Adult & Contemporary Fiction

Metamorphoses--the best-known poem by one of the wittiest poets of classical antiquity--takes as its theme change and transformation, as illustrated by Greco-Roman myth and legend. Melville's new translation reproduces the grace and fluency of Ovid's...

"A gorgeous, aching love letter to stories, storytellers and the doors they lead us through...absolutely enchanting."--Christina Henry, bestselling author of Alice and Lost Boys LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER! Finalist for the 2020 Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and...

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greatest writers.Hat, ribbon, bird rose.To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any...

Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - sparking an unspoken infatuation that draws out darker possibilities. A...

In a crumbling, seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet, seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother fusses over the off-season customers. When, one night, they are forced to eject a prostitute and a middle-aged man from his room, Mari...

A woman goes into a bakery to buy a strawberry cream tart. The place is immaculate but there is no one serving so she waits. Another customer comes in.The woman tells the new arrival that she is buying her son a treat for his birthday. Every year she...

Oh, the fun you’ll have at murder club. A mystery that’s cheeky and full of surprises while at the same time a loving tribute to getting older and the relationships we all form. After reading this, you’ll want to live in Coopers Chase...

Empire's Pick for The Best Books Made By Women in Fiction 2021#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * NPR * PEOPLE * TIME MAGAZINE* VANITY FAIR...

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER.A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK."Eloquent and moving...Joshi masterfully balances a yearning for self-discovery with the need for familial love."-- Publishers Weekly.Vivid and compelling in...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker International 2018From the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2016From the author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts comes a book like no other. The White Book is a meditation on colour,...

Read the enthralling medieval murder mystery behind the BBC TV Series The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly...

Instant New York Times Bestseller   May this book cast its spell on all of us, restore to us some memory of our most warrior and softest selves. --The New York Times Book Review   "A new kind of epic...A grand achievement...While The Prophets' dreamy...

Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around the...

Chaol Westfall has always defined himself by his unwavering loyalty, his strength, and his position as the Captain of the Guard. But all of that has changed since Aelin shattered the glass castle, since Chaol's men were slaughtered, since the King of...

A macabre tale of courtly tricksters and provincial bogeymen, Tyll is a breathtaking tour de force boasting the grandeur of Romanticism and the sly darkness of traditional fairy tale, inspired by an ancient Germanic folk story...

A glimpse into the humorous, sardonic world of Dazai Osamu, presenting a new and very different look at a one of the recognized masters of Japanese, and indeed global, literature. These works from the middle years of his brief career show a skilled hand,...

The winner of the 2017 Costa Book of the Year is a quietly profound novel that celebrates ordinary acts of kindness and gently compels us to regard others – and even ourselves – a little differently.   Winner of the Book...

In a little coffee shop in one of the most dangerous places on earth, five very different women come together. Sunny, the proud proprietor, who needs an ingenious plan - and fast - to keep her cafe and customers safe. Yazmina, a young pregnant woman...

Deliciously eerie and unsettling and blessed with a haunting gothic atmosphere, House of Hollow centres on the mysterious disappearance – and even more mysterious reappearance – of three glamorous sisters possessed of a chilling...

From the author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared comes a hilarious story of retribution inflicted upon one truly obnoxious Mr Alderheim, whose wronged young ex-wife and maltreated son decide to hire a specialist...