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A twelve-year-old girl spends summers at a lake with her parents and little brother. The days are long and hot and while the parents entertain their friends the two children...

In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of...

A year after his divorce, Jayojit Chatterjee, an economics professor in the American Midwest, travels home to Calcutta with his young son, Bonny, to spend the summer holidays with his...

A path-breaking novel of art, womanhood and violence, from the author of the Outline trilogy. Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down. In Paris, a woman...

Stella Benson sets off for Hilltop, a tiny Sussex village housing a family that is somewhat larger than life. Her hopes for the Maddens may be high, but her station...

'Look Caithleen, will you give up the nonsense? We're eighteen and we're bored to death.' Baba lit a cigarette and puffed vigorously. She went on 'We want to live. Drink...

'Absolutely, absolutely incredible.' Karl Ove Knausgaard 'A total explosion.' Nicole Krauss 'Unforgettable.' Hernan Di az 'Breathtaking.' Chetna Maroo 'Brilliant.' Jon McGregor 'Absolutely marvellous.' Lauren Groff ** A NEW YORKER AND...

Michael O'Dell is hit by a car. When he doesn't die, he is surprised and pleased. But he can'tseem to move from the crash position. He can't concentrate, or control...

A woman on a plane listens to the stranger in the seat next to hers telling her the story of his life: his work, his marriage, and the harrowing night...

From a master of contemporary Indian fiction, an expertly crafted and taut family drama, set over the course of four days. 'Extraordinary.' Geetanjali Shree 'A writer of rare and wonderful...

Ralph Loman works in an unsatisfying job, for a free London newspaper, when Francine Snaith, a temporary secretary for a corporate finance firm, unexpectedly crosses his path at a party....

Shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2015 Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2015 Sunday Times Top Choice Summer Read Elf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters. Elf is a...

Author: Rachel Cusk Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is...

Author: Chris Power Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A taut, subtle, postmodern literary thriller.' - Sunday Times 'Gripping.' - Financial Times 'A delicate snare of a novel . Alluring...

Author: Rachel Cusk Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 'A classic, but with contemporary urgency thumping through it.' - Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Pond...

Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by...

1996, London. Nicola , tall and gorgeous, has re-birthed herself. She has landed a breakthrough role and her star is rising - she can feel herself blossoming, can see it...

'Haunting.' Nylon'Riveting.' Elle'Brilliant.' Sophie Mackintosh'Glittering.' Marie Claire'Enthralling.' New York Times'Manages to bottle up that chaotic and messy feeling of girlhood.' StylistHuddled at a bedroom window, a group of teenagers peer...

A stunning new edition of Claire Keegan's multi-award-winning, bestselling novel Small Things Like These. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY A SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER ONE...

Author: Rachel Cusk Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 When Rachel Cusk decides to travel to Italy for a summer with her husband and two young children, she has no...

'Powerful.' DAILY TELEGRAPH '[Ross] is a master of detail.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'A literary rollercoaster.' PEOPLE 'Chillingly real . . . unforgettable.' BOOKLIST From a singular voice: a gripping and...

Author: Rachel Cusk Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award Agnes Day - sub-editor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire - has discovered disconcerting gaps in her...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRES FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A kaleidoscopic and linguistically daring work . . . Scintillating.' OCEAN VUONG 'A quirky and original debut that sizzles with scintillating...

Author: Lucas RijneveldFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 240g, 288 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2020*WINNER OF THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2020*'One of the best debut novels I have ever...

Author: Leone Ross Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Dawn breaks across the archipelago of Popisho. The world is stirring awake again, each resident with their own list of things...

Author: Andrea LeeBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber and Faber., 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slight sun-fading to spine, foxed edges.This compelling memoir, Russian Journal, chronicles Andrea...

Author: Edna O'Brien Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 An unnamed protagonist is on holiday with her new, much-married lover, in the company of the monstrously rich. 'How long would...

Author: Anna Burns Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Of course, of everybody of whom this particular hero was suspicious, he was most suspicious of femme fatale, of...

This illustrated young adult edition of a bold novel is one of defiance and bravery. As beautifully crafted as it is heartwrenching, this love story transcends time and generations. People...

Beautifully illustrated by Alice Tye, this is a cornerstone of modernist fiction and an incisive critique of wealth, class and the inescapable heartache of lost love. In his blue gardens...

Author: Sam Knight Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Fascinating.' - Hilary Mantel 'Terrific.' - New Scientist 'Gripping.' - Financial Times What if you had a vision that something terrible...

Author: Emily Holmes Coleman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'Extraordinary. A fascinating and unexpected delight. Coleman shows howwomen might write if we were free - and how murderous we'd...

Author: Sebastian Barry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live. Winona is...

Author: Leila Slimani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds. When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to...

Author: Peter Swanson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 'Hello there.' I looked at the pale, freckled hand on the back of the empty bar seat next to...

In his masterful story 'A River in Egypt', David Means paints a portrait of a moment. Cavanaugh and his young son are suspended; trapped in what a nurse calls 'the...

Author: Claire Keegan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 'A real jewel.' Irish Independent'A small miracle.' Sunday Times 'A thing of finely honed beauty.' Guardian 'Thrilling.' Richard Ford 'As good...

Author: Sally Rooney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 48 'My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly...

Author: Max Porter (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 'A little masterpiece.' - Irish Times 'Luminous.' - Observer 'One of our most exciting writers.' - The Spectator Madrid. Unfinished....

'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' - The Times 'Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' - Hilary Mantel 'Claire Keegan...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2023Winner of the 2023 Women's Prize for FictionTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHORAN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK'Extraordinary.' - OPRAH'Electrifying. . . Every sentence here...

Author: David Stubbs (Associate Editor) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 West Germany after the Second World War was a country in shock: estranged from its recent history, and adrift...