Literature

Costanza Casati Paperback There are whispers of her fame, in the land long since turned to dust. The Queen who rose from nothing - and changed everything . . . Ancient Assyria, 9th century ...

Nilesha Chauvet Paperback 352 pages Rita Marsh is a good woman. By day, she's an ordinary small business owner running her late parents' care home, working gently with the elderly and infirm. By...

Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi Paperback 320 pages Welcome to The Centre. The cost may be high, but you'll never be the same . . . Anisa Ellahi longs to become a translator of 'great works of litera...

Ali Smith (Author) , Tommy Orange (Author) , Naomi Alderman (Author) , Helen Oyeyemi (Author) , Keith Ridgway (Author) , Yiyun Li (Author) , Charlie Kaufman (Author) , Elif Batuman (Author) , Becca Ro...

Andrzej Tich Paperback 124 pages The stories in Purity take the reader through cities and suburbs, apartments and streets, to find characters struggling to survive in modern society: a man has an...

Akwaeke Emezi Paperback 352 pages They wanted revenge, they wanted people to be held accountable in a world where that just didn't happen. It was like expecting a rotten tree to bear fruit.Akwaek...

William Faulkner Paperback 442 pages This Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1985 corrected text and is accompanied by newly updated and expanded explanatory annotations and an introductio...

Anais Nin Paperback 224 pages The brilliant tale of Anais Nin's true love affair with Henry Miller, and her ambiguous, charged relationship with his wife, June. Drawn from the journals of a singl...

Colm Toibin Paperback 272 pages A devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. Fall in love with Brooklyn ahead of its bestselling follow-up...

Franz Kafka Paperback 320 pages Kafka's last great, unfinished novel - the book that hangs over the whole modern era like a nightmare. With a new introduction and notes by John ZilcoskyThe Castle...

V.V. Ganeshananthan Paperback 368 pages Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war subsumes Sri Lanka, her dream takes her on a different...

Clare Pooley Paperback When age makes you invisible, secrets are easier to hide Daphne knows that age is just a number. She also knows that society no longer pays her any attention - somethi...

Zadie Smith Paperback 464 pages From the acclaimed author of Swing Time, White Teeth and Grand Union, discover a brilliantly funny and deeply moving story about love and familyWhy do we fall in ...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Paperback 80 pages Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, tells a powerful tale of poverty and u...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Paperback 304 pages Sweeping through crumbling towns, travelling fairs and windswept ports, Gabriel García Márquez introduces a host of extraordinary characters and comm...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Paperback 432 pages Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ...

Leonid Tsypkin Paperback 240 pages Why was I reading this book now, in a railway-carriage, beneath a wavering, flickering, electric light-bulb . . Summer, 1867: The newlywed Dostoevsky and hi...

Yan Ge Paperback 336 pages How do you know this is all real and happening? How can you be sure you haven't already died in the earthquake and are just living in the afterlife?'In her highly anti...

Garth Risk Hallberg Paperback 608 pages A luminous novel from the New York Times bestselling author of City on Fire, plunging us deep into the lives of a teenage girl and her father as they nav...

Paul Auster Paperback 208 pages And then it started, little by little it started, until they were married five years later and his real life began. The life of Sy Baumgartner - noted author, a...

Christos Tsiolkas Paperback 384 pages 'It's been a long time since I've been on a date,' he says, pocketing his own phone. 'Please ignore anything I say for at least the first ten minutes.'Ivan'...

Hari Kunzru Paperback 272 pages From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, power, and capitals influence on art and those who devote their li...

Vladimir Nabokov Paperback 272 pages Pale Fire, a 999-line poem, is the final work of the celebrated - and recently murdered - American author, John Francis Shade. Here that poem is transcribed,...

Elodie Harper Paperback 384 pages The final instalment in Elodie Harper's Sunday Times bestselling Wolf Den TrilogyA courtesan in Rome. Playing for power. Haunted by her past. Her name is Ama...