Point Man
Mark Townsend
Between 2007 and 2008, twenty-year-old Kenny Meighan was the longest-serving point man in Helmand province. An exceptionally skilful and brave private, he guided his unit through enemy territory, scanning the ...
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in ...
The Big Music
Kirsty Gunn
The hills only come back the same: I don't mind ... begins Kirsty Gunn's The Big Music, a novel that takes us to a new understanding of how fiction ...
How the Trouble Started
Robert Williams
Donald Bailey is sixteen. He can't forget the trouble that happened when he was eight and the police were called. His mother can't forget either and even leaving ...
The Ruins of Us
Keija Parssinen
More than two decades after moving to Saudi Arabia and marrying Abdullah Baylani, Rosalie learns that her husband has taken a second wife. The discovery plunges the powerful family into ...
Drifting House
Krys Lee
A dazzling debut story collection from Korean-American writer Krys Lee.
Alternating between the lives of Koreans struggling through seventy years of turbulent, post-World War II history in their homeland and ...
Grief
Mike Leigh
1957. War widow Dorothy lives in a London suburb with her 15-year-old daughter Victoria and her older bachelor brother Edwin. More and more isolated from her married friends with their ...
Point Man
Mark Townsend
Between 2007 and 2008, twenty-year-old Kenny Meighan was the longest-serving point man in Helmand province. An exceptionally skilful and brave private, he guided his unit through enemy territory, scanning the ...
The Meeting Point
Lucy Caldwell
WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE AND THE ROONEY PRIZE FOR IRISH LITERATURE
When Euan and Ruth set off with their young daughter to live in Bahrain, it is meant ...
The Ruins of Us
Keija Parssinen
More than two decades after moving to Saudi Arabia and marrying Abdullah Baylani, Rosalie learns that her husband has taken a second wife. The discovery plunges the powerful family into ...
Drifting House
Krys Lee
A dazzling debut story collection from Korean-American writer Krys Lee.
Alternating between the lives of Koreans struggling through seventy years of turbulent, post-World War II history in their homeland and ...
The Country Life
Rachel Cusk
Stella Benson sets off for Hilltop, a tiny Sussex village where she has taken the role of au pair for the Madden's irascible son Martin. Her hopes for this ...
The Meeting Point
Lucy Caldwell
WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE AND THE ROONEY PRIZE FOR IRISH LITERATURE
When Euan and Ruth set off with their young daughter to live in Bahrain, it is meant ...
Snow
Orhan Pamuk
The year is 1992. Ka, a poet and political exile, returns to Turkey as a journalist, assigned to write an investigative piece about troubling events in the small and mysterious ...
Far North
Marcel Theroux
Every day I buckle on my guns and go out to patrol this dingy city.
Out on the far northern border of a failed state, Makepeace patrols the ruins of ...
A Hermit Disclosed
Raleigh Trevelyan
‘The hermit disclosed by Mr. Trevelyan, in his very unusual and entertaining book, is James (Jimmy) Mason of Great Canfield, in the Rodings section of Essex, who died on January ...
A Pale View of Hills
Kazuo Ishiguro
The first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, originally published in 1982.
Etsuko is a Japanese woman now living alone in England. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular ...
Super Girl
Ruth Thomas
Poignant as well as funny, Ruth Thomas’s new collection charts the difficulties people have when faced with the need to change. Delicately poised on the cusp of melancholy, fragility ...




















