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Novelist Melissa Harrison guides us on ambles through Suffolk in this elegantly produced series
A tale of criminal derring-do casts a thief of raptor eggs in an overly heroic light
The poet’s debut novel tells the story of a gay immigrant boy in rich sensory language
The land that once linked Britain to Europe is fertile ground for delving into past lives and current concerns
An enigmatic author, possibly the best you’ve never heard of, comes up with his first and possibly last novels
A girl’s imagination adds colour to rural life in 1930s England in this evocative tale
This take on working-class teenage life is insightful, if confused
A brilliantly imagined account of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok’s secret affair
A dying man and his Down syndrome son embark on a dreamlike road-trip in a novel that is both strange and profound
A murder mystery that brilliantly evokes the texture of life in medieval England
A journey from Idaho isolation is powerfully described in this memoir of learning
An essay collection that distils a lifetime’s worth of thinking about books and writing
Explicit content is widely accessed in the office, with damaging effect
A menagerie of extraordinary animals reveal themselves in an illuminating collection of essays
Steeped in sex and death, these short stories eschew social convention for something more innate
A trip along an ancient road brings together different ideas of Britishness, from ‘The Canterbury Tales’ to 1990s rave culture
The follow-up to ‘My Name is Lucy Barton’ is an extraordinary exercise in imaginative empathy
The best experimental writing often comes in small packages, as this collection shows
An acclaimed young novelist offers a lyrical examination of the creative process
A recluse shares her story in a novel that blends folklore, fairytale and US history
Masculinity is explored over two generations in a poignant, light-suffused memoir
A study of the soldier’s relationship with nature during the first world war
A collage of testimonies from the end of the Thames
A war hero’s battle with dementia is at the heart of a moving family memoir
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