Durante toda su infancia, Vivien Kovaks, una niña sensible, tímida y retraída, vive aislada tanto del pasado como del presente. Sus padres, emigrantes húngaros en una Inglaterra hostil, creen en que lo...

Evelyn Sert decide, en involuntaria imitación de millares de refugiados de todo el mundo que quieren empezar una vida nueva en un país nuevo, marcharse a Palestina, la tierra prometida. Luego de un breve...

Evelyn Sert decide, en involuntaria imitación de millares de refugiados de todo el mundo que quieren empezar una vida nueva en un país nuevo, marcharse a Palestina, la tierra prometida. Luego de un breve...

Durante toda su infancia, Vivien Kovaks, una niña sensible, tímida y retraída, vive aislada tanto del pasado como del presente. Sus padres, emigrantes húngaros en una Inglaterra hostil, creen en que lo...

Alix, arrogant, middle-aged and angry comes home to the derelict port of Liverpool as her mother lies dying. Irritably resigned to living alone for the rest of her life she suddenly finds herself erotically...

A good handbag makes the outfit. Only the rich can afford cheap shoes. The only thing worse than being skint is looking as if you're skint.'For centuries, an interest in clothes has been dismissed as...

In 1968 Stephen Newman arrives in England from California. Sent down from Oxford, he hurriedly marries his English girlfriend Andrea to avoid returning to America and the draft board. Over the next forty...

'If you go back and look at your life there are certain scenes, acts, or maybe just incidents on which everything that follows seems to depend. If only you could narrate them, then you might be understood....

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEIn a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then...

This is a capacious and wide-ranging book, not just about individuals but about the history they move through. Whether the scene is Liverpool in the Blitz, a potato-chip factory in the prairies or a seedy...

Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for FictionThe Second World War is over, a new decade is beginning but for an East End teenage brother and sister living on the edge of the law, life has been...

The further away anyone was from that block of Ben Yehuda street, the easier it seemed to find a solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, that stubborn mess in the centre of the Middle...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2023 'Epic and marvellously entertaining... There's a furious energy to the novel, which constantly moves forward even as it looks sorrowfully back'FINANCIAL...

WINNER OF THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2020When a dead body is found in the Thames, caught in the chains of HMS Belfast, it begins a search for a missing woman. A policeman, a documentary film-maker and...

A short story by Linda Grant from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre. In ‘The Mash Up’, a woman recalls the strain of juggling opposing cultures at her wedding....

Born to hardworking immigrant parents in sunny suburban Los Angeles, Stephen Newman never imagined that he would spend his adult life under the grey skies of north London, would marry Andrea for convenience...

A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by sixteen bestselling, award-winning writers.'Wonderful . . . all killer, no filler' Red Magazine'Dazzling stories, as inventive as they are inspiring'...