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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From Rachel Kushner, Booker Prize finalist and two-time National Book Award finalist, comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France'The most exciting writer of her…
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Translated by Frank WynneA novel of rage, irreverence and vulnerability, exploring ageing, gender, privilege, addiction and consent, Dear Dickhead is an excoriating encapsulation of our times - by the queen of French punk…
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In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain’s greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant streets of sixties London, as an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and obsession . . .** FROM THE WORLDWIDE…
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You wake up in the footwell of a mid-sized hatchback somewhere on a highway in outer Bangkok. You compile neurotic spreadsheets of the best ‘party destinations’ in Europe, whilst your work emails pile up without ever being read.…
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An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.From the author of the bestseller Normal People.Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in…
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The narrator of My Lesbian Novel is Renee Gladman, an artist and writer who has produced the same acclaimed body of experimental art and prose as the real-life Renee Gladman, and who is now being interviewed by an unnamed…
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A thrillingly gripping autobiographical novel of illness, by the acclaimed author of What Belongs To You (winner of Debut of the Year at the British Book Awards) and Cleanness.'Marvelous: exceptionally vivid, real, and true'…
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Translated by Lara Vergnaud“A rare book that depicts the isolation and poetry of rural life.” Annie ErnauxEveryone is asking about his identity. Gay? Muslim? French? Moroccan? Instead of choosing a side, he writes a book. A…
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As wrenching and luminous as Omar El Akkad’s What Strange Paradise and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to Libya to Italy, from an…
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A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all.'An unflinchingly true and honest depiction of a marriage turning from gold to dust ' – Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The…
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PartitaFiction and non-fiction are two sides of the same coin. Or are they? Michael Penderecki is in flight. Someone has threatened to kill him. But who is the woman dead in the bathtub? And why does the voice of Yves Montand singing 'Les…
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A frantic love letter to love itself, Romeo & Seahorse is a sexy, frightening, tender, and visceral rush through Berlin's chemsex scene.Romeo has Hepatitis again. It's no surprise, and when you haven't slept for days staying awake is…
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The Voyage Home is the exhilarating follow-up to Pat Barker's The Women of Troy and The Silence of the GirlsAfter ten blood-filled years, the war is over. Troy lies in smoking ruins as the victorious Greeks fill their ships…
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'A novella of clarity and strange grace, etched with a fierce and patient skill.' -- Sebastian BarryIt's the early 19th century and a small sailing ship with a cargo of convict women and their children is crossing the ocean to a penal…
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Translated by Charlotte BarslundA groundbreaking, potent novel about the destructive force of romantic love from award-winning writer Vigdis HjorthA relatively young woman, aged thirty. She married in her early twenties, had two children.…
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