Pascale Petit’s My Hummingbird Father is a beautifully lyrical debut novel in dialogue with Pascale’s Ondaatje and Laurel Prize-winning poetry collection, Mama Amazonica.
These are not common-or-garden poems. They don't behave like poems at all. They sing, they dance, they make the reader wince, they get under the skin. Reading New And Selected... Læs mere
Campbell's splendidly funny and touching work gives voice to people you don't hear much of in fiction: the working class of Manchester. A working class of... Læs mere
Lie of the Land is a dark, domestic literary thriller set in the Black Country, in the Midlands, UK – an example of Black Country Noir – with themes of toxic relationships, secrets and... Læs mere
The collection addresses shared, topical challenges like identity, gender roles, belonging and family, at a time of shifting, heightened uncertainty. Themes which affect all of... Læs mere
1995. Sixteen years since a tiger-lynx hybrid escaped a small moorland zoo and ate someone. The ‘tynx’ was killed, but when sixteen-year-old Lowdy returns to the derelict zoo, is it a... Læs mere
Shams is young Syrian refugee woman who lives in Shatila, one of the world’s oldest refugee camps. She dreams of education and living a better life in Europe. But there are no schools in the camp, and her family opposes her dreams.
This collection of stories, written especially for BBC Radio 4, includes a ten-part sequence: ‘The Circus’, set around Cliftonville Circus, where five roads meet in North Belfast.
Everything is Present is a midlife coming of age tale. It features award-winning elegies for the poet’s grandparents and great-grandparents who were victims of the Holocaust as... Læs mere
Poppyland moves on from D.J. Taylor’s Stewkey Blues (2022) to offer more pitch-perfect reportage from his native Norfolk, bringing together a succession of characters who are hanging on from... Læs mere
Quietly disturbing and blending the uncanny with societal conversation-starters, it tells the story of Ellen, a young ghost-writer sent to record the memoirs of an elderly woman living in a remote Northumberland manor. Elver House is dilapidated, its faded beauty falling to ruin.
The Foreshore is a wild and compelling tale that examines the dangers of hiding from our past. The terrible remoteness and beauty of the setting reflects upon the characters inner turmoil and drives the narrative along to a shocking but inevitable conclusion.