Discover a beautiful story about what it is to be human from Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling Anne TylerHow does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life?
'Her brilliance in capturing the ripples on the surface of family life gives her a claim to be the Jane Austen of our age' Daily MailHaving sacked her handyman, newly-widowed Mrs Emerson finds a replacement in Elizabeth, a lanky, awkward girl.
'A masterpiece, a perfect book' David NichollsDiscover this unmissable modern classic where the fragile friendship between two teenage boys has devastating consequences that echo throughout the years.
'I absolutely loved this smart, twisty novel' Sunday Times bestseller SHARI LAPENA'A dark and twisty read' Sunday Times bestseller NITA PROSEEveryone watches their neighbours.
'She's one of the best poets around' - Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate of the United KingdomPart poetry collection, part consolation, Say Something Back and Time Lived, Without Its Flow collects Denise Riley's moving documents of loss and grief together for the first time.
'In the top flight of crime writing' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHTHE CHILLING NEW SUSPENSE THRILLER FROM THE AWARD-WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A QUIET BELIEF IN ANGELSIn the dead of winter, even brothers become strangers.
It is a privilege to know her - Jordan HendersonPathos-laced memoires on every page - Steve RotheramA truly absorbing and moving read - Sue Johnston----On the morning of Saturday 15 April 1989, Jenni Hicks, her husband, and their two teenage daughters, Sarah and Vicki, went to watch a football match.
Jane Dolby fell in love with a fisherman - the most dangerous peacetime occupation that exists - leading her to find a place in a traditional British world that many have forgotten.
'A captivating read: beautifully written and heartrendingly sad' Daily Telegraph'A poignant story, written with humour and emotion' Daily Mail'Heartbreaking, gripping novel about one woman's attempt to sort out her best friend's marriage' Woman & HomeIt's almost Christmas.
Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch'Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty' Benedict CumberbatchOn a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children's books, turns his back momentarily.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020.
When Tom Fellows proclaims that a Venn diagram is a far better way of illustrating modern family ties than a traditional tree, his young daughter Andrea has no idea that he is referring to their own situation.
The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations.
The long-awaited new collection from Bernard MacLaverty examines worlds in collision, relationships fragmenting, innocence face to face with real life, real death.
In one of the most acclaimed fiction debuts in years, Adam Haslett explores the lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them.
In his new bachelor flat, too close to comfort to his former family home, Mike Newall, Oxford don and Wittgenstein scholar seeks to rebuild his life, but feels increasingly weighed down by the past.
