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Shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award 2021‘Extraordinary’ –Spectator‘Powerful’ –Guardian‘Spellbinding’ –The TabletAs the 1950s draw to a close, and the Cold War escalates, the shape of Drummond Moore's life is changed ...

‘Touching, true and shocking. Here is a book that not only makes more sense of life, it delights the mind’ Irish TimesThese stories find dignity in quiet lives and beauty in dark corners. They tell of allure, betrayal, nostalgia, solitude, seduction, damage and desire. They are stories of youth mislaid and love lost, and of recovery. They go to the heart of things.‘Original and quietly devastating’ Daily Telegraph‘Raymond Carver and Alice Munro ech...

Is life a game of chance, or what you choose to make it? The small-town romantic comedy with lots of laughs, tears, steam, and a HEA, from the author of the Amazon bestselling romcom The Ticket.Dylan Douglas considers herself unlucky. She lost her job at Edwin Cove's Starry Night Café, she's accident prone, can't land an audition, her roommate's a pyromaniac, and her rent's long overdue.Driving to an audition for a movie role on Sunset Ridge, a piglet leaps off a t...

Mark Wilkinson has three names. He left his own behind in the rainy north of England. U.S. immigration know him as Joe Novak. And at the Valhalla, the mysterious complex in Vegas where he sells lofty ambition and dark desires, he goes by Mr Jones.Since the age of eighteen, Mark has been running away, and hard. Away from everything that is flat and dull and ordinary: his market town. Away from disappointment: his vanished mother, his broken father. And away from heartbreak. Bethany ...

The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its sixth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web sites, looking for the b...

One fake relationship. Two stubborn hearts. And a billionaire who has no business being this charming.Violet Hart writes romance for a living—well, tries to. When she’s not battling writer’s block, she’s dodging her ex, who dumped her like last season’s fashion. So when a chance encounter with a jaw-droppingly gorgeous stranger turns into a wild, wine-fueled idea—fake date her way into making said ex regret everything—Violet’s in.One tiny detail: the stranger? Yeah, he’s Al...

The twelve unforgettable stories in Your Father Sends His Love explore the complex, baffling, and vital relationship between parents and their children. Set in the past, present and future, they are unified by their compassion, animated by the unsaid, and distinguished by how beautifully they extract the luminous from the ordinary.With wit, subtllety, and uncommon sensitivity, Evers captures the powerful emotions of family life: joy, fear, vulnerability, duty, betrayal, lo...

‘The Maskeys dives deep into the wreckage of family, where love, loyalty, ambition and revenge collide with electrifying results. Bitingly funny, gloriously feral.’ – CATHERINE CHIDGEYA small Australian town. The story of an extraordinary family.Locals see George Maskey as a hollow braggard who is at least partly responsible for the crime and drug related death Naples has seen over the years. His wife blames him for the death of th...

Winner of the Whitbread Novel AwardShortlisted for the Booker Prize‘Dazzling, gritty brilliance’ – Sunday Times‘Completely captivating’ – Literary ReviewJim Crace's provocative retelling of Jesus' forty day fast in the desert is a classic that tampers with tradition. Moving and fascinating in equal measure, Quarantine is a stunningly realized novel from one of the great writers of ou...

In the late 1950s, during his National Service, Drummond meets the two people who will change his life: Carter, a rich, educated young man sent down from Oxford; and Gwen, a barmaid with whom he feels an instant connection. His feelings for both will be tested at a military base known as Doom Town. It is an experience that will colour the rest of his – and his family’s – life. The Blind Light moves from the 50s through to present day, taking in the global and local events that will shape a...

INTRODUCED BY STUART EVERS: 'A genuine, fully fledged masterpiece of the twentieth century; one that remains just as terrifyingly relevant and truthful in the twenty-first'An existential, political, literary thriller first published in 1944, Transit explores the plight of the refugee with extraordinary compassion and insight.Having escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in Germany and a work camp in Rouen, the nameless narrator finds himself in the...

Peter Jernigan's life is slipping out of control. His wife's gone, he's lost his job and he's a stranger to his teenage son. Worse, his only relief from all this reality - alcohol - is less effective by the day. And when the medicine doesn't work, you up the dose. And when that doesn't work, what then? (Apart from upping the dose again anyway, because who knows?)Jernigan's answer is to slowly turn his caustic wit on everyone around him - his wife Judith, his teenage son Danny, his ...