Literature

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...

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...

Mona Awad Paperback 384 pages From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her...

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 ...

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...

Softback 464 pages Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, Economist, Observer, The Spectator, Financial Times, Vogue, The Times, The Oldie, i Paper, The Standar...

Zadie Smith Paperback 464 pages From the acclaimed author of Swing Time, White Teeth and Grand Union, discover a brilliantly funny and deeply moving story about love and familyWhy do we fall in ...

Vladimir Nabokov Paperback 272 pages Pale Fire, a 999-line poem, is the final work of the celebrated - and recently murdered - American author, John Francis Shade. Here that poem is transcribed,...

Softback H.G. Wells Intrigued by the possibilities of time travel as a student and inspired as a journalist by the great scientific advances of the Victorian Age, Wells drew on his own scientific...

Jorge Luis Borges Paperback 224 pages Borges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, Borges re...

Alice Winn Paperback 400 pages In 1914, war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. They're too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle - an all-consu...

Virginia Woolf Paperback 112 pages 'But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction - what has that got to do with a room of one's own?'A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture ...

Han Kang Paperback 160 pages In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself d...

William Shakespeare Paperback 264 pages A Midsummer Night's Dream, one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and widely performed across the world, is now available as a Norton Criti...

Geoffrey Chaucer Paperback 720 pages...

Han Kang Paperback 192 pages Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people - dutiful wife and mild-mannered office worker. One day, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares, Yeong-hye decides ...

Paulo Coelho Paperback 224 pages Now this magical fable is beautifully repackaged in an edition that lovers of Paulo Coelho will want to treasure forever. Every few decades a book is published t...

For your friend who enjoys the colorful characters and wide range of a Dickens novel, here’s a novel that even includes Dickens. Spoiler alert: it turns out he is kind of an ass....

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...

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...

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...

Milan Kundera Paperback 48 pages A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the d...