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Based on a story from pre-colonial Australia, A Piece of Red Cloth is a pioneering, 'real collaboration' between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal storytellers 15.00 CET
Encompassing eugenics, euthanasia and terrorism, this dark, sprawling novel by a man of many talents is not for the easily offended 08.00 CET
Author of books including Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Another Roadside Attraction, was known for his outlandish tales of sex, drugs and mysticism 10 Feb 2025 01.13 CET
The Nobel prize-winner's strange and unsettling new novel takes its protagonist on a mission that ends up confronting terrible pre-war violence 9 Feb 2025 18.00 CET
This intense tale of lives connected to the Scandinavian Star ferry disaster in 1990 is hardly conventional, but undoubtedly exciting 9 Feb 2025 16.00 CET
The author and journalist on 'modern London corruption' and his Orwell prize-shortlisted novel Caledonian Road, how he helped Jonathan Franzen and the last book he gave as a gift 8 Feb 2025 19.00 CET
Three years at the notorious Drama Centre London helped the author of A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing understand how to create a character from the inside out 8 Feb 2025 12.00 CET
An expat couple carefully curate their lives through plants and Radiohead LPs in this deliciously pessimistic chronicle of gentrifying Berlin 8 Feb 2025 08.30 CET
Editorial: Hit novels by Sarah J Maas and Rebecca Yarros offer more than sex and escapism. They have reclaimed the fantasy genre for women 7 Feb 2025 19.03 CET
Old Soul by Susan Barker; Model Home by Rivers Solomon; Mother of Serpents by John R Gordon; Symbiote by Michael Nayak; Waterblack by Alex Pheby 7 Feb 2025 13.00 CET
A baby washes up in a barrel in this warm-hearted and surprising debut 7 Feb 2025 10.00 CET
An estranged mother and son confront their past, in the new novel from the author of Union Atlantic 5 Feb 2025 10.00 CET
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The subgenre helped increase the market share by 41.3% last year aided by bestseller Fourth Wing from Rebecca Yarros while food and drink topped nonfiction sales 3 Feb 2025 18.00 CET About 30,343 results for Fiction
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