It's the early 19th century and a small sailing ship with a cargo of convict women and their children is crossing the ocean to a penal colony.
Magnus lives on Aerth, which is currently moving into an Ice Age; when he learns about a twin planet Urth, he wants to do, only to discover it's moving the other way. Aerth is a story about migration, climate, conspiracy theories and interplanetary homelessness.
Four friends about to go to college accidentally-on-purpose remove the moon from the night sky. Now it’s turned up in one of their bedrooms asan angry, sarcastic all-powerful young womandemanding something terrible be done to makeamends.
“The Hyena’s Daughter tells the far-too-untold story of a c19th sisterhood, the daughters of Mary Wollstonecraft: Fanny Imlay and Mary Shelley, the famed writer of Frankenstein, plus their step-sister Claire Clairmont, lover of Lord Byron.
Amma is a startlingly beautiful novel about family trauma, post-colonial displacement and queerness.
Gloria has a learning disability. She’snineteen, and there’s nothing to do exceptwander the local parks, look for friendshipand keep out of trouble – or go roundJack’s. Jack needs Gloria's company, buthe’s unpredictable and angry at the world.
At thirty-seven, Lydia has been with the middle-aged Tom for over a decade, and she is bored. Yet when he leaves her, she is surprisingly devastated, and makes contact with Tom's... Læs mere
The Angels of L19 is a moving and entirely original story of young lives at the confluence of faith and doubt, angels and demons, life and death. And where redemption is possible, even for those we think might be lost forever.
The Beatles. Bob Dylan. The Beach Boys. Using timelines derived from release dates, studio... Læs mere
Following a famous classical pianist and former child prodigy on an American tour after a personal tragedy, THE GHOST VARIATIONS is a beautiful, exquisitely crafted and funny novel... Læs mere
Set in Yorkshire in the 1980s, The Way the Day Breaks is a novel about family, love, memory and mental illness and is one of the most moving, honest accounts of the way mental illness vibrates through the life of a family.