This is the same book as “Total Chaos”. Inspector Montale is forced to revisit his childhood in order to solve a crime

Originally published as “Summer School” Patricia Wilson’s carefully composed ads for the writers’ retreat she runs at her thirteenth-century Italian castle promise so much. But while the splendour of their surroundings and chef Aldo’s melanzane never fail to wow...

Evie isa receptionist in a high profile cosmetic surgery. She has never had a good holiday, really, so perks up when she is invited by her employers to attend a conference in the South of France. Things do not...

In Delhi a small baby lies alone and abandoned. The product of IVF and surrogacy, she had been so coveted – until she was born with a fatal illness. No one knows how the infection could have been transferred...

BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015 LONGLIST A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own circumstances remain indistinct, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives, as...

Muslim bad girl Zainab Mir has just landed a job working for a post-feminist, Republican Senate candidate. Her best friend Amra Abbas is about to make partner at a top Boston law firm. Together they’ve thwarted proposal-slinging aunties, cultural...

When she leaves the ward she feels the whiteness of the room still inside her, as if she is bleached out inside. It is the shock, she tells herself. She feels the whiteness like a dam holding back all...

I just can’t imagine me without you… It’s the mid-1990s, and fifteen year-old Guernsey schoolgirls, Renée and Flo, are not really meant to be friends. Thoughtful, introspective and studious Flo couldn’t be more different to ambitious, extroverted and sexually...

Scott’s haunting and hilarious second collection of short stories is set in disparate spots across the American map — from Kansas to Cape Cod to New York City — and are written with such piercing universality that you sense...

Contemporary Irish crime fiction set in Dublin and Kilkenny. Peril is the story of Gerard Mayes, an anti-hero. Men want to be him, women want to redeem him. Ger’s story is fiction, but his origins are real – everyday...