A distraught young woman boards a train at King's Cross to return to her family in Scotland. Six hours later, she catches sight...

I lived for and loved a bird-heart that summer; I only knew it afterwards.

Sunday Forrester lives with her sixteen-year-old...

Lydia Perez owns a bookshop in Acapulco, Mexico, and is married to a fearless journalist. Luca, their eight-year-old son,...

Lydia Perez owns a bookshop in Acapulco, Mexico, and is married to a fearless journalist. Luca, their eight-year-old son,...

As the rest of the world lies sleeping, Eleanor straps her infant daughter, Amy, into the back of her car. This is the moment she...

During your three years at Catherine House you will have no contact with those in the outside world.

Each of our students has...

Did you ever have a friend who made you see the world differently?

Stan did, and his name was Charlie. They crossed paths by...

Domina Tey is a playwright, celebrated by friends, her husband, and the public alike, yet she fears losing her vital edge. Her...

Naomi Ishiguro's fresh, magical and delightfully speculative short story collection merges the inventiveness of David Mitchell...

Better opportunity that s why Angela s dad sailed to England from America in 1948 on the Empire Windrush. Six months later her...

American Professor Evan Kirby, moving to Barrowcester to research Paradise after a successful book on Hell, expects a very...

In one new volume, an irresistible collection of stories from two previous works, Smile and Changing Babies, with additional...

From swimming on Hampstead Heath to house-sitting with troublesome dogs, or illicit afternoon trysts in Soho to pedicures in...

Worn out by poverty, Lettie Radley and her miner husband Tommy grasp at the offer of their very own smallholding - part of a...

On a small isolated island, there's a community that lives by its own rules. Boys grow up knowing they will one day take charge,...

A deeply personal novel of identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction...

In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale about what...

I am, I Am, I Am is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extraordinary woman's life in near-death...

For Selvon, Ardan and Yusuf, growing up under the towers of Stones Estate, summer means what it does anywhere: football, music...

It's July 1976. In London, it hasn't rained for months, gardens are filled with aphids, water comes from a standpipe, and Robert...

The party has to end sometime

It all starts on New Year's Eve. A night that has to be a success, whatever the cost. For Joni...

The Professor lives in Brooklyn; her partner Nathan left her when she couldn't have a baby. All she has now is her dead-end...

Laura, a laundress, meets her young husband when they are both placed in service in Teignmouth in 1914. They have a baby,...

When Lily moves into Marcus's flat and plunges headlong into a relationship, she must contend not merely with the disapproval of...

Never Far From Nowhere is the story of two sisters, Olive and Vivien, born in London to Jamaican parents and brought up on a...

Celebrated artist Rachel Kelly dies alone in her Penzance studio, after decades of struggling with the creative highs and...

Ania Khurana is beautiful, clever and in need of entertainment. She's wrapped Delhi society around her little finger, and now her...

Just after 11am on 4th August 1892, the bodies of Andrew and Abby Borden are discovered. He's found on the sitting room sofa, she...

'None of my books is just about race,' Levy has said.'They're about people and history.' Her novels have triumphantly given voice...

It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie...