Contemporary fiction titles are those which focus on the present or near past. Stories rooted in the current cultural, social, and political landscape which feature characters we can all recognise.
Contemporary Fiction Books
Olympia Publishers Diary of the Knuckle Head Street Child
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£6.99
Olympia Publishers Peters Tale
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£9.49
Renard Press Ltd The Fragile Land: An Arthurian Allegory
Book SynopsisStories surrounding the legendary King Arthur have been told since time immemorial, and every generation has a new take on the tale. The Fragile Land approaches the legend from a radical angle, setting it firmly in the post-Roman world of late fifth-century Europe, when the language of Britannia was still Brythonic and the Saxons had not yet superimposed their own place names. The Fragile Land chronicles the crucial years of Arthur’s life, from the age of fifteen into his early thirties, as he comes to the fore as elected Overlord, empowered to confront the Barbarian threat and to keep the factious leaders of the island’s kingdoms in some sort of political alliance. Enhanced by a beautifully illustrated map by the artist Kate Milsom, Simon Mundy’s cunningly woven tale of an island in unrest draws subtle parallels with contemporary cultural disputes and casts the legend in a whole new light.
£9.00
Cornerstone Nocturne
Book SynopsisIn this gorgeous and haunting fantasy set in 1930s Chicago, a talented ballerina finds herself torn between her dreams and her desires when she''s pursued by a secretive patron who may be more than he seems.Grace has always wanted to be a ballerina, ever since she first peered through the windows of the Near North Ballet company. The elegance of the dance seemed transcendent to an immigrant child of the working poor, and so, when she is orphaned, it is to the ballet that she flees.Years later, Grace is on the verge of becoming the company''s new prima ballerina - though she is beginning to realise that achieving her long-held dream may not be the triumph she once envisioned. Then Grace attracts the attention of the enigmatic Master La Rosa, and realises that the world may not be as small or constricted as she had come to fear.But who is her mysterious patron, and what does he want from her? As Grace begins to unlock the Master''s secrets, she discovers
£9.49
Troubador Publishing Dead Right
Book SynopsisFour women had a plan. Barricade themselves inside a suburban house and starve to death. It almost worked, but one survived. She alone knows why they did it. Can she be trusted?It's a puzzle.Dead Rightreveals the truth.The novel explores the complex relationships between these women, their fears and motivations and how the men in their lives the domineering father; the weak, immature brother and the abusive, unfaithful husband alienated and motivated them, inspiring and shaping their plans.Their story unfolds against dramatic events taking place in Northern Ireland and the wider world.
£9.49
Troubador Publishing Im Still Standing
Book SynopsisTwo young people are struggling to find themselves and a role in life. For one, the world is changing too quickly. For the other, change canât come soon enough. Linking them are overgrown railway sidings - home to wildlife but about to be destroyed.
£10.44
Troubador Publishing The Missing Links Of Tannadee
Book SynopsisAiming to be a clan chief is easy when you have the right credentials. Itâs a bit more tricky when you havenât any. But lack of proof need be no barrier when youâre absolutely brimming with all the right stuff to make a great chief. At least thatâs the theory according to billionaire, ego-maniac, Gordon Weever.
£9.49
Troubador Publishing Love Coco x
Book SynopsisIn March 2022 on a farm in Fife, Scotland, a Golden Retriever puppy was born. Since leaving his family at the tender age of ten weeks to live with two housemates on the side of a Perthshire hill, he has written regularly to his best friend, Karen, who was present at his birth. He opens his heart to her about all of the things which are important to him food, freedom, love-life and canine rights. Through his correspondence, we can share the first year in the life of this young dog. A dog who considers himself to be very fortunate he has a high IQ, extraordinarily good looks, and a strong social conscience. Modesty and humility? Well, perhaps he needs to work on those. While his housemates made some suggestions on how this book could be improved, Coco knows his own mind, and is happy to add literary genius to his long list of talents. To that end, he regards what you are about to read as all his own work. Welcome to the wonderful world of Coco!
£999.99
Bedford Square Publishers The Little Clothes
Book SynopsisA smart sharp debut with real heart and humour, introducing Audrey Mendes, a clever thirty-eight-year-old lawyer caught in a web of toxic situations, whose past gets pulled out into the light.
£17.09
Olympia Publishers In the Heritance
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£11.69
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers The Forgetful Man
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£8.54
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Spies of Ambient Light
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£8.54
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Hobgoblin Gennel
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£8.54
Hawkwood Books The Nocturnals
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£999.99
Seven Stories Press UK The Gospel Of Orla
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£10.44
Canongate Books The Courage Consort
Book SynopsisThe Courage Consort, possibly the seventh best-known a cappella vocal ensemble in Britain, are given two weeks in a Belgian chateau to rehearse their latest commission, the monstrously complicated Partitum Mutante. But can the piece be performed? Does it matter that its composer is a maniac best known for attacking his wife with a stiletto shoe at the baggage reclaim of Milan airport? Can the five members of the Consort endure their own sexual tensions and wildly differing temperaments? And what is the inhuman voice that calls out to them from the woods at night?The esoteric world of avant-garde classical music is the unlikely setting for a story of rare power - perhaps the most moving Michel Faber has yet written.Trade ReviewFaber has a quirky imagination and a sharp eye, is clever but sympathetic to the reader, generous and sincere. * * The Independent * *This is a beautifully distilled piece of work. Its brevity cannot disguise its depth, indeed it emphasises it... The story is told with a dry wit that should carry a warning for the reader not to strike a match anywhere in the book's vicinity. This is a beautifully-assured novella. -- Hugh MacDonald * * The Herald * *Rites of passage don't come much subtler than this. Or, oddly, given the subject matter, much funnier. * * New Statesman * *His prose veers sharply from a delectable descriptiveness to spikily comic insights. Cerebral and observant ... here is a talent in the ascendant. * * The Observer * *
£9.49
Canongate Books Without Blood
Book SynopsisWithout Blood begins with a shocking, visceral act of violence - the assassination of a man and his family. Only the daughter, Nina, survives, thanks to an extraordinary act of mercy by one of the attackers. Nina is just four years old.Decades later Nina hunts down the last of her family's murderers, the man who was her saviour. Their reunion brings about a profound reappraisal of their lives and what took place on that fateful night over half a century earlier.Highly visual and unforgettably sad, Without Blood is a haunting book about damage, longing, memory and forgiveness. Ann Goldstein's superb translation captures Baricco's effortless prose style and gives readers in Britain the opportunity to experience this gem of a novel that has already delighted hundreds of thousands across Europe.Trade ReviewContained in these few pages is a complete portrait of what it means to be human, at our most elemental, and the effect is awesome * * Observer * *Baricco's writing shows an author in unquestioned control of his vocabulary, his phrases brief but beautifully cadenced. * * Independent * *With its tenderness, eroticism and simplicity, it is one of the most astonishing and moving novels I have ever read. * * Daily Telegraph * *Baricco's delicate, minimalist prose style, full of wistful refrains and subtle rondos, is closer to a haiku than anything in the European literary tradition. * * Independent on Sunday * *Short and sharp, the novel's conclusion is as moving a piece of writing as one might hope to read. -- Chris Power
£9.49
Canongate Books The Fahrenheit Twins and Other Stories
Book SynopsisDeft and lyrical, this paperback edition of Michel Faber's collection of stories is his first since his auspicious debut, Some Rain Must Fall. It has sealed his reputation as one of Britain's most daring and original authors. Acclaimed for his pitch-perfect prose and brilliant characterisation, Faber is also celebrated for his mastery of contrasting styles. From achingly sad lost lives, through moments of exquisitely distilled happiness, to biblical innocence and savagery, Faber's characters are redeemed, abandoned, beloved and laid bare.Trade ReviewBy turns crepuscular, buoyant, delicate, wry, horrific, otherworldly, this worldly and organ-rupturingly funny collection is a vitamin-boost for the British short-story -- David Mitchell * * Guardian * *If you want to see just how far the short story can take you, you have to buy this book -- David Robinson * * The Scotsman * *As always with Faber, these stories are lifted by a delicate sense of otherness that suggest they inhabit a world almost imperceptibly parallel to our own * * Metro * *I dread to think where Faber gets his inspiration from, but there's certainly no shortage of it in sight * * Independent on Sunday * *
£9.99
Canongate Books Carry Me Down
Book SynopsisIreland, 1971, John Egan is a misfit, 'a twelve year old in the body of a grown man with the voice of a giant who insists on the ridiculous truth'. With an obsession for the Guinness Book of Records and faith in his ability to detect when adults are lying, John remains hopeful despite the unfortunate cards life deals him. During one year in John's life, from his voice breaking, through the breaking-up of his home life, to the near collapse of his sanity, we witness the gradual unsticking of John's mind, and the trouble that creates for him and his family.Trade ReviewExpressively communicating the stagnant mood of 1970s Ireland, Hyland's disquieting novel is also feverishly alert to childhood's bewilderments and sensitively articulates the strange osmosis between the mundane and the otherwordly that enriches the narrator's wonky perceptions of humanity. * * The Sunday Times * *This is a gripping read. Hyland has a unique and compelling style. * * Irish Independent * *It is difficult to combine realism and surreal interludes in a single narrative structure, but Hyland manages this effortlessly in what is only her second novel...The most contemporary writer she most brings to mind is AL Kennedy. They share a fondness for quietly, relentlessly shocking the reader....a fictional, exaggerated, but ultimately winning version of every adolescent who ever hesitated nervously on the threshold of the adult world. * * The Daily Telegraph * *
£9.49
The Lilliput Press Ltd Edith
Book SynopsisMartina Devlin, an award-winning columnist for the Irish Independent and podcaster for Dublin City of Literature #CityofBooks, has delivered a new novel based on the life of Edith Somerville of 'Somerville and Ross' fame - authors of The Irish R.M. In this work, set during the turbulent period of Irish Independence 1921-22, Somerville finds herself at a crossroads. Her position as a member of the Ascendancy is perilous as she struggles to keep her family home, Drishane House in West Cork, while others are burned out. After years in a successful writing partnership with Violet Martin, Edith continues to write after her partner's death, comforted in the belief they continue to connect through automatic writing and seances. Against a backdrop of Civil War politics and lawlessness erupting across the country via IRA flying columns, people across Ireland are forced to consider where their loyalties lie. In Edith, Devlin limns a vivid historical context in this story of proto-feminist Edith Somerville courageously trying to keep home and heart in one piece.Trade Review'delicious dark tension and gothic sensibility ... she exhibits a rare genius in delivering a layered, palimpsestic text full of themes that speak to the contemporary reader ... The novel feels so truthful: it is as if Devlin embarked on her own automatic-writing session with Edith Somerville and tapped into the candle-flamed reality of those tumultuous times.' Rosemary Jenkinson, Dublin Review of Books ; 'This is a gorgeous book, beautifully researched and with a fabulous cameo from Flurry Knox. Edith is worth getting to know.' Sinead Crowley ; 'an immersive, entertaining rollercoaster.' Susan McKeever, Books Ireland ; 'As a journalist, Martina Devlin knows a good story, so when she began to delve into the fascinating life and times of Edith Somerville, she had found someone who she knew would come alive on the page.' Irish Examiner ; 'Devlin's writing is warm and witty. She captures dialogue brilliantly, so the book flies by in a flurry of conversation while her prose descriptions are frequently superb too ... As a character, Edith is well realised with all her contradictions and eccentricities ... Devlin's novel is a tender portrait of a nearly forgotten character who springs into life on the page.' John Walshe, Sunday Business Post
£13.30
The Lilliput Press Ltd Francis Bacons Nanny
Book SynopsisIn the final of Maylis Besserie's Irish-French trilogy, her preoccupation with the art and lives of artists who crossed borders between France and Ireland has a fitting climax as Bacon confronts the boundaries between the real and the imagined.
£13.30
Little, Brown Book Group Rush Home Road
Book SynopsisSharla Cody is only five but has already had a troubled life. Then she finds herself dumped with an elderly neighbour when her mother takes off for the summer. Although Sharla is not the angelic child Addy Shadd had pictured when she agreed to look after her, the two soon forge a deep bond. To Addy''s surprise, Sharla''s presence brings back memories of her own childhood in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid-1800s. In the spirit of White Oleander and The Color Purple, this is a story about the redeeming power of love and memory, and about two unlikely people who transform each other''s lives forever.
£9.49
Alma Books Ltd The Death of Ivan Ilyich New Translation
Book SynopsisThe judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to work and often neglecting his family in the process. When, after a small accident, he fails to make the expected recovery, it gradually becomes clear that he is soon to die. Ivan Ilyich then starts to question the futility and barrenness of his previous existence, realizing to his horror, as he grapples with the meaning of life and death, that he is totally alone.Included in this volume is another celebrated novella by Tolstoy, The Devil, which addresses the conflicts between desire, social norms and personal conscience, providing at the same time a further exploration of human fear and obsession.
£8.54
HarperCollins Publishers For All Our Tomorrows
Book Synopsis From Sunday Times bestselling author, Freda Lightfoot. 1943, when hundreds of US Marines arrive at a quiet Cornish town, two lives will never be the same again. Trapped in a small town resistant to change, Bette can’t resist handsome GI, Chad. But when reality draws in, Bette realises that their love was based on empty promises… Meanwhile Bette’s sister Sarah, is tormented by her possessive husband, but even his jealous attempts to keep her out of temptation can't prevent Sarah falling for officer Charlie. Caught in the very worst of times with the turmoil and upheaval of war all around them, can these sisters find a brighter future for tomorrow? A compelling family drama for fans for Maureen Lee and Katie Flynn. Praise for Freda Lightfoot ’Freda's book was a joy to read for her characters were so believable and richly drawn I really cared what happened to them and interspersed with the story was the arrival of the Americans, who caused such a furore in that small Cornish town as D Day approaches, And when World War 2 grinds to a halt, people's lives are changed for ever. It was a real page turner with a very satisfying end.’ - Anne Bennettt
£11.89
Little, Brown Book Group Daughters Of Decadence Stories by Women Writers
Book SynopsisStories by celebrated female writers Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton - edited by Elaine Showalter
£10.44
Not Stated SUMMER OF LILY AND ESME
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£999.99
The Merlin Press Ltd VIDA
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1979, Vida is Marge Piercys classic bookend to the sixties. Vida is full of the pleasures and pains, the experiments, disasters and victories of an extraordinary band of people. At the centre of the novel stands Vida Asch. She has lived underground for almost a decade.
£10.44
Dedalus Ltd Lucio's Confessions
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£8.99
Kaya Press Crevasse
Book SynopsisCrevasse, Hong Kong–based writer Nicholas Wong's newest collection of poetry, which won the 2016 Lamda Literary Award, starts with an epigraph from Maurice Merleau-Ponty that notes the impossibility of observing one's own physical body and, therefore, the necessity of a "second," "unobservable" body from which to view one's own. The poems in Crevasse seek to uncover the thread connecting these mutually observed and observing bodies. Like Samuel Beckett and others before him, Wong has deliberately chosen to write in a non-native language—English, his second language after Cantonese. Freed from the assumptions and conventions of his mother tongue, Wong strips down, interrogates and ultimately reorients the fragmented complexities of the multiple communities he inhabits—queer, Asian, poet, reader, lover—in a collection of poems that exposes the gap between familiarity and the inevitable distance of the body.Trade ReviewI imagine pronouncing Nicholas Wong’s new book “cruh-VASS,” with the emphasis on the second syllable. That seems more poetic to me. However, Wong doesn’t really need my help; Crevasse is leaking poetry. An exploration of bodies, cities, and the rifts within them, Crevasse looks at the tiny cracks that break along the borders of public and private selves. Take a look at the opening lines of the opening poem, “Private Parts: Anti-Bodies,” and you’ll see what I mean -- Dean Rader * Kenyon Review *After reading Crevasse, I reread my review of Wong's debut collection, Cities of Sameness. I wrote that his poems were like statues of Greek gods, sculpted without a spare ounce of fat, and I stand by this observation. Wong's works combine free verse with rigorously carved stanzas, often in couplets and triplets, meticulously versed. This, however, does not mean there has been no development in Wong's poetics. While Cities exhibited experimentation with poetic forms, Crevasse shows more preference for certain forms and motifs. There are three poems named "Private Parts," three named "Self-Portraits" and three structured as one-line stanzas, each starting with a Ginsbergian fixed base (such as "how" or "if"). Wong's diction is as precise as ever, although in Crevasse he often uses somewhat dated vocabulary to add layers of meanings to his language. Not only are the poems top-notch, but even the book's design is so impeccable - the cover, colour scheme, typeface and editing all seem right - that it is like holding a work of art, an elaborate manifestation of aesthetics. -- Michael Tsang * Cha: An Asian Literary Journal *. . . Experimenting with a mixture of humor and pathos, the conceptual and the conversational, Wong circles solitude, the emotion perhaps best understood through invocations of absence.There is the impression a body leaves behind on a bed, a dramatic gap or hole in our lives, a hole through which we fall. Not only does Crevasse beg to be read, and read aloud, and read repeatedly, but as it embodies disturbance, desire, love, and loss, Crevasse demands to be inhabited: the gap closes, if only for as long as the book remains open, solid in your hands. -- Liz Meley * Asian American Literary Review *Crevasse is a gathering of poems that startle in the insistent way they play with memory, history, form, and the expectations we as readers bring to poems. These lines are invested in sentiment as well as intellect. Readers are invited to both feel and think in ways that create a dis-ease, in ways that push against expectations, in ways that challenge comfort. Wong writes in a seemingly causal, confessional, even glib voice about experiences and memories that discomfit us. The assistant poetry editor for Drunken Boat, Wong writes of bodies and antibodies, of Hong Kong and the Queen of England, of sexual awakenings, of race, of desire, of what we might see and know through the body, of politics as well as the erotic, of mourning and loss. -- Maggie Trapp * Los Angeles Review of Books *
£13.29
Kaya Press So Many Olympic Exertions
Book SynopsisNamed one of 5 Writers Under 35 by National Book Foundation, 2019 Blending elements of memoir and sports writing, Anelise Chen’s debut novel is an experimental work that perhaps most resembles what the ancient Greeks called hyponemata, or “notes to the self,” in the form of observations, reminders and self-exhortations. Taken together, these notes constitute a personal handbook on “how to live”––or perhaps more urgently “why to live,” a question the narrator, graduate student Athena Chen, desperately needs answering. When Chen hears news that her brilliant friend from college has committed suicide, she is thrown into a fugue of fear and doubt. Through anecdotes and close readings of moments in the sometimes harrowing world of sports, the novel questions the validity of our current narratives of success. Anelise Chen earned her BA in English from UC Berkeley and her MFA in Fiction from NYU. Her fiction, essays and interviews have appeared in The New York Times, Gawker, NPR and elsewhere. She currently teaches writing at Columbia University.
£15.19
Kaya Press Readymade Bodhisattva
Book SynopsisSpanning more than a half-century of South Korean sci-fi, this massive anthology documents a unique convergence of culture and genre Readymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction presents the first book-length English-language translation of science and speculative fiction from South Korea, bringing together 13 classic and contemporary stories from the 1960s through the 2010s. From the reimagining of an Asimovian robot inside the walls of a Buddhist temple and a postapocalyptic showdown between South and North Korean refugees on a faraway planet to a fictional recollection of a disabled woman's struggle to join an international space mission, these stories showcase the thematic and stylistic versatility of South Korean science-fiction writers in its wide array. At once conversant with the global science-fiction tradition and thick with local historical specificities, their works resonate with other popular cultural products of South Korea—from K-pop and K-drama to videogames, which owe part of their appeal to their pulsating technocultural edge and their ability to play off familiar tropes in unexpected ways. Coming from a country renowned for its hi-tech industry and ultraspeed broadband yet mired in the unfinished Cold War, South Korean science fiction offers us fresh perspectives on global technoindustrial modernity and its human consequences. The book also features a critical introduction, an essay on SF fandom in South Korea, and contextualizing information and annotations for each story. Authors include Geo-il Bok, In-Hun Choi, Djuna, Soyeon Jeong, Bo-Young Kim, Changgyu Kim, Jung-hyuk Kim, Young-ha Kim, Taewoon Lim, Yunseong Mun, Seonghwan Park, Min-gyu Pak, I-Hyeong Yun, Seonghwan Park, Mingyu Pak and I-Hyeong Yun.
£20.69
Kaya Press The Girl Before Her
Book SynopsisA coming-of-age tale of dislocation and inherited trauma from the acclaimed young French Vietnamese novelist French Vietnamese writer Line Papin’s stunning English-language debut, The Girl Before Her offers a window onto the existential anguish of displacement as experienced by a child on the cusp of becoming a woman. Uprooted without explanation from the sunshine and chaos of Hà Nội at the age of ten, the narrator finds herself adrift in the unfamiliar, gray world of France and grappling with a deep sense of uncertainty about who she is and where she belongs. Lacking the words to express her growing sense of alienation, she stops talking, then eating. She is hospitalized and almost dies from anorexia. Part meditation, part family history, part message in a bottle to her younger selves, Papin’s lyrical work of autofiction explores what it takes to embrace one’s multiracial, transnational self by making peace with the generations of women who’ve come before. The Girl Before Her is the first book to be published by Ink & Blood, a new joint imprint from Kaya Press and the Diasporic Vietnamese Artist Network (DVAN), which aims to bring Vietnamese literary voices from across the globe to English readers.Trade ReviewAfter a remarkable debut, Line Papin chooses the intimate as raw material and delivers…. Her account is inhabited by the voice of her elders, but also by a visceral need to narrate herself in order to reconcile with herself. Her writing… remains bewitching and singular. * Elle France *[Line Papin's] pages on Hà N?i… where life and death cohabit as if in the same aquarium, are magnificent -- Annie Ernaux * Nobel Prize winner *A fable, a dream, a nightmare, Line Papin's sharp little book fits like a wedge between the ribs. Her tale, remarkably wise from one her age, is a perfect illustration of nostalgia as a homesickness so severe one can die of it, and Papin nearly does, transplanted from the warmth of family intimacy in Vi?t Nam to the bewildering grayness of France. In the end, her journey reveals itself to be a love story: for the past, for childhood, and for Hà N?i, but also, hopefully, for herself. -- Viet Thanh Nguyen * Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer *
£15.15
Parthian Books Fishboys of Vernazza
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£6.99
Persephone Books Ltd Midsummer Night in the Workhouse
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£16.00
Dedalus Ltd Windswept Dawn
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£12.34
Dedalus Ltd The Last of the Vostyachs
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£9.49
Sandstone Press Ltd Nigheanan Mora
Book SynopsisTha iad og is lan spors, nigheanan oga sa bhaile mhoir cho toilichte 's a ghabhas - ach is e clach-mhile a th' ann an tricheadamh cola-breith. Is nuair a dh'iarras Graeme air Jo a bana-chairdean fhagail airson fuireach comhla ris-san, feumaidh Bell agus Anna rudeigin a dheanamh airson stad a chur oirre. Bell, Anna and Jo have been having a whale of a time together since they left university, but when Jo announces that she's moving in with her boyfriend life takes quite a jolt. Desperate measures are called for if Bell and Anna want to put a stop to this - or maybe they all need to grow up and behave better. Catriona Lexy Campbell's comedy of dating, matchmaking and relationship sabotage tackles the genuine challenges of friendship and adult responsibility with a combination of sensitivity and mischief. Anyone who never wanted to grow up, or still hasn't, will recognise themselves in her lively cast of characters.
£7.59
Copy Press Falling
Book SynopsisThis book begins in zero gravity and ends with everything flowers. In between, figures are falling as we hear something about philosophy, laughter, architecture and war. With writing and drawing coursing through its pages, Falling gathers momentum and, through this, a picture emerges: it looks something like today.Trade Review'Falling is a work of natural philosophy, about wire-walkers and moonwalkers, elevators, angels, slapstick, skyscrapers, swerves, and the dynamic figure that links them. Here Kreider + O'Leary describe 'the beautiful mess we're in' with a speculative precision. Their description of falling, in its uncoupling of the tyranny of cause and effect, displaces the now-prevalent despondency of end-thinking with a prolific joyousness.' Lisa Robertson
£9.50
Barbican Press Disnaeland
Book SynopsisWhat if the end of the world is the best thing that's never happened? As the apocalypse rolls on Donna and her eight-year-old daughter prepare for the worst. But despite the dying world, they find salvation with neighbours they never knew before. There's a chip shop fryer, student dropouts, a street gang, a disillusioned academic, an elderly Jehovah's Witness and a shopkeeper who dreamed of being a journalist. Ordinary people do extraordinary things, from sharing a cooked meal to restarting the water supply using wind power. They build a new world in the ruins of the old. But there's no paradise yet. Botched deals, armed survivalists and raids threaten to destroy progress. And the occasional screech of a fighter jet reminds them that the nuclear threat still looms... AUTHOR: Scottish novelist D.D. Johnston writes books that are "Funny as all Hell" (The Sunday Herald) and "unputtable-downable" (Northern Soul). The consistent theme throughout Johnston's writing is his love for ordinary people, and his faith in the extraordinary things we can achieve together. He lives in Cheltenham, England, where he cares for his infant son. He is a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire. SELLING POINTS: . 'DD JOHNSTON, one of this country's most principled socialist novelists, is also one of the most versatile and talented around.' The Morning Star. . Postapocalyptic but not bleak; Disnaeland is witty, moving and politically charged. The speculative fiction of Disnaeland dares to invert dystopia. . A proudly Scottish novel by a Scottish author. Worthy of a place among the very best Scottish literature.
£18.04
Dedalus Ltd Dedalus Book of Slovak Literature
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£11.39
Dedalus Ltd Cleopatra Goes to Prison
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£7.99
Old Street Publishing Immortals
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£8.54
Troubador Publishing Bird Hits Glass
Book SynopsisWorking at a high-powered consultancy in London, Grace relishes having an outlet for her relentless ambition. When her young body collapses in invisible pains, she becomes desperate for answers – but the doctors can’t find anything wrong. As time stretches out and her body still confines her to bed, she relies on social media and visits from her adventurous boyfriend Matt and fiercely competitive best friend Jas to connect her to the outside world. But as persistent physical pains continue to engulf her, her relationships start to fray. Feeling increasingly lonely, Grace becomes even more desperate to heal. When she discovers a chronically ill social media influencer, she's buoyed by hope that recovery is possible, while beginning to question her assumptions about relationships, love and what it means to live a full life.
£10.44
Luath Press Ltd Eighth Moon Bridge
Book SynopsisEmbark on an enchanting odyssey with The Eight Moon over Rubh' na h-Achlais leis na bord dubh by award-winning writer Angus Peter Campbell. This captivating tale unfolds on a picturesque Scottish island, introducing you to Jack whose journey takes an unexpected turn.Venture south as he temporarily leaves the highlands behind, enticed by the allure of southern comforts. However, the call of his roots is undeniable, prompting him to return on a quest that will shape not only the landscape but also his own identity. Mystery unfolds around a hidden treasure in his homeland, with twists that will keep any reader on their toes.Discover the importance of highland connections, as the narrative weaves a rich tapestry of heritage, identity and the enduring bonds that tie us to our roots.The Eight Moon over Rubh' na h-Achlais leis na bord dubh is a poignant exploration of the human spirit and the significance of preserving one's cultural ties.
£7.59
Olympia Publishers In Light of Madness
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£20.39
Troubador Publishing Ltd The Donkey Sanctuary
Book SynopsisA novel which examines the trials of life in one of the far-flung remnants of the British Empire. Shows the difficulties small countries of the âoldâ British Empire now face in this âmodern worldâ and with a largely uninterested ruling nation.
£9.50
Bookouture The Resort
Book SynopsisYour dream trip or your worst nightmare... The holiday is finally here - a chance to reconnect with your husband at a secluded island resort. But when he calls you from the beach, you know something is very wrong. The beautiful waitress from last night has been found dead. And the police want to question him about it. Sure, you saw him glance her way, but you know he didn''t kill her. So why is he asking you to lie to the police? And where was he when he disappeared last night? He accuses you of being jealous, as always. Yes, the waitress was flirting with him, but you didn''t actually wish her harm. Not really.Can you trust the man you married... or are you the one who can''t be trusted?A completely gripping, utterly twisted thriller that will have you turning the pages all night long! Perfect for fans of Gone Girl, The Hunting Party and The Girl on the Train.What readers are saying about <
£9.49
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Now Never or at the very last second
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£11.69
