Adult & Contemporary Fiction

"A perfect tale of 'what if.' Frey broke my heart into a million pieces then tenderly put it back together with her deeply moving message that sometimes the truest way we can love someone is by letting them go." — Kate Robb, author of This Spells...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author, The Mother of All Christmases is a gorgeous read full of love, life, laughter, a few tears - and crackers!‘The feeling you get when you read a Milly Johnson book should be bottled and made...

Two friends struggle to balance their personal and professional lives in this charming novel from acclaimed author Maeve Binchy.They met in cooking school and became fast friends with a common dream. Now Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather hope to take Dublin...

Dee loves her children very much, but now they are all grown up, isn't it time they left home?Rosie moved out when she got married, but it didn't work out, so now she is back with her parents. Helen is a teacher and doesn't earn enough for a place of her...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Maeve Binchy tells the story of a generation and a city through the history of a Dublin restaurant in this “warm-hearted” (Boston Herald) enthralling novel.Ella Brady wants to film a documentary about...

Three clever editors (who have spent altogether too much time reviewing crackpot manuscripts on the occult by fanatics and dilettantes) decide to have a little fun. They are inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years before from a suspiciously...

“[A] highly entertaining literary thriller about fine art and foolish choices.” —Parade.“[A] nimble mystery.” —The New York Times Book Review.“Gripping.” —O, The Oprah Magazine.Almost twenty-five...

As the excitement ramps up for December's Star Wars Episode VIII The Last Jedi, journey back to the final moments of Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens and the destruction of Starkiller Base to learn the fate of one of the film's fan-favorite...

Two people living in a world connected by an immense and mysterious library must fight for those they love in the second book in a new trilogy from the international bestselling author of The Book That Wouldn’t Burn.The Library spans worlds...

This multigenerational novel spanning 100 years chronicles change — changing land, people, and the world around them. A searing novel of language, tradition and loss told in verse, Aednan is grounded in the lives and land of the Sámi, the...

What would you do if, when you were ten, you were left to fend for yourself, and, in order to survive, you had to undertake a harrowing journey all the way from Afghanistan to Italy? In early 2002, Enaiatollah Akbari’s village fell prey to the...

“The people in The Third Realm are as vivid and convincing as Knausgaard’s autobiographical persona . . . Enthralling . . . you can’t stop reading.” —Lev Grossman, The Atlantic.“One of the most genuinely...

THE JAPANESE CRIME FICTION CLASSIC: A prize-winning railway murder mystery set in 1960s Japan—for fans of Agatha Christie and Seicho Matsumoto!Full of devious twists and turns, this brilliant puzzle mystery is considered to be one of the greatest...

Elegant, slippery, and provocative, Antiquity is a queer Lolita story by prize-winning Swedish author Hanna Johansson—a story of desire, power, obsession, observation, and taboo.On a Greek island rich with ancient beauty, a lonely woman in her...

A freaky tale of isolation and the porous membranes between us, Rebecca Gisler’s slim novel renders a collapsing world with equal parts aversion, fascination, and tenderness—for readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sayaka Murata.At an age...

Violence and desire shatter the smooth surface of the everyday in this exceptional collection of blackly comic short stories.A game between a woman’s father and husband simmers and boils into scalding danger; a daughter creates an elaborate feast...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE. Rodrigo Blanco Calderón has established himself as one of the great voices of Latin American literature with his debut novel The Night, and his short story collection Sacrifices. Simpatía...

This is a story within a story about two queer women and the colonial history of Taiwan. Riddled with love, longing and loss, this is an exquisite tale about history and humanity.WINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE. A...

A harrowing, unforgettable masterpiece by the winner of the Booker International Prize. A confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, My Heavenly Favorite is the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld’s international...

An epic novel about the bonds of friendship from the author of Trainspotting. The story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh projects, Glue is about the loyalties, the experiences, and the secrets that hold friends together through three decades. The...