Literature

Hilary Mantel Paperback As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world a...

Valerie Perrin Paperback 304 pages Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her daily life is lived to the rhythms of the hilarious and touching confidences...

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....

Audrey Magee Paperback 304 pages The debut novel by the author of The Colony, longlisted for the 2022 Booker PrizeA soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph of a woman he has never met....

Jonathan Coe Paperback 368 pages From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally funny and brilliantly true portrait of Britain told through four ...

Claire Keegan Hardback 64 pages After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home. There, his mind agitates over a woman named Sabine w...

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...

Eleanor Catton Paperback / softback 848 pages An astonishing, epic story of promise, deceit and desperation in New Zealand's gold rush. 'What brings a fellow down here, you know, to the ends of...

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...

Shaun Bythell Paperback 384 pages The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd ...

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...

Shelby Van Pelt Paperback 368 pages After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night cleaner shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. Ever since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysterio...

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...

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 ...

Lorrie Moore Paperback 208 pages Finn is in the grip of middle-age and on an enforced break from work: it might be that he's too emotional to teach history now. He is living in an America hurtli...

Anne Frank Paperback 384 pages 12th July 1944: 'It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't...

Mr John Steinbeck - Jay Parini (Introduction By) Paperback 240 pages In 1960, John Steinbeck set out in his pick-up truck with his dog Charley to rediscover and chronicle his native USA, from ...

James Hynes Paperback 450 pages Raised in a brothel at the edge of a dying empire, a boy of no known origin creates his own identity. He is Sparrow, who sings without reason and can fly from tro...

Franz Kafka Paperback 272 pages You are the knife I turn inside myself'Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentiet...

Shehan Karunatilaka Paperback 432 pages Now with added author content - a Map of Colombo as viewed from the afterlife + Dramatis Personae A magical realism whodunnit set amid Sri Lanka's civ...

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 ...

Bonnie Garmus Paperback 400 pages Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts hereChemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first...

Karen Joy Fowler Paperback 496 pages In 1822, a stage is set: Englishman Junius Booth - celebrated Shakespearean actor and man of mesmerising charm and instability - moves to a remote cabin outs...

Marina Palmer Paperback 320 pages Part thriller, part romance, part social commentary, this is a wildly entertaining novel' Literary ReviewThe Firm meets McMafia in Marina Palmer's thrilling and...