Literary Fiction
<p>Love in all its guises is the subject of Nick Murray’s wise and witty <em>A Short Book About Love</em>. Woven into a comic re-telling of the classic legend of Tristan and Iseult - one of the world’s greatest love stories - is the story of Felix, growing up in post-war Liverpool and, in the wake of a father...
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<p><strong>Longlisted for <em>The Guardian</em>’s Not the Booker prize</strong></p><p><strong>‘A deftly-written and highly moving account of the effects of dementia’ – <em>Everybody’s Reviewing</em></strong></p...
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Literary Fiction
<p>In New Stories from the Mabinogion ten great authors have taken the Celtic myth cycle as a starting point to give us masterly re-workings with a modern twist in a series both various and wonderful. We have reached the orbit of Mars, the Tower of London and the edges of India, travelled in time to WW2 and forward to the near future, seen...
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<p><strong>Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize</strong></p><p>Nia Vine is about to fulfil her dream of exploring an unmapped cave system. With her will go two friends who were brought up in the same seaside town. These companions are international travellers, but Nia, who has recently...
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<p>A hugely energetic rumination on politics, family and fiction, <em>Non-Return</em> traces the life of a technical draughtsman and writer, following his efforts to reconcile his art and his everyday life.<br /><br />Interspersed with exquisitely-written short fictions, this is a novel about fatherhood, work, memory...
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Literary Fiction
<p>Nicholas Murray’s second novel is an elegant dissection of modern romantic mores. Christopher, a successful shopfitter specialising in transforming dilapidated London buildings into swanky bistros, is romantically involved with Carmen, a one-time academic now unhappily employed as a magazine-columnist. Jimmy, millionaire and...
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<p><strong><em>"This read will draw you into its story within minutes"</em> </strong>Woman Magazine</p><p><em><strong>"..witty, wry and charming"</strong></em><strong> </strong>Western Mail</p><p><em>The Colour of...
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Literary Fiction
<p><br /><br /><em>"..both tales include passages of razor-sharp humour as well as great beauty and poignancy..."</em> <strong>- New Welsh Review</strong></p><p>Iraq-bound young squaddie Ronnie takes something dodgy and falls asleep for three nights in a filthy hovel where he...
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Literary Fiction
<p>1792. Nantucket whalers are invited to found the port of Milford Haven in Wales. What does the arrival of these hardy Quakers – immigrants to America a century before – mean for the local people? And what is the meaning of the beached whale that preceded them? Two cultures rub against each other and distrust grows,...
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