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