Lost Property

In the middle of her life, a writer finds herself in a dark wood, despairing and uncomprehending at how modern Britain has become a place of such greed and indifference. In an attempt to understand he …

Ayesha at Last

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A big-hearted, captivating, modern-day Muslim Pride and Prejudice, with hijabs instead of top hats and kurtas instead of corsets. AYESHA SHAMSI has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been …

Beneath the World, a Sea

South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of Duendes. These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures – with long limbs and …

Improvement

Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn’t perfect, yet as she visits him throughout his three-month stint in prison, their bond grows tighter. Kiki, now settled in New York after a journey that too …

Kill [redacted]

Is murder ever morally right? And is a murderer necessarily bad? These two questions waltz through the maddening mind of Michael, the brilliant, terrifying, fiendishly smart creation at the centre of …

The Neon Bible

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The accomplished and evocative first novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Confederacy of Dunces.John Kennedy Toole wrote The Neon Bible for a literary contest at the age of sixteen. The man …

The One Who Wrote Destiny

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“A beautiful, brilliant modern classic.” Sabrina Mahfouz, Guardian, Best Summer Books 2018Mukesh has just moved from Kenya to the drizzly northern town of Keighley. He was expecting fame, fortune, the …

My Sister, the Serial Killer

As smart and murderous as Killing Eve, My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker – and more difficult to get out of the carpet – than water…When Korede’s dinne …

Oliver Loving

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“An exquisitely moving novel of sorrow, love, and the miracle of human connections.” – Kamila Shamsie, author of Home FireFor ten years, a secret has slept with Oliver Loving.One moonless November nig …

Flames

“A strange and joyous marvel” Richard Flanagan, Man Booker-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North It starts with a fisherman hunting for tuna, his sidekick a young seal as fast as quicksi …

Miss Burma

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Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018Longlisted for the National Book Award for FictionAfter attending school in Calcutta, Benny settles in Rangoon, then part of the British Empire, and fa …

The Feral Detective

‘A nimble and uncanny performance, brimming with Lethem’s trademark verve and wit’ Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground RailroadPhoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist i …

Freeman's Power

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From the voices of protesters to the encroachment of a new fascism, everywhere we look power is revealed. Spouse to spouse, soldier to citizen, looker to gazed upon, power is never static: it is eithe …

Aftershocks

“It’s unlikely that a more intelligent, amusing and yet disturbing novel will appear this autumn.” ScotsmanOn The Island, just as on many other islands, marriages are unhappy, people fall in love and …

The Break

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A GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FINALISTLonglisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2018Crime Book of the Month, Sunday Times, February 2018’I loved this… very tough and very real.’ – Margaret Atwo …

Trajectory

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Richard Russo’s characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we’re familiar with from many of his novels. In ‘Horseman,’ a professor confronts a young …