Literature

Hanya Yanagihara Paperback 384 pages In 1950 Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumoured lost tribe. There he encounters a stra...

Colm Toibin Paperback 320 pages Mothers and Sons is a sensitive meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Psychologically intricate and emotionally incisive, each...

Cormac McCarthy Paperback 272 pages Set in rural Tennessee between the world wars, The Orchard Keeper is the unique, darkly biblical debut novel from the legendary author of Blood Meridian and T...

Percival Everett Paperback 256 pages A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, Telephone is an astonishing story of love, loss and grief from Percival Everett, author of The Trees, Dr No and ...

Patricia Highsmith Paperback 272 pages Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors and the law, when an unexpected acquaintance offers him a free trip to Europe and a chance...

Lisa Jewell Paperback 400 pages Celebrating her 45th birthday at her local pub, podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie is also celebrating her 45th...

James Hannaham Paperback 368 pages Darlene, once an exemplary wife and a loving mother, finds herself devastated by the unforeseen death of her husband. Unable to cope with her grief, she turns t...

Tommy Orange Paperback Following the arc of two centuries, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 to the early 21st century, Wandering Stars is an indelible novel of America's war on...

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...

Rose Tremain Paperback 192 pages How do you find the courage to make your own life? An electrifying novel about first love set in 1960s London from Sunday Times bestselling Rose TremainMarianne ...

Mavis Gallant Paperback 224 pages...

Jamaica Kincaid Paperback 192 pages ‘Poetic and affecting’ - Robert Antoni, The Washington PostMr Potter, a taxi driver from Antigua, makes his living along the winding roads that pass throu...

Claire Messud Paperback June 1940. As Paris falls to the Germans, Gaston Cassar - honorable servant of France, devoted husband and father, currently posted as naval attache in Salonica - bids far...

Jean Rhys Paperback 160 pages ne of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'Jean Rhys's spell-binding novel Wide Sargasso Sea, inspired by Jane Eyre and winner the Royal Society of Literature...

Eva Baltasar Paperback 144 pages Mammoth’s protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian. She’s inexperienced, irritated by life, eager to gestate, and determined to strip everything else down ...

Colson Whitehead Softback 336 pages Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its s...

Lauren Thoman Paperback 396 pages Two strangers search for the truth behind bizarre occurrences no one else dares to discuss—only to discover that they’re connected by secrets that could des...

Melissa Broder Paperback 240 pages The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story. A wo...

Leo Vardiashvili Paperback Tbilisi’s littered with memories that await me like landmines. The dearly departed voices I silenced long ago have come back without my permission. The situation call...

Clare Beams Paperback It's 1948, and Irene Willard has had five miscarriages. She's desperate to give her beloved husband the child he desperately desires and, now pregnant for the sixth time, ch...

Chris Kohler Hardback 400 pages One evening, Gillis - a young Scottish minister who technically doesn't believe in god - falls into a hole left by a recently dug up elm tree and discovers an anc...

Mai Sennaar Paperback Bonnie and Mansour are meant to be: two children abandoned by their mothers from opposite sides of the Black Atlantic, who find each other in New York in 1968 and set about m...

Michael Cunningham Paperback 288 pages As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most pre...

Valerie Perrin Paperback 256 pages Justine is 21 years old and has lived with her grandparents and cousin Jules since the death of her parents. She works as a carer at a retirement home and spen...