Literature

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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...

Patricia Highsmith Paperback 272 pages Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors and the law, when an unexpected acquaintance offers him a free trip to Europe and a chance...

Carsten Henn Paperback 256 pages There's a book written for every one of us... Carl may be 72 years old, but he's young at heart. Every night he goes door-to-door delivering books by hand to his...

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...

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...

Eva Baltasar Paperback 144 pages Mammoth’s protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian. She’s inexperienced, irritated by life, eager to gestate, and determined to strip everything else down ...

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 Napolitano Paperback 400 pages Best friends and sisters, the four Padavano girls bring loving chaos to their close-knit Italian American neighbourhood. William Waters grew up in a house silen...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Samantha Harvey Paperback 160 pages Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft contemplating the world below A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data...

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...

Colm Toibin Paperback 272 pages A devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. Fall in love with Brooklyn ahead of its bestselling follow-up...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Paperback 304 pages Sweeping through crumbling towns, travelling fairs and windswept ports, Gabriel García Márquez introduces a host of extraordinary characters and comm...

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...

Franz Kafka Paperback 192 pages The essential stories of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential writersNo one has captured the modern experience, its wild dreams, strange j...

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...

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...