Fragile Monsters
Catherine Menon
"...clever, satisfying, and often playful..."
— The Guardian
Score pending
2 reviews
I’m Waiting For You
Kim Bo-Young, Sophie Bowman, Sung Ryu
"(a) dazzling and accomplished collection from the South Korean writer Kim Bo-young..."
— The Times
1 review
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Mariana Enriquez
"lashings of local mysticism and a flair for transgressive imagery make her an arrestingly original talent..."
— The Observer
4 out of 5
3 reviews
Tall Bones
Anna Bailey
"a striking first novel, a chilling insight into an oppressive world, where bad thoughts and bad deeds ripple just below the surface..."
4 reviews
London, Burning
Anthony Quinn
"Anthony Quinn’s latest period novel extends his richly pleasurable and loosely connected series portraying London down the decades..."
3.6 out of 5
Lean Fall Stand
Jon McGregor
"explores the optimistic and pessimistic implications of life’s persistence..."
4.4 out of 5
The Field
Robert Seethaler, Charlotte Collins
"melancholy, tender, comic..."
— The Spectator
3.71 out of 5
Bear
Marian Engel
"Bear is a bizarre but strangely uplifting book about a woman’s quest for freedom..."
Permafrost
Eva Baltasar, Julia Sanches
"candid and darkly funny..."
— Financial Times
Line
Niall Bourke
"sharply funny and astute..."
— Irish Times
The Dictionary of Lost Words
Pip Williams
"a gentle, hopeful story..."
A Lonely Man
Chris Power
"My advice: buy the short stories and then buy this book and read them back-to-back...."
A Theatre for Dreamers
Polly Samson
"Samson’s novel is sharply observant of the personal price paid by the island’s female muses..."
— Daily Mail
4.14 out of 5
8 reviews
Dreamland
Rosa Rankin-Gee
"In this coming-of-age story set in a near-future England, a teenager discovers life’s possibilities as climate chaos intensifies..."
4.33 out of 5
The Khan
Saima Mir
" Mir offers us a fascinating glimpse into a world rarely portrayed in fiction..."
Bitterhall
Helen McClory
"is a work in the great Scottish gothic tradition..."
— The Scotsman
Midfield Dynamo
Adrian Duncan
"one of the most captivating and distinctive voices in contemporary Irish writing..."
The Passenger
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, Andre Aciman
"A very welcome rediscovery..."
The Crocodile Hunter
Gerald Seymour
"quietly compelling..."
The End of the World is a Cul de Sac
Louise Kennedy
"Louise Kennedy is a very major talent..."
Male Tears
Benjamin Myers
"Benjamin Myers’s multifaceted short stories grapple with the nature of masculinity..."
Lairies
Steve Hollyman
"an insider critique of masculine bravado...."
The Republic of False Truths
Alaa Al Aswany, S. R. Fellowes
"The Egyptian writer’s fictional reworking of the failed 2011 uprising is a blistering examination of corruption and dissent..."
Common Ground
Naomi Ishiguro
"a celebration of multiculturalism and friendship, and a rallying cry to make the world a better, kinder place..."
Early Morning Riser
Katherine Heiny
"Very funny and wonderfully profound, this book makes you glad to be alive..."
— The Sunday Times
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
" a tale abundant in humour, history and humanity, with a poignant message about time passing..."
— The Daily Telegraph
4.38 out of 5
My Phantoms
Gwendoline Riley
"a distilled psychological tour de force from an exceptional writer..."
4.05 out of 5
11 reviews
Our Lady of the Nile
Scholastique Mukasonga, Melanie Mauthner
"A classroom apocalypse anticipates the greater horrors over the horizon...."
5 reviews
The High House
Jessie Greengrass
"Despite its bleak subject matter, this is a book suffused with the joy and fulfilment of raising a child..."
6 reviews
Under the Blue
Oana Aristide
"a beautifully written, emotionally gripping book..."
Terminal Boredom
Izumi Suzuki
"All these stories are brilliant, but with few exceptions they are bleak..."
Hummingbird Salamander
Jeff VanderMeer
"This is natural history as police procedural; and life on Earth as the scene of a crime...."
The Others
Sarah Blau, Daniella Zamir
"Twisted, dark and fizzing with fury, it’s a lot of fun...."
Watch Her Fall
Erin Kelly
"deliciously sinister and obsessive, an immersive journey into a world where ballet is everything, with one hell of a twist...."
A Double Life
Charlotte Philby
"her pacy thriller is a persuasive account of the terrible cost of living a double life..."
4.29 out of 5
The Girls Are All So Nice Here
Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
"Flynn keeps the tension bubbling nicely..."
Bullet Train
Kotaro Isaka, Sam Malissa
"an unusual and thoroughly enjoyable read..."
The Old Enemy
Henry Porter
"The Old Enemy has an old-style, mid-Atlantic feel to it but it is no less gripping for that..."
A Man Named Doll
Jonathan Ames
"Motel, money, murder, madness: it has all you need to keep you happy..."
How to Betray Your Country
James Wolff
"a distinctly more thought-provoking novel than is customary in the genre..."
The Night Gate
Peter May
"both an enjoyable read and an educational one..."
The Mercenary
Paul Vidich
" Vidich’s style is sparse but atmospheric..."
Pulpit Rock
Kate Rhodes
"Rhodes makes up for her limited canvas with evocative descriptions of the rugged landscape..."
The Dirty South
John Connolly
"a finely written thriller haunted by a powerful sense of the struggle between good and evil..."
Into the Fire
Rachael Blok
"Rachael Blok’s amusing update of Agatha Christie finds time to highlight working conditions in Bangladeshi factories in addition to uncovering a wicked plot involving blackmail and murder..."
Judas Horse
Lynda La Plante
"Thirty years on from writing Prime Suspect, La Plante is still delivering the goods...."
Unsettled Ground
Claire Fuller
"multilayered and emotionally astute..."
7 reviews
How to Survive Everything
Ewan Morrison
"The funniest thing about this book is that it is funny...."
The End of Men
Christina Sweeney-Baird
"[an] unforgettable debut..."
— Prima
Surrogate
Susan Spindler
"A well researched and compelling read..."
The Imposter
Anna Wharton
"[a] character-driven debut..."
The Lamplighters
Emma Stonex
"[a] riveting, creepy mystery novel..."
— Red
3.91 out of 5
The Eighth Girl
Maxine Mei-Fung Chung
"The second I finished this extremely impressive debut, I went back to the beginning and read it again..."
Blackout
Simon Scarrow
"Scarrow, turning away from his previous Roman adventures, has produced a gripping thriller..."
A Fine Madness
Alan Judd
"a (mostly) convincing portrait of the mercurial dramatist ..."
Edge of the Grave
Robbie Morrison
"Edge of the Grave builds to a wildly implausible finale, but it’s a dark and powerful story..."
A Comedy of Terrors
Lindsey Davis
"Lighthearted, witty and effortlessly clever, just like its wonderful heroine..."
Greenwich Park
Katherine Faulkner
"a tense, pacy read..."
The Drowned City
K. J. Maitland
"This gripping thriller, first in a series, shows what a wonderful storyteller Maitland is...."
The Metal Heart
Caroline Lea
"Lea writes beautifully of island life and love, and the sacrifices that both demand...."
Not Dark Yet
Peter Robinson
"Robinson cleverly incorporates the two plots, showing how police work has had to adapt in a very different climate..."
The Little Man of Archangel
Georges Simenon
" The mystery surrounding the disappearance of a Jewish bookseller’s young wife provides another treat for Georges Simenon fans after the delights of his Maigret series..."
— Evening Standard
Madame Burova
Ruth Hogan
"Blooming with wonderful, vibrant and charismatic characters..."
The Last House on Needless Street
Catriona Ward
"beautifully wrongfooting the reader every step of the way..."
4.75 out of 5
Later
Stephen King
"Later is a horror story, but it’s also a proper thriller, told by a master of his craft..."
The Fine Art of Invisible Detection
Robert Goddard
"Goddard at his impeccable best..."
3.4 out of 5
The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle
Neil Blackmore
"an insightful study into a period of history often overlooked in fiction..."
3.5 out of 5
Civilisations
Laurent Binet, Sam Taylor
"yes, it’s fun, but it’s not substantial. Still, perhaps that’s enough..."
2.71 out of 5
Harvest
Georgina Harding
"In the third of a cycle of novels on witness and memory, the author examines the trauma of what her characters have seen — and not seen..."
3.67 out of 5
Libertie
Kaitlyn Greenidge
"Kaitlyn Greenidge is good on the contradictions of freedom, and the persistent, sour legacy of slavery, but it is the mother-daughter relationship that makes this novel dazzle..."
Ariadne
Jennifer Saint
"Saint’s version is energetic and compelling, and the women become more than just the victims of the whims of men..."
Names of the Women
Jeet Thayil
"The concept is appealing, if a little muddled..."
3 out of 5
Miss Austen
Gill Hornby
"Hornby combines a moving portrait of sisterly devotion with a comic depiction of the provincial life so brilliantly evoked in Austen’s own novels...."
4.25 out of 5
The Manningtree Witches
A. K. Blakemore
"AK Blakemore’s exceptionally accomplished debut feels especially pertinent now, as women’s protests against their treatment by men are met with further aggression or accusations of hysteria..."
4.5 out of 5
Dangerous Freedom
Lawrence Scott
"Scott sympathetically resurrects a life half-hidden in the shadows of history..."
Dangerous Women
Hope Adams
" an immensely satisfying read..."
A History of What Comes Next
Sylvain Neuvel
"There’s real cleverness at work here..."
A Times for Swords
Matthew Harffy
"This first instalment in Matthew Harffy’s new series is a gory treat..."
The Cold Millions
Jess Walter
"colourful and punchy..."
In a Veil of Mist
Donald S Murray
" a moving portrait of a place and its people..."
The Split
Laura Kay
"Ferociously funny..."
The Road Trip
Beth O'Leary
"Beth is quite rightly earning her title as 'Queen of Uplit'..."
Another Life
Jodie Chapman
"Fans of David Nicholls will adore this..."
The Echo Wife
Sarah Gailey
"Gailey’s main concern is showing how people are shaped by others ... but the novel doesn’t rise above the banal...."
Insatiable
Daisy Buchanan
"Buchanan offers astute social observation..."
Before My Actual Heart Breaks
Tish Delaney
"A promising but flawed Troubles tale..."
Open Water
Caleb Azumah Nelson
"an exciting, ambitious debut..."
3.8 out of 5
A Net for Small Fishes
Lucy Jago
"In a narrative that brims over with colour and invention, Jago summons up Jacobean London with enormous persuasiveness..."
4.42 out of 5
Memorial
Bryan Washington
"fuses race, sexuality and grief into a tale of dissolving love..."
— New Statesman
3.82 out of 5
Alchemy and Rose
Sarah Maine
"Maine reworks the conventions of historical romance in a narrative that regularly undercuts expectations of what is to come...."
Women
Mihail Sebastian, John Banville
"the collection feels fully coherent by the end..."
Dear Emmie Blue
Lia Louis
"the perfect antidote to a trying time..."
The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
"brimming with beautiful prose..."
Grown Ups
Marian Keyes
"hits you right in the feels..."
4.08 out of 5
And Now You're Back
Jill Mansell
"bursting with vibrant characters and utter charm..."
I Give it a Year
Helen Whitaker
"This will make you laugh and cry..."
The Godmothers
Monica McInerney
"what a joy..."
Rescue Me
Sarra Manning
"Warm and funny..."
Small Pleasures
Clare Chambers
"made me want to read her entire back catalogue..."
When I Come Home Again
Caroline Scott
"(A) haunting tale in unpretentious but persuasive prose..."
4.17 out of 5
The Flip Side
James Bailey
"It's the debut rom-com you'll want on your list..."
— Woman & Home
Love Your Life
Sophie Kinsella
"A feel-good Christmas treat..."
Unity
Elly Bangs
"the book delivers on the huge, mind-bending promise made in its first few pages...."
Skyward Inn
Aliya Whiteley
"wonderfully surreal and weirdly uplifting ..."
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
Becky Chambers
"Ouloo’s restaurant at the back-end of the universe has acquired some charming guests, but strip away their backstories and boy, do this lot need a plot..."
A Desolation Called Peace
Arkady Martine
"This is first-class space opera, with added spycraft, diplomatic intrigue and scary aliens..."
The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson
"a tale as sincerely thought out in human terms as it’s technically well researched..."
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
"a contemporary visit to one of science fiction’s favourite futures..."
I Am Legend
Richard Matheson
"a powerful literary exploration of loneliness, redundancy and the relentless processes of change..."
Beggars in Spain
Nancy Kress
" Genetic winners and losers fight for their interests in this thoughtful take on our genetically engineered future..."
The Simulacra
Philip K. Dick
"Given the alternative facts and fake news swilling through social media at the moment, it’s hard to say what in this scenario feels particularly far-fetched..."
Solaris
Lem Stanislaw
"Stanislaw Lem’s lively, sardonic satire asks what we really want from exploration (beyond a mirror for our own vanity)..."
Set My Heart to Five
Simon Stephenson
" It all makes for a funny, whimsical caper, laced with lightly philosophical insights into storytelling and human frailty..."
Inscape
Louise Carey
"a cool, classy cyberpunk riff on the cold war spy thriller..."
Bear Head
Adrian Tchaikovsky
"Smartly choreographed as it moves between opposing forces on two planets, this is a rousing good read..."
Radio Life
Derek B. Miller
"(A) smart and thought-provoking piece of work..."
The Mask Falling
Samantha Shannon
"In a field thick with medieval despots and fairytale atmosphere, it stands out for its uniquely different and complex setting..."
Purgatory Mount
Adam Roberts
"Adam Roberts is one of the most intellectually daring British science fiction writers, trying something different in every book..."
The Swimmers
Marian Womack
"a richly imagined eco-gothic tale..."
Doors of Sleep
Tim Pratt
"It’s welcome escapist fare in these stressful times..."
Ready Player Two
Ernest Cline
"diehard fans of Ready Player One might find this retread satisfying, but readers new to Cline will wonder what all the fuss is about..."
The Seep
Chana Porter
"scalpel-sharp and oddly moving..."
We, Robots
Simon Ings
"We, Robots will make a fine Christmas present..."
— The Independent
The Rose Code
Kate Quinn
"a fabulous fun read..."
The Sunken Road
Ciaran McMenamin
"The violence in The Sunken Road is unceasing..."
Light Perpetual
Francis Spufford (author)
"Francis Spufford’s generous writing style combines a close-up view of events with a distant perspective. ..."
— Times Literary Supplement
4.24 out of 5
12 reviews
The City of Tears
Kate Mosse
"The second volume of Mosse’s wars of religion trilogy vividly depicts persecution and how politics can upturn ordinary lives..."
Operation Certain Death
Kim Hughes
"Light the blue touch paper and retire to a comfortable chair...."
Last Flight to Stalingrad
Graham Hurley
"His description of the cauldron of Stalingrad, and of the Shakespearean vengeance Nehmann takes there, are well worth relishing..."
Missionaries
Phil Klay
" Klay’s own experience as a former US marine gives battle scenes authenticity..."
This Rare Spirit
Julia Copus
" a triumph of precise scholarship and imaginative sympathy..."
Many Different Kinds of Love
Michael Rosen
"Many Different Kinds of Love paints a harrowing picture of being hospitalised with Covid-19..."
Empty Nest: Poems for Families
Carol Ann Duffy
"Fathers, mothers and grownup children reflect on leaving home and the ‘dance between closeness and distance’ in an outstanding anthology..."
Comic Timing
Holly Pester
"chronicles experiences of landlords, desire, porridge and emotional labour with impressive formal guile..."
Beowulf
Maria Headley
"This translation of Beowulf into muscular urban slang is electric..."
Cannibal
Safiya Sinclair
"In many ways it feels as if Cannibal has paved the way for itself..."
How to Wash a Heart
Bhanu Kapil
"unsettling reflections on displacement..."
Curriculum Violette
Robert Crawford, Paul Malgrati
"(a) supremely vivid evocation of the times and places of Violette’s brief life ..."
The Selected Letters of John Berryman
John Berryman, Philip Coleman, Calista McRae, Martha Mayou
"Landmark work highlights poet’s misogyny but fans and scholars will find riches among letters..."
The Late Sun
Christopher Reid
"a heartwarming collection in which older-and-wiser poet and child converge – in sun and shade...."
A Little History of Poetry
John Carey
"canters from Gilgamesh and Homer to Mary Oliver and Les Murray in three hundred pages with a breezy sense of mission..."
— London Review of Books
4.47 out of 5
Here is the Beehive
Sarah Crossan
"You've really never read a book quite like this one..."
4.6 out of 5
Paradise
Alasdair Gray, Dante Alighieri
"Published posthumously, the last of three Dante translations reveals Gray’s powers of insight and invention..."
Dearly
Margaret Atwood
"Atwood’s first poetry collection in over a decade is intimate..."
The Fall of a Sparrow
Ann Pasternak Slater
"Ann Pasternak Slater has written a partial account of the life of Vivien Eliot in which her famous husband’s behaviour is always tip-top..."
3.64 out of 5
Shadow of the Owl
Matthew Sweeney
"[a] brave and affirming collection..."
— Books Ireland
Just Us
Claudia Rankine
"Rankine sketches her clearest vision of a just future..."
Home Body
Rupi Kaur
"Instagram star Rupi Kaur has been savaged by critics in the past – but even fans will be disappointed by her new offering..."
Life Without Air
Daisy Lafarge
"A fierce and clear-eyed debut that finds a fresh way to explore humankind’s role in environmental chaos..."
Troy
Stephen Fry
"This largely faithful retelling of Trojan myth is genial enough, but has unsavoury aspects for the modern reader..."
— The Sunday Telegraph
The Music of What Happens
Tanya Farrelly
"a fine anthology by any measure, especially a literary one..."
Grimoire
Robin Robertson
"In Grimoire, Robert Robertson mixes Scots, English and Gaelic to mesmerising effect..."
It Says Here
Sean O'Brien
"From postwar London and empty afternoons to a perfect love affair, this masterly new collection is rich in beautiful phrases..."
In a Time of Distance
Alexander McCall Smith, Iain McIntosh
"It is such books, books like this one, that in a time of strident and dishonest polemics readers should attend to with a feeling ear..."
All the Sonnets of Shakespeare
William Shakespeare, Paul Edmondson, Stanley Wells
"Wells and Edmondson are doing insightful critical work, and they are also inevitably reflecting the politics of our current moment..."
The Perfect Nine
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
"His work on language and colonialism is newly urgent in these times, but he is also one of the great literary explorers of the human condition..."
The Fire of Joy
Clive James
"a treasure trove of poetic pleasure..."
The Historians
Eavan Boland
"This modest collection is welcome and those who have not read Boland..."
All the Murmuring Bones
A G Slatter
"a rich and satisfying novel..."
The Absolute Book
Elizabeth Knox
"read slowly and absorb every detail of the world Knox conjures..."
Birds of Paradise
Oliver K Langmead
"fantastic and colourful, but lacking depth..."
The Library of the Dead
T. L. Huchu
"Contemporary fantasy, at its best, is both escapist and urgent: this does both admirably..."
Serpentine
Philip Pullman, Tom Duxbury
"the ride is stretch-limousine smooth and the evocation of the Hollywood Hills of the Seventies affecting..."
The Stranger Times
C.K.McDonnell
"What saves the book from being just a retread of rather familiar material is McDonnell’s blisteringly comic-caustic tone..."
Temporary
Hilary Leichter
"Weighty questions underlie the wackiness and misadventures of a temp’s 23 jobs and 18 boyfriends in this surreal fable..."
The Decameron Project
New York Times Magazine
"a brilliantly varied assortment of tales..."
Hall of Smoke
H. M. Long
"By turns gripping and poignant, Hall of Smoke is a compelling debut..."
These Violent Delights
Chloe Gong
"Gong’s vivid Shanghai is a place to get enjoyably lost in..."
D (A Tale of Two Worlds)
Michel Faber
"Michel Faber’s fantasy novel is seamless and sure-footed throughout..."
2.86 out of 5
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
"Susanna Clarke’s enchanting, extravagant fusion of magic and memory..."
4.19 out of 5
9 reviews
The Constant Rabbit
Jasper Fforde
"Human-sized bunnies roam Britain in a dystopian satire on middle-class complacency..."
Mordew
Alex Pheby
"a harsh, improbable world that blends some of the tropes of young-adult fiction with both grim realism..."
— Literary Review
4.2 out of 5
The Rain Heron
Robbie Arnott (Author)
"It’s sad and satisfying..."
The Hollow Ones
Guillermo Del Toro, Chuck Hogan
"plenty of spark and impetus to make up for its not wholly original premise..."
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
"deliciously horrid horror..."
The Loop
Jeremy Robert Johnson
"To get a feel for The Loop, imagine if the TV series Stranger Things lost its sense of humour. ..."
Redder Days
Sue Rainsford
"This eerie tale of twins in an apocalyptic commune conjures a rich dystopian spell..."
Plain Bad Heroines
Emily M. Danforth
"this glorious doorstep of super-queer terror is presided over by the ghost of Shirley Jackson..."
Cardiff, by the Sea
Joyce Carol Oates
"Four family tales about escape and revenge crackle with dark forces..."
Death in Her Hands
Ottessa Moshfegh
"Death in Her Hands, like all Moshfegh’s novels, is a mystery, as well as a portrait of a broken mind...."
3.23 out of 5
14 reviews
Under a Dark Angel's Eye
Patricia Highsmith, Carmen Maria Machado
"one never tires of her cynicism and bleakness, even over 600 pages..."
The Burning Girls
C. J. Tudor
"combines crime fiction with elements of gothic horror, set in and around a creepy village churchyard in Sussex..."
Settling the World
M. John Harrison, Jennifer Hodgson
"Perhaps winning this year’s Goldsmiths Prize for innovation in fiction might bring the astonishing oeuvre of M John Harrison to a wider audience..."
Munky
Brian Catling
"B Catling’s Munky might be called MR James with a soupcon of PG Wodehouse and a dash of Viz..."
We All Hear Stories in the Dark
Robert Shearman
" It is the most magical of books about the magic of books..."
The Apparition Phase
Will Maclean
"There are chills galore in this enjoyable 70s-set debut about disturbed teenagers and malevolent spirits..."
If It Bleeds
"represents one of King’s most obscure and impressive accomplishments..."
3.83 out of 5
The Living Dead
George A. Romero, Daniel Kraus
"The zombie-meister’s epic about a virus destroying human civilisation is everything you could have hoped for..."
Survivor Song
Paul Tremblay
"I’m not sure whether this is a case of very good or very unfortunate timing..."
The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones
"Jones is excellent at depicting the anxiety of Native Americans in contemporary society..."
England's Screaming
Sean Hogan
"written with skill and a zealous intensity..."
Devolution
Max Brooks
"Devolution deftly incorporates “real-world” history..."
Eden
Tim Lebbon
"Lebbon excels at portraying the phantasmagorical proliferation of nature within Eden..."
A Cosmology of Monsters
Shaun Hamill
"It’s a grim ride, by turns moving and harrowing, and not for the faint-hearted...."
Parenthesis
Elodie Durand
"a book I began to think of as a classic even before I’d finished it..."
The Grande Odalisque
Bastien Vives, Florent Ruppert, Jerome Mulot
"If you like comics, and you’re also in need of some serious, escapist fun... I suggest that you dive straight into The Grande Odalisque..."
The Contradictions
Sophie Yanow
"This funny story of a student’s trip abroad with her new anarchist friend will resonate with anyone who has been a fresher..."
Finding Joy
Gary Andrews
"Although some books on grief can be prescriptive and preachy, this one is neither..."
XX: A Novel
Rian Hughes
"the most astonishing blend of narrative, meta-narratives and visuals..."
The Flapper Queens
Trina Robbins
"every page of this luscious collection is delightful..."
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist
Adrian Tomine
"He has an incredible ability to capture universal fears in a handful of minimal panels..."
Wendy, Master of Art
Walter Scott
"witty graphic novel unleashes hipster hell..."
Paying the Land
Joe Sacco
"a powerful piece of work..."
Comic Classics: Great Expectations
Jack Noel
"A funny, thought-provoking treat..."
Medicine
Jean-Noel Fabiani, Philippe Bercovici
"The idea of a graphic history of medicine seems almost an impertinence right now. ..."
The Year of the Rabbit
Tian Veasna
"Year of the Rabbit movingly depicts the rising terror of the Khmer Rouge years...."
Umma's Table
Yeon-Sik Hong
"South Korea’s reputation for comic art continues to blossom in this feline tale of feasts and filial duty..."
On Ajayi Crowther Street
Elnathan John, Alaba Onajin
"this soapy, spiky book is a compelling read..."
Dragman
Steven Appleby
"Funny, sweet and emotionally true, it doesn’t so much tiptoe on to fraught cultural territory as dance wildly across it..."
Familiar Face
Michael DeForge
"Come for the consumer satire; stay for the heartache...."
Little Lulu: Working Girl
John Stanley
"With her pithy put-downs and her easy way with half-truths, it’s impossible not to warm to Little Lulu..."
Time for Lights Out
Raymond Briggs
" a beloved genius of storytelling and illustration..."
Rusty Brown
Chris Ware
"Rusty Brown is a human document of rare richness..."
The Red Zone
Silvia Vecchini, Sualzo
"a restrained, poignant graphic novel..."
King of King Court
Travis Dandro
"This affecting account of family life features dreams of monsters, classroom japes – and a father hooked on heroin..."
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball
Jeff Kinney
"a huge year for the Wimpy Kid comes to a close with Greg's 14th adventure...."
— The Bookseller
Clyde Fans
Seth
"a masterpiece..."
Sunday's Child
Serena Katt
" There is...real daring here, as well as empathy and imagination..."
Two Girls Down
Louisa Luna
"this flawless performance is captivating..."
Cassandra Darke
Posy Simmonds
"devilishly good..."
4.36 out of 5
Square Eyes
Anna Mill, Luke Jones
"it certainly is a wild ride..."
Heartstopper Vol 1
Alice Oseman
0 reviews
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
Charlie Mackesy
The 117-Storey Townhouse
Andy Griffiths, Terry Denton
Milk Fed
Melissa Broder
"Melissa Broder’s prose is witty..."
3.9 out of 5
Xstabeth
David Keenan
"A legendary recording is at the core of this metafictional novel set between St Petersburg and St Andrews..."
The Bride Test
Helen Hoang
"a sweet romance that explores autism..."
Adele
Leila Slimani
"One admires Slimani's bravery in creating a deeply unsympathetic character ..."
3.74 out of 5
17 reviews
Us Three
Ruth Jones
"Jones captures female friendships brilliantly..."
5 out of 5
London Rules
Mick Herron
"by turns gripping and laugh-out-loud funny..."
A Different Drummer
William Melvin Kelley
"His work is long overdue a revival..."
The Friend
Sigrid Nunez
"This experimental novel narrated by a dog is clever, mature, entertaining and delightful..."
Kolymsky Heights
Lionel Davidson
"Davidson is one of those writers, like Raymond Chandler, who wrote proper literature that just also happened to be genre fiction..."
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
"This is a shocking and imaginative story of slavery and suffering..."
The Great Believers
Rebecca Makkai
"a deeply affecting novel that is full of death, yet simultaneously spirited and hopeful..."
Katalin Street
Magda Szabo, Len Rix
"Katalin Street’s effect on me was so extraordinary that at first I couldn’t decide what was most extraordinary about it..."
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman
"...one of the most unusual and thought-provoking heroines of recent contemporary fiction..."
The Restless Girls
Jessie Burton, Angela Barrett
"a wonderful, magic-realist feminist fantasy..."
— Book Trust