The Books

Five books about what the water keeps.

Novels and stories about inheritance, erosion, and the quiet arithmetic of families.

A cartographer returns to map the island that erased her family — and finds the record has been rewritten.

Eleven stories about the people who are awake at four in the morning, and what they do with the hour.

A house clearance forces three sisters to price everything their mother refused to explain.

In wartime Suffolk, a birdsong recordist is asked to listen for something other than birds.

A debut about a lighthouse keeper's daughter who has been telling the same story for fifty years.