In Ascension

Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as a refuge from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the marine world of her childhood, she excels in postgraduate research on a …

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 …

Our Country Friends

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***New York Times bestseller!***’A masterpiece . . . There cannot be a more relevant novel for our moment, certainly not one with such beauty of description, depth of feeling, and, as always, humour.’ …

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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WINNER OF THE JOHN LEONARD PRIZE AT THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS AND THE FERRO-GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBTQ FICTIONTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER’So’s distinctive voice is ever-present: mellifluo …

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

‘Great fun… the suspense slips its slow coils around you’ Daily MailDaddy, there’s a man in our room… This is the chilling announcement Alfie hears one night, when he wakes in his quiet, suburban …

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 …

Dog Park

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‘An ambiguous horror story about egg donorship and the black market, it keeps the reader equally balanced between frustration and fascination. ‘ Daily Mail’An intricate, textured slow-burner that pain …

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 …