What are The Origins of Love?

Women and children are being exploited, their lives thrown away like so much dust. Is feisty social worker Simran Singhis the only person prepared to stand up for what is right…?

Read an extract from Kishwar Desai’s stunningly moving novel.

Open up The Book of Summers, by Emylia Hall

Beth Lowe has been sent a parcel…

An extract from The Forrests, by Emily Perkins

The Forrests sings with colour and memory, it speaks of family and time, dysfunction, ageing and loneliness, about heat, youth, and how life can change if ‘you’re lucky enough to be around for it’. Read an extract.

Win a copy of Madame Mephisto, by A.M. Bakalar!

What would you talk about if you were stuck in a room with a drug dealer for five days?

Courtesy of Stork Press we have 5 copies of Madame Mephisto to give away!

Elliot Perlman reads from The Street Sweeper

On the crowded streets of New York City there are even more stories than there are people passing each other every day… only some of these stories survive to become history.

Salvage the Bones

An extract from Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones…

‘Masterful… Salvage the Bones has the aura of a classic about it.’ Washington Post

Elliot Perlman introduces The Street Sweeper

Elliot Perlman’s latest novel is written on an epic scale – spanning six decades and moving from Chicago to New York, Warsaw to Melbourne, and Auschwitz.

Read an extract from The Coward’s Tale

The boy Laddy Merridew, sent to live with his grandmother, stumbles off the bus into a small Welsh mining community, where he begins an unlikely friendship with Ianto Passchendaele Jenkins, the town beggar-storyteller.

This is 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.’

Watch author Vanessa Gebbie discuss The Coward’s Tale.

Life! Death! Prizes!

Funny, bittersweet and unforgettable, Life! Death! Prizes! is a story of grief, resilience and brotherly love.

Read an extract.

Open up The Registrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages

Swimming for his life towards traffickers on the Italian shore, Selim enters a world where Kurdish refugees disguise themselves as tomatoes, dates of birth are a matter of opinion, and a residency permit is a ticket to paradise…

Discover The Last Summer, by Judith Kinghorn

Read an extract from Judith Kinghorn’s sweepingly epic and gloriously intimate commercial debut – a beautiful and haunting story of lost innocence and a powerful, enduring love.

An extract from Hunger Trace

The sudden death of David Bryant, the charismatic owner of a rambling Derbyshire wildlife park, leaves an indelible mark on three very different people…

Justin Cartwight on Other People’s Money

Great families, great fortunes and even greater secrets collide in this gripping, satirical and acutely observed story of our time.

A Book of Raunch!

Brimful of good-nature, wit, and surreal sexual vocabulary, House of Holes by Nicholson Baker is a modern-day Hieronymous Boschian bacchanal that is sure to surprise, amuse, and arouse. Read an extract.

Watch the trailer for This is Life, by Dan Rhodes

Chock-full of charming characters and hilarious set-pieces This is Life is a hugely enjoyable novel that will make you see life anew.

John Lanchester talks about the characters in Capital

John Lanchester here discusses the many characters in his 2012 novel Capital, set on one street on the brink of the financial crash of 2007.

Homesick extract

Tracing the fine lines of politics, tradition and community, Roshi Fernando’s stunning collection of linked stories pulls us back, back, to the knowledge of home…

The Hunger Trace Podcast

Author Ed Hogan discusses his latest paperback, The Hunger Trace, out this month via Simon & Schuster.

An extract from Painter of Silence, by Georgina Harding

When she leaves the ward she feels the whiteness of the room still inside her, as if she is bleached out inside. It is the shock, she tells herself. She feels the whiteness like a dam holding back all the coloured flood of memory.

Capital: The Trailer

The wonderful animated trailer for John Lanchester’s new novel Capital, produced and created by the brilliant George Wu at design collective Household…

Win copies of The Book of Lies, by Mary Horlock [closed]

To kick off the month five Bookhugger readers will win a copy of Mary Horlock’s debut novel The Book of Lies!

Courtesy of Canongate.