Region: Britain (59 Listed volumes)
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Andrew Miller
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free
When Captain John Lacroix returns home from Spain, wounded, unconscious, and alone, he believes that he has seen the worst of what men may do. It is 1809, and in England’s wars against Napoleon, the Battle of Corunna stands out as a humiliation: a once-proud army forced to retreat, civilized men reduced... -
James Hamilton-Paterson
Cooking with Fernet Branca
A witty satire of the expat experience in rural Europe and antidote to every “wish-you-were-here” travel memoir, this novel is entertainment in its purest form. -
Laura Barnett
Greatest Hits
The beloved singer-songwriter Cass Wheeler has abandoned retirement for one last chapter in her musical career. -
Clare Fisher
All the Good Things
A 2018 Betty Trask Award Winner. Beth has done something awful. Something that has led to her arrest. Something that has convinced her she is a fundamentally bad person. -
Su Bristow
Sealskin
Donald, a young fisherman, is overwhelmed when he comes across a group of beautiful women dancing on the shore beneath the moonlight. They are selkies — seals that shed their skin once a year to become human for a few hours. The decision he makes that night, to capture one of these selkies and... -
Natalie Haynes
The Children of Jocasta
Told in intersecting narratives, this feminist reimagining of Sophocles’ classic plays brings life and voice to the women who were too often forced to the background of their own stories. -
Alan Parks
Bloody January
An exciting, evocative first-in-series noir novel set in 1973 Glasgow, a city on the cusp of a heroin epidemic, featuring detective Harry McCoy. -
Jane Gardam
The Flight of the Maidens
Jane Gardam, author of the Old Filth Trilogy, delivers another modern classic in The Flight of the Maidens. With her characteristic wit, Gardam captures a moment in time for three young women on the cusp of adulthood. With keen perception the novel charts the course of this trio as they boldly...
