Literary Fiction

* SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE * It’s not a river, it’s this river. A hot, motionless afternoon. Enero and El Negro are fishing with Tilo, their dead friend’s teenage son. After hours of struggling with a hooked...

A modern classic, this edition has been restored by Fitzgerald scholar James L.W. West III and features a personal foreword by Fitzgerald’s great-granddaughter Blake Hazard and a new introduction by bestselling Amor Towles.Set in the south of...

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A grandson tries to learn the family story. But what kind of story is it? Is it a prison memoir, about the grandfather held without charge or trial by a revolutionary government? Is it an oral history of the grandmother left behind to look after the...

People tend to forget that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote more than just The Great Gatsby, but alas, he did indeed. Similar in theme, The Beautiful and the Damned is the story of a descent into an unsustainable lifestyle and what it will take to turn that...

The fates of two unforgettable women—one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life's last vital act—intertwine in this sweeping, powerful novel set at the terminus of the Underground Railroad...

A tale of complex family mythologies and storytelling from a dazzling voice in fiction. This is perfect for fans of Anne Enright and Rumaan Alam. From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a novel...

Taking an already memorable historical character — Mary Queen of Scots — and making her unforgettable, The Tower is a ravishing debut without a dull moment. Reveling in the blood and guts of the time, this is a true-to-life, meticulously...

THE RACHEL INCIDENT - Caroline O'Donoghue's bestselling new novel* - is out now.Charlie Regan's life isn't going forward, so she's decided to go back.After a tough few years floundering around the British film industry, experimenting with amateur...

THE RACHEL INCIDENT - Caroline O'Donoghue's bestselling new novel* - is out now. For readers of THE COWS, SWEETBITTER or CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS - as well as for fans of FLEABAG or SEARCH PARTY - Caroline O'Donoghue's debut is a gothic, darkly witty...

Joan Didion is a cultural icon and this is where it all began. This collection of nonfiction is exactly as you’d expect from Didion, detailing a specific and fascinating age in California when John Wayne was a mainstay. It’s billiant...

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.LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A “masterly”...

Bieker, author of Empire's Monthly Fiction pick Godshot, stunned us with a twists-and-turns story of mothers and family, trauma and survival, truth and lies. This is White Oleander for a new generation.“The rare kind of book that lives in your...

Get everything you’ve ever wanted and lounge on borrowed time in Hollywood until it turns you upside down. Danzy Senna’s quick wit and wry voice has the big-heartedness of Dolly Alderton and the sensibility of Sally Rooney; readers of Miranda...

From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a spellbinding symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of Black women in a fading beach town.“A marvelous work, which enlarges our conception not...

From the acclaimed author of Wahala, a “vibrant” (Charmaine Wilkerson) decolonial retelling of Mansfield Park, exploring identity, culture, race, and love. Quiet Funke is happy in Nigeria. She loves her art...

In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings, and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circumstances on ordinary people’s lives. History...

Embrace the unknown in this novel of discovery — of secrets and self — by an author who knows how to make us feel less alone.“In Haig’s sure hands, magic comes to breathtaking life.” —Publishers Weekly (starred...

Set in the moorland hills of 18th century Yorkshire, The Gallows Pole is the true story of an organized crime of forgers known as the Cragg Vale Coiners. Lead by the charismatic ‘King David Hartley, a man prone to violence and mystical visions,...

A warm, tender and funny story about unlikely friendships, second chances, and the magic of soul music - perfect for fans of Nick Hornby, David Nicholls and Jonathan Coe.Dinah has always lived in Scarborough. Trapped with her feckless husband and useless...