Limberlost

Ned West dreams of sailing across the river on a boat of his very own. To Ned, a boat means freedom – the fresh open water, squid-rich reefs, fires on private beaches – a far cry from life on Limberlo …

Freeman's Animals

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Over a century ago, Rilke went to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, where he watched a pair of flamingos. A flock of other birds screeched by, and, as he describes in a poem, the great red-pink birds s …

Motherthing

Abby Lamb has done it. She’s found the Great Good in her husband, Ralph, and together they will start a family and put all the darkness in her childhood to rest. But then the Lambs move in with Ralph’ …

Fools

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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDWhen is it wise to be a fool for something? From New York to India to Paris, from the Catholic Worker movement to Occupy Wall Street, the characters in Joan Silbe …

Ideas of Heaven

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDSet in modern-day America and France, Renaissance Italy and Boxer Rebellion China, these stories embrace whole lifetimes, much in the manner of Alice Munro and W …

Brother Alive

In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul and Youssef. They are adopted as infants and live in a shared bedroom perched atop a mosque in Staten Island. The b …

The Women and the Girls

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It’s 1977, and bohemian Libby – stay-at-home mother, genius entertainer and gifted cook – is lonely. When she meets Carol, recently emigrated from London with her controlling husband, and Anna, who lo …

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 …

Children of Paradise

When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise – one of the city’s oldest cinemas, squashed into the ground floor of a block of flats – she thinks it will be like any other shift work. She cleans toilet …

Black Mamba

Daddy, there’s a man in our room… This is the chilling announcement Alfie hears one night, when he wakes in his quiet, suburban house to find his twin daughters at the foot of his bed. It’s been nin …

Dalva

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From her home on the California coast, Dalva hears the broad silence of the Nebraska prairie where she was born and longs for the son she gave up for adoption years before. Beautiful, fearless, tormen …

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

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‘Funny about death, real about anxiety, witty about the things that worry us the most’ Emma Gannon, author of Olive ‘So fundamentally kind that you can feel the warmth coming off each page’ Rowan Hisa …

The Immortal King Rao

‘A brilliant and beautifully written book about capitalism and the patriarchy, about Dalit India and digital America, about power and family and love’ Alex Preston, Observer, ‘Fiction to look out for …

Monkey Boy

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‘Full of rebellious comedy and vitality… Goldman’s autobiographical immersion answers the urgent cry of memory… [He] is a natural storyteller – funny, intimate, sarcastic, all-noticing.’ James Woo …

Ocean State

When I was in eighth grade my sister helped kill another girl.For the Oliviera family – mum Carol, daughters Angel and Marie – autumn 2009 in the once-prosperous beach town of Ashaway, Rhode Island is …

Secrets of Happiness

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One of O: The Oprah Magazine’s Most Anticipated Books of 2021One of Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 picks for Spring 2021Ethan, a young lawyer in New York, learns that his father has long kept a second fam …