Literature

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...

Dolly Alderton Paperback 256 pages Since early 2020, Dolly Alderton has been sharing her wisdom, warmth and wit with the countless people who have written in to her Dear Dolly agony aunt column i...

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...

S.A. Cosby Paperback 288 pages Cosby's debut novel My Darkest Prayer is republished in a new edition, with a new introduction from the author. "I handle the bodies."Whether it's working at his c...

Bobby Palmer Paperback 288 pages Heartbreaking and heart-stealing, this modern-day fable is an unforgettable novel about sorrow, joy, friendship and love. It is early. A young man stands on...

Katherine J. Chen Paperback 368 pages Girl. Warrior. Heretic. Saint?France is mired in a losing war against England. Its people are starving. Its king is in hiding. Yet out of the chaos, a...

Percival Everett Paperback 272 pages The protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means "nothing" in ...

Natasha Pulley Paperback 384 pages SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022The Times Historical Fiction Book of the MonthThe truth must come out. In 1963, in a Siberian gulag, former nuclear specialist Va...

Cormac McCarthy Paperback 336 pages The post-apocalyptic modern classic with an introduction by novelist John Banville. In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened s...

Joanna Quinn Hardback 560 pages Maudie, why are all the best characters men?'Maudie closes the book with a clllump. 'We haven't read all the books yet, Miss Cristabel. I can't believe that every...

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...

Sarah Hogle Paperback 368 pages From the author of TikTok favourite, You Deserve Each Other, comes a charmingly festive romcom!Bettie Hughes once knew the comfort of luxury . . . before she lo...

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...

Mariana Enriquez Paperback 208 Pages...

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 ...

Claire Keegan Paperback 96 pages It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm, not knowing when she will return home. In the strangers' house, she fi...

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...

Chinua Achebe Paperback 176 pages 'A worldwide bestseller and the first part of Achebe's African Trilogy, Things Fall Apart is the compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community a...