75 years of Englishness in this state-of-the-nation tale, passed through Coe's comic and prismatic imagination. Like the protagonist of his new novel, Coe was born and brought up near the Bo... read more
In Regency England, a girl has the gift of predicting the weather. In order to move freely, she disguises herself as a man - which becomes problematic when she falls in love.
On the face of it, this is a novel about a diver and a sunken jet - but it doesn't really matter what it's about: once again, McCarthy has delivered an utterly stupendous piece of writing.
A ship sails to a fictitious Ottoman island in 1901, bearing three passengers: the daughter of the deposed sultan, her doctor husband, and the royal chemist. They are met with rumours of pl... read more
An intelligent novel about the wounds of geography and history in modern Turkey: a centenarian artist begins to reveal her suppressed past and family secrets unspool.
An aged lady in London finds herself caught up in her neighbours' problems. To help will mean revealing herself as the daughter of a Nazi camp guard. A return to old haunts for the author of... read more