Jim Crace's novel unfolds in a remote English village over one unsettling week after the harvest, when smoke, strangers, and suspicion begin to unravel the community. It is a historical novel about enclosure, displacement, and the violence hidden inside ordinary change.

A village's fragile order starts to break as outsiders arrive.

Hermione Lee traces Penelope Fitzgerald's life from family background and hardship to her late emergence as one of the great English novelists of the twentieth century. The biography reads the life alongside the work and shows how restraint, patience, and persistence shaped both.

A late-blooming literary life, told with sympathy and depth.

Rory Mullarkey's debut full-length play follows Lizaveta as war and upheaval push her across a brutal, mythic landscape. The play mixes folklore and contemporary unease to explore survival, identity, and historical violence.

A brutal, lyrical journey through war, myth, and survival.