Literature

Gareth Rubin Paperback 512 pages Imagine you’re holding a book in your hands. It’s not just any book though. It’s a tête-bêche novel, beloved of nineteenth-century bookmakers. It’...

D.J. Taylor Hardback 224 pages A spirited and essential companion to Orwell and his works, covering all the novels and major essays An intellectual who hated intellectuals, a socialist who didn...

Mark Twain Paperback 336 pages The Penguin English Library Edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain'I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you can git around it; it ain't...

Jente Posthuma Paperback 224 pages LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEWhat if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without them?This quest...

Jenny Hval Paperback 160 pages Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. A house with no walls, a roommate with no boundaries, and a home that seem...

Kevin Jared Hosein Paperback 352 pages The music was still playing when Dalton Changoor vanished into thin air... On a hill overlooking Bell Village sits the Changoor farm, where Dalton and Ma...

Kurt Vonnegut Hardback 192 pages A beautiful hardback edition of one of the most funny, moving and brilliant novels of the twentieth century. 'A book to read and reread. He is a true artist' New ...

Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa Hardback 272 pages A beautiful hardback edition of the great Italian classic. 'Historical fiction at its best' The WeekIt is the spring of 1869 and there is talk of ...

Claire McGlasson Paperback 320 pages Blackpool, 1938. Miss Margaret Finch - a rather demure young woman - has just begun work in a position that relies on her discretion and powers of observatio...

Josie Long Paperback 208 pages From a comic mastermind comes this brilliant collection of stories Three teenagers believe they are witches. A woman defaces a local billboard. A bored landlord tr...

Michael Magee Paperback 288 pages Sean is back. Back in Belfast and back into old habits. Back on the mad all-nighters, the borrowed tenners and missing rent, the casual jobs that always fall th...

Erich Maria Remarque Series: Vintage Quarterbound Classics Hardback 224 pages In 1914, a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop ...

Carys Davies Hardback 160 pages 1843. On a remote Scottish island, Ivar, the sole occupant, leads a life of quiet isolation until the day he finds a man unconscious on the beach below the cliffs...

Alexander Lernet-Holenia Paperback 160 pages The war is over but Alexander Jessiersky, a wealthy Austrian aristocrat and industrialist, is haunted by guilt over the neighbour he inadvertently sen...

Curtis Sittenfeld Paperback 400 pages Life is (not)* a Romantic Comedy... After a series of heartbreaks, Sally Milz - successful script writer for a legendary late-night TV comedy show - has lon...

Jonathan Buckley Paperback 200 pages Curtis Doyle, a self-made businessman and art collector, has vanished from his palatial home in the Scottish Highlands. In the wake of his disappearance, the...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Hardback 144 pages Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happily married and has no reason to es...

Gabriela Wiener Hardback 192 pages A provocative autobiographical novel that reckons with the legacy of colonialism through one woman's family ties to both colonised and coloniserIn an ethnograp...

Nathan Englander Paperback 352 pages Buenos Aires, 1970s. Kaddish Poznan chips the names off gravestones for a living, removing traces of disreputable ancestors for their more respectable kin. H...

Jorge Luis Borges Paperback 288 pages Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's most influential and imaginative writers. This ...

Jorge Luis Borges Paperback 224 pages Borges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, Borges re...

Madeleine Gray Paperback Hera is in her mid-twenties, which seems young to everyone except people in their mid-twenties. Since leaving school, she has been trying to kick and scream into existe...

Joseph Conrad Paperback 112 pages 'Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, ...

Yambo Ouologuem - Cherif Keita (Introduction By) Paperback 240 pages A mock epic of explosive power, Bound to Violence races through the history of the imaginary African kingdom of Nakem, fro...