Street & urban fiction Books

From the author of Nightingale Point, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, comes a new thought-provoking and timely novel. ‘A sharp, funny, wonderful writer’ Diana Evans, Ordinary People ‘These Streets turns a spotlight on the strength and...

‘The perfect balance of romcom and drama!’ GRAZIA She kissed the groom. She’s not the bride…Edie thought she’d found The One…until he told her he was marrying someone else. And on the day of his wedding, when he kisses her, life really does go...

The landmark novel by Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing – a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal. Anna Wulf is a young novelist with writer’s block. Divorced, with...

The gripping and emotional novel from the million-copy bestselling author of PS, I Love You She knows your secrets. Now discover hers…You’ve never met anyone like Alice. She sees the best in people. And the worst. She always seems to know exactly what...

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020A Spectator Book of the Year‘A literary rendering of the Top Boy generation… I cannot conjure another work which captures this culture in such depth – or with such brutal honesty – as only lived experience can...

A wealthy Greek businessman is found dead at his London home… The Leonides were one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That was until the head of the household, Aristide, was murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection.Suspicion...

A profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking. One thing in my defence, not that it matters: I know what ‘nothing’ means, and keep on...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘March’ and ‘People of the Book’.A young woman’s struggle to save her family and her soul during the extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly struck a small Derbyshire village. In 1666, plague swept...

A perplexed girl thinks she might have killed someone… Three single girls shared the same London flat. The first worked as a secretary; the second was an artist; the third who came to Poirot for help, disappeared convinced she was a murderer.Now there...

The action-packed second novel in the No. 1 bestselling Conqueror series, bringing to the epic story of Genghis Khan brilliantly to life The gathering of the tribes of the Mongols has been a long time in coming but finally, triumphantly, Temujin of the...

Project War is a black militant, anarcho-primitivist, racial justice group founded by Jackie War (nee John Knight). Some call it a movement, some a cult. It differs from other black power movements by advocating the sanctity of life-meaning all animals,...

**2021 Nordic Council Literature Prize Finalist**The stories in Purity take the reader through cities and suburbs, apartments and streets, to find characters struggling to survive in modern society: a man has an outburst on a bus; a fugitive finds...

The Bronx. It's America at its most vibrant and chaotic; it's also where one foster care caseworker-awould-be white savior from New England, a twentysomething kid prematurely jaded by the system-takes it upon himself to reunify a troubled birthmother...

"Streetwise and Booksmart." This is the motto that represents fifteen-year-old Kamal Bukhari, nicknamed Knerdie B. He proclaims himself to be the most talented high school basketball player to come out of South Phoenix. Kamal is the only child of...

Danny is a Polack with a heart of gold. He grew up in New City, home of what was once the world's largest slaughterhouse, the Chicago Stockyards. After Danny's wife's infidelity, he stepped out of what the US calls the "white man's" world. Standing over...

WINNER OF THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION"A significant new voice in fiction, Norris has written what may be one of the defining novels of the era..." -BuzzFeedOne of Publishers Weekly's Best Novels of the Summer One of The Millions' Most...

* At once a crime drama and a multigenerational family saga, KEEPING THE HOUSE is a debut that establishes Cin as one of the most exciting new writers to emerge in some time.* Tice Cin's prose is vivid and propulsive and fully immerses the reader into...

*LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021*Malm, Sweden. A cellist meets a spun-out junkie. That could have been me. His mind starts to glitch between his memories and the avant-garde music he loves, and he descends into his past, hearing all...

In January 1995, a promising young musician was found murdered in her apartment in West Los Angeles. There were no eyewitnesses to the crime, but someone saw her arguing with her ex-boyfriend, an African American man, the day before she was found dead...

Here is the great Irish novel of Berlin, way back before the Wall came down.Dallan Weaver, a writer and professor who's been fted and flattered but has seen better days, has come to the great divided city as a guest of DILDO (Deutsche-Internationale...

Twenty years of addiction to cloud, a drug which wipes the user's short-term memory, have left single mom Mellie with her mind in fragments. With the help of a tough-minded sponsor, and motivated by her own medically-challenged daughter, Mellie clings to...

It is 1984. The latest recession is said to be over, and in the steel city of Hamilton, things are picking up. For Paul, however, an ex-rock guitarist and current art gallery attendant, life has slowed to the pace of a still life on a wall. He badly...

Soul has just finished his 18-month sentence for a parole violation. Still in love with his son's mother, America, he wants nothing more than for them to become a family and move on from his past. But while Soul was in prison, America's music career...