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This handsome leather-bound edition includes all six of Jane Austen’s completed novels. Jane Austen’s stories of clever women, elusive love, and social mores have struck a chord with millions of fans who consider her works compelling, heartwarming, and essential. Adapted time and again for screen and stage, these enduring classics remain as enjoyable as ever, and are the perfect addition...

From the Booker prizewinning author of Possession, a beautifully packaged hardback novella, telling a tale of elemental passion and hope. 'The snow did not numb Fiammarosa; it pricked and hummed and brought her, intensely, to life . . . This is who I am, the cold princess thought to herself, wriggling for sheer pleasure in the snow-dust, this is what...

Celebrate the joy of Christmas with these classic holiday stories and poems. This collection features more than 20 stories and poems celebrating Christmas, including works from esteemed authors such as Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, and Hans Christian Andersen. With favourites such as O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi” and L. Frank Baum’s The Life and Adventures of Santa...

From Harry Whittaker, the co-author of the instant No 1 international bestseller Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt, comes an epic mystery set in the world of the Seven Sisters.Reader favourite antiquarian bookseller Orlando Forbes - first introduced in The Shadow Sister - returns in this dual timeline saga. When Orlando uncovers a hidden cache of manuscripts in an old Harrow rectory, his investigation...

The 50th anniversary celebration of the much-loved Footrot Flats comic strip and its creator, Murray Ball. A must-own for all fans of this iconic series. For those who know and love Wal', Dog, Horse, Cooch, Major, Aunt Dolly, Cheeky Hobson and Rangi, Footrot Flats needs no introduction. But it does need a 50th birthday celebration! This tribute to the iconic series gives old fans...

In honour of the 20th anniversary of Eclipse, this vintage-inspired collector's edition features: Foil-stamped slipcase Stunning new cover with lush, romantic artwork New interior art and beautifully illustrated endpapers Elegant ribbon marker One-of-a-kind interactive gilded-edge design The steamy love triangle heats up in the third book of the New York Times bestselling Twilight Saga, as Bella must choose between her...

A beautiful classic hardback edition of King's famous work to celebrate its fortieth anniversary. Derry, Maine is just an ordinary town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part, a good place to live. It is a group of children who see—and feel—what makes Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurks, taking on the shape of...

'I need you, whole and breathing. Alive. It took me six hundred years to find you. But my people don't have that much time left.' After narrowly escaping death at the hands of Achātēs, the Star who killed her brother, Arianell comes to in an unfamiliar place. Her captor - the man with onyx eyes - wants to strike a...

'I hoovered up these books in a matter of days. I am obsessed' JENNIE GODFREY, author of The List of Suspicious Things 'Bridget Jones meets every classic novel you've ever loved ... This is like finding an unearthed Jane Austen book you never knew about' STYLIST 'I took Treasure Island to church with me as a talisman. “What a lovely...

Witness the rise of the Shadow Slave in this gritty, dark fantasy adventure where a nameless street rat must rise to challenge the gods themselves.Growing up in poverty, Sunny never expected anything good from life. However, even he did not anticipate being chosen by the Nightmare Spell and becoming one of the Awakened — an elite group of people gifted...

Available to pre-order now "At first, I took you for a charming jewel thief." London, 1938. After attending a music hall matinee, Richard Hadley has an unexpected encounter with the mysterious Miss Lambert. Determined to defend her from the apparently hostile forces closing in, he pursues Miss Lambert to a grand hotel deep in the English countryside, then onto a...

Robert Beaujolais forfeited the last years of his youth to the Marines, watching his friends die. Beaujolais survived, but civilian life made him regret it. Compared to the truth of war, peace fit him like a casket. At least he was in love, even if he was the only one who could admit it. They were together—until they weren't. Then,...

Kafka's chilling and darkly entertaining exploration of life's absurdity, now in Penguin Clothbound Classics. A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must...

‘There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.’ As children, Gillian and Sally Owens are marked as different, growing up on the margins of...

Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here, Steinbeck created some of his most memorable characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery...

From award-winning comedian and bestselling author Stewart Lee, his first original book in fifteen years: a brilliantly dark comedic retelling of Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat - and the tragic 'true' story behind it. “Fearless ... It's austere stuff, Stewart Lee.” – Alan Bennett “Stewart Lee is not funny and has nothing to say.” – The Daily Telegraph...

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND PEN/FAULKNER AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES PICK FOR 2026 'A book of heartwrenching what ifs that will keep you guessing and thinking about loss, forgiveness, family and, yes, love' CHARMAINE WILKERSON 'Exquisite' MARCIA HUTCHINSON 'Heart-stopping' JACQUELINE WOODSON 'Captivating' ANDREW SOLOMON 'A formidable storyteller' JONATHAN FRANZEN 'The envelope remained on the table,...

‘Joanna Elmy possesses the rare ability to tap into a collective womanhood and speak its voice’ - Rene Karabash I finally took an oath to never listen to these women, to do the exact opposite of what they had done. If they had followed their own advice and were this unhappy, something must be wrong. Their complacency filled me with...

Bestselling and award-winning Australian author Barbara Hannay brings us on a journey to rediscover the true meaning of home in a heartwarming novel that weaves themes of family, loss, new beginnings, and unexpected love. Anna is recently divorced, but her new Melbourne apartment doesn't feel like the fresh start she was hoping for. When her best friend suggests a tropical...

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Melville's great American epic with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Melville's great American epic, a story of a quest and an obsession, with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. When Ishmael...

THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING PHENOMENON 'A word-of-mouth smash hit' New York Times 'For anything to be truly good, there must be love in it. Nothing is what it's supposed to be if love is not at the core.' One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…His name...

'The future of literature is in exceptional, inspired hands' Michael Cunningham, author of Day 'One of the best new books I've read not only this year but in some time' New Yorker, Best Books of the Year so Far 'A debut reminiscent of Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping' Jeffrey Eugenides, author of The Virgin Suicides 'I don't know how Clark wrote The...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE From Quentin Tarantino, the #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestsellingauthor of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Cinema Speculation, comes a newnovel featuring one of his most iconic creations, Mr. Cliff Booth. Hollywood, 1977. The Swinging Sixties are long gone - but Clifford Booth keeps onkeeping on... War hero, stuntman,...

A daughter lost to history.A ring that holds the key.Perfect for fans of Lucinda Riley, The Moonstone Sister is the second sweeping instalment in the Sea Stone Sisters series, an evocatively written and deeply romantic epic family saga that spans decades and continents, taking the reader to the most beautiful and aspirational locations in the world.'Unpredictable and unputdownable . . . a...

Meet Natalie: she hates work, but turns out she's great at labour. 'What a joy' – Kiley Reid 'A spectacular debut: hilarious, sly, sharp, and extraordinarily thoughtful' – Lauren Groff Natalie has no skills or ambitions. The clock ticks away at the call centre where she works, while she tries to ignore the pain in her jaw. She has no...

From bestselling novelist Nadia Hashimi—a gripping, occasionally terrifying, yet ultimately hopeful novel focusing on the women of Afghanistan in the years since the Taliban regained power. In February 2020, the US began to withdraw troops from Afghanistan after nearly twenty years of occupation. A whole generation of Afghan women had been born during that time—women who had grown up in...

'I've never read a book so authentically frightening . . . Beneath the radical disquiet is a beautiful hymn to the undeniable hearts and minds of women.' Sarah Hall I swear I loved them all, and I did the best I could. And then I left them, left all of it. Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot tells the story of...

Episode 1: My Favourite Idol Heats Up Mojiko PortNakao, a huge fan, rushes over to help when his favourite idol comes to Mojiko Port, but it seems he has a problem. Episode 2: Hello, FriendsWhat new step will a young housewife take, living away from her hometown? Episode 3: Storm in the BlossomsThe devilish woman who deeply hurt the heart...

BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. One ordinary morning, in an unexceptional town, every mobile phone lights up with the same emergency alert. In this compelling, darkly funny and moving debut novel, each of Vincent Yu's utterly relatable, flawed characters is given a choice: in the face of mutually assured destruction, do we reach for...

Pre-order the brand new novel from the international sensation behind The Paris Affair: Brugge 2003: Reeling after her fiancé, Felix, leaves her without a trace, Cleo is left with only the engagement ring. Determined to return it to Felix’s grandmother, Ada, she travels to Brugge only to discover the ring holds more secrets than anyone could ever have imagined. Antwerp...

I hoovered up these books in a matter of days. I am obsessed — JENNIE GODFREY, author of The List of Suspicious Things Bridget Jones meets every classic novel you've ever loved... This is like finding an unearthed Jane Austen book you never knew about — STYLIST There is bedlam, and there is delightful bedlam. This afternoon touched on the...

To find out where we are going, we sometimes need to find out where we came from. Sister Maria-Fiore dei Fiori Montagna, who is suffering from an acute identity crisis, wants to know more about her own past. After doing a DNA test, she discovers that she has a relative she didn’t know about. However, her new-found family causes a...

I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied. Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic, The Grapes of Wrath, remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of dust bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, it tells of the Joad family who, like thousands of...

'Razor-sharp and deliciously wry' COCO MELLORS 'Funny, tender, thrillingly dark' HEATHER DARWENT 'Exhilarating, beguiling, beautiful' OLIVIA PETTER An astonishing portrait of a city on the brink of a dizzying new era and a story about a young woman who will do anything to infiltrate the rarefied world of New York's fashion elite. New York City, 2001. Editorial Assistant Clodagh “Clo”...

Their grandmother's will propels two sisters into a strange bargain when they inherit an isolated country house. But there is more than one kind of inheritance. From an award-winning author comes a contemporary gothic tale of sibling bonds, love and redemption. Twin sisters Grace and Faith Oswald are returning to the isolated childhood home that – according to the terms...

A new masterpiece of modern queer fiction, Wife & Wife is a sharply observed and deeply moving story of love, discovery, and defiance. It is 1955 in the affluent suburb of Pearl’s Cove, New York. Twenty-five-year-old housewife and mother of two Ruth Wolf is a glamorous platinum blonde who secretly devours lesbian pulp fiction shoplifted from the local drugstore. But...

Book One, Part One in the beloved epic fantasy world and LitRPG sensation created by pirateaba You won't find anything like it. The Wandering Inn is a favourite. – Matt Dinniman, Sunday Times bestselling author of Dungeon Crawler Carl 'No killing Goblins.' So reads the sign outside of The Wandering Inn, a small building run by a young woman named...

Magical, strange, original, tender and funny, The Travelling Library is a moving story of love and family and books, for fans of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and The Ministry of Time. Edinburgh, 1993: Fourteen-year-old Keely Jackson loves books, his best friend Josie, his mother, his hamster and the travelling library that visits his housing estate every second Thursday. He...

It's the near future USA. An algorithm now chooses your soulmate. But what happens when your heart chooses someone else? In the District State of New California, every resident is assigned a soulmate by the all-knowing Algorithma. A perfect match determined by science, not love. Eliotte Wager has always known who she wants her match to be: Ashton Meeka, the...

In the heat of the jam factory, secrets and lies create a dangerous recipe, in a breathtaking novel from the bestselling author of The Chocolate Factory and The Hobart Hotel. Tasmania, 1874. Growing up in the impoverished tenements along the Hobart Rivulet, Harriet Brown is used to doing whatever it takes to survive. Including, at just twelve years old, shearing...

The Insomniac's Guide to Love begins with a chance nocturnal meeting, where two insomniacs strike up a friendship. This connection forces them to confront the problems they're avoiding, not only to help them sleep but ultimately to allow them the capacity to love each other. Bec spends her days supporting her boyfriend Matt through his incurable illness. Despite his condition,...

Rediscover F. Scott Fitzgerald's treasured classics in this beautifully crafted edition featuring a delicate silhouette jacket on a textured book with foil stamping, covered by a plastic protector, making it ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike. As one of the most acclaimed writers of the 20th century, Fitzgerald perfectly captured the spirit of the "Lost Generation"—Americans coming of...

The Butterfly Beats its Wings 'With rich settings, finely drawn characters and skillful storytelling, this impressive debut is a winner' Tracy Chevalier, author of The Glass Maker 1972. The Philippines. Teenager Grace is a loving daughter, tending to chores and caring for younger siblings. But when her family becomes caught in a conflict that threatens their place in the village,...

A darkly comic 1980s bookshop romance, rife with music and mayhem, by the acclaimed biographer and author of Heatwave. In the summer of 1982, the year of the Falklands War, Ellen Moore arrives in Camden Town determined to shake off the past. She starts a job at Leviathan Books, where the boss wanders around in Aleister Crowley's old dressing gown...

Experience Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in this beautifully crafted edition featuring a delicate silhouette jacket on a textured book with foil stamping, covered by a plastic protector, making it ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his iconic...

Roger Ackroyd, Betty Barnard, Amyas Crale, Linnet Doyle… Agatha Christie's most famous victims are celebrated in this illustrated alphabet, parodying some of her most fiendish murders in this perfect gift book for Christie fans. ‘In the midst of tragedy we start the comedy.’ AGATHA CHRISTIE, THE ABC MURDERS Agatha Christie was crowned ‘Queen of Crime’ by book reviewers when her...

New Yorker Best Book of 2025 Paris Review Favourite Book of 2025 "A glamorous, intriguing novel" (New York Times) about a jaded movie star and the two differently conflicted women in his orbit. Some people you meet them and you imagine this movie together. The two of you make a kind of movie and then it’s over. Other people, what...

‘A novel that made me cry – and made me hungry in every sense: for connection, for courage, for a life fully lived.’ – Shankari Chandran, Miles Franklin Award–winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens The Bear meets Real Americans in this coming-of-age story that’ll make you hungry – for food, for life, for forging your own path. In...

Three generations of women, a fractured land, and a secret that will change everything ... A luminous, vivid story of mothers and daughters, belonging, and the courage to face where we come from by an extraordinary new talent, shortlisted for The Australian Fiction Prize. I used to think that the past was like a dream and a place was something...

A beautiful heiress is fatally poisoned in a West End restaurant… Six people sit down to dinner at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty place is a sprig of rosemary – in solemn memory of Rosemary Barton who died at the same table exactly one year previously. No one present on that fateful night would ever...

Selected by Daily Express in 2025 as one of the best Christmas books to read this December! Don't miss this festive, small-town rom-com from million copy bestseller Portia MacIntosh. 'Easily my favourite Christmas book of the season so far.' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A warm, witty, feel good, festive romance' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ivy, the owner of a year-round festive store,...

I was transfixed by Portrait - HANNAH ROTHSCHILD ‘Imaginative, absorbing, very moving’ - MICHAEL PALIN 'Quietly beautiful, deeply felt' - JOANNE BURN Between 1898 and his death in 1916, the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi painted more than two dozen pictures of his wife, Ida, seen only from the back. This is her story, told from the front. Copenhagen, 1898. Danish...

Ocean Waves, the classic coming-of-age drama that inspired the Studio Ghibli film, is about a young man and his wayward first love who unexpectedly reunite. Now finally available in English, this novel is a poignant exploration of youth and love. After leaving his coastal hometown of Kochi for college in Tokyo, Taku Morisaki makes a surprising discovery. Rikako Muto—who had...

Book One, Part Two in the beloved epic fantasy world and LitRPG sensation created by pirateaba. 'You won't find anything like it. The Wandering Inn is a favourite.' - Matt Dinniman, Sunday Times bestselling author of Dungeon Crawler Carl Izril’s newest [Innkeeper] has only one rule: No Killing Goblins. It makes her a stranger in the Drake city of Liscor,...

A major literary event: available for the first time in an English language edition, an early autobiographical novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Gulag Archipelago, which chronicles his service and Soviet Russia's ordeals during World War II. Composed primarily in 1948 while he was imprisoned within the Soviet gulag system's Marfino sharashka, Love the Revolution is an unfinished...

A Booktok favourite for its aesthetic on bookshelves, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women is relaunched in this beautifully crafted edition featuring a delicate silhouette jacket on a textured book with foil stamping, covered by a plastic protector, making it ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike. Louisa May Alcott's beloved coming-of-age novel, Little Women, is widely regarded as one...

Book Two, Part Two in the beloved epic fantasy world and LitRPG sensation created by pirateaba. You won't find anything like it. The Wandering Inn is a favourite - Matt Dinniman, Sunday Times bestselling author of Dungeon Crawler Carl. There’s nothing quite like running barefoot in the snow, is there? It’s a fine line with Ryoka Griffin, and she likes...

Book Two, Part One in the beloved epic fantasy world and LitRPG sensation created by pirateaba You won't find anything like it. The Wandering Inn is a favourite. — Matt Dinniman, Sunday Times bestselling author of Dungeon Crawler Carl Winter has arrived with faeries and... pranks? It’s the first winter that Rags has ever had to survive as the [Chieftain]...

From the bestselling author of the Five Crowns of Okrith series comes Dreamslayer, the first book in a dark romantasy series in which a devout acolyte must form an unholy alliance with the very monsters she was trained to destroy in a desperate quest for the truth—and her survival. She was meant to become a dream. Instead, she fell in...

30th Anniversary Edition with a New Preface “Unforgettable . . . By turns comic and poignant, Wells’ latest entry fulfills the promise of her award-winning debut novel, Little Altars Everywhere. It speaks eloquently to what it means to be a mother, a daughter, a wife—and somehow, at last, a person.” -Charlotte Observer In honour of its thirtieth anniversary, a special...

“Tim O’Brien is the one American author whose works I look forward to the most.” —Haruki Murakami The author of the American classic The Things They Carried returns with what may be his finest novel yet, an unconventional love story that unspools over decades and across continents between a Lutheran minister who has lost his faith and a young woman,...

An old woman in a nursing home speaks of a child buried behind the fireplace… When Tommy and Tuppence visited an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they thought nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada was a very difficult old lady. But when Mrs Lockett mentioned a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs Lancaster talked about...

What kind of family would drive someone to murder? A domestic noir dripping with tension and emotion from the #1 bestselling author of See How They Fall. On Sydney's most exclusive headland sits Eden, the Kirkwood's clifftop mansion: white hydrangeas, harbour views and wealth so vast it keeps scandals safely behind closed doors. At the party of the year for...

[A] poignant tale of opportunities lost and regained...This emotional romance is an easy choice to throw in the beach bag. - Publishers Weekly When Joanna Whitman's famous ex-husband dies in a car accident, she doesn't know what to feel. Their dysfunctional marriage held more painful secrets than she cares to remember. But when she discovers that the young woman with...

Bridgerton meets A Court of Thorns & Roses in this sweeping Regency romantasy, in which a mortal bride-to-be who fled the Underworld must return to a glittering court of gods and the dangerous, silver-eyed god of death who still claims her as his. Death wants her. Love won't let her go. England, 1815. Years after an impossible abduction shattered her...

I thought I’d done such a good job of forgetting my old life and moving on, but it was all right there, cued up, like a movie in my mind. Ready for whenever I would tune in. For when I would turn around and stare directly at the sun. Ten years ago, Arna blew up her life, moved countries and...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights comes a dazzling dual-timeline novel of outbreak and heartbreak, about two lonely people finding their way back to one another during a deadly apocalypse. This is the beginning of a love story. In the heart of Manhattan, amid bustling streets and towering skyscrapers, two lives intersect at a...

Set in Kyiv in the turbulent years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Stalinville is a dark, unflinching portrait of a society emerging from decades of violence, repression, and moral ruin. Jonah, a man from the social margins, survives by instinct rather than hope. After being confined to a psychiatric asylum—where the cruelty of Soviet power has grown into...

From the author of worldwide phenomenon The Vanishing Half, an epic story of two women who defined an era – and the feud that defined them. The world wasn’t big enough for both of them. Cleo is beautiful and talented, born for the stage but haunted by a tragic past. While Roz is an equally gifted singer, she is tortured...

The first major English translation of Marcelle Tinayre's Belle Époque novel that interrogates the struggle of coming of age as a young woman in a changing modern world. Raised in the countryside by her reclusive classicist uncle, Hellé's ideals are put to the test when she encounters the decadence and frivolity of Parisian society. Yet there she also meets the...

Dettmann at her hilarious and heartwarming best. — Tim Minchin When Margot receives an email from her best friend it comes as a shock... Tess died twenty years ago. Margot is catapulted back to 2000 and her intense friendship with the fun backpacker visiting Sydney. She remembers their plans to travel through Europe together—the trip Margot pulled out of, leaving...

There is something wrong with the Vaim Hotel, though The Guest cannot say what, nor why he has come to stay. Its only other occupant is Brita, who runs it with brisk authority and swears she has seen him somewhere before, though he is sure she hasn't. As he acquaints himself with village life, eating each evening at the restaurant...

Surreal, sharp and deeply moving, Under a Fur Coat is a novel of outstanding reach and polish. A distinct and dazzling new gothic – JULIA ARMFIELD I became obsessed with Seurasaari, with the curative properties I assigned to it in my desperation for an action, a ritual - something that could fix everything... Vivienne, a photographer from Manchester, arrives at...

A resonant coming-of-age novel, and a story of intergenerational struggle and societal change. Iro left his village to continue his studies in Abidjan. With his friends, Thierry, Malick, and Yeo, they form a happy, resourceful group, doing odd jobs around the neighbourhood. Of all of them, Iro is the most determined and ambitious. But when his father dies, everything is...

She was happy, safe in the joy of being now the only one for Dad, absorbed in caring for him. Twelve-year-old Linda Dalton is besotted with her father, Dennis, who can do no wrong. Everyone and everything else pales in comparison, including Linda's sharp mother, Vera. When cracks suddenly begin to show in the family, Linda weaves a web of...

On a remote Aegean island, the billionaire Thanassis Morel is building the Floating World: a climate-controlled utopia beneath a vast geodesic dome, promising refuge for the ultra-wealthy from the chaos consuming the outside world. When a struggling journalist is hired to propagandize the spectacular exhibition that will inaugurate this new Eden, he jumps at the chance to work with a...

With a new foreword by Colin Walsh, this is one of the most volatile, vital, and unsafe novels in Irish literature, banned by the censor for obscenity in 1965 - and just as explosive today. He was coming and there was nothing to do but wait and grow hard as stone and lie. Mahoney grows up in fear of his...

With a new foreword by Kevin Barry, McGahern's timeless (Sinéad Gleeson) novel of rural Irish life is perfect for admirers of Claire Keegan. 'I'm grateful for every sentence McGahern left in this world.' Donal Ryan When the bells rang out for Mass, the strokes trembling on the water, they had the entire world to themselves. Joe Ruttledge has returned to...

Our unnamed narrator survives in London on a combination of Universal Credit, music production and songwriting, trying to figure out what she wants from the city, and whether the city is prepared to give it to her. Navigating love affairs and blinded by grief following the death of her closest confidante, Safe Spaces is a portrait of the artist as...

In a nameless city torn apart by civil war, a teenage sniper has only one goal: to fire the perfect shot. He sublimates himself into his weapon, learns to maintain impassivity, controls his breath, listens to his body and the beat of his heart. Lying in wait on rooftops, he takes aim at people below while his traumatised mother cowers...