A woman goes missing; decades later, her children still have no answers - but the East Anglian village where they grew up begins to offer up its secrets.
A Chicago detective thinks he's found a piece of paradise in the west of Ireland... but all that glisters is not gold. Some of it is coldly gleaming revenge.
The author's investigation of her family's history and her own identity was sparked by the arrival of an anonymous postcard bearing four names that arrived over forty years after those four ... read more
A sequel to A Street Shaken By The Light, this follows the picaresque story of William Neilson into a prison in Venice and the Stuart court in exile. Kidnappings, swordfights, delicious echo... read more
Set in Orwell's Oceania, where Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth.
A teacher of photography on a New England campus remembers his West African childhood: Cole may be writing about himself here. The novel is a subtle, quiet exploration of memory, the passage... read more
A mother and her daughter navigate their betrayal by a ruthlessly self-regarding poet. Enright is superb at unpicking complex relationships and laying out their strands: we watch, spellbound... read more
A powerful fictional investigation into the separateness of art and artist, through a vicar's discovery of under-age hanky-panky, and an artist's relations with his teenage models.
A taut, brilliantly uneasy novel about a young woman drifting through the glamorous world of Long Island as an uninvited and rather desperate guest. By the author of The Girls.
Mid-performance, a concert pianist walks off stage in Vienna, leaving her old life. As she begins a new one, she is shadowed across Europe by an almost-doppelgänger.
This glorious tapestry of a novel returns to Taylor's accustomed stomping ground - the university campus - with whisper-close third-person narration and minute observation worthy of his reve... read more
An accomplished thriller that connects an Iraqi former interpreter with a body on a beach and a vastly lucrative defence contract: Powers, author of the brilliant The Yellow Birds, is a vete... read more
Pitches the reader from the quiet observations of a retired Irish policeman into the shadows of his past, his family and youth. About experience, memory and what we manage to live with.
Two families tangled in a story of forbidden love, from the Georgian author (who writes in German) of the bestselling The Eighth Life. This is considerably shorter than that first, excellent... read more