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Synopsis Shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2018 Shortlisted for the 2017 Costa First Novel Award Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2018 Longlisted for The Walter Scott Prize...
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Synopsis Alice Thompson’s new novel is a Gothic story of book collecting, mutilation and madness. Violet is obsessed with the books of fairy tales her husband acquires, but her growing...
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Synopsis Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 Observer Best Fiction of 2016 Den of Geek Top Books of 2016 Joe Haddow, Producer Radio 2 Book Club, Top 10 Books of...
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Synopsis Winner of the 2015 International Frank O’Connor Short Story Award Winner of the 2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 Wales Book of the Year: Fiction Shortlisted...
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Synopsis How do you write a novel? Practising novelists and teachers of creative writing reveal their working methods and offer practical advice. Subjects covered range from magic realism to characterisation,...
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Synopsis The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its seventh year. Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or...
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Synopsis Winner of the 2013 McKitterick Prize Shortlisted for the 2013 East Midlands Book Award Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 Shortlisted for New Writer of the Year in...
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Synopsis Longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize 2019 Kate Keeling leaves all she knows and moves to Haverscroft House in an attempt to salvage her marriage. Little does she...
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Synopsis Winner of the Scott Prize Winner of the 2015 Polari First Book Prize Winner of the Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection The Herald: Book of the Year...
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Synopsis Winner of The Polari First Book Prize 2016 Finalist for The People’s Book Prize 2016 Shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2016 Chosen for City Reads...
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Synopsis Having moved from the Fens to the Midlands to the Scottish Borders, Jessie Noon finds herself struggling to leave the past behind. Following a family tragedy, Jessie Noon moved...
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Synopsis Shortlisted for Best Novella in the 2017 British Fantasy Awards Den of Geek Top Books of 2016 Ginger Nuts of Horror Top 20 Books of 2016 After ministering to...
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Synopsis Christmas 2015: The top 10 debut fiction books, The Independent Maddie and Harry: she’s an estate agent, he’s a teacher. They’ll say they live in the Black Country. They’ll...
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Synopsis With an abandoned degree behind her and a thirtieth birthday approaching, amateur writer Bonnie Falls moves out of her parents’ home into a nearby flat. Her landlady, Sylvia Slythe,...
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SynopsisThe nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its tenth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately,...
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Synopsis Shortlisted for the Collyer Bristow Prizes 2019 Shortlisted for The Betty Trask Prize and Awards Longlisted for The Desmond Elliott Prize 2019 John is infinite. He can become any...
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Synopsis Longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2018 How to be a Kosovan Bride opens up something entirely new to the reader: the history, culture and stories...
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Synopsis The countryside, the near future. Gabrielle Hunter, husband Leo and son Stefan drive to a remote luxury retreat for a spring break at the invitation of new client Art...
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SynopsisLonglisted for The Polari First Book Prize 2020Death Magazine is a neutropian vision of our soundbite, snippet-obsessed, digital and print magazine culture. It employs the Dadaist technique of cut-up to...
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Synopsis WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE 2019 March, 1984. Britain’s miners face political opposition. Soon, the State will confront them, violent forces will be unleashed and the country will...
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SynopsisA lost girl and a sprawling map of an unsettling city.Wren Lithgow has followed her concert pianist mother around the cities of Europe for almost two decades. When they arrive...
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Synopsis Observer Book of the Year 2014 Lewis Sullivan, an RE teacher at a secondary school, was approaching retirement when he wondered for the first time whether he ought to...
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Synopsis Shortlisted for The Sunday Times Literary Awards (South Africa) Twenty-two-year-old Etienne is studying film in London, having fled conscription in his native South Africa. It is 1986, the time...
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Synopsis Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards Longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize 2019 ‘Something terrible is happening here. Something terrible has already happened.’ Kiev 1992. Rachel,...
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Synopsis For disillusioned author Max Long, the offer of a writing-fellowship on the mysterious-sounding ‘Burnt Island’ is a godsend. Max is determined that, inspired by his tenure on this windswept...
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Synopsis Morning Star Best of 2018: Fiction Esther, a pregnant amputee, and her husband, Dan, are seeking a new life, setting up home – restoring an abandoned railway station called...
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SynopsisEditor’s Choice, The BooksellerA mix of memoir and narrative non-fiction, White Spines is a book about Nicholas Royle’s passion for Picador’s fiction and non-fiction publishing from the 1970s to the...
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Synopsis Lush Library Recommends: Anna James’ Books for 2018 Variations and fugue on the theme of obsession Vesna Main disturbs our self-image as educated, reasonable and ironic people who read...
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SynopsisDynamic first collection from this popular Scottish poet, The Night Jar lifts the lid on a fizzing range of personas, dramas and states of mind – presenting them for our...
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SynopsisFrom the award-winning author of West and The Mission HouseSome New Ambush is the first collection of short stories from award-winning writer Carys Davies. Love, loss, birth, death, betrayal, madness...
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Synopsis The South Westerlies is an attempt to know place (Gower) through the creation of a collection of short stories. Place is not a cosmetic backdrop, but an affecting agent...
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Synopsis The Guardian: Fresh voices: 50 writers you should read now Twenty-three-year-old Vanessa is adrift in London. A year out of university and marooned in a quietly deflating relationship, she...
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SynopsisA Life in Books: Books of the Year 2019Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2019In a world where we present our diverse selves through social media, chatbots and messaging, this dark...
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Synopsis Read Regional 2019 – ‘Discover brilliant Northern writers’ Aidan Wilson’s misfortune is to be hard as nails In this darkly hilarious and seriously horrifying book Williams tells the story...
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Synopsis For childminder Bobbi, it’s all about keeping your babies safe When professional couple Nikki and Rob uncover their childminder Bobbi’s secret everything changes. Bobbi has a child-shaped hole in...
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SynopsisThe poems in the first half of The Ophelia Letters explore the interaction between self and place in ways both strange and loaded with magic: journeying to the Arctic with...
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SynopsisThe nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its eleventh year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or, more accurately,...
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Synopsis Shortlisted for The Encore Award 2019 Greg Gamble: he’s a teacher, he works hard, he’s a husband, a father. He’s a good man, or tries to be. But even...
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Synopsis Shortlisted for the East Midland’s Book Award 2014 The Pre-War House and Other Stories is the debut collection from Alison Moore, whose first novel, The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for...
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SynopsisThe Book of Revelation serves as a lonely planet guide to this outrageous place in time. With a nod to Mark E. Smith – late lead singer of The Fall and...
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Synopsis In this, the second volume of a projected Manchester trilogy, the young writer takes a zero-hours job in a mail-sorting depot but struggles to cope with the demands of...
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Synopsis A young man sits on a bench looking out at the harbour of a French-Spanish border town. Ahead of him, either a cash-strapped existence strolling the sun-baked avenues of...
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Synopsis Recommended by The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2018 Meike Ziervogel’s new novel celebrates how humanity can thrive against all odds. Set at the end of the Second...
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Synopsis Longlisted for the 2017 Republic of Consciousness Prize In the Absence of Absalon revolves around an unnamed investigator, a set of keys and a townhouse. He is investigating a...
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SynopsisEvery Seventh Wave has strong echoes of Fiona Mozley’s Elmet and Evie Wyld’s All the Birds, Singing. Strongly lyrical, the novel also serves as a literary thriller, with a suspenseful...
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Synopsis Inspired by Giles Gordon and David Hughes’s Best Short Stories series, which ran to ten volumes between 1986 and 1995, Best British Short Stories this year reaches its thirteenth...
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Synopsis The story of a man walking down a ramp, After Absalon is the culmination of Simon Okotie’s extraordinary trilogy of novels. Marguerite, a down-at-heel detective, is on the trail...
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SynopsisLonglisted for the Edge Hill PrizeLike Fado consists of thirteen individual stories that culminate in the extended novella-like story, ‘Whitethorn’. Each story takes us into the lived experience and psychological...