Literary Fiction

Shortlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction.Named one of the best New Novelists for 2025 by The Observer.Bradford, December 1962.A precocious Mercy makes her reluctant entrance into the world, torn from the warm embrace of her...

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An addictive novel about a young woman's all-consuming obsession with a rival of her own making and the desperate lengths she goes to in order to succeed, by debut author Canwen Xu.   'Xu is a writer to watch' Isabel Banta, author...

Little Lazarus is the story of two clairvoyant tortoises who bear witness to centuries of human suffering. Teenagers Francois and Eleanor are lonely and wild in the small Southern town of Harmony that promises them nothing but more of the same:...

*A book of the year in the Daily Mail and the New Statesman*'Hypnotic' Financial Times'Captivating' Daily Mail'Visionary' Chris KrausAvery is flailing financially and emotionally. Struggling with graduate school and the collection of...

Shortlisted for the Comedy Women in Print Prize 2025'This novel is sweet, sexy, sad, articulate, and funny' VogueCherry Hendricks might be down on her luck, but she can write the book on what makes something funny: she's a professional clown who...

For fans of Dolly Alderton and HBO’s Hacks, a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud funny debut novel about faking it (and “making it”) as a writer in Hollywood.TV writer Caroline Neumann is thirty-four and mired in professional envy and...

FROM THE COSTA AWARD-WINNING, WOMEN’S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF UNSETTLED GROUND'An absolute masterpiece. Utterly absorbing, genuinely unsettling' JENNIE GODFREY, author of The List of Suspicious Things'Atmospheric, psychologically...

From bestselling authors Genki Kawamura and Marie Kondo comes a collection of heartwarming and whimsical short stories, based on Marie's personal experience of tidying over 1,000 rooms. Miko is a professional tidier, with a secret. When she enters a...

Thomas lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, working his grandpa’s trade as a shanker. He rises early to take his horse and cart to the grey, gloomy beach and scrape for shrimp, spending the afternoon selling his wares,...

The explosive and highly controversial 2002 film of The Crime of Father Amaro (El crimen del Padre Amaro) is set in Mexico, in a material and religious culture of this century not unlike the provincial Portugal where, as a young man, Eça...

In these stories, Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality, and also his own ambiguous attitude toward utopianism, themes central to his great novels. In White Nights, the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic...

An ex-situationship turns into a hex situation after Lillian puts a curse on the boy who broke her heart. But when he winds up dead, she becomes a prime suspect in this sharp story of heartbreak, impulse and revenge. NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF...

Fleabag meets Big Swiss in this bold debut about a charismatic misfit who livestreams her life for seven days and nights to raise money to save her comatose sister—a poignant and darkly funny exploration of grief, forgiveness, and...

Acclaimed author Jade Song (Chlorine) returns with her latest literary exploration: a lyrical, poignant, and heartfelt novel about the meaning of love, friendship, debt, depression, and death in New York City—a coming-of-age for a new generation,...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST • Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in this “exceptional, keenly observed meditation on art and love” (People) in a fractured America, by the...

A stunning story about the power of language and lineage, The Names follows the life and legacy of a mother and son through alternating timelines. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND READ WITH JENNA PICK?A WORD-OF-MOUTH HIT...

This tender collection of stories gives us a unique look at humanity and the way we're all connected. This sits nicely with North Woods by Daniel Mason.NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING PAUL MESCAL AND JOSH O’CONNOR.Winner of the Story...

From the Booker Prize finalist and bestselling a perceptive novel about a gay Black painter navigating the worlds of art, desire, and creativityA newcomer to New York, Wyeth is a Black painter who grew up in the South and is trying to find his place in...

A bold tour-de-force about violence and money, love and desire, and a stand-off with the Devil himselfA woman meets a man on a train in Copenhagen and agrees to visit him in London. While she sits out a two-week Covid quarantine in his apartment, she...