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The Coiled Serpent

Camilla Grudova

RRP: £9.99

LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2024GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 A little girl throws up Gloria-Jean’s teeth after an explosion at the custard factory; Pax, Alex …

Innards

Magogodi oaMphela Makhene

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‘A gut punch of a collection…it astonishes as it reveals how malignant political forces can both ravage and vitalize the human spirit.’ New York TimesSet in Soweto, the urban heartland of South Afri …

Freeman's Conclusions

John Freeman

RRP: £12.99

Over the course of ten years, Freeman’s has introduced the English-speaking world to countless writers of international import and acclaim, from Olga Tokarczuk to Valeria Luiselli, while also spotligh …

Somebody's Fool

Richard Russo

RRP: £9.99

‘A wise and witty drama of small-town life . . . delivering the generous humour, keen ear for dialogue, and deep appreciation for humanity’s foibles that have endeared the author to his readers for de …

Killingly

Katharine Beutner

RRP: £9.99

*FEATURED IN SUNDAY TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES, APPLE’S BEST BOOKS, AMAZON’S BEST BOOKS OF JUNE,CRIMEREADS RECOMMENDS AND LITHUB’S TOP BOOKS*’SARAH WATERS AND DONNA TARTT SQUAD, BUCKLE UP: Killingly is hit …

Motherthing

Ainslie Hogarth

RRP: £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 …

The Cameraman

Matthew Kneale

RRP: £9.99

Former cinema camera director Julius Sewell journeys across Europe with his family to his sister’s wedding in Rome. But this will be an unusual road trip. For one thing, Julius has been in an institut …

Ocean State

Stewart O'Nan

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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 …

My Nemesis

Charmaine Craig

RRP: £8.99

Tessa is a successful writer who develops a friendship, first by correspondence and then in person, with Charlie, a ruggedly handsome philosopher and scholar. Sparks fly as they exchange ideas about C …

Your Driver Is Waiting

Priya Guns

RRP: £9.99

‘What you are about to read is a call to arms. Best to prepare for a confrontation.’ New York Times Book Review’A hard-hitting masterpiece. I devoured it.’ Kristen Arnett, author of WITH TEETH ‘A madc …

Limberlost

Robbie Arnott

RRP: £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 …

Freeman's Animals

John Freeman

RRP: £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 …

Fools

Joan Silber

RRP: £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 Silber

RRP: £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 Khalid

RRP: £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 Bloom

RRP: £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 …

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