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.
A powerful novel spanning forty years of friendship between two women. Events in Karachi in 1988 look rather different when seen from present day London, when each has power and an altered a... read more
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
A deft and powerful retelling of the myth of Medusa - the only mortal born to a family of gods, whose life was upended by Athene's revenge on Poseidon. Haynes' work is always exciting.
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.
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.
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 vivid novel about Edith Somerville, co-author of the Irish R.M., set against the backdrop of burnings, politics and lawlessness of Ireland in the early 1920s.