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It was always the same nightmare. Cross saw them lined up in rows, in stretches of city wasteland - those derelict spaces once...

Henry, Lee, Kip and Ronny grew up together in rural Wisconsin. Friends since childhood, their lives all began the same way, but...

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In AD 843, the three surviving grandsons of the great Emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles over who...

What if you have more intelligence than you realize? What if there is a genius inside you, just waiting to be released? And what...

Jen B's been surviving at the nightmarishly brutal MLK High School just like everybody else: by following the rules. She avoids...

Inseparable through university, Eva, Benedict, Sylvie and Lucien graduate into an exhilarating world on the brink of the new...

A mother who puts her children into a refrigerated lorry and asks 'what else could I do?' A runaway teenager who comes of age on...

When Cathy Rentzenbrink was still a teenager, her happy family was torn apart by an unthinkable tragedy. In A Manual for...

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David Whitehouse's The Long Forgotten is the story...

Camp Chippewa, 1962.

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1930s King's Cross, London.

When aspiring film actress Estella Lamare is found dead on the cutting-room floor of a London film...

Ithaca, the ferociously funny and unbelievably poignant debut novel from Alan McMonagle, combines a fiercely emotional story with...

It was around half-past eight in the morning, with summer rainclouds weighing heavy in the sky, that Simon de Montfort decided to...

Set fifteen years after the seismic events of Brilliance of the Moon, The Harsh Cry of the Heron is an elegiac and bittersweet...

Grass for His Pillow is the second novel in Lian Hearn's astonishingly beautiful series inspired by feudal Japan, Tales of the...

Eva can trace the route to Pim's farm with her eyes closed, even though she has not been to Bovenmeer for many years. There she...

During their 1985 tour, two events of hatred and stupidity forever change the lives of a band's four members. Neues Bauen, a...

Alfred Busi, famed in his town for his music and songs, is mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days...

Set in LA against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crash, this is the story of Rudy Reyes (a.k.a. Glasses), a...

A startlingly beautiful story of a family's survival, The End We Start From is a haunting but hopeful dystopian vision of a...

In 2013 Guy Stagg walked from Canterbury to Jerusalem. Though a non-believer, he began the pilgrimage after suffering several...

From Vanessa Bell and Charlotte Bronte to Nina Simone and Jane Campion, here are over one hundred and forty female writers,...

Kit has risen to the top of her profession. She's on the brink of achieving everything she wanted, but someone is standing in her...

Fierce and lyrical, The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton is a story of survival, solitude and unlikely friendship. Most of all it is...

Fred Scully is determined to carve a new life for himself and his young family in Ireland. For months he has laboured alone to...

When paramedic Bruce Pike is called out to deal with another teenage adventure gone wrong, he knows better than anyone what...

Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded with a man she doesn't love and two...

Chris Kraus' The Bastard Factory tells the story of an entire epoch: a drama of betrayal and self-delusion spanning the years...