Novels
It may be the relative youngster on the literary scene, but the novel is the king of reads. Here’s our selection of fictive treats from the UK and across the world.
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This multi-layered book of prose fiction shows the influence on human lives of the mechanical workings of the world, illuminating many human states, especially love. Learn More » -
In the months between May and August 1945 the world is both winding down and changing forever. The European war over, Britain looks to the future and prepares for a general election. Unknown to all but a few, life is about to be pitched into the atomic age. Learn More » -
Against the background of a declining steel town, Shifts charts the lives of four closely bound characters, Jack, Keith, Rob and Judith in a story of grief, love, work and betrayal. Learn More » -
A complex mixture of historical detail and invention, Griffri is a serious and entertaining novel examining the limits of our knowledge of the world and ourselves. Learn More » -
Music for Dogs presents, for the first time in print, a selection of that work for radio from a poet of "perfect pitch" (Midwest Book Review). Learn More » -
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ìThe dark menace lurking in the best fairy tales is never far from the surface in most of these stories.î ó Anne Sebba Learn More » -
Are Grace and Tamar the sisters from Hell? Their competitive, sometimes violent, relationship simultaneously explodes and strengthens the myth of sisterhood.
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Musician and translator Lucas has reformed his nomadic ways to settle in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter. Learn More » -
Five Amber Beads is the story of two men whose lives are woven together as they seek to discover the truth about their pasts. Learn More »
