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Luckenbooth
Jenni Fagan
"...brilliantly strange..."
— The Guardian
3.82 out of 5
5 reviews
Slash and Burn
Claudia Hernandez, Julia Sanches
"an intensive reading experience..."
1 review
Hurdy Gurdy
Christopher Wilson
"There is a cure for pandemic gloom. What you need to do is read a funny novel about an even more deadly plague, the Black Death of the 14th century...."
— The Times
A Burning
Megha Majumdar
"Immaculately constructed, acidly observed and gripping from start to finish, A Burning is a brilliant debut...."
Memorial
Bryan Washington
"At times, the novel seems less a portrait of a relationship than a splice of two stories on the same theme..."
— The Observer
3.78 out of 5
4 reviews
Shiver
Allie Reynolds
"Reynolds is a former freestyle snowboarder with an intimate knowledge of the sport and the rivalry it inspires..."
— The Sunday Times
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
Richard Flanagan
"At the heart of this latest novel from Booker winner Richard Flanagan there is a powerful tale of a family trying to decide whether to prolong the life of a dying relative, but some of the more fantastical elements seem out of kilter..."
— The Scotsman
3.57 out of 5
A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself
Peter Ho Davies
"The former Granta Young British Novelist lays himself bare in a moving account of a terminated pregnancy..."
Luster
Raven Leilani
"a caustic, candid and convincing debut..."
4.1 out of 5
The Survivors
Jane Harper
"A new book from Harper is always an event..."
2 reviews
The Death of Francis Bacon
Max Porter (Author)
" Like its subject, The Death of Francis Bacon is tricky, wicked and wonderfully weird..."
— The Spectator
3 out of 5
Must I Go
Yiyun Li
"The Chinese writer’s novel about death and loss is meandering and muddy rather than clear..."
— Irish Times
3.4 out of 5
8 reviews
Invisible Ink
Patrick Modiano, Mark Polizzotti
"Modiano’s stories circle, perhaps obsessively, around the same unhealed wounds..."
The Coffinmaker's Garden
Stuart MacBride
"beyond gruesome yet the horror is tempered by gallows humour..."
House with No Doors
Jeff Noon
"The novel sounds all the tried and tested noir notes — the brutal, rain-drenched city, the divorce, the obsessive work and professional conflicts — but it makes them chime..."
The Butterfly House
Katrine Engberg
"an original and absorbing piece of work..."
Bear Head
Adrian Tchaikovsky
"Terraforming Mars was never so blue-collar..."
The Seep
Chana Porter
"scalpel-sharp and oddly moving..."
Reconstruction
Alaya Dawn Johnson
"wanders promiscuously from science fiction to fantasy to historical fiction and back again, jumbling expectations as it goes..."
A River Called Time
Courttia Newland
"one of those exasperating books in which things seem to almost happen..."
3.67 out of 5
3 reviews
The Appeal
Janice Hallett
"dazzlingly clever..."
The Burning Girls
C. J. Tudor
"combines crime fiction with elements of gothic horror, set in and around a creepy village churchyard in Sussex..."
The Stranger Times
C.K.McDonnell
"There’s no disgrace in being formulaic when the formula is good... ripping entertainment from start to finish...."
The War of the Poor
Eric Vuillard, Mark Polizzotti
"izzing with revolutionary fervour..."
— Financial Times
The Prophets
Robert Jones Jr.
"Jones’ debut novel is a marvel..."
— The Independent
4.24 out of 5
Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid
"a gripping and sharply comic account..."
— Daily Mail
4.14 out of 5
15 reviews
Women
Mihail Sebastian, John Banville
"the collection feels fully coherent by the end..."
White Ivy
Susie Yang
"Sharp exploration of privilege in modern America..."
Earthlings
Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori
" told with such authentic detachedness that you could almost miss it..."
— New Statesman
3.79 out of 5
7 reviews
Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters
"a bold novel addressing timely and controversial issues..."
— Evening Standard
The Art of Falling
Danielle McLaughlin
" a gripping and thoughtful novel, taut with narrative suspense and brimming with emotional insight..."