A green macaw who likes murmuring to itself is one of a trio of characters caught up together in the pandemic; the others are a middle-aged professor and a young drop-out. A novel of unlikel... read more
Connecting with her sequence 'Gilead', 'Home' and 'Lila', this new novel concerns the family's errant son Jack, the intelligent, drunk, courteous, poetry-loving, foolish ne'er-do-well. Aspir... read more
A wickedly funny portrait of a group of liberal New Yorkers. Appalled by the political catastrophe of 2016, they think they are safe in their nice homes...
The 'special relationship' was dreamt up by Churchill to keep Britain afloat geopolitically when faced with the loss of empire. Buruma takes a shrewd look at Churchill and FDR, JFK and Macm... read more
A no-holds-barred revenge thriller set in Virginia. Two anti-hero fathers try and make up for their poor parenthood and prejudices by avenging the murders of their two sons. Hold on to your ... read more
An epic historical novel about political and moral divides in 19th America, approached through the raucous, ill-starred family of John Wilkes Booth. By the author of We Are All Completely Be... read more
Ellison is reputed to be little short of a genius - for forty years a carpenter, cabinet-maker, industrial designer, sculptor, welder; and capable of realising the three-dimensional processe... read more
This glorious tapestry of a novel returns to Taylor's accustomed stomping ground - the university campus - with whisper-close third-person narration and minute observation worthy of his reve... read more
A taut, brilliantly uneasy novel about a young woman drifting through the glamorous world of Long Island as an uninvited and rather desperate guest. By the author of The Girls.
A teacher of photography on a New England campus remembers his West African childhood: Cole may be writing about himself here. The novel is a subtle, quiet exploration of memory, the passage... read more
The open-source investigative journalism and fact-checking network that works with an independent international collective of researchers, who recently reported on the Navalny poisoning, inc... read more
Brought up in North Carolina in the Jim Crow era, AT won a postgraduate scholarship to Brown University, worked at Warhol's Factory and volunteered for Diana Vreeland. He went on to become e... read more
If you want to read one book about inequality and its ramifications for all societies, now and in the past, let it be this. By a former Pulitzer winner.
By the former UK Ambassador who had the unenviable task of explaining Britain and Brexit to the US president. He resigned, and wrote this book instead.
Executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union, a crime of which she was almost certainly innocent. This is a valuable book on 'The American Dreyfus Affair... read more
A 600-page behemoth of a novel, Crossroads is a cross-generational saga set in 1970s suburban Chicago. The paterfamilias is a pastor wondering whether to leave his failing marriage before hi... read more
A detailed, careful attempt to understand the changes in the United States over the last decade that sees Trump's election not so much as the cause of fracture but rather as the bitter fruit... read more
The much-anticipated new novel from the author of A Gentleman in Moscow. Three ex-cons and one teenager attempt to make their way from Kansas to San Francisco. A paean to the American West o... read more
MC returns with another gritty LA-set policier. Detective Renée Ballard is called to a shooting on New Year's Eve, before connecting it to one of her colleague Bosch's unsolved murder cases... read more