Literature

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...

Rose Tremain Paperback 288 pages From Sunday Times bestselling novelist Rose Tremain comes a gripping novel of murder and revenge set in Victorian England Nobody knows yet that she is a murderer...

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...

Rebecca Rukeyser Paperback 288 pages Tourists arrive all summer, by boat or seaplane, at Stu and Maureen Jenkins's Lavender Island Wilderness Lodge in the Kodiak Archipelago, expecting adventure....

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...

Sally Rooney Paperback Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up ...

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...

Leone Ross Paperback 480 pages Dawn breaks across the archipelago of Popisho. The world is stirring awake again, each resident with their own list of things to do:A wedding feast to conjure and c...

William Goldman Paperback 416 pages Beautiful, flaxen-haired Buttercup has fallen for Westley, the farm boy, and when he departs to make his fortune, she vows never to love another. So when she h...

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...

James Baldwin Paperback 96 pages 'A seminal meditation on race by one of our greatest writers' Barack Obama 'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become 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...

James Joyce Paperback 688 pages Celebrating 100 Years of Joyce's masterpiece The authoritative Hans Walter Gabler text; with a new introduction by Anne Enright. Set entirely on one day, 16 June...

Ottessa Moshfegh Paperback 272 pages While on her daily walk with her dog in the woods near her home, Vesta comes across a chilling handwritten note. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know...

PaperbackEmily St. John Mandel Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is a bold vision of a dystopian future, frighteningly real, perfect for fans of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. The New Y...

SoftbackDaniel Kehlmann He's a trickster, a player, a jester. His handshake's like a pact with the devil, his smile like a crack in the clouds; he's watching you now and he's gone when you turn. Tyll...

PaperbackClare Chambers 1957, the suburbs of South East London. Jean Swinney is a journalist on a local paper, trapped in a life of duty and disappointment from which there is no likelihood of escap...