Adult & Contemporary Fiction

Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, this is one of the defining books of the 1970s, an experimental novel about a young journalist trying to navigate life in America. When Speedboat burst on the scene in the late ’70s it was like...

With stark, profound things to say about media exploitation and teen disaffection, Suzanne Collins’ now-iconic YA work is a hard-edged, relentlessly thrilling triumph that continues to hold readers entranced. With beautiful artwork by Freya...

Virginia Feito's latest is a sharp and surreal stay at Ensor House alongside a psychotic governess with an insatiable appetite. Creepy, campy and crackling with energy, you'll read this in a single sitting.SOON TO BE A FEATURE FILM FROM A24 STARRING...

From USA Today bestselling author Rina Kent comes the final book in a dark and steamy college romance series featuring elite criminal families and morally gray heroes. I fell for the villain. Ava Nash despises Eli King. He broke her heart when she gave...

Two novellas about domestic life, isolation, and the passing of time by one of the finest Italian writers of the twentieth century.Carmine, an architect, and Ivana, a translator, lived together long ago and even had a child, but the child died, and their...

The essential coming-of-age novel by Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. Kincaid's novel focuses on a universal, tragic, and often comic theme: the loss of childhood...

Another of Morrion’s marvels, this story digs into all the emotional touchpoints of friendship, love, and societal roles. It’s the tale of two lifelong best friends and how far they’ll go to repair what is thought lost.Sula and Nel are...

A probing masterpiece-in-miniature of self-reflection and cultural reckoning.The Times • 12 Best Books of 2024Financial Times • Best Books of 2024 [Fiction in Translation]A Vanity Fair "Can't Miss Novel to Read"Literary Hub • Best...

An “evocative read and a powerful portrait of friendship, feminism, and political activism” (People) set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran—from nationally bestselling author Marjan Kamali. In 1950s Tehran,...

The best way to get back at your crush is to start dating your billionaire boss. Fall in love with this brand-new series from the author of The Wrong Bride. A brand new spicy, high-angst romance from Catharina Maura—the highly anticipated,...

Putting a romantasy twist on The Scarlet Pimpernel, Ciccarelli's heart-pounding story sees a witch vigilante disguise herself as a vapid young socialite. Enemies-to-lovers doesn't get more high stakes than a witch and a witch hunter falling in love in...

The Hunger Games meets vampires in the third book of the bestselling Crowns of Nyaxia series by Carissa Broadbent, a heart-wrenching, epic fantasy romance of love and treachery between mortals and gods.Mische lost everything when she was forcibly Turned...

Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve...

Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson this autumn with a collection of her finest, darkest short stories, revealing the queen of American gothic at her mesmerising best. There's something nasty in suburbia. In these deliciously dark tales,...

A gorgeous gothic ghost story and a Rebecca for a new age. Cañas delivers an atmospheric love story set against the backdrop of the Mexican War of Independence. A winning debut with electric prose.Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this...

“Simply put—and I do not say this lightly—Incidents Around the House is the most purely effective horror novel I have ever read.”—Neil McRobert, Esquire (Best Horror Books of 2024, So Far).A chilling horror novel about a...

Life after crime from the International Booker-shortlisted author of Elena Knows. Fifteen years after killing her husband’s lover, Inés is fresh out of prison and trying to put together a new life. Her old friend Manca is out now too, and...

From the Pulitzer Price winning author of The Return, this literary novel is surprising and special. With a propulsive narrative, it's a story of friendship and belonging, exile and home.WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION •...

One man hunts obsessively for his lost identity, in this intoxicating noir masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.'Modiano is a pure original' -- Adam Thirlwell.'I am nothing. Nothing but a pale shape, silhouetted that evening...

When a grumbling volcano causes Moominvalley to flood, the Moomins escape by boat, finding refuge on a floating theatre. Adventures abound when the theatre casts adrift leaving Moomin,The Snorkmaiden and Little My marooned. Will they all be reunited...