An academic visits a town for the first time, but is told he has lived there before; an elderly mother becomes overwhelmed by a sensual past; these are the sharply observed... Læs mere
David Briggs’ new collection offers a midlife counterpart to the Oedipus complex exploring themes of family ties, nostalgia and retreat, ageing and mortality, acts of memorial and the impulse towards hospitality.
Pickering’s extraordinary wartime novel traces the violent exploits of Operation Lucy – centred on the mysterious ‘Hyman Kaplan’.
A debut collection of weird tales from Will Wiles, the award-winning author of Care of Wooden Floors, The Way Inn and Plume.
Claire Meadows, 92, reminiscences about her life, her failed ambition to become a concert pianist, her missed opportunity to have a child, her friends and lovers, mostly dead, she is troubled by the part she played, consciously and deliberately, in the death of her husband.
William Blake is a private detective in Portobello. When he agrees to investigate the disappearance of Louise, the wife of scientist Dr Adam Verver, he finds himself entangled... Læs mere
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.
Spring 1927. The birth of popular music. John Coughlin is a song-catcher from New York who has been sent to Appalachia to source and record the local hill-country musicians. His assignment... Læs mere
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