Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the GuardianShortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize 'One of the most compelling and unusual novels I've read this year.
In school playgrounds across the country parents huddle in worried packs, desperately putting together their final plans to survive the summer weeks of mayhem - school is officially out!
Born into poverty, saddled with a born loser and parrot-strangler for a dad, short sighted and ungainly, young Henry Pratt doesn't exactly have a head start in life.
The comforts and terrors of middle-class provincial life have seldom been more sharply dissected than by Stanley Middleton, and his new novel adds to this social insight a new poignancy.
When Tim Hughes joins his precocious schoolfriend Julian in a holiday job sorting out the library of an elderly neighbour, Harald Meades, he doesn't comprehend the emotions, both adult and adolescent, with which he is about to tangle.
A brilliant novel courageous, necessary and deeply touching Guardian douard Louis grew up in a village in northern France where many live below the poverty line.
She is not only a romantic but an anarchist, and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed Anita Brookner Hugo Potts is a successful London playwright enjoying his moment of notoriety.
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018'An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully crafted novel' RODDY DOYLEFarouk's country has been torn apart by war.
NOW AN APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES FROM APPLETV+THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON'S OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2016LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2016'Sensationally good.
From the author of the 2 million+ copy, worldwide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, - soon to be a major movie starring Jim Broadbent - an exquisite, funny and heartrending parallel story.
'One of the boldest thriller writers working today' TESS GERRITSEN'Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivalled' MICHAEL CONNELLY'I'd follow her anywhere' GILLIAN FLYNN_________________________________________A heart-racing thriller from the No.
'A work of extraordinary depth; people are going to be unpicking the secrets of Tremaine for years to come' Richard Swan, Sunday Times bestselling authorAll legends are born of truths.
'A real page-turner, one that kept me guessing, and pulling the rug out from under me' Novel Notions'A glorious reconfiguration of classic fantasy' David Wragg, author of The BlackhawksRaine is seventeen-years-old and still on the run.
