Literature

PaperbackHenry David Thoreau WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITS In 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in t

PaperbackMaria Dahvana Headley A NEW STATESMAN AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the acclaimed

SoftbackKazuo Ishiguro An extraordinary novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. 'You've long se

Flannery O'Connor Softback 208 pages These ten classic stories are masterful depictions of the underside of life, deep in the American South. On

PaperbackPrimo Levi 'So it happens, therefore, that every element says something to someone'Inspired by the rhythms of the Periodic Table, Primo Levi

SoftbackUmberto Eco The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to in

Deborah Levy Paperback 208 pages A Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyThe powerful second memoir from the twice-Man Booker Prize-shortlisted a

Octavia E. Butler Paperback We are coming apart. We're a rope, breaking, a single strand at a time. America is a place of chaos, where violence

SoftbackJohn Banville 'The body is in the library,' Colonel Osborne said. 'Come this way.' Following the discovery of the corpse of a highly respecte

Vladimir NabokovPaperback 'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps

Shauny BythellPaperback A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Irreverently funny ... kept me giggling all week.' Scotland on Sunday"Do you have a list of your bo

Ocean Vuong Paperback 256 pages ** The Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller **Brilliant, heartbreaking and highly original, Ocean Vuong's d

SoftbackMargaret Atwood To read this book is to feel the world turning' Anne EnrightThe Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this cr

Paperback Austerlitz is W. G. Sebald's haunting novel of post-war Europe. In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertra

SoftbackDolly Alderton Award-winning journalist Dolly Alderton survived her twenties (just about) and in Everything I Know About Love, she gives an un

SoftbackMikhail Bulgakov Professor Persikov, an eccentric zoologist, stumbles upon a new light ray that accelerates growth and reproduction rates in l

Deborah Levy Paperback 208 pages In 1988, Saul Adler is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. Apparently fine, he gets up and poses for a photograph

Paperback You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed... In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us Nad

Delia Owens Paperback 384 pages For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in

Paperback Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form togeth