Scary Monsters

‘When my family emigrated it felt as if we’d been stood on our heads.’Michelle de Kretser’s electrifying take on scary monsters turns the novel upside down – just as migration has upended her characte …

Tomorrow

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The fascinating new novel from Chris Beckett, the Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author.’Tomorrow I’m going to begin my novel…’A would-be author has taken time out from life in the city to live in a …

Dog Park

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Helsinki, 2016. Olenka sits on a bench, watching a family play in a dog park. A stranger sits down beside her. Olenka startles; she would recognize this other woman anywhere. After all, Olenka was the …

Freeman's Change

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The Covid-19 pandemic forced many of us to reimagine our homes, work, relationships and adapt to a new way of life – one with far fewer possibilities for interaction. And yet, in this period of intens …

Memorial

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‘This feels like a vision for the 21st-century novel… It made me happy’ Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’Brilliantly details the smallest moments that mean the absolute most, t …

Afterparties

Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tender-hearted, balancing acerbic humour with sharp emotional depth, Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the lives of Cambodian-Americans. …

Secrets of Happiness

One of O: The Oprah Magazine’s O Mag’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 se …

The Forger's Daughter

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When a scream shatters the summer night outside their country house, reformed literary forger Will and his wife Meghan find their daughter Maisie shaken and bloodied, holding a parcel her attacker dem …

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

‘The perfect blend of macabre and funny’ Buzzfeed, Most Anticipated Books of 2021’So fundamentally kind that you can feel the warmth coming off each page’ Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Starling Day …

Monkey Boy

‘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 …

The Butchers

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***WINNER of the 2021 RSL Ondaatje Prize***’I binged it like a Netflix show… It’s stunning’ Luke Kennard, author of The Transition______________________________A photograph is hung on a gallery wall …

The Rain Heron

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD 2021**’Astonishing… With the intensity of a perfect balance between the mythic and the real, The Rain Heron keeps turning and twisting, taking you …

We Play Ourselves

‘As funny as it’s intellectual, this page-turner about crashing and burning is spot-on about ambition, infatuation, theatre, film, ethics, teens, and everything else.’ Emma Donoghue, author of Room ‘W …

Milk Blood Heat

‘A seething excavation of want and human error’ Raven Leilani, author of Luster’Glorious, ecstatic, devastating… A gorgeous debut from a wickedly talented new author’ Lauren Groff, author of Florida …

The Cat and The City

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A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick’A love letter to Japan and its literature’ Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’Ingenious… Touching, surprising and sometimes heartbreaking’ Guardian’An ideal tonic for anyone craving …

We Run the Tides

‘Smart, perceptive, elegant, sad, surprising and addictive. And it’s also FUNNY.’ Nick Hornby’What We Run the Tides probes so poignantly is the volatility of female adolescence… Knowing and powerful …