Narrative theme: Social issues Archives

Narrative theme: Social issues

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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A lyrical new novel from the author of 'The Year of the Runaways' explores family history, cultural estrangement, sequestration and freedom, passion and its consequences.

China Room

Sunjeev Sahota

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Luster

Raven Leilani

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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.

Transcendent Kingdom

Yaa Gyasi

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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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Manhattan, 2022: digital connections have been severed before dinner. The ensuing conversation confirms DD as a wonderful and prescient writer.

The Silence

Don DeLillo

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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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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 cool, dystopian enquiry into the nature of female identity.

Blue Ticket

Sophie Mackintosh

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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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The final part of the Smith's acclaimed quartet that began with 'Autumn'. (The other volumes are all available in paperback, £8.99 each).

Summer

Ali Smith

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SA was the pen name of Marta Felicina Faccio (1976-1960); this is her unforgettable autobiographical novel, published in her native Italy in 1906. Both an education sentimentale and a very e... read more

A Woman

Sibilla Aleramo

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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

My Dark Vanessa

Kate Elizabeth Russell

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