Adult & Contemporary Fiction

In this intoxicating stream-of-consciousness novel, Mieko Kanai tackles the existential traps of motherhood, marriage, and domestic captivity   The apparently unremarkable Natsumi lives in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she...

Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by Three-Time Oscar(TM) Nominee James Ivory. The Basis of the Oscar-Winning Best Adapted Screenplay.A New York Times Bestseller.A...

Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone untill he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in...

An instant New York Times Bestseller! Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, the Carnegie Medal in Fiction, the 2019 Aspen Words Literacy Prize, and the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel Award Shortlisted for the 2019 Center for...

In this lyrical, exuberant follow-up to her novel The Bastard of Istanbul, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak incarnates Rumi's timeless message of love. The Forty Rules of Love unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives--one contemporary...

Nick and Charlie may officially be boyfriends but that doesn’t mean an end to the drama in this warm-hearted and emotionally generous fourth instalment of Alice Oseman’s phenomenally successful graphic novel series.   Boy meets boy. Boys become...

From the worldwide number one bestselling author of The Nightingale comes Kristin Hannah's The Great Alone, a daring, beautiful, stay-up-all-night story about love and loss.The New York Times number one bestseller.A woman has to be tough as steel up here...

It's a classic old-fashioned haunted house story - set in a big box Swedish furniture superstore. Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring wardrobes,...

An intimate reflection on Japanese art and architecture from one of the country's greatest novelists.This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. Tanizaki's eye ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets, and...

Staging a diplomatic mission to save the Empire from hostile alien terror, this dazzling sequel to A Memory Called Empire is an interstellar adventure of the highest order, delving deep into the nature of ambition and personal sacrifice. A...

It is the 29th century and the universe of the Human Hegemony is under threat. Invasion by the warlike Ousters looms, and the mysterious schemes of the secessionist AI TechnoCore bring chaos ever closer.On the eve of disaster, with the entire galaxy at...

From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Sierra Simone comes her steamy, TikTok-famous Priest series, in which sinners and saints alike test the bonds of religion, love, and lust.   It would take a saint to resist Elijah Iverson. Aiden...

Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain. The many lives...

A full-blown gothic romance fit for the 21st century, this scintillating and sexy dark academia hit follows a student and a fetching part-time professor at the mysterious – and it turns out, morbid – University of Verenmore. An unusual girl. An...

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre parallels between her life and her subject’s—in this chilling and singularly strange novella by a contemporary master of horror and...

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Return to the world of Phantasma in this spicy, stand-alone romantasy, where seven immortal siblings are trapped in a deadly game of hide and seek . . . until one mortal woman...

A heady mix of desire, humour, pain and politics, Burroughs autobiographical novel finds a queer man in the American expat community of early-1950s Mexico City on a desperate quest for satisfaction. Originally written in 1952 but not published till...

From the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and all children...

This intimate, profound and startlingly original fiction debut from the author of Bring No Clothes combines the moving story of a man mourning the loss of his beloved older partner with a celebration of the joys and creativity of the queer...

From the International Booker Shortlisted author of Still Born, a powerful collection of stories about characters coping with estrangement, isolation, and the unknown.   Acclaimed for her piercing insights and razor-sharp prose, award winning...