Literature

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...

Hanya Yanagihara Paperback 384 pages In 1950 Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumoured lost tribe. There he encounters a stra...

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...

Sam Sax Paperback 288 pages...

Mavis Gallant Paperback 224 pages...

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...

Percival Everett Paperback 352 pages Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everett's The Trees is a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America. 'He makes a revenge fantasy int...

Colson Whitehead Softback 336 pages Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its s...

Ann Patchett Paperback 320 pages There's more to every love story than what we choose to tell... It’s spring and Lara’s three grown daughters have returned to the family orchard. While pic...

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...

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Paperback 384 pages Enter a world where, livestreamed to millions, prisoners fight like gladiators for the ultimate prize: their freedom. Fan-favourite female stars L...

Patrick Leigh Fermor Paperback 384 pages In 1933, aged eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on his 'great trudge', a year-long journey by foot from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul. Three d...

Andrzej Tich Paperback 124 pages The stories in Purity take the reader through cities and suburbs, apartments and streets, to find characters struggling to survive in modern society: a man has an...

Lara Haworth Hardback 144 pages Olga Pavic's house has been requisitioned. The council will bulldoze it. Her home will become a monument to a massacre. But Olga cannot ascertain which massacr...

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. ...

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...

Kang Hwagil Paperback 304 pages Who is Jina?The stupid woman who ruined a young man's career?The weird loner whose university boyfriend thinks that she has a victim complex?The naïve country gir...

Sandra Newman Paperback 400 pages London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceania. It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machi...

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 ...

William Faulkner Paperback 442 pages This Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1985 corrected text and is accompanied by newly updated and expanded explanatory annotations and an introductio...

Franz Kafka Paperback 208 pages Kafka's gripping work of psychological horror, with a new introduction and notes by Carolin DuttlingerA terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph ...

Lauren Elkin Hardback 400 pages The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apart. In 2019, Anna, a psychoanalyst, is processing a recent miscar...

Softback 304 pages Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of thre...

Chigozie Obioma Paperback At first the vision is grainy but slowly it clears, and there appears the figure of a man. When a country is plunged into civil war, two brothers on either side of it ...