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by Rebbecca Ray 'When I was fourteen I lost my virginity to a twenty-seven-year-old man. And on a school night too.' Oliver's different. A grown-up. So what if he's old enough to drive or have a job? His ...
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by Greg Baxter In his early thirties, Greg Baxter found himself in a strange place. He hated his job, he was drinking excessively, he was sabotaging his most important relationships, and he was no longer doing the thing he cared ...
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by Tom Chesshyre One year after the first uprisings of the Arab Spring, Tom Chesshyre jumped on a plane and travelled as a tourist across Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. The result is travel writing on the edge. He tracks down the spot ...
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by Richard Beard 'A gentle, wise and touching book, full of warmth and humour, friendship and humanity' - Literary Review For years Richard Beard took spontaneous holidays with his motorcycling friend ...
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'A fine and heartbreaking novel' Fiona Shaw At the beginning of the 20th century, the Salierno family make a tough living as farmers in the forbiding, mountainous terrain of southern Italy. One stiflingly hot summer, an ...
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by Ron Butlin 'An assured, beautifully written novel' Iain Banks Scottish drifter Jack McCall, handyman in an Alpine ski resort, spends his days sneaking into the empty penthouses of the super-rich with his ...
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Pby Adam Thorpe/P P"EMBetween Each Breath /EMis a potent examination of an artist's self-doubts and of the moral queasiness of middle age. Adam Thorpe is such a fine, exact writer that he seems to open up for the reader a new way of seeing ...
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Pby Adam Thorpe/P PAdam Thorpe's fifth collection finds purpose in the discarded, the secretive, the failed. Juxtaposing creation and destruction, hope and grief - a small boy deep down a lead mine an unlit, nocturnal path set against the ...
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by Amanda Smyth 'Amanda Smyth writes like a descendant of Jean Rhys. Black Rock is a powerful cocktail of heat and beautiful coolness, written in a heady, mesmerising yet translucent prose which marks Smyth out as a born novelist.' ...
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by Kevin Barry Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award 'An electrifying masterpiece' - Joseph O'Connor Forty years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland ...
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