Literature

Paperback 272 pages One father. Two sons. An impossible choice. When thirteen-year-old Paul doesn't return home one afternoon, even his twin brother, Peter, doesn't know where he is. So their f...

Sylvia Plath Paperback 352 pages Every day from nine to five I sit at my desk facing the door of the office and type up other people's dreams. An office assistant in a hospital pursues a secret ...

Nick Hornby Paperback 256 pages The Twentieth Anniversary Edition*WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR*Fever Pitch is Nick Hornby's million-copy-selling, award-winnning football cl...

Leo Tolstoy Hardback 272 pages Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Cora...

Alice Munro Paperback 336 pages In these stories lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. The past, as Alice Munro's characters...

Jonathan Franzen Paperback 592 pages It's 23 December 1971, and the Hildebrandts are at a crossroads. Fifteen-year-old Perry has resolved to be a better person and quit dealing drugs to seventh g...

Octavia E. Butler Paperback 320 pages -In 1976, Dana dreams of being a writer. In 1815, she is assumed a slave. When Dana first meets Rufus on a Maryland plantation, he's drowning. She saves ...

Paperback 336 pages To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Eliza...

Claire-Louise Bennett Paperback 240 pages We read in order to come to life.'With fierce imagination, a woman revisits the moments that shape her life; from crushes on teachers to navigating rel...

Ben Okri Paperback 512 pages eve of catastrophe. Others can tell of the catastrophe itself. I want to see the people in the last days of their innocence.' Ben OkriBy a riverbank in Africa, two l...

Paperback 720 pages Summer, 1953. In the small town of Gravesend, New Hampshire, eleven-year-old John Wheelwright and his best friend Owen Meany are playing in a Little League baseball game. Wh...

Paperback 528 pages 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.' Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's...

Charles Bukowski Paperback 368 pages Charles Bukowski is one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century. The autobiographical Ham on Rye is widely considered his finest novel. A classic of ...

James Baldwin Paperback When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character...

Charlotte Van den Broeck Hardback 304 pages A spellbinding new talent explores the dark side of creativity through the stories of thirteen tragic architects'Bold Ventures resembles a pop version ...

Taylor Jenkins Reid Paperback 400 pages August,1983, it is the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone who is anyone wants to be around the f...

Chris Power Paperback 320 pages When two men meet in a bookshop in Berlin they begin an uneasy friendship. Patrick has a sensational story to tell: a ghostwriter for a Russian oligarch recently f...

Lucy Caldwell Paperback 288 pages Two sisters, four nights, one city.April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war - so far. Over the next two months, its going to be destroyed from abov...

Henry Miller Paperback 272 pages Shocking, banned and the subject of obscenity trials, Henry Miller's first novel Tropic of Cancer is one of the most scandalous and influential books of the twen...

Steven Hall Paperback 352 pages 'Are you there, Tom?'I stood in the doorway, staring at the phone. My father had been dead for almost seven years. When Thomas Quinn receives a seemingly impossibl...

Michel Houellebecq Paperback 256 pages As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and the charismatic Muhammed Ben A...

Khaled Hosseini Paperback 432 pages Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as...

Anton Chekhov Paperback 528 pages Chekhov's genius left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction. Now, renowned translators Richard Pev...

Harper Lee Paperback 320 pages 'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends ...