Local Fires
By: Joshua Jones
4.24
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
Local Fires sees debut writer Joshua Jones turn his acute focus to his birthplace of Llanelli, Sout…
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1. All Families are Psychotic
By: Douglas Coupland
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
The most disastrous family reunion in the history of fiction. The Drummond family, reunited for the… read more
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2. poyums
By: Len Pennie
4.58
Format: 129 pages, Kindle Edition
And I have done more than just simply get by So much more than escape or survive Through the galv… read more
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3. Mamut
By: Eva Baltasar
3.58
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
La protagonista de Mamut és una dona arcaica atrapada en la vida moderna. El seu medi és la ciutat,… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- lgbt
4. Close to Home
By: Michael Magee
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
5. The Foghorn Echoes
By: Danny Ramadan
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving novel about a forbidden love between two boys in war-torn Syria and the fallout tha… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- lgbt
"The story within me aches like an untreated wound. It's unheard and I need to speak it. It roams my insides like a caged animal gasping for air. It trembles."-Danny Ramadan, The Foghorn Echoes
6. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
7. 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
"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
8. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
9. No es un río
By: Selva Almada
3.95
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
10. Evenings and Weekends
By: Oisín McKenna
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- lgbt
11. Restless Dolly Maunder
By: Kate Grenville
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more
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- fiction
12. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- lgbt
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
13. Just One Thing: How simple changes can transform your life
By: Michael Mosley
4.03
Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition
Based on the popular BBC podcast, Just One Thing, this book brings to life Dr Mosley's mission to u… read more
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14. The Silence Project
By: Carole Hailey
3.76
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
On Emilia Morris's thirteenth birthday, her mother Rachel moves into a tent at the bottom of their … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
15. Neon Roses
By: Rachel Dawson
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Eluned Hughes is stuck. It's 1984 in a valley in south Wales: the miners' strike is ravaging her co… read more
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- fiction
- lgbt
16. little scratch
By: Rebecca Watson
3.75
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In the formally experimental tradition of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Ducks, Newburyport … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
17. The Unbroken Beauty of Rosalind Bone
By: Alex McCarthy
3.91
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
'Small Things Like These meets Under Milk Wood - this slim but devastating novel captures an entire… read more
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- fiction
18. Local Fires
By: Joshua Jones
4.24
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
Local Fires sees debut writer Joshua Jones turn his acute focus to his birthplace of Llanelli, Sout… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- lgbt
19. Open Up
By: Thomas Morris
3.77
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The new collection from a literary star - five achingly tender, innovative and dazzling stories of … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
20. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- lgbt
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
21. Above Us the Sea
By: Ania Card
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
'Maybe when we looked away from it, it could only be for a fragmented moment. Maybe our gaze always… read more
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- lgbt
