Limberlost
Robbie ArnottRRP: £9.99
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2023’Arnott has an eye and an ear for description that can elevate otherwise quiet moments to something genuinely transcendent… A luminously told, whole-life s …
Genre: Literary Fiction
Freeman's Animals
John FreemanRRP: £12.99
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
Ainslie HogarthRRP: £9.99
‘A gruesome, blackly funny, utterly original feminist horror story’ New York Times, Notable Book of the Year ‘A buzz-worthy and ferocious horror comedy from one of the genre’s most promising voices’Bu …
Fools
Joan SilberRRP: £9.99
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
Joan SilberRRP: £9.99
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
Zain KhalidRRP: £9.99
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
Laura BloomRRP: £14.99
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 …
Children of Paradise
Camilla GrudovaRRP: £8.99
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
William FriendRRP: £9.99
‘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
Jim HarrisonRRP: £10.99
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 …
The Immortal King Rao
Vauhini VaraRRP: £9.99
‘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 …
All Along the Echo
Danny DentonRRP: £8.99
‘A cyclone of a novel’ GuardianAn absolute marvel’ Max Porter, bestselling author of Lanny’Dancing and dodging, surprising and poignant’ Lisa McInerney, bestselling author of The Rules of RevelationFI …
Mouth to Mouth
Antoine WilsonRRP: £8.99
A Barack Obama Summer Read’Carries distinct shades of Patricia Highsmith and Donna Tartt… Supremely gripping’Vogue, Best Books of the YearAlone on the beach one morning, Jeff notices a swimmer drown …
7 ½
Christos TsiolkasRRP: £9.99
A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in the pyrotechnic beauty of nature, just as the world he has sh …
Our Country Friends
Gary ShteyngartRRP: £8.99
***New York Times bestseller, shortlisted for 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction!***’It’s a true pleasure to sink into Shteyngart’s expansive, benevolent storytelling’ Sunday Ti …
Scary Monsters
Michelle de KretserRRP: £9.99
*** WINNER OF THE 2023 RATHBONES FOLIO FICTION PRIZE***ONE OF SLATE’S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2022’Every page of her story feels charged, like an open circuit waiting for its switch; a lurking wallop. It’s m …
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