Meridian Hill, the brilliant and inquisitive daughter of a working-class Black family in the American south, comes of age against...

'We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us... but what if we are a mere after-glow of them?'
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'For a while he watched the butterflies which still swooped and fluttered in this little glade, impervious to the bombs that had...

1996: in a Ugandan dive bar, the 'freight dogs' gather. An anarchic group of mercenary pilots from Texas, Russia, Kenya and...

Retreating from the ruins of his marriage, Mike leaves London for the wildness of the Yorkshire moors, where he falls in with a...

'And so at the Majestic everything returned to the way it had been before. The gleaming tiles became dulled. Sofas as sleek as...

At the Travelodge bar near Waterloo bridge, the unnamed narrator of Dead Souls meets the disgraced poet Solomon Wiese, and hears...

Vera was painting the pony's hooves gold in the dining room; Janet said this was bad for him; poison would seep into his...

There once was ...

a woman who loved her husband's cock so much that she began taking it to work in her lunchbox.

a man who...

Cormac is a photographer. Approaching forty and still single, he suddenly finds himself 'the leftover man'.

Through talent and...

It is June and our ten-year-old heroine is sad. She knows she will not get to leave her neighbourhood that summer, and the beach...

Jane is trying.

She's been trying for a baby, with increasing desperation as her thirties sail by.

Now, she's trying to...

"It's the truth," the women said from their mattress "Everything is nice".

Alva, a widow, states a preference for plain...

At the turn of the twentieth century, two children play on an English beach. Eustace, a gentle, dreamy, boy with a weak heart,...

I am going on a trip. Wait until I tell you about it. it's terrible.

Miss Goering, an eccentric, impulsive New York heiress,...

I remember nothing. I remember everything. I believe everything. I believe nothing.
In 1949, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie returns as a...