The ShoreLonglisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction 2015 Shortlisted for The Sunday Times PFD Young Writer of the Year Award 2015 Shortlisted for The Guardian First Book Award 2015 The Shore. A collection of small islands sticking out from the coast of Virginia into the Atlantic Ocean. The Shore takes the force of hurricanes, and grows so much food that it rots on the vine. The Shore is clumps of evergreens, wild ponies, oyster shell roads, tumble

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the once esteemed Stilwell family of Darkacre Hall find themselves struggling with the legacy of the First World War

There is evidence of atraitor in their midst

a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms

Inez sails to Cairo

The Mid-Life Crisis

Irvine Welsh celebrates an un-reconstructed misogynist hustler a central character who is shameless but also

Perhaps if she could solve the case of the disappearing women

the local police inspector

found battered about the head with the ferocity of a great rage

Why did a sweet-natured seamstress have to die

with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous