Literary Fiction

This is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his...

The most famous anti-war novel ever written. In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is...

Moving between the 1980s and an apocalyptic Australian future, de Kretser’s incandescent novel explores the immigrant experience with an electrifying honesty, pain and compassion. Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize for Fiction 2023. 'When my...

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NOMINEE. "An extraordinary work that will stand as blazing witness to the age that bore it.” — Sarah Perry A "masterpiece" (Daisy Johnson) of mortality, passion, and human connection, set against the backdrop of...

A runaway teen and an ageing cat whisperer collide in this fabulist extravaganza that showcases all of Murakami’s philosophical playfulness and surreal exuberance. Kafka on the Shore effortlessly siphons the legacy of magic realism into...

Yang Fei was born on a train as it raced across the Chinese countryside. Lost by his mother, adopted by a young switchman, raised with simplicity and love, he is utterly unprepared for the changes that await him and his country. As a young man, he...

Named a Most Anticipated Book by Time, Bloomberg, and Electric Literature. RuPaul and Eric Cervini's Allstora Book Club Pick for June. "Thomas Grattan is a master of plot—that rare ability—which makes In Tongues a real roller coaster: funny,...

A modern classic first published in 1978 that is as much a sophisticated romantic comedy about the love between two partners as it is a novel about the powerful bonds shared by family members, friends, colleagues and confidants. - With a foreword by...

Winner of the inaugural Novel Prize, an elegant and subtle exploration of the mysteries of our relationships to others. A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon...

A counterfeiter, sculptor, filmmaker, mystic, and terminal recluse uses his ill-gotten gains to wreak secret havoc upon a bankrupt London, in this timely debut novel.

REYoung's latest features a nation buried in snow and ice in an obligatory 365 days a year Christmas celebration, a tribe of Mayan warriors in comedy troupe disguise, an existentially challenged hero known as the Snowman on a quest that takes him south...

A novel. In the tour de force called America, one of the tired, the poor, the huddled masses struggles upward to the penthouse of God, discovering too late he's taken the elevator marked down. Resurrected from the rubble of dreams as a messiah and...

Historical fiction that will transport you, The Glutton is satisfyingly atmospheric and builds around a core question of the necessity of love and companionship. Brilliantly written with prose that will make you forget you’re even reading, this is...

A tender feat of humanity, loyalty and hope, Familiaris is a quietly stunning, atmospheric prequel story that explores the history of mankind’s ambition (and the millennia-long interspecies bond that got us here).The follow-up to the beloved #1 New...

From the beloved author of The Old Place comes a tender, funny, and fresh novel about a gay writer in New York City whose life is irrevocably altered, and then again thirty years later.In 1992, on his thirtieth birthday, Artie Anderson meets the man who...

Discover the haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy set in a deserted world. Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, these women have no memory of how they got there,...

A lyrical, exquisitely constructed exploration of the complex bonds of family from the author of The Stranding, Sawyer's nuanced novel is set across one summer's day as Mary's relations gather for her wedding. Mary has raised her daughters in this house...

*A BBC 2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK**SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2024*'Vivid, sensuous ... A subtle tale of loss, loneliness and disconnection'PAUL LYNCH, IRISH INDEPENDENT'Lush, lyrical and cleverly-constructed. A beautiful book'LOUISE...

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 •...

“Behind You Is the Sea fearlessly confronts stereotypes about Palestinian culture, weaving a remarkable portrait of life's intricate moments, from joyous weddings to heart-wrenching funerals, from shattered hearts to hidden truths—I wept and...