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Dan Fogarty, an Irishman living in England, is looking after his sister Una, now seventy and suffering from dementia in a care home in Margate. From Dan’s anarchic account, we gradually piece together the story of the Fogarty family. How the parents are exiled from a small Irish village and end up ...

'Ireland produces writers the way some countries produce footballers, and the latest is John Patrick McHugh' Sunday Times


'One of the most exciting writers working in Ireland today' SALLY ROONEY, author of Normal People

Espionage fact and fiction collide in this thrilling compendium of spy writing, where you'll fi nd some of the greatest spy stories ever written alongside genuine agent reports and instructions that changed the course of history - all within one definitive and unique collection. Daring wartime plans ...

Supremacy Software is the world's largest video-game developer and publisher. If you've played games, you've played one of theirs at some point. They're the shining light, a dream job for many aspiring game developers. Who Hunts the Whale? tells the story of a newly hired PA taking a seat in the executive ...

Deals with how we spend our days and too many of our nights. This book discusses being away from friends and family, sharing a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers we call colleagues. It discusses how we sit all morning next to someone we deliberately cross the road to avoid at lunchtime. It presents the story of our times.

Hiding her clandestine activities behind the persona of a model Nazi soldier's wife at the height of World War II, Sigrid Schroeder dreams of her former Jewish lover and risks everything to hide a mother and two young children who she believes might be her lover's family. A first novel.

For CIA operative John Wells, the underworld has become more real than the real world. He's spent years in the close company of evil men. And he's paid the price in every possible way. Now, he's on the ragged edge of burnout. His nights are plagued by twisted dreams. He's beginning to doubt if he can ...

When Scarlett Smith's mother dies of a heart attack on Coronation day, Scarlett and her father have to move out of their country pub to a seafront pub in South end. There Scarlett meets Jonathan Blane, son of the landlord. They enjoy an innocent romance, but when Jonathan's father makes a pass at Scarlett and she reacts violently.

A richly drawn collection of stories that brings contemporary Botswana to life

An intimate, stirring portrait of a country at war and a family's battle to survive

Elikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding' Afi Tekple is a young seamstress living in a small town in Ghana with her widowed mother. Even Afi does' t believe her future holds much excitement. Until one day she is offered a life-changing opportunity - a proposal of marriage from the ...

The only edition in print of the classic book at the center of Hugo Hamilton's highly anticipated novel, The Pages Joseph Roth's 1924 tale of a one-legged street musician defying his fate in postwar Vienna.
Andreas Pum, having lost his leg in World War I, is rewarded with a medal and a permit to support ...

In the thick of the Cold War, a betrayal at the highest level risks the lives of two courageous female spies: MI6's best Soviet agent and the CIA's newest Moscow recruit.

Combining the sticky sexual politics of Luster with the dizzying, perceptive intimacy of Cleanness, Little Rabbit is a wholly new kind of coming-of-age story about lust, punishment, artistic drive and desires that defy the hard-won boundaries of the self.

First published in 1960, Penelope Mortimer's only collection of short stories lays bare the fury and despair that lurk beneath the surface of everyday domestic life.

A mother and her young son arrive at a rental house in rural France only to find themselves locked out; a fractious family of five try ...

The story of a young woman's brief life, her brutal murder, and the world that moves on without her

A rich and powerful exploration of desire, sin and redemption, by one of our best chroniclers of faith in the 21st century

In her perceptive and affecting new novel, Daniela Krien explores a marriage where everything hangs in the balance.

The divine Spark is shining at her brightest . . . Pure delight' Claire Tomalin, INDEPENDENT

'Brown Girls flows like a late night FM-radio dedication to the crew, the block, and the mission. This book's a gift' Paul Beatty, author of The Sellout
'An ode to girlhood' Raven Leilani, author of Luster

A fiercely poetic coming-of-age novel following a group of young ...