Literature

Marian Engel Paperback 176 pages...

Elaine Dundy Paperback 336 pages The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. Sally Jay Gorce is a woman with a m...

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 ...

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...

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...

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,...

Michelle Zauner Paperback 256 pages The New York Times bestseller from the Grammy-nominated indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed-race, ...

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...

Joseph Conrad Paperback 112 pages 'Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, ...

Abraham Verghese Paperback 736 pages Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water follows a family in southern India that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - DBC Pierre (Introduction By) Series: Canons Paperback 160 pages 'I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too . . .' In the depths of a cellar...

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...

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 ...

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....

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...

Gerard Reve Paperback 320 pages 'I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is it.' Twenty-three-year-old Frits - office worker...

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...