The Bee Sting
In his tragicomic fourth novel, Paul Murray unravels a small-town Irish family in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash.
Fiction
23 books
Mostly novels that do something unexpected with form or voice. Primarily from small presses, often slim, often in translation.
The Silver Book
Olivia Laing’s second novel apprentices an English boy to a magician of Italian cinema, in the months leading up to the events of November 1975.
The Wild Birds
Six interlinked stories, warm and unhurried, from a fictional Kentucky town.
The Memory Police
A tale about an island where vanishing is ordinary, and remembering is dangerous.
Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
Bennett’s writing about love and memory catches you mid-air.
War and Turpentine
Spanning multiple war-ridden decades of the 20th century, Hertmans’ reconstruction of his grandfather’s life is lovingly layered.
Open City
Open City is a novel that reads like a great essay might, pulling in references to art, music, literature and history, and building a collage that invites further discovery beyond its pages.
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Humour and heartbreak trade blows against a backdrop of a family’s quiet collapse.
