The Grief of Others

Leah Cohen

Is keeping a secret from a spouse always an act of infidelity? And what cost does such a secret ...

The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. Struggling to regain a semblance of normalcy for ...

Lost Memory of Skin

A mature and masterful work of contemporary fiction from a great American writer

Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, a young man must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere ...

Disaster Was My God

Bruce Duffy

A skilfully imagined novel based on the scandalous and astonishing life of the pioneering, proto-...

In the space of one year,1871, with a handful of startling poems, Arthur Rimbaud transformed himself from a teenaged bumpkin into the literary sensation of Paris. He was taken in, then taken up, by the older, married poet Paul Verlaine in a passionate affair. When Rimbaud ...

Alice

Judith Hermann

A work of exceptional power and beauty from one of Europe's finest writers

When someone very close to you dies your whole life changes. Everything is different. Alice is the central figure in these five inter-connected narratives, which tell of her life at times of loss. Suddenly it is no longer possible to say what the person looked like, how he spoke, cursed, smiled, how he lived his life. ...

Wall Of Days

Alastair Bruce

A stunning novel of guilt and loss and remembering - now an Amazon Rising Star

In a world all but drowned, a man called Bran has been living on an island for ten years. He was sent there in exile by those whose leader he was, and he tallies on the wall of his cave the days as they pass. Until the day when something happens that kindles in Bran such memories and longing that he persuades himself to ...