E arly on in This Mournable Body, a skimpily dressed woman in
‘sky-high heels’ falls backwards onto muddy ground while trying to climb
into a crowded Harare ...
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020, this is an utterly captivating novel about female strength. Set during Mussolini’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King casts a ...
‘This debut is a fresh take on the age-old ‘campus novel’ tradition, providing a deeply painful, nuanced account of microaggressions, abuse, racism, homophobia, trauma, ...
A heart-wrenchingly moving first novel set in Glasgow during the Thatcher years, Shuggie Bain tells the story of a boy’s doomed attempt to save his proud, alcoholic mother ...
R ecently, reindeer herders in the Russian Arctic discovered the
perfectly preserved body of an Ice Age cave bear surging out of the
Siberian permafrost. Cave bear ...