LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 ''Elegant and evocative. A powerful exploration of the clash between society, family and faith in the modern world'' Guardian ''There is high, high music in the air at the end of Home Fire'' New York Times Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings ...
For gauche young apprentice Miloš Hrma, life at the small but strategic railway station in Bohemia in 1945 is full of complex preoccupations. There is the exacting business of dispatching German troop trains to and from the toppling Eastern front; the problem of ridding himself of his burdensome innocence; ...
WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT is an incredibly exciting debut from an extraordinary new voice in fiction. Spanning four decades, from 1968 onwards, this is the story of a fabulous but flawed family and the slew of ordinary and extraordinary incidents that sh ape their everyday lives. It is a story about childhood ...