New and Recommended: Fiction
Selected by the Bookshop
Wikipedia defines fiction as ‘any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying people, events or places in imaginary ways that are not strictly based on history or fact’, and who are we to argue with that? Anyway you know what fiction is. Here’s some of our recent favourites.
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Translated by Antonia Lloyd-JonesA woman settles in a remote Polish village. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of its living and its dead. There’s the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that he shares his body…
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'I get the feeling that Liadan Ní Chuinn would hate the term "voice of a generation", but it may be foisted on them nonetheless - and with good reason' Sunday TimesA young girl spends her days on a double-decker bus. A bride-to-be…
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'Mick Herron is our best and most topical spy writer' Ian Rankin'Britain's finest living thriller writer' Sunday Express'The man is a genius' The Spectator----Spies lie. They betray. It's what they do.Slow horse River…
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Translated by Chris AndrewsNever before translated short stories by the legendary Ágota Kristóf'One of the 20th century's greatest writers' Camilla Grudova'Pure genius' Max PorterI don’t care: it’s not even…
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The first full-length novel since the Goldsmiths Prize-winning H(a)ppy from one of Britain's most brilliant, audacious, inventive and hilarious novelists.‘Is this honest? Are we all…
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A story of the lives of the three people who make a family, the one moment in history that shatters what held them together, and the reverberations of that event that last a lifetime'Ferociously smart and full of surprises' Eleanor Catton,…
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Translated by Angela RodelFrom the author of the Booker Prize-winning Time Shelter comes a new novel about departing fathers in a departing world, translated by Angela RodelMy father was a gardener. Now he is a garden.A man sits…
Recommended by John
‘Raunchy 21st century Virginia Woolf with an unforgettable narrator, finding the numinous in small quotidian rituals. My favourite debut novel for ages and ages.’
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In the 'middle of life' - although this is only thirty-six - and with the unsparing eye of a portraitist, Lavinia reviews her frustrations and her solitariness, the grief and the rapture: these are her seeming companions in a pageant…
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Plans for the expansion of the Capmeadow Business Park are in full swing – its mission is to become the greatest business park in the region. Tom Crowley, a mid-level employee, loses his daughter at ‘bring your daughter to work…
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Translated by Jacob EdelsteinA near-future tale about love, life, and friendship in a world that’s falling apart.Chilco is the name of Pascale’s home island. It is also the Mapudungun word for fuchsia: a word that…
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Gabriel Dax returns in this elegant, twisting mystery of espionage and obsession and takes the reader deep into one of history's most infamous assassinations.BRITAIN'S MOST BELOVED STORYTELLER RETURNS WITH A TWISTING ADVENTURE OF OBSESSIVE…
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Translated by Kathy SaranpaA feminist cult classic about love, independence and what it means to be an individual, translated into English for the first time‘I want to have him, I really do. I just don’t want him to have…
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