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.
In his longest novel so far, McEwan looks at the span of a man's life from Suez to Covid, considering the effects of global events and personal trauma.
Illness and healing and its effects on a woman's body - this debut novella won an English PEN award for the translation. From the indefatigable and dauntless Peirene Press.
When a young woman in Renaissance Italy is taken by her husband, the Duke of Ferrara, to a remote villa, she realises he intends to kill her... Richly told, by the author of Hamnet.
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
The life of the black Georgian composer and abolitionist (1729-1780), thrillingly imagined. Born on a slave ship, his owner gave him, as a two-year-old, to three sisters living in Greenwich.... read more