From the brilliantly unconventional Nicola Barker, the short stories in ‘Love Your Enemies’ present a loving depiction of the beautiful, the grotesque and the utterly bizarre in the lives of overlooked suburban Britons.
Layla Carter, 16,...
LET THERE BE LIGHT. My name is Calla Price and I’m broken.
My pieces are all around me, floating on the wind, even as I desperately try to grasp them.
Who is dead? Alive? Insane?
What is the truth?
I don’t know.
I do know this: The darkness...
One summer, a young woman travels with her lover to the isolated tobacco farm he has inherited after his family dies in a terrible accident. As Orren works to save his family farm from drought, Aloma struggles with the loneliness of farm life and...
Josh Chester loves being a Hollywood bad boy, coasting on his good looks, his parties, his parents' wealth, and the occasional modeling gig. But his laid-back lifestyle is about to change. To help out his best friend, Liam, he joins his hit teen TV...
Storm clouds are gathering above the bar of the less-than-exclusive Thistle Hotel.
Stuart Ransom, a jet-setting, supermodel-chasing pro golfer with an extravagant
ego and a career nearing the end of a spectacular decline, is drinking his...
Goldengirl was programmed to take, the 1980 Olympics in Moscow by storm — a superbly built, beautiful 19-year-old honey-blonde with a potential $20,000,000 pay-off in commercial exploitation. The stakes were high, the consortium backing her was...
The breakthrough novel from one of the greatest comic writers in the language — one of the twenty selected by Granta as the Best of Young British Writers 2003.
Some people follow the stars. Some people follow the soaps. Some people follow rare...