Literature

Domenico Starnone Paperback 464 pages The modest apartment on Via Gemito smells of paint and white spirit. The furniture is pushed up against the wall to create a make-shift studio, and drying c...

Natasha Brown Paperback 112 pages Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Step out into a world of Go Home vans. Go to Oxbridge, get an education, start a career. ...

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...

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...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Hardback 432 pages In the wake of the author's death, his most beloved novel is reissued in commemorative hardback edition. One Hundred Years of Solitude is endlessly ...

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 ...

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...

Max Porter Paperback 128 pages This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a teenage boy. He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his pare...

Kerry Andrew Paperback Luke, Connor, Thea and Violet spend their first holiday together alone in their father's house in the south of France. The boys don't really know him, and they don't reall...

George Orwell - Robert Colls (Introduction By) Series: Penguin Modern Classics Paperback 144 pages When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the...

Gabrielle Zevin Paperback 304 pages This is the story of five women . . . Meet Rachel Grossman. She'll stop at nothing to protect her daughter, Aviva, even if it ends up costing her everythi...

Charles Bukowski - Howard Sounes (Introduction By) Softback 288 pages 'What will you do?' 'Oh, hell, I'll write a novel about writing the screenplay and making the movie.' 'What are you going...

Brigitte Reimann Series: Penguin Modern Classics Paperback 144 pages The border between East and West Germany has closed. For Elisabeth - a young painter - the GDR is her generation's chance ...

Jenny Jackson Paperback 320 pages Meet the Stockton women of Brooklyn Heights: Darley, who was born with money; Sasha, who married into it; and Georgiana, who wants to give it all away. Among gli...

Santanu Bhattacharya Paperback 400 pages India, 1992. The country is ablaze with riots. In Lucknow, ten-year-old Shubhankar witnesses a terrible act of mob violence that will alter the course o...

Chukwuebuka Ibeh Hardback 256 pages 'Chukwuebuka Ibeh's writing has a certain delicacy to it, so wonderfully observant, and so beautiful' Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieWhen Obiefuna's father witness...

Agustin Fernandez Mallo Paperback 192 pages In the wake of the Great Blackout, faced with the near-extinction of humanity, a pair of lovers speak to each other. They parse, with precision, with ...

Virginia Woolf Paperback 384 pages...

Virginia Woolf Paperback 256 pages...

Oscar Wilde Paperback 224 pages...

William Shakespeare Paperback 448 pages By carefully selecting extracts from sources, scholars and scriptwriters, Gordon McMullan tells a series of stories about Romeo and Juliet, globally and f...

William Shakespeare Paperback 384 pages This Norton Critical Edition includes: * The Second Quarto text, edited by Robert S. Miola and accompanied by his footnotes, headnotes, and introductory ma...

Geoffrey Chaucer Paperback 720 pages...

John Banville Paperback 352 pages 1950s Dublin. The body of a young woman is discovered in a lock-up garage, an apparent suicide. But pathologist Dr Quirke and Detective Inspector Strafford s...