Adult & Contemporary Fiction

**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS PICK**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009. Previously published as 'The Beggar Maid', Alice Munro's wonderful collection of stories reads like a novel, following Rose's...

Discover Alice Munro’s first mesmerising and atmospheric short story collection. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 200. ‘A remarkable writer whose major characters emerge in shining clarity....

Fall head over broomstick in love with this swoon-worthy, witchy romantic fantasy, perfect for fans of Twin Crowns, Divine Rivals and Stephanie Garber.For the Kingdom. For the magic. And for love . . .Seventeen-year-old Aurelia Wycherley is entering her...

Brookner’s evocative, Booker Prize-winning tale of a doggedly single romantic novelist staying in a hotel on the shores of Lake Geneva is a surprising and unique meditation on finding happiness in your own company.   Winner of the Booker...

BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • Forget room service: this is a riotous elegy, a deadpan celebration of colliding worlds, and a spirited defense of love. Blending incisive wit with surprising compassion, Hotel World is a wonderfully invigorating,...

“A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces.” —Madeline Miller“A shining tour de force about a long friendship’s respects, disrespects, loyalties and moralities.” —Ali Smith From the...

THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT NOVEL BY STAR OF STAGE AND SCREEN, LARRY LAMB.   "One of the best." James Corden "Speedy, sexy and amusingly truthful. I loved it." Celia Imrie "An irresistible homage to the unsung heroes of filmmaking...

One of the undisputed jewels of American fiction, Fitzgerald’s dazzling critique of the superficiality of the Jazz Age captures the glamorous facade at the heart of the American Dream in devastating style.   Generally considered to be F...

*Soon to be a TV series*Jimmy Fallon’s Book Club Top Four Pick and a PBS Book Club Pick.For fans of Kazuo Ishiguro and Emily St. John Mandel, this “mind-bending take on time travel” (The New York Times) is about an isolated town...

“The week I shot a man clean through the head began like any other . . .”A taut, electrifying thriller about a woman determined to avenge her sister’s murder—and the killer who must confront his own ghostsBirdie Keller wakes one...

The concluding instalment in Boyne's acclaimed elemental quartet, Air is a moving and profound examination of trauma and redemption as a father and son attempt to mend their relationship on a life-changing flight.  From internationally...

Winner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, these eleven surreal tales, set in the offices, zoos, bus stops, boutiques, and homes of contemporary Japan "are reminiscent, at least to this reader, of Joy Williams and Rivka Galchen and George...

From one of the great American writers of the twentieth century—a coming-of-age story about a fourteen-year-old boy questioning the terms of his identity, the racism he faces, and the double-edged role of religion in his life. • Presented here...

A Sino-Chinese family find their destiny is inseparably entangled with that of the country they have adopted as a home. Not long before the Communist revolution, Tong, sent by his peasant-parents in impoverished rural China to work with a relative in...

Shrike, the fae Butcher of Blackthorn, and Wren Lofthouse, a mortal Victorian clerk, are bound together by love and fate. Their continued adventures (and those of their friends) are told in this collection of fantastical tales following the story of...

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK.SOON TO BE A HULU TELEVISION SERIES STARRING LINDSAY LOHAN.“The very definition of a page-turner! This smart, original, twisty story had me gripped from the first to the last page.” —Liane...

Eleven stunning stories that explore the most intimate and transforming moments of existence, from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the foremost practitioners of the short story” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York...

Murderbot meets Redshirts in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder from the Hugo-nominated author of Elder Race and Children of Time.   To fix the world they must first break it, further. Humanity is a dying breed,...

"A staggering, alien vision of deepest solidarity." – Esquire, Best of the Year.From Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky comes a far-future epic that confirms his place as a modern master of science fiction, in...

Rule One: You can only travel to a point within your lifetime.Rule Two: You can only travel for ninety seconds.Rule Three: You can only observe.The rules cannot be broken. In this electrifying science fiction thriller from acclaimed author Philip...