Almost English
£9.99Longlisted for both the Man Booker and the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Charlotte Mendelson’s Almost English is an extraordinary, warm and funny novel about family, food and identity.
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Daughters of Jerusalem
£9.99Behind a crumbling facade of normality, secrets begin to stir within the Lux family home in Charlotte Mendelson’s prize-winning novel Daughters of Jerusalem
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Disorientation
£9.99Disorientation is at once a blistering send-up of privilege and power, and a profound reckoning of individual complicity and unspoken rage – an electrifying debut novel from a provocative voice.
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Things to come and go
£9.99The three novellas collected together in Things to Come and Go showcase Bette Howland at her best. Written just before she won the MacArthur Genius Fellowship in 1984, these intimate portraits of Jewish family life are by turns equally truthful and bittersweet.
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The centre
£16.99A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who attends a mysterious language school which boasts complete fluency in just ten days, but at a secret, sinister cost.
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Rental person who does nothing
£14.99The true life adventures of Shoji Morimoto, who launched a business in which he rents himself out to do nothing in Japan.
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The house of fortune
£9.99The sequel to the million-copy bestseller The Miniaturist, The House of Fortune returns us to the mysterious Brandt family in Amsterdam in 1705 for a story of fate and ambition, secrets and dreams, and one young woman’s determination to rule her own destiny.
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The hard sell
£10.99A medical crime story, in the vein of Empire of Pain and Bad Blood, concerned with fentanyl and drawing back the curtains in exposing the on-the-ground tactics employed in pharmaceutical sales.
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Briefly, a delicious life
£9.99When George Sand and Frédéric Chopin arrive at a monastery in Mallorca, the resident ghost, Blanca, falls head-over-heels in love with George – this striking woman in a man’s clothing. But the rest of the village is suspicious, and as winter sets in, their stay looks likely to end in disaster. For fans of How to Be Both by Ali Smith.
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The last drop
£20.00A gripping, thought-provoking and ultimately optimistic investigation into the world’s next great climate crisis – the scarcity of water.
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This is Europe
£22.00A portrait of Europe as it has never been seen before, told through twenty extraordinary stories of the people who live and breathe it.