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'When I was three years old, Mom plucked a curly white feather out of my neck. If I get scared or the loneliness comes over me, I run my fingertip over the tiny scar and dream about the day the rest of my feathers will grow in. That's the day I'll fly away from here.' For Finch, there couldn't be a better ...

Henry Adams has had its fair share of drama ever since Bernadine Brown bought the town with her divorce settlement. Now just when things are starting to settle down, it's about to get crazy again... Cephas Patterson doesn't just want to be left alone-if you dare step onto his property, he'll meet you ...

A retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly from their home in Scotland to Amsterdam for a long weekend. A holiday to refresh the senses, and generally to take stock of what remains of their lives. Their relationship seems safe, easy, familiar - but over the course of the four days we discover the deep uncertainties which exist between them.

When Camille was six years old, she was discovered alone in the snow by Enrico Vultusino, godfather of the Seven-the powerful Families that rule magic-ridden New Haven. Papa Vultusino adopted the mute, scarred child, naming her after his dead wife and raising her in luxury on Haven Hill alongside his ...

One little cocaine-induced heart attack and it's back to my childhood to start over ... A wry, debut novel about addiction and small-town Texan life.

On Yorkshire's gradually-crumbling mud cliffs sits an Edwardian seaside house. In the bathroom, Jacob and Ella hide from their parents' passionate arguments by playing the "Underwater Breathing" game--until the day Jacob wakes to find his mother and sister gone. Years later, the sea's creeping closer, ...

The insightful political thriller first published at the dawn of the Cold War, from the author of the postapocalyptic classic, Alas, Babylon

In Pat Frank's riveting, insightful, and thought-provoking novel, young, outspoken Jeff Baker comes out of World War II determined to work for the State Department. ...

The fifth Patrick Melrose novel in Edward St Aubyn's remarkable series.

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 ...

Death is a bird of paradise: we all know what it is, but it can be many different things that aren't at all alike.
Is thirty already too late to reconsider? Natalie, usually so conscientious, can't remember why her life is following Plan B. Dan's unclouded vision of the universe has never extended to ...

Twenty-fours hours in the life of Laura McFarlane. She is pregnant and everyone is ready with advice. Set in a surrealistic, contemporary Edinburgh, city of new nightclubs and seedy B & Bs, James Meek's first novel charts McFarlane's fall from grace with the trendy scene and is initiated into many things ...

To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of The Elected Member winning the Booker Prize, Abacus is reissuing Bernice Rubens's classic novel with a bold new cover.

In the wildling spirit of George Saunders, Nicola Barker and David Mitchell, All Along the Echo is a mighty novel of radio broadcasts, road trips across Ireland and the glorious static of modern existence...

In the jinxy spirit of Portrait of a Thief, a compelling, one-sitting literary thriller of imposters and malevolent morals, in which a man pulls another man from the rough surf...and then wishes he'd just let him drown

A smart, high-concept love story that asks: is it possible to optimize our most intimate relationships?

From the award-winning author of The Feral Detective and Motherless Brooklyn comes an utterly original postapocalyptic yarn about two siblings, the man that came between them, and a nuclear-powered super car.

New York Times bestselling author Megan Miranda is back with a twisty and propulsive thriller. With the disappearance of a journalist investigating a string of vanishings, the resort town of Cutter's Pass is once again thrust into the spotlight. Will its secrets finally be revealed?

The long-overdue UK launch of Christine Schutt, an American master of the short story, with brand-new gems.

From the nationally bestselling author of The True Memoirs of Little K, a deeply felt and historically detailed novel of family, loss, and love, told by an irrepressible young girl—the daughter of a two-bit gangster and a movie showgirl—growing up in golden-age Hollywood and Las Vegas in its early ...