An artist joins an island community of impoverished like-minded souls. When the island's owner pushes up the rent, a conflict ensues in which the dispossessed protest against gentrification.
A powerful exploration of illicit desire, in which a 17-year-old girl has a crush on a friend of her parents that turns on some dark events of 24 years previously.
A dizzying and quietly surreal novel of South London life narrated through an interlinked series of episodic character studies. Ridgway's neo-Beckettian prose is never less than needle sharp... read more
A pair of achingly clever young women email each other about the state of the world. They are young, Irish, anxious and in love with unsuitable men. So far so Rooney. But this much-hyped thi... read more
Moves from art student life in Brussels to Lascaux; trompe l'oeil and the art of deceit. MdeK won the Wellcome Book Prize and was longlisted for the International Man Booker for 'Mend the Li... read more
General Alwany is a pious man who loves his family. He also tortures and kills enemies of the state. Sound familiar? From the author of 'The Yacoubian Building'.
Two cadres in China's Cultural Revolution, drunk on politics and their own affair, are discovered. By the author of 'Three Brothers: Memories of My Family', 'Lenin's Kisses', 'The Day the Su... read more
A lyrical new novel from the author of 'The Year of the Runaways' explores family history, cultural estrangement, sequestration and freedom, passion and its consequences.
A feast of counterfactuals by a very clever writer ('HHHH', 'The 7th Function of Language') with a talent for black comedy: it's1531 and the Incas have invaded Europe, armed with a copy of M... read more
Funny and intricate debut novel by the acclaimed poet gives London's literary scene an exhilarating spin in a barrel - plagiarism, stolen poems, falls from grace and attempts to right wrongs... read more
An historical thriller set in the Paris Commune of 1871. Two Communards search in the midst of the violence and chaos for a young nurse who has disappeared - the latest in a series of women... read more
A witty historical novel that conjures Dryden, Swift, Pope, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and their ilk, by the cunning means of an imagined memoir, written by William Congreve's servant and com... read more