Books like The Glorious Heresies
In Cork, Maureen, a woman in her sixties, kills an intruder with a holy stone, and her son Jimmy, the city's crime boss, calls in Tony Cusack, an alcoholic neighbour, to clean up.
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The Glass Canoe
Life inside the Southern Cross, a working-class pub in Sydney, told in short episodes by Meat Man, one of its regulars.
Trainspotting
Renton, Sick Boy, Begbie, and Spud run together through heroin-era 1980s Leith in a novel written out in the Edinburgh that English-reading publishing had previously been allowed to leave out.
Too Much Lip
Kerry Salter, a Bundjalung woman on a stolen motorbike with warrants out, comes home to northern New South Wales to farewell her dying grandfather, and finds the mayor planning a prison on sacred land.
Post Office
Bukowski's alter ego takes a job at the post office and endures the soul-crushing tedium with alcohol, women, and horse racing.
The Man with the Golden Arm
Frankie Machine, a card dealer in Chicago's Polish neighbourhood, back from the war with a morphine habit, wants to be a jazz drummer and to get clear of the life.
The Bee Sting
The Barnes family of a small Irish town is coming apart: the father's car dealership is failing after the 2008 crash, the mother watches the money and the marriage slip away, and their teenage daughter and young son each struggle in secret.
Boy Swallows Universe
Eli Bell, growing up in a Brisbane suburb in the 1980s with a mute brother who writes in the air, a stepfather who deals heroin and a babysitter who was a famous prison escapee, wants to be a good man.
Vernon God Little
After a shooting at his Texas high school, fifteen-year-old Vernon Little, whose only friend was the killer, finds himself the town's scapegoat.
Allah Is Not Obliged
Birahima, a ten-year-old orphan from Ivory Coast, sets off to find his aunt in Liberia and becomes a child soldier in the civil wars, telling it all in foul-mouthed, dictionary-checked French.
Sanctuary
A young woman in Depression-era Mississippi is violated by a bootlegger, and the justice system that responds reveals more about the corruption of power than the crime itself.
How Late It Was, How Late
Sammy, a Glasgow ex-con, wakes up in a lane after a two-day drinking binge, gets into a fight with the police and comes round in a cell, blind.
Voroshilovgrad
Herman, a thirty-something in Kharkiv, goes back to his hometown in eastern Ukraine when his brother disappears, and takes over his brother's petrol station as gangsters close in.