Literary Fiction

Beast explores how dreams and desires can both liberate or confine the dreamer.Eve, a young self-taught musician sits on a bench overlooking the grassy crossroads of a model village.She is dreaming of the power of music. Her dreams reach into the cosmos,...

'The forerunner of an entire school of African literary art.' -- Sunday Times.Those men who are history now; did they feel like this?A 1950s Hampstead pub; a freezing night. Lois can't tear her eyes away from the haunted, restless African man in the...

The name of the Marquis de Sade is synonymous with the blackest corners of the human soul, a byword for all that is most foul in human conduct. In his bleak, claustrophobic universe, there is no God, no human affection, and no hope. This selection of his...

Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets of New York in this “gripping, provocative, and supremely entertaining” (BuzzFeed) debutNational Book Foundation 5 Under 35...

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 writer finds solitude and salvation tracing the lives and deaths of three of her literary lights in a haunted and lyrical travelogue from NBCC Award-winner Tezer Özlü.   An unnamed writer embarks on an obsessive journey through Europe,...

Going to the Dogs is set in Berlin after the crash of 1929 and before the Nazi takeover, years of rising unemployment and financial collapse. The moralist in question is Jakob Fabian, “aged thirty-two, profession variable, at present advertising...

The Historian meets Under the Skin in this searingly provocative  literary horror novel about one woman’s determination to stay alive at any terrifying cost.In Osaka, two strangers, Jake and Mariko, miss a flight, and over...

A family curse, an unexpected reincarnation and impending tragedy. This bold and hilarious novel follows a young woman who seeks to break free from following in the footsteps of her unfortunate family.A young woman must shake off a family...

The groundbreaking debut novel that set the world alight, from the beloved great Edna O'Brien.We want to live. Drink gin. Squeeze into the front of big cars and drive up outside big hotels. We want to go places.Caithleen is a romantic: she dreams of...

An unforgettable story of art, friendship and coming-of-age that cuts across decades from the 1980s to the 2040s, from the author of The Leavers, a National Book Award finalist.NAMED ONE OF TIME'S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024ONE OF NPR’s BEST READS...

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 historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly anticipated debut novel from one of The New Yorker ’s rising stars.I’d seen the Senator speak a few times before my life got caught up,...

A new edition of Clarice Lispector’s final masterpiece, now with a vivid introduction by Colm Tóibín. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's...

"A rich, quietly artful novel that is bound for deep water, with questions of beauty, power and spiritual navigation as its main concerns. The title refers not to the right side of a boat but to the right course through life, and the immense difficulty...

'Fiercely independent, all of Evans’s characters struggle for a place in a world intent of fencing them out.' - New York Times Book ReviewThe extraordinary début short story collection from Danielle Evans, one of the United States'...

NAMED ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S "BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR SO FAR"“Stylish and assured….Ebbott’s prose is honed and aphoristic, recalling the work of James Salter and John Cheever…The sentences go down easy...but there is...

A New Yorker best book of 2024 | A Financial Times Best Translated Book of 2024.Library Science September book club pick | A Vulture most anticipated bookOne of The New York Times’ 24 works of fiction to...

A short, spellbinding novel about a WWI veteran finding a way to re-enter—and fully embrace—normal life while spending the summer in an idyllic English village.  In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of...

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...