Land, Whistler and The White Desert.

‘The literary equivalent of pricey ice-cream,’ is how The Guardian describes it. We wholeheartedly agree. 

It comes as a shock to Daphne when she discovers the older man trailing her at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is her ex-stepfather, Eddie. Although their past relationship was short-lived, it significantly affected both of them.

A tender and lustrous tale about the long-lasting and transformative forces of memory and love from the gifted author of the critically acclaimed and finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction novel, The Dutch House.

Much of Édouard’s brother’s life was spent in reverie.

Sadly, his dreams never came true; instead, his life of drinking and violence ruined him. His lifeless body was found on the floor of his small studio apartment; he was thirty-eight. 

This is the story of his collapse.

Universally acclaimed as a leading writer of his era, the French author perfectly encapsulates both cruelty and resilience. This book is no exception. 

Love’s goddess, Aphrodite, holds sway over all hearts, divine and mortal. Yet, her passion makes her the most perilous deity. Ares, the God of War, is her antithesis; he flourishes amid ruin.

But even deities are not exempt from love’s deceptions. While the God of War might possess the capacity for profound love, the Goddess of Love could similarly commit the most serious errors…

Saint has once again created a delightful retelling that will grip readers’ hearts. 

Mary has a remarkable memory, recalling everything from her early school adventures to the collapse of the Twin Towers. However, at times, that can be a curse…

What concerns her most are the memories of her Jewish grandfather and his purported role in the killing of Adolf Hitler. Is this reality, she muses, or is it simply her imagination at play?

Her debut novel, Elmet, earned Fiona Mozley a Booker Prize nomination in 2017. Now, she has produced a vital work delving into memory and human frailty, a skilfully crafted literary attempt seeking to define what is true, both in history and life.

For Perdita Jungfrau, who believed her marriage was forever, falling for Nando, her “anarcho-Marxist” handyman, is a major dilemma.

However, life seems to place every conceivable barrier in their path, and now, three years later, Nando has been killed. His wife’s increasingly unpredictable nature leaves her husband baffled, but Perdita’s attention is elsewhere… 

This is a firecracker of a debut: a daring, sensual, and hypnotic satire on obsession, motherhood, and marital bonds. 

‘Mama, do you remember when I died?’ 

Asks four years old Sunny, and she will mention her past lives many times over the following years.

Desperate for answers, her parents Lena and Odhran wonder: Is their child experiencing a psychological disorder? Has she come to terms with her own dark pasts?

The celebrated author of This Happy has penned a sophisticated and engaging novel that digs into the enigmas of motherhood and the expanse of the imagination.

Over a steamy summer weekend in a tiny English village, a deeply dysfunctional and fragmented family reunites to organise a funeral. Can they hold it together?

Confined to a small house, they each seek to experience something: to mourn or seek forgiveness. But as their interactions become tangled and distorted, they abandon their principles and reach for anything that might ease their pain…

A sensational debut, this comedy of manners is irresistible and incredibly raw, playful and terrifyingly relatable.

"A glittering treasure chest of a novel, The Unicorn Hunters brought back all my childhood love of unicorns while offering a sophisticated, lyrical fantasy about a young woman navigating the impossible politics and gender dynamics of fifteenth-century Brittany. It’s beautifully written and entirely delightful."

​Heather Fawcett, author of Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter

Mew entered the bushes in a London park and emerged from them in Dublin.

The cars are gone, and footpaths are shifting. Amidst the city’s vibrant energy, alive with spectral presences, lyrics, and upheaval, Mew deeply longs for his cherished Mootie.

Ridgway, one of Ireland’s best writers, delivers a complex literary architecture,

 both evocative and exceptionally unconventional.

​"I read the book twice in quick succession and every time I opened it, I found something to savour. The prose has the demonic excess of a Hieronymus Bosch painting... Solà's serious attention to the nonhuman makes most contemporary realist literary fiction feel narrow and timid, wilfully deaf to the other forms of life with which all human drama is interdependent."

 Guardian

Beyond the camp’s confines, young Palestinian refugee Nur harbors dreams of freedom. Discovering an Israeli ID card in the pocket of a second-hand coat, he assumes a false identity and enters the previously inaccessible 'enemy world.'

But the deepening of Nur’s assumed identity exacerbates his internal struggle, a schism between his Palestinian self and his Israeli alter ego, “Ur.”

In this dazzling psychological novel about identity and resistance, penned entirely from behind bars, one of Palestine’s most significant literary figures presents a contemplation on the immense cost of the induvial occupation and the yearning to belong.

Escaping a dark secret in London, a young English artist takes a frantic flight and finds romance with the famous Italian designer, Danilo Donati.

Enveloped by the ethereal glow of Italian cinema, their relationship journeys across Italy and into the ambiguous realm where truth and fiction blur.

Set in the months preceding Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1975 murder, this is a delicious genre mashup from the immensely gifted Laing.

When the leader of a hippie-anarchist collective on a forgotten Yorkshire farm is brutally murdered with a gold bar, a driven young journalist embarks on an investigation to reveal what happened.

However, solving this case has proven more challenging than anticipated, and the network of elusive suspects mirrors the complex interplay of media, social standing, authority, and reality in contemporary society.

Longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize, this is a concise yet potent work from the renowned writer of Assembly.

"Engaging, warm and intelligent, this debut about the first women students at Oxford - their deep friendship, and all they must face - is a delight!"

​Lucy Atkins, author of Magpie Lane

An unyielding compulsion to disrupt live cultural events seems to characterise TonyInterruptor. But, who is he? And why does he indulge in behaviour that violates the social contract?

 A small group of characters decides to investigate the answers to these questions after his behaviour goes viral, ultimately discovering more than they could have imagined about music, art, integrity, one another, and their own constantly changing selves.

The author of Darkmans, Nicola Barker, feted for her wild signature inventiveness, delivers a truly outstanding and hilarious literary achievement.

The villagers in their charming Cotswolds hamlet know Janet and Susan simply as ‘the girls’. Partners in love and work, they lead an enviable, enviably settled life.

However, when passion disrupts the balance of their lives, they experience a profound and unsettling shift…

Part gruesome comedy, part suspenseful crime story, and part heart-warming romance, Bowen’s novel, brimming with both warmth, yet tinged with disquiet, has quickly captivated numerous Blackwellians!

The stories in Schweblin’s collection, born from her vivid imagination, offer a captivating blend of the creepy and the charming, all presented with exquisite precision, making the strange and the magical feel perfectly aligned.

In each tale, the celebrated author of Fever Dreams, a queen of the uncanny, manages to condensate the full spectrum of human emotions and relationships, both ugly and beautiful.

What emerges is frightening, unexpected, and intense, compelling us to confront our inner demons.

As life on Earth dwindles, Carlos and Aitana must make a significant, world-changing decision regarding the sacrifices they are willing to make to survive.

A picture of post-Earth life gradually emerges from the periphery of their narrative, featuring increasingly bizarre and disconnected sequences that highlight our ironically connected world.

This book is a triumph of the unusual and 

visionary, providing an original and engaging look at the fragility of life.

 As Mika nears her 25th birthday, her accomplishments are limited to a soul-crushing office job and being a virgin.

However, just as she begins to believe her reality will never match the vivid daydreams her mind creates, a new person captures her attention. This might be limerence, or perhaps the start of something more.

Set against the backdrop of a hot Tokyo summer, this novel is a whirlwind, presenting a wonderfully witty and delightful satire of growing up.

​Petra and Johannes appear to be a perfect match. Their friends Julia and Axel are different - from them, and from each other.

But a dangerous and unsettling desire flows between them, and inconvenient secrets will be revealed…

In near-future Scandinavia, experiencing unsettling political changes with increasingly strict laws, diminishing freedoms, and citizens vanishing, this work by Sweden’s leading contemporary authors masterfully intertwines personal and political narratives. The result is simply breathtaking.

​This grungy, magnificent, and distinctively jagging new chapter, picks up right after Trainspotting and continues the story of Renton, Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie.

With a drive to seize every opportunity life offers, no matter the price, they dive into riotous escapades and fervent new loves.

Welsh’s prose, energetic and with its distinct Scottish vernacular, navigates between profoundly moving, melancholic passages and uproariously comedic fragments.

Sail Away Land is where we might go after we die. 

Within this peculiar and disarming collection, the characters, black suitcase in hand, journey there.

These pages offer a stunning juxtaposition of the mundane and the surreal. The wild stream of the unconscious, teeming with temporal peculiarities and the states of being and non-being, is the only way to describe it.

With rare beauty, psychological acuity, astounding imagination, and heartfelt tenderness, Pester has penned a truly staggering work.