Fiction: special features

'Deliciously creepy' NEW SCIENTIST

Fear never dies…

'I absolutely LOVED this book! It’s that perfect blend of funny and emotional … A genuinely entertaining and heartwarming read!' READER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘A darkly funny riot’ The Times, Book of the Month

Would you want to know what your colleagues say behind your back?

‘Moving and vital’ i NEWS

‘A beautiful book’ EVENING STANDARD

‘Deserves to be read by as wide an audience as possible’ DAILY MIRROR

One of ‘the heirs to John le Carré’ The Times

‘A tremendous achievement’ WILLIAM BOYD

‘Behold the new Golden Age of Spy Kings’ Sunday Times

Every line tells a different story …

Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, sat on a busy street corner with a sky-blue Olivetti typewriter and asked the world a simple, direct question: Can you please tell me a love story?

·A married woman has a BDSM-tinged encounter at a work conference·Two young boys on a sleepover feel the first stirrings of desire·In an artificially generated afterlife, anything can be sexual if you want it to be·A young widow on a sleeper train shelters a criminal in her carriage·A bisexual woman cheats on her wife with a baker

16 modern fiction superstars shine a startling light on the romance and pain of the infamous literary pair Heathcliff and Cathy.

Short stories to stir the heart and awaken vital conversation about love.

From the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Young Writer Award and the Crossword Book Award for Fiction

Shortlisted for The Hindu Prize for Literature 2015

‘Explores with sharp beauty the mystery at the centre of loving anyone’ Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure

A story from Joanna Cannon to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love.

A story from Juno Dawson to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love.

A story from Alison Case to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love.