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.
The strange case of a woman in 1990's Prague who claims that Chopin has been dictating compositions to her. A journalist has a hard time trying to prove that she is a fraud. An atmospheric m... read more
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.
SM has long seemed just on the edge of breaking into the literary big time. Her last novel (Ghost Wall, pbk £8.99) was a slim masterpiece in 2018, and this builds on the same eerie atmosphe... read more
A dizzying and quietly surreal novel of South London life narrated through an interlinked series of episodic character studies. Ridgway's neo-Beckettian prose is never less than needle sharp... read more
A fifteen-year-old girl has a love affair with her teacher - it was love, wasn't it? So the protagonist thinks, looking back, when allegations surface. A compelling investigation of consent ... read more