Jill by Larkin, Philip young adult

Jill by Larkin, Philip young adultAuthor: Larkin, Philip Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published on 3 March 2005 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom. Paperback 256 pages 196 x 127 x 17 212g Michaelmas term, 1940. 18 year old John Kemp has come down from Lancashire to Oxford University to begin his scholarship studying English. But when he invents an imaginary sister to win the attention of a rich but unreliable 'friend', and then falls in love for real, undergraduate

Author: Okorie

Or if an election leads to a terrible outcome

comic and melancholy by turns

Author: McNaught

this Penguin Classics edition includes a critical introduction by Andrew Delbanco

where all their dreams and nightmares are about to come true

a fierce yet understated love emerges - one that encompasses not only the summer inhabitants but the very island itself

a man is pulled back to Argentina by an undying love

all he can think about is dressing up just like the ladies and making his own fabulous mermaid costume

Reading it was a thrill

and I used to be a probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service

'Lavishly imagined' Sunday Times'A very fine new writer' Kate Atkinson'I loved this book' Zadie Smith'Some of the best writing on desire I've read' Douglas Stuart'Filled with nuance and tenderness