Useful for readers and aspiring writers, this book contains what they need to know about the complexities of researching, writing and publishing fiction. It features essays on character, voice, writers' workshops and writers' health.
The heroes and heroines of Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains, A. Kennedy's first collection of stories, are small people - the kind who inhabit the... Læs mere
A magical, charming and deeply moving fable about love, family, war and resilience from the Costa Prize-winning author of Day
It could be to do with golfers being dragged down into the bunkers at the Fetch Brothers’ Golf Spa Hotel, never to be seen again. It might be related to the strange twin grandchildren of the equally strange Mrs Fetch – owner of the hotel and fascinated with octopuses.
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEJon is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work, he is a good man in a bad world.
The dazzling new collection from the Costa Prize-winning author of Day and The Blue Book. She doesn’t ever lie to him unless it’s for the best. A husband and wife wait for a train as their relationship unspools silently around them.
Using over 90 original interviews, as well as his extensive research in a variety of New Orleans'... Læs mere
From a Costa Book of the Year winner, Booker nominee and double Granta-selected Best Young British novelist comes a searing portrayal of the gradual uncovering of one woman's past psychological wounds, set in motion by the arrival of an unexpected letter.