Adult & Contemporary Fiction

Divided into four sections, the author of The Northern Clemency delivers a richly textured exploration of a bustling city when social interaction is suddenly curtailed and how tiny dramas and forgotten landscapes are revealed afresh. An order is...

Deliciously unhinged and mordantly witty, this collection of brilliantly constructed stories explores the fantastical and supernatural in playful, deftly crafted prose. The belly groan of a face unpeeled. A break-up poem recited knee-deep in bog water...

An acclaimed Swedish author makes her English language debut with this intoxicating novel in the vein of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, about a woman in the throes of a fever remembering the important people in her past, her memories laid bare in vivid...

A young noblewoman must pair up with an alleged witch to ward off a curse in this irresistible sapphic romance from the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material.“Fresh and delightful . . . All the interpersonal drama of Jane Austen meets all the...

In a country ruled by fear, no one is innocent.Stalin's Soviet Union is an official paradise, where citizens live free from crime and fear only one thing: the all-powerful state. Defending this system is idealistic security officer Leo Demidov, a war...

Kolymsky Heights. A Siberian permafrost hell lost in endless nights, the perfect setting for an underground Russian research station. It's a place so secret it doesn't officially exist; once there, the scientists are forbidden to leave. But one scientist...

Launching one of our favourite historical fiction series, the peerless Dissolution introduces Tudor lawyer Matthew Shardlake as he roots out murder in the marshes. Dissolution is the first novel in C. J. Sansom’s phenomenal bestselling Shardlake...

A masterclass in disturbing atmospherics and full-throttle occult thrills - and the literary horror classic that spawned the notorious Hollywood movie - Blatty’s chilling tale of possession and devilry is every bit as terrifying as it was when...

Twenty-four hours in the life of advertising salesman Leopold Bloom, James Joyce’s Dublin-set modernist masterclass is playful, sly, bawdy and humane and deserving of a much broader audience.   'Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the...

An ever-topical meditation on non-conformity and the nature of guilt, Camus' existentialist masterpiece follows a man whose refusal to mourn his mother the way he is expected to sets off a tragic chain of events. 'My mother died today. Or maybe...

Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire. But when he accidentally kills a clansman, things begin to fall apart. Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find missionaries and colonial...

Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A tortured soul or a monster?...

The inspiration for the new film from Oscar award-winning director Barry Jenkins Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin's novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny,...

Ten tales of loss and longing, from one one Japan's greatest writers It was the height of summer, and there was anger in the rays of the sun A summer holiday that turns to tragedy; a moonlit journey to fulfil a wish; a couple’s unusual way of...

A work of literary suspense that deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row, told primarily through the eyes of the women in his life.Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he’s done, and now awaits execution,...

Kafka's gripping work of psychological horror.A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K, an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once...

With a foreword by Kat Delacorte, author of With Fire in Their Blood. ‘It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood’On a bleak, stormy night in Scotland, three witches prophesy: Macbeth will be a lord twice-over and Macbeth will be...

With a foreword by Talia Hibbert, author of Get a Life, Chloe Brown. ‘We that are true lovers run into strange capers’ Banished from her ambitious uncle’s court, the lovesick Rosalind flees to the forest with her cousin, Celia...

With a foreword by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, author of Ace of Spades. ‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’ The King of Denmark is dead. When Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, meets the...

With a foreword by Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places and Breathless. ‘For never was a story of more woeThan this of Juliet and her Romeo’ A bloody feud. A tangled love. A senseless tragedy that brings two families to their knees...