Adult & Contemporary Fiction

This is James Clavell's tour-de-force; an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feudal Japan. Both entertaining and incisive, SHOGUN is a stunningly dramatic re-creation of a very different...

Daisy Haites thought she'd left everything about her old life in the past: the crime, her family and the man she loves. But when her safety is threatened once again, she finds herself back under the watchful eye of her gang-lord brother Julian and her...

"Everyone’s life begins on a level where races, armies, and churches stop. And yet everyone’s life is always shaped by races, churches, and armies."In these eight extraordinary stories of love, conflict, desperation and fear, James Baldwin...

'A gem of a book. Quirky, deadpan, poignant and quietly profound' -- Ruth Ozeki. The unexpected international bestseller. Meet Keiko. She's 36 years old, has never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years...

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • A bombshell bestseller in Japan, a defiant, darkly funny debut novel about a young woman in a care home seeking autonomy and the full possibilities of her life—“not only a major achievement...

How do you find yourself after you lose the one you loved the most?Grieving the loss of her best friend, a young woman’s life is turned upside down when she meets a grumpy stranger who swears he can help her live again, in this heartwarming,...

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?...

A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war.It's 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry...

In this World Fantasy Award-winning novel of magic and kungfu, four siblings battle rival clans for honor and power in an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis.   *Named one of TIME's Top 100 Fantasy Books Of All Time​* World Fantasy Award for Best...

After Lucie's (lack of a) love life is exposed to the world by her own daughter, she's thrust into a string of bad dates, nosey internet trolls and an annoyingly handsome radio cohost. The author of the Lovelight Farms series is back with a page-turning,...

A single dad and his sister’s spunky best friend try to work together — without killing each other first. Forced proximity and opposites attract are just two of the tropes Lost and Lassoed gives us, and we couldn’t be more...

At times chaotic and brutal, at other times beautiful and poetic, and still at other times hilarious and unsettling. This is the story of young women fighting and above all else, it is entertaining.Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by The Washington...

"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel...Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." —from If On A Winter's Night a Traveler   Italo Calvino's stunning classic imagines a novel...

Beau Eaton is the town prince, a handsome military hero with a tortured past.I’m the outcast bartender, a shy girl from the wrong side of the tracks.He’s thirty-five and all man, and I’m twenty-two and all… virgin.He’s also...

The fourth novel in the internationally bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series, following a new group of customers in a magical time-traveling Tokyo caféThe regulars at Café Funiculi Funicula are well acquainted with the whimsical...

WALL STREET JOURNAL STORIES THAT CAN TAKE YOU ANYWHERE PICK * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S STAY HOME AND READ PICK * SALON'S BEST AND BOLDEST * BUSTLE'S MOST ANTICIPATED The Emissary meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime in this...

THE DARK WILL RISE. WHO WILL FALL? WHO WILL STAND?The ancient world of magic is no more. Its heroes are dead, its halls are ruins, and its great battles between Light and Dark are forgotten. Only the Stewards remember. For centuries they have kept vigil,...

Following two young creatives in present-day Berlin, Latronico’s sharply satirical skewering of the life of digital nomads places twenty-first-century life under an existentialist microscope to delicious and scathing effect. Shortlisted for...

Following a liberal Zionist who starts to investigate the collective disappearance of his Palestinian friend and neighbours, Ibtisam Azem's masterful, seductively bold novel mines the fissures at the heart of the Palestinian question with sensitivity...

City lights and an unrelenting heatwave set the scene for this swirl of characters — all on the verge — in this dazzling new novel perfect for fans of Naoise Dolan and Caroline O'Donoghue.“This is such a love story to cities &...