Hamish Hamilton
Life Class
In early 1914, Paul Tarrant and Elinor Brooke are students at the Slade School of Art’s life-drawing class run by…
The Ruby in Her Navel
Editors' choice
Set during the brief but glittering rule of the Norman kings, this beautifully written novel opens in Palermo where Arab,…
Afterlands
Editors' choice
In 1871 a thwarted American expedition to the Arctic casts 19 survivors adrift on an ice floe off the coast…
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