Hector Finds Time

Hector’s back, and he’s thinking about time…

Read an extract from Hector’s latest adventure!

Something of the Night podcast

Who can say what the night might bring? Mummy tucking you up with Teddy and a cup of Ovaltine? Fireworks and frivolity? A party? Music? Dancing? Ian Merchant might have the answers…

Read a story from Diving Belles, by Lucy Wood

With a luminous, startling and utterly spellbinding debut collection, Lucy Wood is a spectacular new voice in contemporary British fiction.

An extract from Something of the Night, by Ian Marchant

Who can say what the night might bring? Mummy tucking you up with Teddy and a cup of Ovaltine? Fireworks and frivolity? A party? Music? Dancing? Or you could be reading in bed, between clean linen sheets before falling into deep and restful sleep and sweet dreams…

An extract from In the Orchard, the Swallows

A tale of tenderness in the face of great and corrupt power, In The Orchard, The Swallows from author Peter Hobbs is a heartbreaking novel written in prose of exquisite stillness and beauty.

Researching The Flying Man

Roopa Farooki discusses her research behind her new novel, The Flying Man…

Roopa Farooki on The Flying Man

Roopa Farooki introduces The Flying man, a story of the ultimate immigrant, a man who fits in everywhere and nowhere, who cannot help but cause harm to those around him, but ultimately, inspires love.

What is The Panda Theory?

“You’ve only been here for a few days but you already know loads of people. You walk into people’s lives, just like that.”

Read an extract from Pascal Garnier’s humourous and dark novel, out in March from Gallic Books.

Discover The Flying Man

Read an extract from Roopa Farooki’s affecting, evocative and often funny story of the ultimate immigrant, a man who fits in everywhere and nowhere, who cannot help but cause harm to those around him, but ultimately, inspires love.

Win a copy of Partitions, by Amit Majmudar

Courtesy of One World Publications we have five copies of Amit Majmudar’s moving novel of compassion, crulety and survival, Partitions…

Yvvette Edwards discusses A Cupboard Full of Coats

Yvvette Edwards reads from her Man Booker Prize longlisted novel, explains how she developed her characters, and discusses some of the key themes in the book.

Win a copy of The Gendarme, by Mark T. Mustian [closed]

What would you do if the love of your life, and all your memories, were lost – only to reappear at the end of your life with such shocking revelations that you wish you had never remembered…

We have five copies to give away to Bookhugger readers.

Up from the Blue Reading Guide

Download the reading guide to Susan Henderson’s achingly real depiction of mental illness, Up from the Blue….

Discover Up from the Blue

Read an extract from Susan Henderson’s achingly real depiction of mental illness, Up from the Blue.

“Thoughtfully written…beautiful and utterly convincing – 5 stars” – New Books

The Coward’s Tale

‘My name is Laddy Merridew. I’m a cry-baby. I’m sorry.’

‘And my name is Ianto Jenkins. I am a coward. And that’s worse.’

Read an extract from Vanessa Gebbie’s haunting novel.

An extract from Guillaume Musso’s The Girl on Paper

Just a few months ago, Tom Boyd was a multi-million selling author living in LA, in love with a world-famous pianist. But after a very public break-up, he’s shut himself away, suffering from total writer’s block with only drink and drugs for company…

Uncover The Night Strangers, by Chris Bohjalian

It begins with a door in a dusky corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire. A door that someone has sealed shut with thirty-nine enormous carriage bolts.

Read an extract…

Read the first chapter of Purgatory, by Tomas Eloy Martinez

‘Simon Cardoso had been dead for thirty years when Emilia Dupuy, his wife, found him at lunchtime in the dining room of Trudy Tuesday.’

The October Competition [closed]

This month, for three Bookhugger readers, we have an eclectic choice of World War II non-fiction from Faber; two Jeffrey Eugenides titles from Simon & Schuster and magical historical fiction from Bloomsbury Publishing.

The Virgin Suicides Reading Group Guide

The story of the five Lisbon sisters and the effects of their suicides on their small suburban community. Jeffrey Eugenides explores the heady territory of adolescent sexuality through the collective narrative voice of the young boys, now men, who fell under the sisters’ spell…

An extract from Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides

In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls’ school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls…

Transformation.

Watch an interview with teenage author, Ben Brooks, whose Grow up is out now via Canongate.