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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE LONG TAKE In the ruins, a painter sketches a rough sleeper. Reminded of his dead daughter, he rescues this strange figure, bringing him back with him to Venice. Opening among the pinks and golds of the 18th century, this is the story of a...

The new novel from the Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Impossibility of Love and The Baroness. Tuscany, 1470: in the bright light of a new day, an artist is lying awake. He is thinking about a new painting, a fresco, that will shape his future, and echo down the centuries. In the 1920s...

McMurtry's follow-up to All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers will capture a whole new audience, opening up the world of the now-millionaire Danny Deck and his strong and passionate daughter T.R.. "Mr. Deck, are you my stinkin' Daddy?" In a furious phone call from T.R., the daughter he's...

Another rediscovered masterpiece from the author of Embers: an erotically charged novel–written within the framework of historical reality–about Casanova’s fateful encounter with the woman who finally defeats him. In 1756 Giacomo Casanova escaped from the dreaded cells of Venice’s most...

From “a once in a generation talent” (Lucy Rose), a haunting hymn to queer love, this bruisingly tender debut is a testament to our ability to rebuild from the wreckage. Moving to the countryside was supposed to fix Clare and Phoebe’s relationship. A fresh start, a change of scenery, a...

September 2003 marked the 50th anniversary of Maud Martha, the only novel published by esteemed poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Initially entitled ""American Family Brown"" the work would eventually come to symbolize some of Brooks' most provocative writing. In a novel that captures the essence of Black...

In this powerful companion to his debut novel, Red Clay, Charles B. Fancher paints a portrait of small-town love, loss, and redemption in the Jim Crow South. In Red Clay, Alabama, of 1905, everybody knows Edna Mae Daniels. At least they think they do, and if you ask them, they’ll be glad to...

A government official goes head-to-head with the crew of a radical ecological outpost, in this striking new novel about defiance, hope, and resilience, perfect for fans of Wild Dark Shore and The Light Pirate Ella Powell is efficient, focused, and not easily rattled. As a human relocation...

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The great Alice McDermott returns with a sparkling, powerful new novel of one woman’s life, told in three remarkable acts. It is 1980 in New York City, and a young woman is perched on a radiator cover in a spacious SoHo loft. A famous photographer snaps her portrait for a full-page review of...

An irresistible novella about two sisters and a night that changes everything, from the master chronicler of our heart’s hidden desires “Hadley is pure magic.” ―Lily King, New York Times bestselling author of Heart the Lover “A coming-of-age story humming with all the tightly packed...

In this thunderous reimagining of David and Goliath set on a family farm in the American South, David Jerimiah Lightfoot feels called irresistibly to land he's never seen, where a fateful feud simmers between a pastor and his protégé. “The beautiful, brutal landscape, the love, the evil, the...

From the award-winning author of Chemistry and Rental House, a sharp and perceptive novel about two artists who wonder if their instant and electric connection is romantic, platonic, creative, destructive, or even remotely sustainable Widely celebrated as a pitch-perfect chronicler of life’s...

Sisterhood is stronger than secrets. The breakout novel from "formidable talent" (Ann Patchett) Monica West, a heart-wrenching coming-of-age novel about a young woman who follows her missing older sister into a cult in a courageous attempt to set them both free. One ordinary night, Ramona...

A man in exile. A young bride left behind. A mistress who becomes their go-between. A connection like no other. On a warm spring night in 1949, Benedito da Silva kills a man: a drunken stranger who has followed him home and attacked Bene’s new bride. When the dead man’s powerful family...

In this freewheeling romp by the author of the post-Holocaust novel Not Me (“Nothing short of brilliant” —Baltimore Sun), the final pilgrimage of the great Andalusian Hebrew poet Yehuda Halevi frames a tale of Jews getting into trouble across centuries and continents, still looking for...

In this debut campus-novel-turned-corporate-thriller from a blistering new voice in Australian fiction, two young star-crossed reporters navigating the worlds of journalism and finance find themselves on opposite sides of a career-defining clash. In the cramped basement office of their...

“Leah Abrams grapples with how to live, work, and fall in love morally in a time of global upheaval. Moving, smart, and completely winning.”—Erin Somers, author of The Ten Year Affair "A modern comic Jewish voice. Dated is a rollicking literary sitcom and generous family saga, beautiful...

What could I tell you about George Jarvis except that he was an enslaved black Hindoo servant, born in India, one of many, what do I care ... I will tell you our story in the language of your time ... The year 1810 in the colony of New South Wales: George Jarvis has just arrived with his master...

Three siblings. Three decades. One family story. Set across twenty years of contemporary Ireland, Interlude follows siblings Cian, Dave and Katie as they confront the choices and ruptures that shape their lives, and their family. Each decade marks a moment of crisis that forces a reckoning with...