In this stunningly assured, immersive and vividly atmospheric first novel, a young woman comes face-to-face with the volatile, haunted wilderness of the Scottish Highlands. Polly Vaughan is trying to escape the ravaging guilt of a disturbing incident in London...

Hackney. Russ Litten’s second novel, Swear Down (Tindal Street, £12.99), features fast-tracked DS Peter Ndekwe, newly arrived from across the river. His boss wants him to wrap up the murder of gang leader Aaron Stewart, found stabbed on the...

Destined to be a classic, Sweeping Up Glass is a tough and tender novel of love, race, and justice, and a ferocious, unflinching look at the power of family. Olivia Harker Cross owns a strip of mountain in Pope...

On a sweltering day in July, 1878 the men of the 42nd Royal Highlanders – the Black Watch – waded ashore at Larnaca Bay to begin the British occupation of Cyprus. Today, Britons on sunbeds colonize the same stretch...

“In this story of love and search for identity, Jessica Jiji succeeds fully in capturing passions, depth of feeling, and strong relationships beyond ethnic and religious differences.”–Naim Kattan, author of Farewell Babylon Jessica Jiji’s Sweet Dates in Basra is...

Set in post-war Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s novel begins simply and innocently enough: `At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell’. But there is nothing truly simple or innocent here. With the offhanded knowingness of a...

Nothing is as it seems. When celebrity artist Eleanor West and her daughter Victoria take a winter holiday in Antigua it’s with the idea of recharging their batteries before Eleanor’s upcoming exhibition. But when beach boy Tyrone walks into...

Blending domestic thriller and psychological horror, this compelling page-turner follows a mother fleeing her estranged husband. Lydia Millet’s chilling new novel is the first-person account of a young mother, Anna, escaping her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who’s...

A dream of love turns into reality in a new Homespun romance. A scandal threatens to turn Rebecca’s life upside down when her lover runs off, leaving her pregnant. Her father convinces one of his ranchhands to marry Rebecca,...

Set in the late 1930s and 1960s, this is the tale of Mei Yin, a young Chinese girl from an impoverished family. Her destiny is shaped when she is sent to Kuala Lumpar to become the ward and companion...