A powerful, astute novel that exposes how old passions can return, testing our capacity to make choices about what is most essential in life.
October Books.
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Sudden Traveller by Sarah Hall
Winner of the BBC National Short Story Award and winner of An O.Henry Prize for short fiction.
The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
Witty, surprising and deeply researched, the new book from Julian Barnes illuminates the fruitful and longstanding exchange of ideas between Britain and France, and makes a compelling case for keeping that exchange alive.
Grandmothers by Salley Vickers
Grandmothers is a beautifully observed, sometimes subversive, often tender and elegiac novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian.