Literature

Author: Kate Atkinson, Cover: Softback, Pages: 380...

Adam Mars-Jones Paperback 752 pages 'We make lazy assumptions about the centre of things and its location. Who's to say that the centre of things isn't in a corner, way over there?''People in au...

Elaine Dundy Paperback 336 pages The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. Sally Jay Gorce is a woman with a m...

Edna O'Brien Paperback 80 pages An unnamed protagonist is on holiday with her new, much-married lover, in the company of the monstrously rich. 'How long would she last? It would be uppermost i...

Edna O'Brien Paperback 704 pages Caithleen 'Kate' Brady and Bridget 'Baba' Brennan are growing up in a repressive Irish village after World War II. Kate is a romantic, looking for love; Baba i...

For that friend who watched Gladiator II for Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal, but claims they think about Rome five times a day....

Aysegul Savas Paperback 192 pages Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. Removed from the web of family and its obligations, what traditions and r...

S.W. Perry Paperback UNITED BY WAR. DIVIDED BY A SECRET. From silent era Hollywood and the nightclubs of pre-war Vienna to the ruins of Soviet Berlin, discover a moving, ambitious story of an e...

Tom Lamont Paperback Local boy Teo Erskine is back in the north London suburb of his youth, visiting his father - stubborn, selfish, complicated Vic. Things have changed for Teo: he's got a stead...

Aube Rey Lescure Paperback / softback 352 pages Shanghai, 2007: feeling betrayed by her American mother’s engagement to their rich landlord Lu Fang, fourteen-year-old Alva begins plotting her ...

Ali Smith (Author) , Tommy Orange (Author) , Naomi Alderman (Author) , Helen Oyeyemi (Author) , Keith Ridgway (Author) , Yiyun Li (Author) , Charlie Kaufman (Author) , Elif Batuman (Author) , Becca Ro...

Roberto Bolano Paperback 672 pages New Year’s Eve, 1975. Two hunted men leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the mythical, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. ...

Amy Tan Paperback 384 pages Four Chinese women, four America daughters - can they learn to understand each other? In 1949 a group of Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly...

Andrey Kurkov Paperback 256 pages All that stands between one man and murder by the mafia is a penguin. Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although Vikto...

Kimberly King Parsons Paperback The trip was supposed to be fun. When Kit's best friend gets dumped by his boyfriend, he begs her to ditch her family responsibilities for a quick, idyllic weekend ...

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 ...

Zadie Smith Paperback 464 pages From the acclaimed author of Swing Time, White Teeth and Grand Union, discover a brilliantly funny and deeply moving story about love and familyWhy do we fall in ...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Paperback 80 pages Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, tells a powerful tale of poverty and u...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Paperback 432 pages Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ...

Elodie Harper Paperback 384 pages The final instalment in Elodie Harper's Sunday Times bestselling Wolf Den TrilogyA courtesan in Rome. Playing for power. Haunted by her past. Her name is Ama...

Franz Kafka Paperback 128 pages Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read...

Jenny Erpenbeck Paperback 304 pages Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by ...

Gareth Rubin Paperback 512 pages Imagine you’re holding a book in your hands. It’s not just any book though. It’s a tête-bêche novel, beloved of nineteenth-century bookmakers. It’...

Alis Hawkins Paperback 400 pages Amongst the scholars, secrets and soporifics of Victorian Oxford, the truth can be a bitter pill to swallow…Jesus College, Oxford, 1881. An undergraduate is fo...