When a mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants for her what many mothers might say they want for their child: a steady income, and, even better, a good hus...więcej »
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies is a story of coming-of-age at the end of a life. Utterly heart-breaking yet darkly funny, Maddie Mortimer’s debut is a symphonic journey through one woman&rsqu...więcej »
Out in the drought-struck backwaters of rural Florida, The Kingdom of Sand's nameless narrator lives a life of semi-solitude, enjoying the odd, fleeting sexual encounter and the friendship of a few...więcej »
Discover this profound account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for decades. 'Concise, evocative, wise and, above all, humane, The Doors of P...więcej »
'Mak is the history teacher everyone should have had' Financial TimesHow did the great European dream turn sour? And where do we go from here?From the author of the internat...więcej »
Empire Falls, Maine: once a thriving hub of industry, this small town nestles in a bend of the vast and winding Knox River, and has always been the empire of the wealthy Whiting family. Now the las...więcej »
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...więcej »
Elizabeth Anscombe: defiantly brilliant, chain-smoking, trouser-wearing Catholic and (eventual) mother of seven.Philippa Foot: pathalogically discreet, quietly rebellious granddaughter of a U...więcej »
Read the greatest rediscovered classic of recent years'A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life' Ian McEwanWilliam Stoner enters the University of Miss...więcej »
Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a negr...więcej »
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for FictionIn A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective, for...więcej »
The House of Fortune is the sequel to Jessie Burton’s million-copy bestseller The Miniaturist. Set in the golden city of Amsterdam in 1705, it is a story of fate and ambition, secrets and dre...więcej »
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars'The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands ...więcej »
She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference'Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatis...więcej »
'This is a hell of dull talk...How about some of that champagne?'Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love...więcej »
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 ...więcej »
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB SELECTIONThe breathtaking new novel from the million-copy bestselling...więcej »
VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.'Now she had taken off her goodness and left it behind her like a heap of rain-sodden clothes, and she on...więcej »
We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?'Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a lovely and sweet-natured girl. Al...więcej »
The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames'In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of ...więcej »