Novels
Red Army Faction Blues
A coalition government. A widely mistrusted ruling elite. Riots in the streets and heavy-handed police tactics. Welcome to West Berlin, 1967. Undercover agent Peter Urbach is tasked with infiltrating a group of radical students whose anti-consumerist message is not without propaganda value on both sides of the Wall. Soon, high-minded political activism wi..
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British Story
MORNING STAR BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘Characters are like a scent bottle. To meet them is to lift the stopper; to get to know them, never to put it back; then the scent, it spreads around the world.’ What’s haunting Kennedy? He believes that literary characters exist just like you or me, but he’s getting nowhere trying to prove it. His Falstaff project is an ..
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La Rochelle
Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial PrizeThis darkly comic and highly original novel is set over two weeks in 2004, where we find protagonist Dr Mark Chopra, a chaste and passive neurologist. One evening Mark is summoned to help his intriguing friend Ian, whose girlfriend Laura has, simply, vanished. When we learn of the images of Laura that play i..
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Rites
Winner of the Next Great Novelist Award 2012 ‘When I was fourteen I did something terrible. At least, that’s what some people tell me.’ Four teenagers make a pact to lose their virginity away from the watchful eyes of parents and priest. Fifteen years later, they reflect on the past and unravel how it all went so horribly wrong. What really went on ..
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Because Cuba is You
Ramón Chao. Translated by Ann WrightA young man listens as his grandmother (Dolores) recounts stories from her life, which he writes down in the hope of making sense of them all. Following a fortune-telling Galician childhood and romantic adventures with a much older lover, Dolores’s story takes her to Cuba at the end of the nineteenth century. Finding work ..
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Red Laal
‘Another gangster with all the presence of a ghost. Just stories you hear over the years. Heavyweight. King shit. Bad arse. Red Laal… If there did exist a Pakistani Don Corleone, then this was him.’ Kilo has fallen down the rungs of the criminal ladder and is once again reduced to dealing small time. Just when he realises he has to make a clean break and ..
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Jack and Sal
Jack and Sal are two people drifting in and out of love. Jack searches for clues, for a pattern, for an explanation to life’s events. Anthony Cropper has created a delicately detailed account of a troubled relationship, with a series of micro-stories and incidents that recount the intimate lies, loves and lives of Jack and Sal and their close friend Paula..
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Weatherman
Ken sits out the back, in the flatlands that surround Old Goole, and watches the weather. That’s what he was doing with poor Lucy, that fateful day, sat on the roof of his house, lifting her up to the sky. Lucy’s friend, Florrie, she knew what would happen. All of this is picked up by Alfie de Losinge’s machine, which he had designed to control the weather. ..
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