The Quantity Theory of Morality

In The Quantity Theory of Morality, Will Self’s pen remains dipped in vitriol and elegance as ever. The disaffected, middle-class, middle-aged urbanites that populate the novel seem helpless to stop t …

Winter Stories

In Winter Stories, we meet a teenager on the run from social services with her younger half-sister and half-brother in tow, a young single mother struggling to provide adequately for her daughter, and …

This is Salvaged

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Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbour or lover, and the relationships between self and othe …

Innards

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‘A gut punch of a collection…it astonishes as it reveals how malignant political forces can both ravage and vitalize the human spirit.’ New York TimesSet in Soweto, the urban heartland of South Afri …

Welcome Me to the Kingdom

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Bangkok, 1980. As the decades pass, figures fall in and out of the relentless city: Pea and Nam, who arrive in search of a better life; a Thai Elvis impersonator and his only daughter, Pinky; Benz, Ti …

Sweet Jimmy

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An engrossing collection of gritty, raw and sometimes very funny short stories with fully realised characters and surprising twists and turns. This is Aussie noir at its best by one of Australia’s gre …

Afterparties

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER’So’s distinctive voice is ever-present: mellifluous, streetwise and slightly brash, at once cynical and bighearted…unique and quintessential’ Sunday Times’So’s stories …

Nothing Much Happens

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In Nothing Much Happens Kathryn Nicolai offers a healthy way to ease the mind before bed: through the timeless appeal of classic bedtime stories. These calming tales take place in and around a fiction …

Black Light

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‘The stories in Black Light are grimy and weird, surprising, utterly lush… I loved every moment of this book.’ Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties_____________________A black …

Black Light

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‘The stories in Black Light are grimy and weird, surprising, utterly lush… I loved every moment of this book.’ Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties_____________________With raw …

Sh*tshow

David and Ellie didn’t realise how much they had missed their friends, two other couples who had moved out of their modest neighbourhood in a desert city for the comforts of the suburbs, until the day …

Diary of a Murderer

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‘Kim Young-Ha is exceedingly good’ New York Journal of Books’Sublime, galvanizing’ Nylon’Compelling’ Atlantic___________________________It’s been twenty-five years since I last murdered someone, or ha …

Exquisite Cadavers

From the author of When I Hit You, shortlisted for the 2018 Women’s Prize for FictionKarim and Maya:[x] share a home [x] worry about money [x] binge-watch films [x] argue all the time Karim, a young f …

Lot

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· · Winner of the 2020 Dylan Thomas Prize · ·· · Winner of the 2020 NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award · ·____________________________________· One of Barack Obama’s “Favourite Books of the Year” ·· A New …

Unnatural

From the Irish bestselling author of Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan comes a short story about modern love, old-fashioned values and a new-born calf.____________________________While the country gears up …

A Lesson in Englishness

There are only five other black girls in our class of twenty-six…________________________From the author of the critically-acclaimed House of Stone, listed for the Folio Prize, is a short story abou …