Booklist

New and Recommended: Fiction

Selected by the Bookshop


Wikipedia defines fiction as ‘any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying people, events or places in imaginary ways that are not strictly based on history or fact’, and who are we to argue with that? Anyway you know what fiction is. Here’s some of our recent favourites.

From the publisher:
A vital and honest book exploring the pain of the immigrant experience and the turmoil it can carry across generations, from the winner of the Desmond Elliott PrizeDriven by a deep-seated desire to understand his mother’s life before…

From the publisher:
An electrifying novel about the creeping reality of political terror, and the violent pleasures found in Brooklyn's queer heartlands. Part noir, part erotic thriller, X is a vivid, moody and darkly funny portrait of those living on the…

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Those men who are history now; did they feel like this?…

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'The spirit of Elena Ferrante haunts this tale of a friendship forged in Karachi' - Sunday Times'A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces' - Madeline Miller'A shining tour de force' - Ali…

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The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo'The only way to experience Saunders's oblique, farcical, tragic world is to dive right in.…

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