A complex, rewarding novel about the many forms of sisterly relationship and what we are prepared to sacrifice for the ones we love, Lyon’s tale of two sets of siblings in a carer-patient dynamic is acutely observed and compellingly written...

Dissecting the mechanics of a marriage with rich psychological insight, Nothing But Blue Sky finds a bereaved husband questioning the truth about the woman he thought he knew inside out. Empire's Pick for The Best Books Made By Women in...

The culmination of a hugely ambitious and fast-paced literary project, Summer continues the interplay between the recent past and modern day society that marked out Smith's preceding works as so resonant and insightful. Empire's Pick for The Best...

A former Women’s Prize for Fiction winner, Shamsie’s haunting reworking of Sophocles’ Antigone is a commanding novel of passionate love, fanatical loyalty and conflicted identity. Interweaving public affairs with those of the heart, Home Fire is a...

An electrifying slice of feminist speculative fiction which imagines a world dominated by female power, Alderman's disturbing dystopian satire holds up a mirror to our own world. Empire's Pick for The Best Books Made By Women in Fiction 2021 She...

Empire's Pick for The Best Books Made By Women in Fiction 2021WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE 2016We all do stupid things when we're kids.Ryan Cusack's grown up faster than most - being the oldest of six with a dead mum and an alcoholic dad will do...

Empire's Pick for The Best Books Made By Women in Fiction 2021.WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014.SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014.WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD.WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR...

Empire's Pick for The Best Books Made By Women in Fiction 2021WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE Eimear McBride's award-winning debut novel tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain...

'Not since Zadie Smith has a young writer arrived with such power and grace' - Time A tiger escapes from the local zoo, padding through the ruined streets and onwards, to a ridge above the Balkan village of Galina. His nocturnal visits hold the villagers...

Empire's Pick for The Best Books Made By Women in Fiction 2021From Pulitzer Prize nominee and award winning author of Homeland, The Poisonwood Bible and Flight Behaviour, The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man torn between the warm heart of...

Empire's Pick for The Best Books Made By Women in Fiction 2021Jack Boughton - prodigal son - has been gone twenty years. He returns home seeking refuge and to make peace with the past. A bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold down a job,...

Empire's Pick for The Best Books Made By Women in Fiction 2021 'Rose Tremain does not disappoint. As always her writing has a delicious, crunchy precision.' -- ObserverA wise and witty look at the contemporary migrant experience.Lev is on his way from...

Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006. Empire's Pick for The Best Books Made By Women in Fiction 2021. Light struck the double glass doors that led to the garden, filtering through the arch that split the kitchen. It rested...

The absorbing, stunningly accomplished novel that provoked and astounded in equal measure, Shriver’s devastating narrative of a mother trying to come to terms with her son’s murderous rampage is one of the most singular achievements of twenty-first...

A masterful, humane account of the experience of the Windrush generation, and a vivid portrait of post-war London, its inhabitants and their conflicts. An important, thought-provoking book written by an author whose knack for characterisation was...

Empire's Pick for The Best Books Made By Women in Fiction 2021 Manon Gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a Louisiana sugar plantation. She misses her family and longs for the vibrant lifestyle of her native New Orleans, but most of all, she longs...

The Amazon Charts bestselling author of Last Day delivers a haunting thriller about how far one wife is willing to go to expose the truth--and the lengths someone will go to stop her.After artist Claire Beaudry Chase is attacked and left for dead in her...

Angrboda's story begins where most witch tales end: with being burnt. A punishment from Odin for sharing her visions of the future with the wrong people, the fire leaves Angrboda injured and powerless, and she flees into the furthest reaches of a remote...

In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humour and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene,...

Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake, with their closest neighbours more than two miles in either direction.As Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger...