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 …
Genre: Literary Fiction
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 …
Ocean State
Stewart O'NanRRP: £8.99
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 …
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 …
Dog Park
Sofi OksanenRRP: £8.99
‘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 …
Freeman's Change
John FreemanRRP: £12.99
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 …
Afterparties
Anthony Veasna SoRRP: £8.99
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 …
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