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Revenge is a dish best eaten cold. This phenomenal Flemish international bestseller tells of a young woman's return to the small town where she suffered as a child and the payback she demands there.

A brooding meditation on violence by a classic post-war Dutch writer who has drawn comparisons to Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut.

A raw and striking debut novel about redemption and recovery

'Suberb . . . vivid' TELEGRAPH

'Michael Deagler is the real deal . . . a truly intelligent work from a clearly intelligent writer' PERCIVAL EVERETT

'Illuminating and moving' AIMEE BENDER

Dennis Monk is about to spend his first summer sober. ...

BY THE AUTHOR OF STONER

Will Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living.

In a small town called Butcher's Crossing he meets a hunter with a story of a lost herd of buffalo in a remote Colorado ...

An epic story of a young girl on a life-changing odyssey across nineteenth-century Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine

A love letter to the beautiful city of Lviv, by the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees

Fake news in Weimar Berlin: a blistering classic satire of journalism, lies and celebrity, in English for the first time.

A provocative collection of short stories charting the growth of a generation from the liberating irreverence of the late 1970s to the dilemmas of responsibility and fidelity of the 1990s.

At home full-time with her two-year-old son, an artist finds she is struggling. She is lonely and exhausted. Her husband, always travelling for his work, calls her from faraway hotel rooms. One more toddler bedtime, and she fears she might lose her mind.

Instead, she starts gaining things, surprising ...

Heaven, reported St John in Revelation, was a cubical city 12,000 furlongs high made of 'pure gold, like unto clear glass'. His bestselling novels include Headlong, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Spies, which won the Whitbread Best Novel Award and his latest novel Skios, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

In this collection of five stories by a great short story writer, prototypes from the ancient world cast a shadow over our age. Each story poses the same questions: what do people really believe in, where can they put their trust, and why do they continue to hope?

Catherine and Heathcliff's, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father, passionate but doomed love forms the core of this extraordinary tale. Catherine's brother Hindley's hatred and humiliation of Heathcliff leads to tragedy when Catherine marries another and Heathcliff returns newly wealthy to enact his revenge on all who wronged him.

First published in 1996, this is a powerful exploration of the mysteries and passions at the heart of family life, and the price one family paid for their father's denial of his identity. Only after his death did Louise begin slowly to discover the truth he'd been hiding and start to make sense of his past - and therefore her own.

Miss Amelia Benbridge and the Earl of Ware are the most anticipated match of the Season. But Amelia's love will always belong to her childhood sweetheart, the gypsy Colin - who tragically died. She knows she'll never feel such passion again.

In 1980s LA, Alys, a wealthy young man, accepts a stranger's invitation to get him into the movies and finds himself plunged into the black and white world of the Silents, a Hollywood precisely as it was in the 1920s, where love is the only subject matter but passion can be expressed only within the ...

It happens every September- the list is posted all over school. Two girls are picked from each year. One is named the prettiest, one the ugliest.

A fictional memoir of Sir Walter Scott, written by an acclaimed author and journalist; combines fact and fiction into a unique and fascinating portrait of one of Scotland's greatest writers.

Hilariously funny novel from the creator of Rab C. Nesbitt

Part of the Open Door series of short books for emerging readers.