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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The debut novel from the brilliant essayist, reviewer, cultural critic and author of FlaneuseThe story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apart.In 2019, Anna, a psychoanalyst, is…
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'Holy smokes this novel is an absolute cut above! Exciting, surprising, intellectually provocative, weird, radical, tender and moving. I missed it when I was away from it. I will hurry to re-read it. Make room on your bookshelves for a new…
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The new novel by Booker-shortlisted author Chigozie Obioma'Obioma is truly the heir to Chinua Achebe' New York Times'Remarkable' Alice Walker'A major new African writer' Salman RushdieAt first the vision is grainy—like something…
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Translated by Bryan KaretnykAn old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain village of Onikobe in order to look into a twenty-year-old murder case. But no sooner has Kindaichi arrived than…
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A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2024, the sequel to the beloved bestseller, Brooklyn'Heartbreak, wistfulness, cracking dialogue . . . This is Tóibín at his best' - The Times'A masterful…
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The sexy, most romantic debut novel of 2024'Clever, sexy and joyful. I loved it' BETH O'LEARY, AUTHOR OF THE FLATSHARE'A fizzing roller-coaster of a rom-com. The sexiest book you'll read all year and the most…
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They knew each other because their families knew each other: had known each other, for a long time.An elegant, audacious and blisteringly funny portrait of inheritance, defiance and love - from a major new talent'Carnal and…
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They thought they knew everything about us. The kind of women we were.It was a place for women. A remote farm tucked away in the Kent Downs. A safe space.When Iris – newly single and living at home with her mother – meets the…
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A visceral, bite-size novella from a rising Asian American literary star with a striking, surreal, irreverent voice - one of the '5 under 35' National Book Award honorees'Hauntingly beautiful' GLAMOUR'Rowdy and…
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A savagely funny, achingly beautiful tale set in the Wild West, from the Booker-longlisted author of Night Boat to TangierA GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024A NEW STATESMAN FICTION HIGLIGHT OF…
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Translated by Holly JamesIn this prequel to the critical sensation Love Me Tender, Constance Debré breaks free from conformity to live her life as a butch lesbian'Defiant, probing, hot' Saba Sams, author of Send NudesAt the…
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Translated by Sophie HughesThe New Novel From the International Booker Prize Shortlisted Author‘A spellbinding nightmare … Addictive’ FERNANDA MELCHOR‘Grippingly original, a book of intense…
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The City of Durham, 1434. Out of a storm, an aging minstrel arrives at the cathedral to entertain the city’s most powerful men.Mother Naked is his name, and the story he’s come to tell is the Legend of the Fell Wraith: the…
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An unforgettable story of love, faith and science, Enlightenment is Sarah Perry’s finest novel to dateThomas Hart and Grace Macauley are fellow worshippers at the Bethesda Baptist chapel in the small Essex town of Aldleigh.…
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