Narrative theme: Love and relationships Archives

Narrative theme: Love and relationships

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.

The Ophelia Girls

Jane Healey

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Twelve new stories from the Irish master. Violence, persecution, ageing... Schiele dying of the Spanish flu.

Blank Pages and Other Stories

Bernard MacLaverty

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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 Shock

Keith Ridgway

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Two cadres in China's Cultural Revolution, drunk on politics and their own affair, are discovered. By the author of 'Three Brothers: Memories of My Family', 'Lenin's Kisses', 'The Day the Su... read more

Hard Like Water

Yan Lianke

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Eight short stories in which the narrator may - or may not -be Murakami himself. Fiction? Memoir? A pleasurable fusion of the two?

First Person Singular: Stories

Haruki Murakami

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Bittersweet comic love story, by the author 'Standard Deviation', a wonderfully funny and zany novel that included passive-aggressive Origami nuts.

Early Morning Riser

Katherine Heiny

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Luster

Raven Leilani

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Three friends move between London, Cap d'Antibes and a re-wilded corner of Sussex. This new departure explores determinism, freedom and the stories we tell to survive.

Double Blind

Edward St Aubyn

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A gentle fable of three animals and a boy.

The Strays of Paris

Jane Smiley

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Broadway offers a glittering second chance to a young divorcee. EH's first novel in almost 20 years.

A Bright Ray of Darkness

Ethan Hawke

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The Hiding Game

Naomi Wood

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From Bath in 1865 to Dublin and Borneo: a novel about transgressive relationships and a woman's sense of her own destiny being other than what convention dictates.

Islands of Mercy

Rose Tremain

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Four interlinked stories about romantic relationships from the author of 'For Two Thousand Years'.

Women

Mihail Sebastian

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Reading this 'novel' is like going to stay with an old uncle, one with lots of stories to tell but nobody to tell them to. Little Keith - as Hitchens used to call Amis - has been waiting for... read more

Inside Story

Martin Amis

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Before she was known as 'the maven of dystopia', MA began her career as a poet (and a good one, too). This is her first collection in ten years.

Dearly: Poems

Margaret Atwood

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Hugely successful in France, this autobiographical novel moves from the author's happy childhood in Algeria to Paris, where she navigates her own sexuality and the tensions of existing betwe... read more

All Men Want to Know: ‘Intense, gorgeous, troubling, seductive&# ...

Nina Bouraoui

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A surprisingly upbeat novel, set among staff in an Irish hospital during the 1918 flu pandemic, from the author of 'Room'.

The Pull of the Stars

Emma Donoghue

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A shrewd epistolary novel in which an aged widow re-engages with the past through the diary of a long-dead former lover.

Must I Go

Yiyun Li

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A tale about the relationship between a New York financier, his waiter lover, a threatening note and a mysterious disappearance from the deck of a ship.

The Glass Hotel

Emily St. John Mandel

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Confusion, secrets , memory and reconciliation between two old friends sinking pints together one summer's evening in Dublin.

Love

Roddy Doyle

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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. NB Publication of this book has been dela... read more

A Lover’s Discourse

Xiaolu Guo

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Another new novel from the beloved and prolific author who said, a few novels back, that she had written her last.

Redhead by the Side of the Road

Anne Tyler

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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.

Actress

Anne Enright

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