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In a debut collection by an award-winning short story writer, a scout troop of African-American girls is confronted by a group of disabled white girls and a young man considers his allegiance to his father during the Million Man March in Washington.

A woman with nothing to lose has everything to gain...

Secrets and subterfuge abound in Regency Newmarket. Caroline Fortune asks for little more than to train horses and continue her stealthy progress towards independence. To this end she projects a cheerfully argumentative persona in the hope that the potential suitors dredged up by her mother will all leave her alone.

A clever, entertaining novel about the friendship between an old woman and a beautiful young man by one of Britain's finest novelists

Based on the author's own experiences, this accurate, evocative portrait of 19th-century English rural life explores the conflicts of love and loyalty and the friction between desire and moral responsibility.

After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance.

Yuki is visiting her sister in the UK, but is also secretly retracing their mother's footsteps from a holiday ten years before. Something terrible happened not long after her mother's visit and Yuki wants to find out the cause. With the help of a local girl, Denny, she sets out to unearth and explain her family's secrets . . .

A gripping thriller based on the little-known facts of a real-life dirty-bomb attack on Britain

A sweeping, momentous novel that shines a light on war, and the individual lives that go on long after the drones have left the skies, from the National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment

A darkly playful novel, filled with mystery, revenge, outlandish killings, greed and jealousy, from the multi-award-winning author

The New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning story collection which takes readers to the frontline of the Iraq wars. 'A must read' Guardian

A powerful debut novel that delicately blends Hawaiian myth with the broken American dream, this is an engrossing family saga and a story of exile and the pursuit of salvation

Full of love, melancholy and magic - the new story collection from the Booker-longlisted author of Night Boat to Tangier

"You are about to enter a place of power, a place beyond imagining."
Alex thought communicating with the dead was the worst of her troubles. She couldn't have been more wrong!

A story of class and corruption, sex and the Sixties, for fans of A Very English Scandal and The Trial of Christine Keeler

‘Patience, Firmness, and Perseverance were my only weapons.’ Agnes Grey (1847) was Anne Bronte’s first novel and a poignant account of her own experience as a struggling governess, obliged to earn her living in one of the few ways open to an educated Victorian girl. Agnes is not a romantic heroine ...

This poignant novel failed commercially when it was first published, although it was hailed within the abolitionist movement.

Winner of the prestigious Miles Franklin Award

Professor Frederick Lothian, retired engineer, world expert on concrete and connoisseur of modernist design, has quarantined himself from life by moving to a retirement village. Surrounded and obstructed by the debris of his life, he is determined to be ...

When James gets a new black Labrador called Jack he hopes his terrible nightmares about a dog rescuing him from a red mist will cease. Courageous, loyal and smart, Jack is everything a boy could wish for and more--a dog with the power of speech. When Jack reveals his secret to James he not only startles ...

'Who is Rich? Is a tantalizing novel - acute and smart and stark, but mostly it's unrelentingly funny about a large number of very inappropriate things. It's one of those rare books: you open it, then you're up all night. I was' Richard Ford