Literature

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...

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...

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...

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...

SoftbackKazuo Ishiguro Kazuo Ishiguro's highly acclaimed debut, first published in 1982, tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of ...

Taylor Jenkins Reid Softback 432 pages Everybody knows Daisy Jones and the Six. From the moment Daisy walked barefoot on to the stage at the Whisky, she and the band were a sensation. Their sound...

PaperbackStephen Fry 'Troy. The most marvellous kingdom in all the world . ..' Paris the Trojan has kidnapped Helen, Greek queen and most beautiful woman of the ancient world. A thousand ships give...

SoftbackWilliam Faulkner The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense des...

SoftbackDavid Diop *Winner of the 2021 International Booker Prize* Alfa and Mademba are two of the many Senegalese soldiers fighting in the Great War. Together they climb dutifully out of their tren...

Madeline Miller Paperback Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achi...

Jose Saramago Softcover In an unnamed country, on the first day of the New Year, people stop dying. There is great celebration and people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of...

PaperbackDouglas Stuart It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own fr...

SoftbackDaniel Kehlmann...

PaperbackPrimo Levi 'So it happens, therefore, that every element says something to someone'Inspired by the rhythms of the Periodic Table, Primo Levi assesses his life in terms of the chemical elemen...