Flowers, fire and fairy tales are the elements that will forever shape 9-year-old Alice Hart's life, in The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, the remarkable debut by Holly Ringland.
Alice Hart lives in isolation by the sea, where her mother's...
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Jon Michaels — a divorced, disinterested and fatigued editor living a nondescript life in North London — receives a sudden phone call from his brother, informing him that their estranged uncle Rey has been found dead in his caravan on Canvey...
A coming-of-age novel marked by molestation and unforgiving elders, concluding with a battle...
Praise for Cynan Jones:
"[A] piercing novella. Like Cormac McCarthy, Jones can make the everyday sound fraught and biblical." — Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Jones's perfectly pitched novel will appeal to anyone looking beyond sheer...
The Dead...
From the award-winning author of Darkmans comes a comic epistolary novel of startling originality and wit.
Reading other people’s letters is always a guilty pleasure. But for two West Yorkshire policemen — contemplating a cache of 26...
A young Swedish boy finds himself in penniless and alone in California. He travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great push to the West. Driven back over and over again on his journey through vast expanses, Håkan meets...
A city in ten chapters.
Every city is made of stories: stories that intersect and diverge, stories of the commonplace and the strange, of love and crime, of ghosts and monsters.
In this city an asylum seeker struggles to begin a new life,...
Winner of the 1985 Whitbread Prize for Fiction: "Kruger's Alp" moves from pulpit to black township, from Johannesburg's fortress prison to the underworld of Soho as we follow renegade priest Theodore Blanchaille in his search for the legendary gold...
From China 's first-ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature comes an exquisite new book of fictions, none of which has ever been published before in English. A young couple on honeymoon visit a beautiful temple up in the mountains, and...