Region: Britain (84 Listed volumes)
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Ben Hopkins
Cathedral
Ambitious, immersive, a remarkable feat of imagination, Cathedral tells a sweeping story about obsession, mysticism, art, and earthly desire. It deftly combines historical fiction, the literary novel of ideas, and a tale of adventure and intrigue. -
Gideon Defoe
An Atlas of Extinct Countries
Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated – and timely – history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist. “Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They’re all equally implausible once... -
Benjamin Wood
A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better
Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award and the European Union Prize for Literature 2019. “His mistakes are my inheritance. The rotten blood he gave me is the blood I will pass on.” For twenty years, Daniel Hardesty has lived with the emotional scars of a childhood trauma... -
Ben Hopkins
Cathedral
Ambitious, immersive, a remarkable feat of imagination, Cathedral tells a sweeping story about obsession, mysticism, art, and earthly desire. It deftly combines historical fiction, the literary novel of ideas, and a tale of adventure and intrigue. -
Karen Powell
The River Within
It is the summer of 1955. Alexander, Tom and his sister Lennie, discover the body of their childhood friend Danny Masters in the river that runs through Starome, a village on the Richmond estate in North Yorkshire. His death is a mystery. Did he jump, or was it just an accident? -
Stav Sherez
The Intrusions
Detectives Carrigan and Miller are drawn into a terrifying new world of cyberstalking – where the threat of online intimidation, hacking, and control is ever-present, and disturbing contemporary themes and dark psychology are explored with Stav Sherez’s customary skill. -
Meena Kandasamy
When I Hit You
“Meena Kandasamy’s vivid, sharp and precise writing makes a triumph of When I Hit You.”—Guardian -
Rebecca Wait
Our Fathers
Brave and urgent, Our Fathers shows how deeply family can wound and how it can offer our greatest solace. -
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.