*WINNER OF THE 2023 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR LESBIAN FICTION**A New York Times 100 Notable Book of 2022*'These stories glitter and pulse' Dantiel W. MontizIn he...
In this spellbinding new collection, Charlotte Higgins reinterprets some of Greek mythology's most enduring stories. 'A great storyteller' Madeline Miller, author of Circe ...
*JO NESBO HAS SOLD OVER 50 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE*'Spectacular storytelling and a beautifully judged super-twist' Daily MailLIE.Clever, wealthy, married to a be...
From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes a sharp and illuminating novel about a fourteen-year-old boy subjected to relentless bullyi...
The radical, urgent new novel from the author of The End of Eddy – a personal and powerful story of violence.I met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012, at around four in the morning. He approach...
Frank's reclusive existence in a leafy part of London is shattered when he is summoned to Milan for the funeral of an old friend. Preoccupied by this sudden intrusion of his past, he flies, oblivio...
The story of motherhood is an endlessly rich one: it's one of love - and all the highs and lows that come with that world-turning emotion - and, in the purest sense, of life itself. Within these pa...
A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love, of one man’s journey to discover what really matters in modern life.Our narrator’s days are numbered....
You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a printer's error in your copy.You take it back to the shop and get a ...
"Utterly compelling' GuardianLife...is shapeless, it does not point to and gather round anything, it does not cohere. Artistically, it's dead. Life's dead.So begins a l...
An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home.Sh...
Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months late...
What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?'Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots ...
‘An ode to love, to the families we build when our own families fail us. It broke my heart’ Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie BainJuno loves Legs. She always has, ever since...
Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mothe...
When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he holes up in the mountain home of a famous artist. The days drift by, spent painting, listening to music and drinking whiskey in...
This killer will get inside your head… and there’s nothing you can do to stop itWhen a body is found in the forest, the police make a horrifying discovery: her scalp has be...
Little Matt becomes King Matt when he is just a young boy. He can barely even read or write and he certainly doesn’t know anything about governing a country. What should he do? What would you...
Featured in The Times top ten crime novels of the decade**THE No.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**‘This is the king of Norwegian crime on top form’ ObserverHARRY HOLE&...
From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes readers on a thrilling journey through the evolution o...