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Lunatic 19's

Lunatic 19's

by Tegan McLeod

Bloomsbury Publishing

Recovering from a serious car crash, Gracie, an undocumented Chicana worker from Kentucky, is tracked down to her hospital bed by immigration enforcement officer Alec. Dragged from hospital, she is ch…

Magnificence

Magnificence

by Howard Brenton

Bloomsbury Publishing

I loathe us, I loathe our stupid puerile view of the world … That we have only to do it, that we have only to go puff, and the monster buildings will go splat. London, the early 70s. Poverty, homeless…

Martine

Martine

by Jean-Jacques Bernard, translated by John Fowles

Bloomsbury Publishing

The Great War is over. It is the summer of 1920, in rural France. By a dusty road, a girl is sitting under the shade of an apple tree. She sees someone walking towards her. He is a young man, just bac…

Men's Business

Men's Business

by Franz Xaver Kroetz, translated by Simon Stephens

Bloomsbury Publishing

A love story set in the back room of a butcher's shop with a brutal bastard of a dog howling in the yard next door. Charlie's faith in the possibility of love can't be dimmed. No matter what deranged …

Merit

Merit

by Alexandra Wood

Nick Hern Books

Spain, 2013. Against all odds, young graduate Sofia has got a job as PA to one of the wealthiest bankers in the country. But her mother has her doubts – did Sofia give more than a good interview to ge…

Mirror Teeth

Mirror Teeth

by Nick Gill

Bloomsbury Publishing

Jane is a housewife. James sells guns. They live in one of the larger cities in Our Country and are both terrified of ethnic youths who might well be wearing hoods and carrying knives,or something. Al…