel about a policeman with a secret past, and an emotive exploration of violence within the...

She Always Went Too Far.
DS Alexandra Cupidi has done it again. She should have learnt to keep her big mouth shut, after the...

The bestselling novel about beauty, body image and betrayal

eves are designed, not made.
The School trains them to be...

Since my baby was born, I have been able to laugh and see the funny side of things. a) As much as I ever did. b) Not quite as...

Aged thirty-one, Catrina Davies was renting a box-room in a house in Bristol, which she shared with four other adults and a...

Manuscripts teem with life.
They are not only the stuff of history and literature, but they offer some of the only tangible...

Racism, but "managed" through virtual reality

Black Friday, except you die in a bargain-crazed throng

Happiness, but...

Rich with hard-won wisdom and humanity, set in locales from Miami and Port-au-Prince to a small unnamed country in the Caribbean...

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The two boys never fitted in. Seventeen, the worst age, nothing to do but smoke weed; at least they have each...

The stories found in this collection explore the worlds of thirteen older women, reframing their intellectual and emotional lives...

'Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed by that attitude. I can assure you it's much...

For Alice and Hanna, saint and sinner, growing up is a trial. There is their mother, who takes a divide-and-conquer approach to...

They only stopped watching her for a couple of minutes. That was all it took.
It was a beautiful winter’s day. Anders, his wife...

The newspaper was founded in Rome in the 1950s, a product of passion and a multi-millionaire’s fancy. Eccentric and beloved, it...

For five days in January 1989, the parents of a seven-year-old Tokyo schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their...

Something very peculiar is happening in Stockholm. There’s a heatwave on and people cannot turn their lights out or switch their...

Published in 1852, when he was just twenty-four, Childhood was Tolstoy’s first published work, and the first of a trilogy of...

A man goes mad because he is happy.

A civil servant behaves like a monster at a wedding-party.

A man is swallowed by a...

At the age of five, a blind African-American boy is handed over to a brutal state home. Here Ludlow Washington will suffer for...

In 1964, two years after the critically lauded release of his debut novel A Different Drummer, William Melvin Kelley published...

June, 1957. One afternoon, in the backwater town of Sutton, a young black farmer by the name of Tucker Caliban matter-of-factly...

The cult novel of fin de siecle decadence that inspired Oscar Wilde

‘It will be biggest fiasco of the year – but I don’t give...

Almost-true stories for a post-truth world

Wrong! Not Nice! Sad!

A Manhattan party on election night. Liberal media types...

Of everyone in her complicated family, Eva was always closest to her grandfather. She is making a film about his life. She is...

A woman on the edge of the sea finds a girl on the edge of life.

On the flooded coast of Cornwall, Ia Pendilly ekes out a...

A collection of four novellas: each taking place in 1998, each set in the world of SIX FOUR, and each centring around a mystery...

1985. Kazumasa Yuuki, a seasoned reporter at the North Kanto Times, runs a daily gauntlet against the power struggles and office...

They were the Amazing Telemachus Family, who in the mid-1970s achieved widespread fame for their magic and mind reading act. That...