As Trafford Sewell struggles to work through the usual crowds of commuters, he is confronted by the intimidating figure of his Parish Confessor. Why has...
'A deceptively simple masterpiece' Independent on Sunday 'Will haunt you for months, if not years' Guardian 'Outstanding ... if you only buy one book, make...
When Gerth strays into a gay club one night the last thing he expects is to fall in love, yet his first sight of Callum...
Like most people, Vic Mullan - once described by his best friend Joe as 'a man whose sense of social responsibility is exhausted by pulling...
Set in Camberwell in the 1950s, this is the story of Ralph Hicks, of his restrictive working class background and his search for something better...
White People is a collection of two novellas and ten stories which follows Gurganus's debut as a novelist with Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All...
When Howard and Julia Lament adopt Will, a baby secretly switched at birth in a bizarre hospital debacle, the Laments begin a journey which takes...
A novel about downsizing from a life of ease and upgrading to one of sleaze. Many people would kill to be Domina Tey. She’s one...
Tells the story of a year in the life of Jack, a 15 year old boy in small-town America, called "Fag Baby" at school. During...
The story of Walter and Danny who live together in a quiet domestic "marriage". Walter is a lawyer, Danny is training for the law. Just...
As a young pianist makes his debut and the music fills the hall, his thoughts and the thoughts of his parents, friends and lovers in...
A collection of stories from the author of "In the Eyes of Mr Fury". This book tells stories from a young boy's point of view...
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Tom Sullivan is about to graduate from Princeton. He's intelligent and popular, but haunted by the violent death several years earlier of his father, an...
An utterly captivating story of three young British women in search of freedom and love in 1920s India Autumn 1928. Three young women are on...
Zoë Heller's darkly comic third novel, The Believers explores a family pushed to its limits. When Audrey makes a devastating discovery about her husband, New...
Zeno Hintermeier is a scientist working as a travel guide on an Antarctic cruise ship, encouraging the wealthy to marvel at the least explored continent...
With perfect pitch for the humor and heartbreak of everyday life, debut author Julie Buxbaum has fashioned a heroine who will be instantly recognizable to...
Frank has been in a car accident*. The doctor tells him he lost his spleen, but Frank believes he has lost more. He is missing...
In the blink of an eye, in a busy Brazilian marketplace, a small boy disappears without a trace . . . His mother's free-living existence,...
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, as well as many other awards, Andrea Levy's SMALL ISLAND is a delicately wrought and profoundly moving novel...
Azaro is a spirit child. He made a pact with his spirit companions that when he was born he would die at the first opportunity...
Heather Wells is used to having her cake and eating it, too, but this time she may be out of luck. Her cake's gone missing...
The sixth novel in a stunning series set in eighteenth-century Cornwall, perfect for fans of Poldark, Tracy Rees and Dinah Jefferies Cornwall, 1800. Imprisoned on...
When Kendra Tamale returns to England from Australia she rents a room from Kyle, a divorced father of two, and begins a new job. She's...
The year is 1858. Thomas Glover is a gutsy eighteen-year-old who grasps the chance of escape to foreign lands and takes a posting as a...
A sumptuous tale of food to heal the deepest wounds, of the hungers of war and the bittersweet nature of love.
Mary Magdalene's confessions reveal a sensual world of love and betrayal, magic and mystery, hidden within the Gospels. When Leukas, a Christian convert, ventures into...
Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love. The nameless and beautiful narrator of The Gargoyle is driving along a dark road when he...
YOU CAN CHOOSE YOUR FRIENDS BUT YOU CAN'T CHOOSE YOUR MOTHER-IN-LAW. Electra and Adam are living proof that opposites attract. Electra is warm, passionate and...
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In 1937, courageous and independent Martha Gellhorn travels to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, and finds herself drawn to...
Helen Devine is one of the UK’s most sought-after lingerie designers. Her glorious creations have spiced up the love lives of lots of grateful women...
The fourth and final novel in the wildly popular #1 New York Times bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, from the author of The Whole Thing Together and The Here and...
