Czterdziestodwuletnia Eva Smart, pisarka, która osiągnęła sukces artystyczny i finansowy tworząc alternatywne historie życia osób poległych w czasie II wojny światowej, ma problem z kolejną książką i z mężem - dr Michael Smart - drugi mąż Evy, nauczyciel akademicki na wydziale anglistyki, zdradza
Nieduże miasteczko. Mały hotel. Jedna noc. Sześć kobiet. Pierwsza już nie żyje - jeszcze nie wie, co się z nią dalej stanie. Druga nagabuje przechodniów o drobne - jeszcze nie wie, że czeka ją dziś odrobina luksusu. Trzecia pracuje w recepcji - jeszcze nie wie, że wkrótce poważnie zachoruje.
Two unaccompanied children travel across the Mediterranean in an overcrowded boat that has been designed to only make it halfway across… A 63-year-old man is woken one morning by border officers ‘acting on a tip-off’ and, despite having paid taxes for 28 years, is suddenly cast into the detention
The first serious Brexit novel. A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both. Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art (via a bit of very contemporary
How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a
Why are books so very powerful? The stories in this collection are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us and shock us, change us and challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all at once and how they remind us to pay attention to the
