Literature

Cormac McCarthy Paperback / softback 432 pages It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His divelight illuminate...

Monica Heisey Paperback 384 pages I feel like when you get a divorce everyone's wondering how you ruined it all, what made you so unbearable to be with. If your husband dies, at least people feel...

Madeline Miller Hardback 352 pages Woman. Witch. Myth. Mortal. Outcast. Lover. Destroyer. Survivor. CIRCE. In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter...

Dimitri Verhulst Paperback 144 pages Desire Cordier - mild-mannered former librarian, put-upon husband, lover of boules - is losing his mind. Or is he? Happily tucked away in the Winterlight Home...

Audrey Magee Paperback 304 pages The debut novel by the author of The Colony, longlisted for the 2022 Booker PrizeA soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph of a woman he has never met....

Cees Nooteboom Paperback 112 pages One morning Herman Mussert wakes up in a hotel room in Lisbon, where twenty years previously he slept with another man's wife. Yet he is quite certain that the...

Jonathan Coe Paperback 368 pages From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally funny and brilliantly true portrait of Britain told through four ...

Softback Graham Norton 368 pages The new dark comedy from the Sunday Times bestselling author Graham NortonCarol is a divorced teacher living in a small town in Ireland, happy enough with the lif...

Claire Keegan Hardback 64 pages After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home. There, his mind agitates over a woman named Sabine w...

George Orwell Softback 368 pages Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Wi...

Eleanor Catton Paperback / softback 848 pages An astonishing, epic story of promise, deceit and desperation in New Zealand's gold rush. 'What brings a fellow down here, you know, to the ends of...

Jenny Offill Paperback / softback 192 pages They used to send each other letters. The return address was always the same: Dept. of Speculation. They used to be young, brave, and giddy with hopes...

Gerard Reve Paperback 320 pages 'I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is it.' Twenty-three-year-old Frits - office worker...

Herman Hesse Paperback 160 pages An inspirational classic from Nobel Prize-winner Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha is a beautiful tale of self-discoveryDissatisfied with the ways of life he has exper...

Shaun Bythell Paperback 384 pages The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd ...

Softback Maggie O'Farrell Winter, 1561. Lucrezia, Duchess of Ferrara, is taken on an unexpected visit to a country villa by her husband, Alfonso. As they sit down to dinner it occurs to Lucrezi...

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...

Gabrielle Zevin Paperback 496 pages This is the story of Sam and Sadie. It's not a romance, but it is about love. When Sam catches sight of Sadie at a crowded train station one winter morning he ...

Laura Vaughan Paperback 320 pages Cleeve is not for everyone... When Eve's husband is appointed housemaster at his old boarding school, Cleeve College, she gives up her life in London to join hi...

Anna Metcalfe Hardback 304 pages An unnerving, compelling and utterly contemporary debut novel about one woman's metamorphosis into an online phenomenon, from a Sunday Times Short Story Award-sh...

Lorrie Moore Paperback 208 pages Finn is in the grip of middle-age and on an enforced break from work: it might be that he's too emotional to teach history now. He is living in an America hurtli...

Ian McEwan Paperback 496 pages When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at...

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...

Hernan Diaz Paperback 416 pages Perfect for fans of Succession, Trust is a sweeping puzzle of a novel about power, greed, love and a search for the truth that begins in 1920s New York. Can one ...