Modern &amp; contemporary fiction

In a hidden corner of London, Henri Lachapelle is teaching his granddaughter and her horse to defy gravity, just as he had done in France, 50 years previously. But when disaster strikes, 14-year-ol...

The Angel’s Game

In an old mansion in the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, an aspiring writer, receives a mysterious letter from a French editor, promising literary stardom if he will fulfil just one ...

Remains Of The Day

During the summer of 1956, Stevens, the aging butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely motoring holiday that will take him deep into the heart of the English countryside and thence into hi...

Brooklyn

In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when she is offered a job in America, she leaves her family t...

Never Let Me Go

Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were pupils at Hailsham – an idyllic establishment situated deep in the English countryside. The children there were tenderly sheltered from the outside world, brought u...

One Day

15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year af...

Yesterday’s weather

In ‘Yesterday’s Weather’, Anne Enright presents a series of deeply moving stories about women stirred, bothered, or fascinated by men they cannot understand.

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When Will There Be Good News?

In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna witnesses an appalling crime. 30 years later the man convicted of the crime gets out of prison. In Edinburgh, 16-year-old Reggie works as a nanny for a doctor. B...

Gathering

‘The Gathering’ is a family epic, condensed and clarified through Anne Enright’s unblinking eye. It is also a sexual history: tracing the line of hurt and redemption through three...

On Chesil Beach

It is July 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to s...

Beach

Richard lands in East Asia in search of an earthly utopia. In Thailand, he is given a map promising an unknown island, a secluded beach – and a new way of life. What Richard finds when he get...

Blind Willow Sleeping Woman

Included in this collection of stories is one in which a mirror appears out of nowhere and a night-watchman is unnerved as his reflection tries to take control of him, and another in which a couple...

Christine

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Christine, blood-red, fat and finned, was 20. Her promise lay all in her past. There was still power in her – a frightening power that leaked like sump oil, staining and corrupting. A malign ...

Fragile Things

‘Fragile Things’ is a collection of short stories by Neil Gaiman. It features stories within stories, whispered in ears in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and...

Wicked

When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in Wizard of Oz, we heard only Dorothy’s side of the story. Maguire tells the other side – where the witch came from, why she wa...

Island

On the brink of her own life-changing decision, Alexis Fielding longs to find out about her mother’s past. But Sofia has never spoken of it. All she admits to is growing up in a small Cretan ...

Kafka On The Shore

At the age of 15, Kafka Tamura runs away from home, either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-lost mother and sister. Instead, he finds himself setting out on an odysse...

Smoke and mirrors

An elderly widow finds the Holy Grail beneath an old fur coat in a second-hand store. A young couple receive a wedding gift that will reveal a chilling alternative history of their marriage and a l...

Winter Solstice

When Oscar suffers a double tragedy, he accepts an invitation to take over a rambling old house in Scotland, taking Elfrida, his friend, with him. As the house becomes a magnet for waifs and strays...

Shell Seekers

Artist’s daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life, yet she is far too energetic and independent to settle sweetly into pensioned-off old age. Now she is faced with a ...

Cloud Atlas

A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850, and a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilization – these and the other narrators of ‘Cloud Atlas’...

The Main Cages

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The acclaimed first novel by one of Flamingo’s most gifted young writers, author of ‘The Bronski House’ and ‘The Spirit Wrestlers’.

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My Cousin Rachel

Ambrose Ashley, Philip’s cousin, guardian and god, married Rachel in Italy, and died there. Jealous of his marriage and grief-stricken by his death, Philip prepares to meet his cousin’s...

House On The Strand

Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as guinea pig for a new drug Magnus has discovered in his biochemical research. On tak...