From Booker-shortlisted Tibor Fischer comes a biting satire about crypto wealth, lost potential, and disillusionment. Dan, a former tennis prodigy drifts through Dubai’s synthetic paradise in search of meaning, haunted by past failures and future doubts.
Based on a correspondence between Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens, Elizabeth and Ruth tells the story of Elizabeth Gaskell’s relationship with a young prostitute in Manchester’s New Bailey prison, and how this relationship helped to define her as a writer.
The Collected Poems gathers together Tobias Hill’s poems from his four full-length collections. Hill was selected as one of the country’s Next Generation poets, shortlisted for the 2004... Læs mere
The Tribe chronicles a powerful Sephardic dynasty in the cosmopolitan city of Salonica during the dying days of the Ottoman Empire, through the Nazi Occupation of France, to the early 1960s,... Læs mere
This debut novel follows a father and daughter travelling in a stolen car as they head to what may be the end of the world.
Finders, Keepers is a book about collecting second-hand books and therefore about second-hand bookshops and booksellers, disguised as a series of memoir-inflected essays about free books, London books, and books with the same titles as other books and so on.
Wash is an ordinary man — who lived an extraordinary life. His story and struggle are inspiring, and they show how the odds can be overcome; that true love is possible, but it doesn't always come... Læs mere
The Colony is an entrancing exploration of the ways in which, in trying to transcend our lives and ourselves, we so often fall into the control of others — whether in romantic, artistic or... Læs mere
Exquisite, audacious, heartbreaking, one of those rare books that has the quality of lived experience. Emma Hoffman and her son Nicky will live on in readers’ memories and... Læs mere
Reflecting the power of the choices we make, this cleverly imagined, historical novel transports us to live with the Mendeleev family in 19th-century Siberia. Intimately capturing... Læs mere
Jackie Wills' poems are witty, stylish and taboo busting. They move from a super yacht to allotment, sewing as act of devotion, ask if age brings truth or destruction. Imagine... Læs mere
It’s said we die alone. But there are always others left to grieve, to cheer, to feel guilt, relief or laughter, whether they like it or not. The deaths in these stories are... Læs mere