A dark, funny reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad. Hal is twenty-two, often drunk, drifting between parties, mass and his difficult family, until a shooting accident throws him into the pat... read more
Powerful debut novel set in a coastal Irish town, where women must navigate their emotional lives among hard, manipulative men. Fine characterisation and atmosphere.
The irrepressible Ali Smith takes us to a dystopia in which two children come home to find a line of wet red paint encircling the outside of their house...
A lesbian couple - one of whom is an egotistical, bullying narcissist - decide to have children. The novel turns on what happens when the decent one finally determines to leave, taking at le... read more