John Kendrick Bangs 
The invention of the idiot 

Bhupinder ”Puppy” Singh Johal – handsome, rakish and spiritually disenfranchised – has left behind the immigrant neighbourhood of Southall to mix with the elite of metropolitan London society. Sexu …

Newly arrived in New York, Ito is a literate yet tongue-tied sushi chef who recites haiku in his head as he labours over restaurant shopping-lists. Alone in his apartment at night, he reads …

It is not love at first sight for Frances and Bernard. She finds him faintly ridiculous while he sees her as aloof. But after that first meeting, Bernard writes Frances a letter which changes everyth …

An awkward teen with a terrible haircut has a reversal of fortune when he finds artefacts from the future lining a seagulls’ nest. In a godforsaken barn, Presidents Eisenhower, John Adams and Rutherf …

Winner of the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award It”s Manchester, 1998, and the funeral party for Henry Bane”s father is interrupted by a woman from Bane”s past. Róisín i …

When Veronica graduated with an MBA and dreams of saving the world, she never knew she would end up a corporate slave to the lipstick gods, in love with her playboy boss and in need of a gay best f …

————————– ”One of the freshest, funniest, most exciting new voices I’ve read for a long time” JANE FALLON ”Fresh and funny and REAL … Martha really spoke to me. She will steal e …

**THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER (The Times), SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN”S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023** ”Like Sally Rooney mixed with a political thriller” RUSSELL KANE ”Intense, unflinchingly hones …

”Short but very special. … funny, touching and quite beautiful.” Matt Cain ”A powerful finale to her classic trilogy of heartbreak and healing.” Clare Chambers ”An unforgettable story. It”s b …

One of the the titles in the Quick Reads literacy scheme. Rees has been running away his whole life. But when a legend from his childhood turns out to be fact rather than fiction, he is drawn deeper …