This year's slim winner of the International Booker Prize is stunningly brilliant. Set during the Great War and narrated by a Senegalese soldier fighting for France on the Western Front, it ... read more
A novel examining celebrity and a mother-daughter relationship affected by the mother's stage fame. AE - another former Booker winner - shifts between Hollywood and 1970s Dublin.
Absorbing first novel about a group of female friends turning forty - their marriages, children, relationships... Mary McCarthy reconfigured for MeToo?
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This new novel from the author of The Neapolitan Quartet is also set in Naples, and was superbly reviewed in Italy.
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Cambridge, 1912: a twilight bicycle crash entwines Fred, a young Fellow in the all-male college of St Angelicus, with Daisy, harpooned by a good heart and a poor background. Reason collide... read more
A strange and powerful novel of familial love and the boundary between living and dying, blurred by magical realism and vanishings. From the Booker Prize-winning author of 'The Narrow Road t... read more
For flâneurs and cinephiles: at an Italian film festival a celebrated director meets a local woman who offers to guide him round the city. Seductive, cinematic, with echoes of Andre Aciman.
A Chinese woman comes to make a new life for herself in London. This is a love story told by fragments of conversation. Guo is a superb writer.
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A powerful novel set in colonial East Africa during the early C20th, as individuals try to live their lives among gathering conflicts, both local and global.
A novel of resilience and survival by the author of 'Homegoing': a young woman tries to outwit her family's multiple traumas. Psychological complexities handled with artistry.
A Japanese girl stays with her lover's family in Norfolk but the resurfacing of a violent trauma interrupts her stay. Haunting, atmospheric prose from the author of 'Land of the Living'.
A powerful exploration of illicit desire, in which a 17-year-old girl has a crush on a friend of her parents that turns on some dark events of 24 years previously.
A wonderful novel about a group of active, idealistic teenagers. Thirty years later, all have lost their zeal for reform and become famous except for Spike, who remains true to his earlier s... read more