Literature

SoftbackMario Puzo The classic novel that inspired 'the greatest crime film of all time'Tyrant, blackmailer, racketeer, murderer - his influence rea

SoftbackJames Salter Nedra and Viri are a married couple whose favoured life is centred around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviabl

PaperbackMr John Steinbeck Steinbeck's first major critical and commercial success, TORTILLA FLAT is also his funniest novel. Danny is a paisano, des

Fredrik Backman Paperback 416 pages The funny, touching and unpredictable No. 1 New York Times bestseller from the 13 million copy internationall

SoftbackAlexander Pushkin This collection of Pushkin's stories begins with 'The Queen of Spades', perhaps the most celebrated short story in Russian l

SoftbackAli Smith In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble.

PaperbackDolly Alderton Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and family, plus a new home and n

Madeline Miller Paperback Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfec

SoftbackMaggie O'Farrell TWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART. On a summer's day in 1

PaperbackIain Banks The Wasp Factory is a bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath - one of the mo

Hilary Mantel Softcover 912 pages 'If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?' England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, deca

SoftbackErnest Hemingway Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with

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 From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behav

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

PaperbackElizabeth Strout An extraordinary new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge

PaperbackJonathan Coe A young woman named Calista meets the famed Hollywood director Billy Wilder in the sweltering summer of 1976. She knows nothing

SoftbackTayari Jones A breathtaking tale of family secrets, from the international bestselling author of An American MarriageA Most Anticipated Book f

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

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

Paperback In the wake of her family's collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitio