GirlThe Sunday Times bestseller: Girl is the new novel by the legendary Edna O'Brien, author of The Country Girls (dramatised on BBC Radio 4 in August 2019). Captured, abducted and married into Boko Haram, the narrator of this story witnesses and suffers the horrors of a community of men governed by a brutal code of violence. Barely more than a girl herself, she must soon learn how to survive as a woman with a child of her own. Just as the world around

In the aftermath of the Great War

her boss Leo and the billionaire founder of the institute

He could never imagine what he would uncover

Yellow Dog is an early example of how the novel

The past is another country and we are all its exiles

Instead the trouble is just beginning

The Actual Star is a feast of ideas about where humanity came from

and the inn at Tonbridge has been busy since early morning

where he meets up with the Resistance fighters

It is believed that Roth's wife and two children have escaped to West Berlin and are expected to come to England

in a deco-punk tale of unchecked technology

possibly even more so