A collection of our best reads in fiction for the cultured and worldly reader.
£220.00
This Collection Includes:
The Bee Sting - Paul Murray
A brilliantly amusing, profoundly sad depiction of an Irish family struggling to connect.
The Other Side of Paradise - Vanessa Beaumont
A story of duty, scandal, and a mother’s desperate attempt to protect her sons from a secret that will destroy them.
This Strange Eventful History - Claire Messud
This Strange Eventful History charts the unfolding story of a Franco-Algerian family over three generations, in a work of breathtaking historical sweep and vivid psychological intimacy.
Rosarita - Anita Desai
A beautiful, haunting novel set in Mexico that explores memory, grief, and a young woman’s determination to forge her own path.
My Friends - Hisham Matar
An intensely moving novel about three friends living in political exile and the emotional homeland that deep friendships can provide
Her Side of the Story - Alba de Cespedes
A captivating feminist classic about a woman's struggle for independence in fascist Italy.
The Most - Jessica Anthony
A tightly wound, consuming tale about a 1950s American housewife and her refusal to get out of her swimming pool.
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
The novel serves as a postcolonial and feminist prequel to Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre.
So Late in the Day - Claire Keegan
This novella follows a man who is looking back over the years, remembering a woman that, perhaps, he might have had a life with if he had been another, better, man.
Long Island Compromise - Taffy Brodesser-Akner
An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, and the wild legacy of trauma and inheritance.
How to Leave the House - Nathan Newman
This is the story of twenty-four hours in the life of an anxious man, and his small-town odyssey in pursuit of a missing package.
The Bridegroom Was a Dog - Yoko Tawada
Haunting and atmospheric, Tawada's dark fable about a schoolteacher's romance with a dog-like man makes for a unique reading experience.
Double Blind - Edward St Aubyn
Following three friends across the globe, this thrilling, ambitious novel is as compelling about ecology, psychoanalysis, genetics and neuroscience as it is about love, fear and courage.
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