Kindred is Hugo and Nebula Award winner Octavia E. Butler's 1979 masterpiece. An essential read which explores themes of racial and gender identity with insight and originality, for fans of the Hulu TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale...

Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre programmes, visiting cards, draft manuscripts and even bills ... Goethe was probably the last true...

A stunningly evocative love letter both to the hip clientele of late 60s New York and to Smith’s lifelong friend, the controversial artist Robert Mapplethorpe. Beautifully written, tender and atmospheric, Just Kids has become something of a modern...

Yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a Tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only child. But when her ex-husband appears at her door without warning one day, her comfortable world is shattered. When Detective Kusanagi of the Tokyo Police tries to piece...

Beartown tells of a terrible crime that fractures a town and all of the people in it. When a bad thing happens, who will have the courage to stand against everyone else? Late one evening towards the end of March, a teenager picked up a double-barrelled...

Set in 1940s colonial Korea and Japanese-occupied Manchuria, Endless Blue Sky tells the love story between Korean writer Ilma and Russian dancer Nadia. The novel is both a thrilling melodrama set in glamorous locations that would shortly be tragically...

Perfect for gifting to lovers of philosophy or mining intelligent ice-breaker topics for your next party, The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten offers one hundred philosophical puzzles that stimulate thought on a host of moral, social, and personal dilemmas...

A life-changing read that provides much-needed answers to the questions presented by modern living. In a world alive with noise, learn to find the solace in silence. From the Norwegian explorer, Erling Kagge a stunning meditation on the power of...

This is a book about the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth, goodness, justice. It is for anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how to approach them. Think sets out to explain what they...

Here's an accusation - Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything. When it comes to language, it all depends on what your definition of 'is' is. And one for the existentialists - you haven't lived until you think about death all the time. Daniel Klein and...

Welcome to Caraval, where nothing is quite what it seems.  Before you enter the world of Caraval, you must remember that it’s all a game... Welcome to Caraval, where nothing is quite what it seems. Scarlett has never left the tiny isle of Trisda, pining...

In this epic and haunting love story set on the Oregon Trail, a family and their unlikely protector find their way through peril, uncertainty, and loss.The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Eager to leave her grief...

(Available after May 6, 2021)Praise for Kaira RoudaThe Next Wife"Rouda hits the ground running and never stops...[The Next Wife] is so much fun that you'll be sorry to see it end with a final pair of zingers. The guiltiest of guilty pleasures." --Kirkus...

Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't wantto miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length talesthat will keep even the bravest FNAF player up at night...Haunted by the past...To avoid confronting an ugly truth, Nole falls prey to a...

In this "warm, funny" novel (Good Housekeeping), Jamaican immigrant Hubert Bird rediscovers the world he'd once turned his back on as he learns to find happiness after staying in isolation for so long. In weekly phone calls to his daughter in Australia,...

Is your quest to love yourself more actually making you miserable?We're told that the key to happiness is self-love. Instagram influencers, mommy bloggers, self-help gurus, and even Christian teachers promise that if we learn to love ourselves, we'll be...

One of the most poignant meditations on mortality and terminal illness ever written, When Breath Becomes Air is the record of the last 22 months of neurosurgeon Kalanithi’s life. Deftly identifying universal truths amidst emotional...

Perfect for fans of the Lady Janies and Stalking Jack the Ripper, the first book in the Jane Austen Murder Mysteries series is a clever retelling of Pride and Prejudice that reimagines the iconic settings, characters, and romances in a thrilling and...

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller The funny, touching and unpredictable new novel from the 13 million copy internationally bestselling author of A Man Called Ove.'A brilliant and comforting read' MATT HAIG 'Funny, compassionate and wise . . . an...

The Handmaid’s Tale meets Blood Meridian in this bold, immersive western centred on a childless woman in danger of being hanged as a witch and a gang of outlaws determined to forge a better life for women on the frontier. In the year of our Lord...