Austin Duffy grew up in Ireland and studied medicine at Trinity College Dublin. He is a practising medical oncologist at the National Cancer Institute in Washington DC, where he now lives with his ...więcej »
'These stories of bewilderment, heartbreak and psychotropics will charm you with their humour and stun you with wisdom that's both rigorous and compassionate'Catherine Lacey, author of ...więcej »
Mary is out of options. Estranged from her Evangelist family, plagued by debt collectors and beset by chronic pain, Mary signs up for a mysterious job advertised as 'The Girlfriend Experiment' (or,...więcej »
In January 2011, as the crowds gathered to protest Mubarak's three decades of rule in Egypt, Wendell Steavenson went to Cairo to cover the story. But the revolution defied historical precedent, and...więcej »
When Kapka Kassabova was a child, the borderzone between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece was rumoured to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall so it swarmed with soldiers, spie...więcej »
Lose yourself in the irresistible story of one woman’s journey through 20th-century Russia. Growing up in 1930s Brooklyn, Florence Fein will do anything to escape the confining values o...więcej »
Ireland is flooded, derelict. It never stops raining. The kid in yellow has stolen the babba from the Earlie King. Why? Something to do with the King's daughter, and a talking statue, somethi...więcej »
A construction worker is chased through the night by a shady local businessman whose dog he has stolen; a Wild West re-enactor is engaged in a long-running affair with the Indian 'squaw' who slays ...więcej »
In New York, Alice, a young editor, begins an affair with Ezra Blazer, a world-famous, much older writer.At Heathrow airport, Amar, an Iraqi-American economist en route to Kurdistan, is...więcej »
Michael Moran gives an insider's view of what was once the largest country in Europe; one that evolved under a succession of brutal invasions, which suffered through the Holocaust and was plunged i...więcej »
An assured novel which imagines Leonardo da Vinci's life, shedding light on the many enigmas surrounding him, such as the painting of the 'Mona Lisa', and his relationship with its subject, Lisa de...więcej »
