Set in the years following the Mexican Revolution, El Llano in Flames is a collection of stark and violent short stories translated by Stephen Beechinor.
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If you love cleverly constructed mind-bending literature, you’ll appreciate Pharricide. Buy it. Or pick it up at the library.
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And they ask, “What would it mean, to trans people now, if our history were common knowledge?”
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With over thirty contributions from as many writers, Common People shines a light on the huge diversity of people in the United Kingdom and celebrates this richness loudly.
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So my big question when starting the book was “How is this going to work?”
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When you expect The Gods Will Hear Us Eventually to become a whodunnit it morphs more into a mystery and almost becomes a ghost story, but don’t let me give ...
We that are young, which recently won the Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction, is a retelling of the King Lear story set in India.
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Juno Baker’s “The Rules of the Game”, set in the 1980s, teenage schoolgirls vie for an appearance on a TV gameshow that one of them dreams might change her life ...
Guest tackles one of the most scandalous abuses of our democracy in recent history – the infiltration of the Green movement by undercover policemen who formed relationships and had families ...
Moments of brilliance are balanced against frustrating weaker material in this collection of short stories.
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David Mitchell’s ambitious new novel addresses the metaphysical, but is grounded in a realism that both disturbs and amuses.
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Seventeenth-century Amsterdam is vividly brought to life in this this entertaining debut novel.
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A new collection of short stories about Rio de Janeiro by Brazilian writers invites readers to discover the city behind the city – where anything goes.
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