Unless
Dazzling novel from Carol Shields, author of ‘The Stone Diaries’, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and ‘Larry’s Party’, winner of the Orange Prize.
Narrative theme: Identity / belonging
The Perfect Fool
“The Perfect Fool” charts the progress of a collection of misfits, spread across the wide open spaces of Arizona and the narrow streets of South London, all unwittingly caught up in a quest for the Holy Grail.
All Hail the New Puritans
‘All Hail, the New Puritans’ is the collection of new stories from the most exciting young novelists today. Inspired by the Dogme 95 group of film makers, the New Puritans are attempting to rediscover fiction as a discipline rather than a category.
Girl Nobody
This first novel by a new Polish author is a powerful study of adolescence, which interweaves acute character observation with the dazzlingly surreal. The 15-year-old narrator describes how she is befriended by two very different girls at her new school in turn; and how these girls inspire, confuse, and ultimately betray her.
Plain and Normal
Mr Norris wants everyone to know that he is gay. The problem is, no one will believe him. His position isn’t helped by the fact that he is living with his ex-wife and that he has never had sex with a man. Plain and Normal is James Wilcox’s long awaited new novel.
Kitty and Virgil
A love story set in Romania and England by the author of the Booker shortlisted bestseller, ‘Gabriel’s Lament’. Paul Bailey’s most ambitious novel yet.
Girl Nobody
This European bestseller is a novel of adolescence at once hilarious and frightening, interweaving acute observation of character with the dazzlingly surreal. The 15-year-old narrator describes how she is befriended by two very different girls in turn, the effects they have on her life: how they inspire and confuse and ultimately betray her.