Literary Fiction

It may be the defining irony of our time: just as we are coming to recognize our shared destiny and necessary interdependence, our culture seems to be fracturing along every fault line available to it. The Lost Scrapbook is a novel that passionately...

Peggy Hillcoat is eight years old when her survivalist father, James, takes her from their home in London to a remote hut in the woods and tells her that the rest of the world has been destroyed. Deep in the wilderness, Peggy and James make a life for...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…His name is Theo. And he asks a lot more questions than he answers.Theo visits the local...

Claire Keegan’s brilliant debut collection, Antarctica , was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, and earned her resounding accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. Now she has delivered her next, much-anticipated...

Peeling off the layers of family dynamics, Newman's witty and moving story of love and loss casts a humorous light on life's ups and downs and the acceptance that follows. A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK · INSTANT NEW YORK...

A group of friends from university; seven summer days in a cabin in rural Denmark. A chance to swim, sunbathe, flirt, read and spend time together like the old days.At least that’s what Sylvia had hoped. But when Gry turns up with her kids and...

Two novellas from a remarkable voice, László Krasznahorkai explores the themes of mortality, obsession and the inevitability of oblivion. Now in paperback, two novellas from the Hungarian master László...

'It will be the biggest fiasco of the year - but I don't care a damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before, and I shall have said what I had to say.' As Joris -Karl Huysmans announced in 1884, Against Nature was fated to be a novel like no...

“Extraordinary...beautifully precise...[an] earnestly ambitious debut.” —The New York Times Book Review“A wild, angry, and devastating masterpiece of a book.” —NPR“[A] descendent of the Dickensian ‘social...

In time for the centennial of his birth, the Noble Prize winner’s moving final novel Deeply insightful, Saul Bellow’s moving last novel is a journey through love and memory, an elegy to friendship, and a poignant meditation on death. Told in...

In a gripping, atmospheric new novel by acclaimed Mexican writer Daniel Saldaña París, three friends forever bound by erotic flames of the past reunite in a city engulfed by wildfires and an ecstatic dancing plagueAfter years apart, three...

One of the great mavericks of French literature, Georges Bernanos combined raw realism with a spiritual focus of visionary intensity. Mouchette stands with his celebrated Diary of a Country Priest as the perfection of his singular art...

A prize-winning collection of surprising stories from an acclaimed Irish author, available in the United States for the first time.Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire Keegan's debut...

Winner of the 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeWinner of the 2023 Arab American Book Award for FictionShortlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller PrizeShortlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book AwardShortlisted for the 2022 VCU Cabell First...

A woman confronts the afterlife of intimacy, in a deeply tender novel by one of our most acclaimed and inventive fiction writersThe things that hold life in place have been lifted off and put away. Uprooted by circumstance from city to deep countryside,...

From the Orange Prize-nominated author of The Observations comes an absorbing, atmospheric exploration of one young woman's friendship with a volatile artist and her place in the controversy that consumes him. Jane Harris's Gillespie and...

A stunning new novel of power, desire and the secrets all families carry, from the acclaimed author of Nightingale, Marina Kemp.When fledgling writer Zoe arrives at the Sicilian holiday home of famed novelist Don Travers, she feels that she has made...

'Brilliant, like nobody else' Elizabeth McCracken'Beard's curiosity and amazement are contagious' Financial TimesWeaving a complex tapestry drawn from interviews, anecdotes, moments from Beard's own life, and sheer imagination, these extraordinary pieces...

Centuries old and still captivating readers, The Odyssey has become a genre in and of itself. Join Odysseus and Co. as they trick a cyclops, outsmart syrens and vie for survival against the ever-crafty creatures of Greek mythology. Told in beautiful...

To the Lighthouse is Woolf's most autobiographical and best-known novel, and this new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of its appeal. David Bradshaw is a well-known and respected Woolf scholar whose OWC edition...