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Narrative theme: Sense of place

An artist joins an island community of impoverished like-minded souls. When the island's owner pushes up the rent, a conflict ensues in which the dispossessed protest against gentrification.

The Painter’s Friend

Howard Cunnell

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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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From the author of 'The Girl on the Train', a tense new thriller involving three troubled women, set in London.

A Slow Fire Burning: The scorching new thriller from the author of The ...

Paula Hawkins

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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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The friendship of four girls in San Francisco in the 1980s comes adrift. A beguiling story of innocence and its loss, the power and ruthlessness of collective responses, the dawning of the ... read more

We Run the Tides

Vendela Vida

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An ageing surfing legend kills time in Hawaii - and then kills a man while driving drunk. He attempts to redress his culpability and achieve something resembling personal redemption by unrav... read more

Under the Wave at Waimea

Paul Theroux

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The story of a young girl sold by her father to a circus owner; her growing fame may transform her life for the better but, of course, it's complicated. Victorian grime, glitter and self-det... read more

Circus of Wonders

Elizabeth Macneal

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Jergovic is a prominent Croatian novelist, poet and journalist. Here he explores his family's history through the C20th, using odd bits and pieces of family paraphernalia as spy-glasses to p... read more

Kin

Miljenko Jergovic

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A family and its farm in decline in South Africa; four funerals and a promise broken repeatedly. Finely conceived and brilliantly executed.

The Promise

Damon Galgut

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General Alwany is a pious man who loves his family. He also tortures and kills enemies of the state. Sound familiar? From the author of 'The Yacoubian Building'.

The Republic of False Truths

Alaa Al Aswany

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A gentle fable of three animals and a boy.

The Strays of Paris

Jane Smiley

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The Hiding Game

Naomi Wood

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This compelling mystery, set in a remote Irish village, involves a retired Chicago cop and a local kid whose brother has gone missing.

The Searcher

Tana French

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The 25th Jack Reacher is written in collaboration with his brother.

The Sentinel: (Jack Reacher 25)

Lee Child

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This is the 26th Montalbano story from the beloved author who died in 2019.

The Sicilian Method

Andrea Camilleri

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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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One of the lovely Everyman anthologies, to match 'Venice', 'London' etc. Edited by the distinguished author of 'Last Days in Old Europe'.

Prague Stories

Richard Bassett

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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 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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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

Summerwater

Sarah Moss

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At last! A new thriller from the author of the exceptional 'Before I Go To Sleep'.

Final Cut

S J Watson

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On the Greek island of Hydra, artists and writers love, quarrel and bask. One is called Leonard Cohen...

A Theatre for Dreamers

Polly Samson

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Beautifully written and sensitive to his subject, this is a moving novel about Lampedusa, his remarkable wife Alexandra von Wolff-Stomersee, and the writing of 'The Leopard'.

Lampedusa

Steven Price

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