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Ian McEwan

Nutshell

Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She’s still in the marital home – a dilapidated, priceless London […]

Dominic Sandbrook

Seasons in the Sun

The late 1970s were Britain’s years of strife and the good life. They saw inflation, riots, the […]

Joanna Kavenna

A Field Guide to Reality

A conceptual tour de force and a satire of pseudo-philosophy and literary devices, from the brilliantly comic […]

A.L. Kennedy

Serious Sweet

A good man in a bad world, Jon Sigurdsson is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant […]

Peter Swanson

The Kind Worth Killing

Delayed in London, Ted Severson meets a woman at the airport bar. Over cocktails they tell each […]

Anne Tyler

Vinegar Girl

William Shakespeare’s THE TAMING OF THE SHREW retold. Kate Battista is feeling stuck. How did she end […]

Don DeLillo

Zero K

The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great […]

Lisa Owens

Not Working

Claire Flannery has quit her job in order to discover her true vocation – only to realize […]

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Kate Tempest

The Bricks that Built the Houses

Award-winning poet and rapper Kate Tempest’s electrifying debut novel takes us into the beating heart of the […]

Stan Douglas

Mise en scène

The most comprehensive book available on one of today’s most important visual artists, this volume features images […]

Richard Bradford

The Importance of Elsewhere – Philip Larkin’s Photographs

The most widely read British poet of the twentieth century, Philip Larkin was also a keen amateur […]

Sara Baume

Spill Simmer Falter Wither

Sara Baume’s Spill Simmer Falter Wither is a different kind of love story. A misfit man finds […]

Helen Simpson

Cockfosters

Cockfosters is a funny, frank and forceful story collection dealing with ageing, ambition and the patterns of […]

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me

In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth […]

Marilynne Robinson

The Givenness of Things

The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency. As a culture we […]