Literature

Franz Kafka Paperback 192 pages The essential stories of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential writersNo one has captured the modern experience, its wild dreams, strange j...

Jenny Erpenbeck Paperback 304 pages Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by ...

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...

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 ...

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...

Sebastian Barry Paperback 272 pages Tom Kettle, a retired policeman, and widower, is settling into the quiet of his new home in Dalkey, overlooking the sea. His solitude is interrupted when two...

Virginia Woolf Paperback 112 pages 'But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction - what has that got to do with a room of one's own?'A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture ...

Charles Bukowski Paperback 152 pages A book length collaboration between two underground legends, Charles Bukowski and Robert Crumb. Bukowski's last journals candidly and humorously reveal the e...

Han Kang Paperback 160 pages In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself d...

William Shakespeare Paperback 264 pages A Midsummer Night's Dream, one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and widely performed across the world, is now available as a Norton Criti...

Geoffrey Chaucer Paperback 720 pages...

Anat Levit Paperback 144 pages Anat Levit never considered herself a cat lover, but when her life was thrown into upheaval, she found herself adopting one cat at the suggestion of her daughters,...

Paperback 320 pages he New York Trilogy is perhaps the most astonishing work by one of America's most consistently astonishing writers. The Trilogy is three cleverly interconnected novels that exp...

Bret Easton Ellis Paperback / softback 608 pages LA, 1981, Buckley College in heat. 17-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious...

Claire Keegan Hardback 64 pages After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home. There, his mind agitates over a woman named Sabine w...

Milan Kundera Paperback 48 pages A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the d...

Softback Maggie O'Farrell Winter, 1561. Lucrezia, Duchess of Ferrara, is taken on an unexpected visit to a country villa by her husband, Alfonso. As they sit down to dinner it occurs to Lucrezi...

Taylor Jenkins Reid Paperback 384 pages Carrie Soto is the greatest player the world has ever seen. But six years after her last match, she watches a young British tennis player steal her world r...

Gabrielle Zevin Paperback 496 pages This is the story of Sam and Sadie. It's not a romance, but it is about love. When Sam catches sight of Sadie at a crowded train station one winter morning he ...

Truman Capote Paperback 352 pages Considered by many to be the first work of the true crime genre, this ground-breaking book reconstructs the murder of the Clutter family from information provid...

Laura Vaughan Paperback 320 pages Cleeve is not for everyone... When Eve's husband is appointed housemaster at his old boarding school, Cleeve College, she gives up her life in London to join hi...

Anna Metcalfe Hardback 304 pages An unnerving, compelling and utterly contemporary debut novel about one woman's metamorphosis into an online phenomenon, from a Sunday Times Short Story Award-sh...

Dolly Alderton Paperback 256 pages Since early 2020, Dolly Alderton has been sharing her wisdom, warmth and wit with the countless people who have written in to her Dear Dolly agony aunt column i...

S.A. Cosby Paperback 288 pages Cosby's debut novel My Darkest Prayer is republished in a new edition, with a new introduction from the author. "I handle the bodies."Whether it's working at his c...