Your Life Without Me by James Meek

Your Life Without Me by James MeekAn explosive modern novel from the award winning writer of The People's Act of Love Mr Burman is unmoored. Still reckoning with the death of his wife Ada, and struggling to understand his grown up daughter Leila, he finds himself on a train to London, at the invitation of the police. He is to meet Raf, a young man suspected of trying to blow up St Paul's cathedral and a man once intimately connected with the Burman family. Have the police laid a trap?

This is Sandy's story

Underwood’s LIES WE SING TO THE SEA makes an age-old story feel new again

– each one speaks to us from across the centuries of love

Leaving behind the revolutions in Latin America for the burgeoning counter-culture scene in '80s New York

These tests invite you to look beneath the surface of your conscious thoughts

terror reigns

women's rights post-Dobbs

a 'smashed dreary city' occupied by the four Allied powers

While we won't all be able to move to the countryside

When she uncovers his forgotten wife

'One of the funniest new voices in children's literature

no less – and promptly unravel into a pile of jewels and silks in my hands