Losing the Plot
By: Derek Owusu
3.37
Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition
DEREK OWUSU NAMED GRANTA'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023 LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 20…
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1. Public Library and Other Stories
By: Ali Smith
2.86
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
A richly inventive new collection of stories from Ali Smith, author of How to be both, winner of th… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
2. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
By: Elizabeth Smart
2.83
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
First published in 1945, Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Weptis an enigma… read more
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3. Boulder
By: Eva Baltasar
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
4. Shy
By: Max Porter
3.63
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more
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- poetry
- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."-Max Porter, Shy
"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."-Max Porter, Shy
"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"-Max Porter, Shy
"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"-Max Porter, Shy
5. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
6. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
7. Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed
By: Margaret Atwood
3.78
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A FUN AND FEARLESS ANTHOLOGY OF FEMINIST TALES, to celebrate Virago's 50th birthday, featuring NEW … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
8. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
9. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
10. Western Lane
By: Chetna Maroo
3.51
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
11. Pearl
By: Siân Hughes
3.91
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
A haunting debut novel inspired by the medieval poem of the same name Marianne is eight years ol… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
12. Our Strangers: Stories
By: Lydia Davis
3.92
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Only available at independent bookstores and libraries, by request of the author. From one of the m… read more
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- poetry
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
13. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
14. Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
15. Small Worlds
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.32
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
16. Fire Rush
By: Jacqueline Crooks
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of 1980s, a mesmerizing story of love, loss, a… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
17. Standing Heavy
By: Gauz
3.58
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Initially a little intrigued, all babies eventually return the security guard's smile. The securit… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
18. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
By: Isabel Waidner
3.69
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A novel that celebrates radical queer survival and gleefully takes a hammer to false notions of suc… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
19. Losing the Plot
By: Derek Owusu
3.37
Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition
DEREK OWUSU NAMED GRANTA'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023 LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 20… read more
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- poetry
- literary fiction
- africa
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
- adult
- drama
20. The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa
By: Stephen Buoro
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Crackling with energy and intelligence, this debut is the story of Andrew Aziza, a one-of-a-kind te… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- fiction
- contemporary
21. Una cita con la Lady
By: Mateo García Elizondo
3.76
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
«Vine a Zapotal para morirme de una buena vez. En cuanto puse un pie en el pueblo me deshice de lo … read more
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- literature
- fiction
