Literature

Marlon James Paperback 720 pages Jamaica, 1976. Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. In A Brief History ...

Leonid Tsypkin Paperback 240 pages Why was I reading this book now, in a railway-carriage, beneath a wavering, flickering, electric light-bulb . . Summer, 1867: The newlywed Dostoevsky and hi...

Vladimir Nabokov Paperback 272 pages Pale Fire, a 999-line poem, is the final work of the celebrated - and recently murdered - American author, John Francis Shade. Here that poem is transcribed,...

Paul Lynch Paperback 320 pages The explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianism On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of...

Caleb Azumah Nelson Paperback 272 pages Dancing is the one thing that can solve Stephen's problems. At Church with his family, the shimmer of Black hands raised in praise. With his band, making m...

Aldous Huxley Series: Vintage Quarterbound Classics Hardback 256 pages A beautiful hardback edition of Huxley's inconic dystopian classic, introduced by Yuval Noah Harari'A masterpiece of spe...

David Nicholls Paperback 448 pages 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be ...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Paperback 368 pages Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and marri...

Jorge Luis Borges Paperback 224 pages Borges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, Borges re...

Sebastian Barry Paperback 272 pages Tom Kettle, a retired policeman, and widower, is settling into the quiet of his new home in Dalkey, overlooking the sea. His solitude is interrupted when two...

Lucas Rijneveld Paperback 288 pages I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit. 'Amen.' Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of experiencing her universe: the ...

Alice Winn Paperback 400 pages In 1914, war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. They're too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle - an all-consu...

Virginia Woolf Paperback 112 pages 'But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction - what has that got to do with a room of one's own?'A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture ...

Charles Bukowski Paperback 152 pages A book length collaboration between two underground legends, Charles Bukowski and Robert Crumb. Bukowski's last journals candidly and humorously reveal the e...

Jhumpa Lahiri Paperback 192 pages A spellbinding selection of short stories in the original Italian alongside their English translationsThis new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from...

Anat Levit Paperback 144 pages Anat Levit never considered herself a cat lover, but when her life was thrown into upheaval, she found herself adopting one cat at the suggestion of her daughters,...

Paperback 752 pages When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is ...

Hisashi Kashiwai Paperback The Kamogawa Food Detectives, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Bef...

Milan Kundera Paperback 48 pages A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the d...

Taylor Jenkins Reid Paperback 384 pages Carrie Soto is the greatest player the world has ever seen. But six years after her last match, she watches a young British tennis player steal her world r...

Truman Capote Paperback 352 pages Considered by many to be the first work of the true crime genre, this ground-breaking book reconstructs the murder of the Clutter family from information provid...

Dolly Alderton Paperback 256 pages Since early 2020, Dolly Alderton has been sharing her wisdom, warmth and wit with the countless people who have written in to her Dear Dolly agony aunt column i...

Softback Kate Briggs 480 pages It's early morning and there's a whole new day ahead. How will it unfold? The baby will feed, hopefully she'll sleep; Helen looks out of the window. The Long Form...

Douglas Stuart Paperback 400 pages The extraordinary, powerful second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain, Young Mungo is both a vivid portrayal of working-class life and...