Literary Fiction

A literary master’s entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasure​.What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black...

From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel that envisions modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience, as he struggles with class and race, art and sexuality,...

The bestselling author of How Do You Like Me Now delivers another addictive, funny and deliciously dark tale of relationships, as four university friends are reunited for a baby shower on a sweltering summer's day. An intense heatwave. A...

LONGLISTED FOR THE PRIX GONCOURT 2022. From the bestselling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes the story of one man’s promise to keep a secret that may hold him from the greatest joy possible.Haru, a successful Japanese art dealer,...

A Best Book of 2023 by the New York Times and The New Yorker and Longlisted for the National Book Award.A gripping literary mystery in the vein of Bolaño’s Savage Detectives, this coming-of-age novel unravels the...

‘We may look the same, but I am not you . . . We share nothing but a reflection in the mirror’   'A bold, intriguing act of imagination' - Aube Rey Lescure, Women's Prize-shortlisted author of River East, River...

Irish storytelling at its finest, this lyrical dance of community and rivalry takes you to the depths of the minds of the fisherman whose lives are forever changed when a mysterious boy washes up on shore.Set on Ireland’s west coast in the 1970s...

Emma Donoghue, the “soul-stirring” (Oprah Daily) nationally bestselling author of Room, returns with a sweeping historical novel about an infamous 1895 disaster at the Paris Montparnasse train station.Based on an 1895 disaster that went...

A group of three best friends in Belfast approach thirty and start to question their days at dead-end entry-level jobs, and their nights of never-ending bar tabs.Sometimes friends hold you together.Sometimes they’re why you’re falling apart...

The dawn of the internet, budding influencer culture and a remarkable story of complicated family ties makes this a standout for your book club.A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • In this dazzling debut, Jemimah Wei explores the...

This modern family is coming apart at the seams — and one child is at the center of it all. Funny, warm and big-hearted, you'll want to read this in one sitting.A poignant, sharp-eyed, and bitterly funny tale of a family struggling to stay...

A beautifully jacketed hardcover edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's beloved epic novel about a stubbornly independent Icelandic sheep farmer and his spirited daughter.Set in the early twentieth century, Independent People recalls both...

Longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. That's how it seems to me, being alive for a little while, the teller and the told. So says Ruthie Swain...

Patricia Highsmith meets The White Lotus in this surprising and suspenseful modern gothic story following a couple running from both secretive pasts and very present dangers while honeymooning on a Greek island.“Fantastically...

Longing, lost love and scientific inquiry — Perry's prose is transportive and transformative. Refreshingly unexpected and packed with human complexities, there's so much here to love. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Telegraph, Washington Post,...

Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant characters - his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books. ‘I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security’ In 1666, Margaret Cavendish had a vision: there was a crack in reality at the North...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books. Best known for his hardboiled Harlem Detective series, Chester Himes was also a superb literary writer, beginning his creative life by writing short stories in the 1930s while serving jail time...

Possibly the most clockwork-perfect plot that Wodehouse ever concocted, The Code of the Woosters fizzes with memorable characters, ingenious slapstick and gossamer light dialogue that feels remarkably effortless. Aunts, cow creamers and ersatz...

“A delightful coming-of-age story set in Jamaica, amid heartbreak, hopefulness, and mirth.”—Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake.   “Poignant and emotional, with touches of both...