Konstantin

Tom Bullough

When a young boy encounters a wolf in a snow-bound Russian forest in 1867, it is only the first of a series of brushes with disaster. Whether fighting for his life when scarlet fever strikes,…more

Blasu

Manon Steffan Ros

Whilst looking back on her life and the family and friends who accompanied her along the way, memories resurface for Pegi. But not every memory is sweet, and some secrets leave a bitter taste.On…more

Banjo

Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch

A 100 year-old museum photograph showing Antarctic explorers bizarrely dressed as black and white minstrels during “the worst journey in the world” sparked the creation of Samantha…more

Ras Olaf Harri Selwyn (Harri Selwyn's Last Race)

Tony Bianchi

Meet Harri Selwyn, a minor-celebrity who once ran with the Kalenjin tribe of Kenya, a nation which has won more Olympic medals than any other. Harri, at 79 years old, still runs and has the…more

Married Love

Tessa Hadley

Tessa Hadley’s latest collection of stories is rich in psychological insights and subversive humour, woven into her beautifully detached writing. Married Love deals with various intimate…more

The Book of Idiots

Christopher Meredith

The casual, random nature of death and the inexplicable mysteries of ordinary life punctuate the compelling narrative of this fourth novel by Christopher Meredith.Through the eyes of office…more

Gwreiddyn Chwerw (A Bitter Root)

Jerry Hunter

Past and present intertwine in the thoughts of Mari Jones as she prepares to give birth to her third child on a stormy night in February 1899. During a long, difficult night, the tension between…more

The Keys of Babylon

Robert Minhinnick

Travellers and migrants are the focus of this new work of fiction by prize-winning poet and prose-writer Robert Minhinnick. In a series of seemingly loosely-connected short stories he introduces a…more

Burying the Wren

Deryn Rees-Jones

The poignancy of loss sings from the pages of Deryn Rees-Jones’s latest collection, which is dedicated to her husband, the poet and critic Michael Murphy, who died in 2009. Often beginning from a…more

Blue Remembered Earth

Alastair Reynolds

After scattering their Grandmother Eunice’s ashes in sight of Kilimanjaro, neither Geoffrey nor Sunday Akinya wants anything to do with their family, or the vast business empire founded by Eunice.…more