Part fairy-tale, part magic, yet always savagely realistic Claire Fuller's haunting and powerful debut Our Endless Numbered Days will appeal to fans of Eowyn Ivey's The Snow Child and Christian Baker Kline's Orphan Train . Peggy Hillcoat is eight years old when her survivalist father, James, takes her from their home in London to a remote hut in the woods and tells her that the rest of the world has been destroyed. Deep in the wilderness, Peggy and James make a life for themselves. They repair the hut, bathe in water from the river, hunt and gather food in the summers and almost starve in the harsh winters. They mark their days only by the sun and the seasons. When Peggy finds a pair of boots in the forest and begins a search for their owner, she unwittingly begins to unravel the series of events that brought her to the woods and, in doing so, discovers the strength she needs to go back to the home and mother she thought she’d lost. After Peggy's return to civilization, her mother learns the truth of her escape, of what happened to James on the last night out in the woods, and of the secret that Peggy has carried with her ever since.

Our Endless Numbered Days

Fuller, Claire

Tin House Books

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Swimming Lessons

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Anansi International

Bitter Orange

Romance

Contemporary

Fig Tree

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021\n'So sharply, so utterly brilliant that I found myself holding my breath while reading it, dazzled by Fuller's mastery and precision' LAUREN GROFF, author of Fates and Furies 
__________________________________________________________________________\nWhen you live on the edge of society, it only takes one step to fall between the cracks\nTwins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Inside the walls of their old cottage they make music, and in the garden they grow (and sometimes kill) everything they need for sustenance.\nBut when Dot dies suddenly, threats to their livelihood start raining down. Jeanie and Julius would do anything to preserve their small sanctuary against the perils of the outside world, even as their mother's secrets begin to unravel, putting everything they thought they knew about their lives at stake.\nUnsettled Ground is a powerful novel of betrayal and resilience, love and survival. It is a portrait of life on the fringes of society that explores with dazzling emotional power how we can build our lives on broken foundations, and spin light from darkness. 
____________________________________________________________________\n'Her strongest yet... a powerful, beautiful novel that shows us our land as it really is: a place of shelter and cruelty, innocence and experience' THE TIMES\n'A relevant and powerful exploration of isolation and life on the fringes of society' CLARE MACKINTOSH, author of Hostage\n'An atmospheric thriller that's both heartbreaking and heartwarming' RED

Unsettled Ground: Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021

Literature & Fiction

What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant?\nWhat would you do to get it back?\nTwins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Inside the walls of their old cottage they make music, and in the garden they grow (and sometimes kill) everything they need for sustenance.\nBut when Dot dies suddenly, threats to their livelihood start raining down. Jeanie and Julius would do anything to preserve their small sanctuary against the perils of the outside world, even as their mother's secrets begin to unravel, putting everything they thought they knew about their lives at stake.\nUnsettled Ground is a heart-stopping novel of betrayal and resilience, love and survival. It is a portrait of life on the fringes of society that explores with dazzling emotional power how we can build our lives on broken foundations, and spin light from darkness.

Unsettled Ground

Penguin

***SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE AWARD 2018*** 
The second novel from the author of Our Endless Numbered Days, which won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize and was a 2016 Richard and Judy Book Club Pick. 
'Gil Coleman looked down from the window and saw his dead wife standing on the pavement below.' 
Gil's wife, Ingrid has been missing, presumed drowned, for twelve years. 
A possible sighting brings their children, Nan and Flora, home. Together they begin to confront the mystery of their mother. Is Ingrid dead? Or did she leave? And do the letters hidden within Gil's books hold the answer to the truth behind his marriage, a truth hidden from everyone including his own children? 
'Thrilling, transporting, delicately realised and held together by a sophisticated sense of suspense...more than matches the power of Fuller's debut... Powerful, pleasing and pleasurable.' Sunday Times

Literary

Genre Fiction

A desolate landscape, wracked with upheaval, the uncanny nature of a place once so familiar. A revelation of what was formerly undisclosed, the harbingers of apocalypse are edging ever closer... The wasteland of abandoned memories, the end of the world or a chance for a new beginning. Be it a personal apocalypse, or one of great cataclysm, the stories that arise from the rubble are tales of aftermath and tales of survival. Bridging the gap between Science Fiction and Horror, the gothic overtones of the apocalyptic imagination are explored to their full extent in these short stories. After the Fall: Tales of the Apocalypse is a collection of twenty short stories from some of the best up-and-coming writers of modern science fiction. All apocalyptic or dystopian in nature, some stories bring laughter, while others bring tears, but each is unique in its interpretation of the theme. -After the Fall- features: Casting off by Robert Holtom (Competition winner) As I sit in a cafe, waiting for a loved one, so I contemplate the end of the world. Nightshade by Damon DiMarco Civilization's death rattle as we succumb to the Nightshade virus in a curious and ironic way. In Debt by Javier Moyano Perez A dystopian story about a fictitious America enslaved for eternity by merciless creditors and artificial age preservation. The Dying and the Desolation by Paul S. Huggins Drake is alive, man and animal alike have been wiped off the planet by a virilent form of rabies, immune or lucky he must adapt if he wants to survive. Seen and not Heard by Ilana Masad A mother's fight to retain her sanity and her illegal, secret, son in the post-nuclear dictatorship she lives in. They Turn Red Then Black by Spencer Lawes In a run-down village dependent on a river of garbage, two boys desperately try to find a way to stop their crippled mother being raped by the inhabitants of nearby villages. Diary of a Zee by Brian LeCluyse Set in an apocalyptic, dying Austin, Texas and told from the point of view of a vegetarian, pot-smoking, hippie, liberal zombie. The Ambulancemen by Heather Parry A world turned on its head; a world where the sirens of an Ambulance are to be feared, not respected. You Call This an Apocalypse? by Errick A. Nunnally Two foster kids more different than alike, from one of the poorest neighborhoods in Boston during the first day of the zombie apocalypse. Also in the collection: Rush Hour by Thomas Brown Sale of the Century by Liam Brown We Don't Go to the River by Jeremy Watssman All Clear in the Anderton House by Claire Fuller Over the Vanishing City by Toby Lloyd Up the Road by Andrew Saxsma The End of Time by Robert Legg Stasis by Rebecca Jane Garner The Comeback Tour by Andrea Mullaney Anaesthetised by Emma Lyskava The Remnants of Civilization by Vince Liberato Foreword by Kelly Gardner Cover art: Wanderers of a Poor Town by Edwin Yang All proceeds from this collection go towards running competitions for aspiring writers!

After the Fall: Tales of the Apocalypse: A Collection of Short Stories

DiMarco, Damon

Masad, Ilana

Holtom, Robert

Saxsma, Andrew

Huggins, Paul S

Perez, Javier Moyano

Brown, Liam K

Mullaney, Andrea

Brown, Thomas

Short Stories & Anthologies

Almond Press

<ul>
<li> Elle's Most Anticipated Books by Women</li>
<li>A Most Anticipated Book at Buzzfeed, Goodreads, NYLON, Bustle, and Reader's Digest</li>
</ul>From the author of the award-winning and word-of-mouth sensationOur Endless Numbered Days comes an exhilarating literary mystery that will keep readers guessing until the final page.

Swimming Lessons (Thorndike Press Large Print Women's Fiction)

United States

Thorndike Press Large Print

From the attic of Lyntons, a dilapidated English country mansion, Frances Jellico sees them--Cara first: dark and beautiful, then Peter: striking and serious. The couple is spending the summer of 1969 in the rooms below hers while Frances is researching the architecture in the surrounding gardens. But she's distracted. Beneath a floorboard in her bathroom, she finds a peephole that gives her access to her neighbors' private lives.
To Frances' surprise, Cara and Peter are keen to get to know her. It is the first occasion she has had anybody to call a friend, and before long they are spending every day together: eating lavish dinners, drinking bottle after bottle of wine, and smoking cigarettes until the ash piles up on the crumbling furniture. Frances is dazzled.
But as the hot summer rolls lazily on, it becomes clear that not everything is right between Cara and Peter. The stories that Cara tells don't quite add up, and as Frances becomes increasingly entangled in the lives of the glamorous, hedonistic couple, the boundaries between truth and lies, right and wrong, begin to blur. Amid the decadence, a small crime brings on a bigger one: a crime so terrible that it will brand their lives forever.

Bitter Orange (Thorndike Press Large Print Reviewers' Choice)

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