Based on a True Story
£16.99Once upon a time there was a family. Everything else is a lie. The compelling new novel about power, money and lies from the author of Anatomy of a Scandal.
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What Am I, a Deer?
£14.99Polly Barton’s bitingly funny debut novel follows a young woman set on reinvention after moving to a new city. Traversed by violent crushes and a karaoke obsession, What Am I, A Deer? acutely captures the paradoxes and pitfalls of young adulthood in deliriously self-conscious, propulsive prose.
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My Lover, the Rabbi
£14.99To the untrained eye, the rabbi is far from desirable. He is lofty and unkempt, he is ageing and his congregation is ever diminishing. But to one man, he is the object of obsession. Our narrator adores the rabbi and worships the universe between his legs. But so too does he bristle at being relegated to the peripheries of the rabbi’s life. When they’re apart, he manically contemplates every element of the rabbi’s being: his absent husband; his first (and only) wife and child, both now deceased; his unstable, yet alluring, adopted son. Until, in a bid to help sustain their relationship, our narrator embarks on an increasingly urgent quest to better understand his mercurial lover – one which threatens to upturn the lives of both men.
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The City Changes Its Face
£9.99It’s 1995. Outside their grimy window, the city rushes by. But in the flat there is only Stephen and Eily. Their bodies, the tangled sheets. Unpacked boxes stacked in the kitchen and the total obsession of new love. Eighteen months later, the flat feels different. Love is merging with reality. Stephen’s teenage daughter has re-appeared, while Eily has made a choice, the consequences of which she cannot outrun. Now they face a reckoning for all that’s been left unspoken – emotions, secrets and ambitions. Tonight, if they are to find one another again, what must be said aloud? Love rallies against life. Time tells truths. The city changes its face.
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Celestial Lights
£16.99‘Exquisite and deeply felt’ VOGUE
‘Beautifully rendered’ GRAZIA
‘Magnificent … melds sharp insight with great heart’ NICOLA DINAN
‘Thoughtful and beautifully compelling’ ALICE WINN
A beautiful, heartbreaking novel about ambition, love and space from the award-winning author of the Women’s Prize longlisted Wandering Souls.
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Paradiso 17
£16.99LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026
‘Miraculous’ OMAR EL AKKAD
‘Stunning’ MAAZA MENGISTE
‘Beautiful and powerful’ LISA OWENS
‘Wondrous’ NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH
An extraordinary, sweeping novel following one man's itinerant search for home across the globe, after his childhood exile from Palestine.
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Appointment in Paris
£10.99April 1940, and Britain is in turmoil. Chamberlain’s government is faltering, and a German invasion may be only weeks away. A body, wearing the uniform of a Luftwaffe captain, is found in the grounds of Trent Park – a stately home and now a prison to house high level German POWs. Trent Park’s true purpose, however, is intelligence, gathered covertly from prisoners by secret listeners. The morning after the discovery of the body, one of the listeners goes missing, along with a gun from the firing range. Horrified that this could blow the highly confidential operation wide open, the missing man must be tracked down. Cue Harry Fox, a former MI5 Watcher, now suspended. He is desperate to assist the war effort but he’s over the conscription age. Then his former boss gets in touch with a job for him, to track down the missing man.
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Stone and Sky
£10.99Detective Sergeant Peter Grant takes a much-needed holiday up in Scotland. And he’ll need one when this is over. If more’s the merrier, then it’s ecstatic as his partner Beverley, their young twins, his mum, dad, his dad’s band and their dodgy manager all tag along. Even his boss, DCI Thomas Nightingale, takes in the coastal airs as he trains Peter’s cousin Abigail in the arcane arts. And they’ll need them too, because Scotland’s Granite City has more than its fair share of history and mystery, myth – and murder. When a body is found in a bus stop, fresh from the sea, the case smells fishy from the off. Something may be stirring beyond the bay – but there’s something far stranger in the sky.
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The Visit
£16.99Sergeant Jim Field feels a guilty paternalism for Patrick Hatten, a young man struggling to find a job, a life and a purpose in a small-town Wexford community. Both are used to being on the fringes, but while Jim is a romantic with bad health and regret, Patrick is full of anger and action, and his actions could have devastating effects.
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The Delusions
£18.99With reflections on love, defiance and light, this novel is a story of profound human connection, on an unprecedented scale.