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'A taut, subtle, postmodern literary thriller.' SUNDAY TIMES'A remarkable debut; an accomplished and intricately plotted story.'-JON McGREGOR'A Lonely Man is a delicate snare of a novel.'-BRANDON TAYLOR 'A thrilling, unnerving...

A breathtakingly original debut about identity and humanity for anyone who loves Station Eleven and The BeesKit has been projecting into other species for seven years.Longer than anyone else at...

'A magical, magnificent novel, that amounts to a secret history of an America we think we know, but never really knew' Marlon JamesThe people of Salt Point are afraid of...

New from Dave Eggers, National Book Award finalist A Hologram for the KingIn a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt...

In an imagined alternative 1944, after the fall of Russia and the failed D-Day landings, half of Britain is occupied...Young farmer's wife Sarah Lewis wakes to find her husband has...

In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at `Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will...

Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns. His mother, Alice, is a Toronto tattoo artist. His father, William, is an Edinburgh organist who is addicted...

The horror of the Rainbow Opera riot is the talk of the country. Dreamhunter Grace Tiebold's reputation is in tatters and Laura is in hiding. But the nightmare has only...

The new novel from the author of The Corrections. Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul - the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of...

Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, believes he controls the trajectory of his life, with the markers of vocation and marriage. But when he's diagnosed with thyroid cancer and prescribed...

Read the all-consuming story of a family whose worst sins come back to bite them from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Outcast'A menacing beautifully written novel' Guardian...

At a time of extraordinary change, two women must harness their talents to take control of their own destiny . . .Bristol, 1896. Used to scraping a living as the...

Naples, 1750. In the dead of the night, three men with swords burst into the palazzo of a marquis. The intruders' leader, the Prince of San Severo, accuses the marquis...

A BBC RADIO 2 BOOKCLUB PICK'Engrossing and original, political and unpredictable, The Silence Project will get people talking' Bernardine EvaristoMonster. Martyr. Mother.On Emilia Morris's thirteenth birthday, her mother Rachel moves...

The Final Testament of Christopher Marlowe is a swashbuckling adventure story of a man who dares to defy God and state and who discovers that there are worse fates than...

WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARD A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN FT BOOK OF THE YEAR A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE...

'Quirky, offbeat, stylish and original. I loved it.' Mick Herron Tom Mondrian is the last person you want on your case. And the only one who can solve it, in...

A extraordinary and epic sea adventure, vividly narrated in stirring verse. Things happen here in Plymouth in the winter; And of such things you'd surely never learn.; So take your...

'The Verdun Affair is ravishingly beautiful, and as much about love as about war . . . Dybek is a storyteller of great power. If there's any justice, this novel...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023A powerful, compressed masterwork for fans of Shirley Jackson and Claire-Louise BennettA woman moves...

Escape to the Cornish coast with this irresistible summer read, perfect for fans of Jill Mansell and Philippa Ashley. Bramble Challoner has had a very normal upbringing. She lives in...

'Mesmerising, heartbreaking ... a wild ride of a novel' Monica AliSLAVE. ESCAPE-ARTIST. MURDERER. TERRORIST. SPY. LOVER. MOTHER. TRICKSTER.At the Golden Sunset retirement home, it is not unusual for residents to...

'Astonishing' Stephen Fry'Exceptional' Douglas Stuart, author of the Booker Prize-winning SHUGGIE BAIN'Now is the time for this book' DBC Pierre, author of the Booker Prize-winning VERNON GOD LITTLE'Funny. Disturbing. Brilliant'...

Paris, 1939: the pavement rumbles with the footfall of marching Nazi soldiers along the Champs-Elysees.A young writer, recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes a last cigarette with...

An ambitious new novel of family life past and present from the author of the Costa Book Awards shortlisted The Stranding.'A smart yet tender page-turner. Kate Sawyer makes the reader...

It's the other baby I think about most, the one Gran spoke of the day I told her I was pregnant. I used to picture my own baby, her chalky...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TADEUSZ BRADECKI PRIZE'Elegant and decadent, vulgar and clever, enchanting and dark. The love child of Angela Carter and Anais Nin - the book I really really needed'...

From his Icelandic father Lee Cotton gets his marble skin and blue eyes. From his mixed-race mother he gains his black identity. From his Mambo grandmother he inherits forebodings about...

'Intimate and urgent' Financial Times'A vivid portrait of a tumultuous 20th century life' Mail on Sunday'A rich and rewarding read' Daily Telegraph'I was a liberated woman long before there was...

It is the seventies, at the height of flower power. Star has just joined Drop City, a hippie commune in sunny California living the simple, natural life. But underneath the...

AS HEARD ON SIMON MAYO'S BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUBMaud Drennan - underpaid carer and unintentional psychic - is the latest in a long line of dogsbodies for the ancient,...

A novel that hits right to the heart of fans of Cold Mountain and True Grit. Set in 1837, this is the remarkably poignant story of 12-year-old orphan Thomas Walker...

'Best book of the year!' 'A fantastic debut' The brilliant, heart-warming debut novel from the Sunday Times best-selling author of Dummy and Man vs Toddler'A lovely feel-good treat' The Times...

The new novel from number one bestselling author of thirteen novels, Catherine Alliott. When Flora, James and their two teenage daughters are offered the holiday of a lifetime in a...

When Joe Davitch first saw Rebecca, it was at a party at the Davitch home - a crumbling 19th-century row house in Baltimore where giving parties was the family business....

Three women. Three decades. The friendship of a lifetime.'Fast-paced, glamorous, and bursting with emotion, Dele Weds Destiny is a thrilling debut. The bonds between women - as friends, and across...

'A generous story about the quiet heroism of older women. This heartwarming novel by a crime writer will help to brighten a bleak January ' The TimesFor readers of Elizabeth...

In 'the stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death. This is the...

On a hot July day, three elderly people are found dead in a dilapidated house in Primrose Hill. Reading the story in a newspaper as she prepares to leave the...

WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARD A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN FT BOOK OF THE YEAR A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE...