Literary Fiction

From the author of The Bright Years, the story of April and Leo, a couple on the brink of collapse. When their house goes up in flames, family secrets and thorny histories emerge as they are forced to decide what is worth salvaging.When April and...

Zorah Sharaf's friends know her as witty, confident, obsessed with Paris; Zorah Sharaf's family know her as their beloved daughter and sister; Zorah Sharaf's community know her as a selfish girl intent on dragging her father's name through the mud...

A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK A vibrant, profoundly moving novel about the interlocking lives at an adult daycare centre in southern California.‘Wonderfully inspirational’ Paul Beatty‘Moving and funny and ringing with...

** A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK ** A GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD: FICTION A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK A 'BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR' IN THE NEW YORKER & OPRAH DAILY ‘Relentlessly...

'Incandescent and explosive and compassionate all at once' BRYAN WASHINGTON'Rachel Khong is one of our best observers of the human condition' RITA BULLWINKEL'Beautiful, effortless' AIMEE BENDERFrom the author of the New York...

Emily Austin, the bestselling “queen of darkly quirky, endearingly flawed heroines” (Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus), returns with a luminous new novel following a librarian who comes back to work after a mental breakdown only to...

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...

THIS IS A PAPERBACK EDITION FOR THE EXPORT MARKET.A darkly humorous yet uplifting novel about a grieving mother who starts working at a funeral home and discovers that the best way to honor the dead is to live—from the author of the...

Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here'If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.'Summer, 1953. In the small town of Gravesend, New...

Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, Against the Day moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central...

A New York Review Books Original. Winner of the Best Translated Book Award. Deception—the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell others—is the subject of this, Tove Jansson’s most unnerving and unpredictable novel. Here Jansson...

Now a major motion picture starring Glenn Close and directed by Charlie McDowell.In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel...

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2003WINNER OF THE 2003 WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL PRIZENamed as one of the 100 Best Things in the World by GQ magazine in 2003, the riotous adventures of Vernon Gregory Little in small town Texas and beachfront Mexico...

Caracas, Num país que antes da crise era a terra dos sonhos, da beleza e da prosperidade e que agora está esgaçado pela corrupção, pela criminalidade e pela repressão, Adelaida procura apenas sobreviver. A sua...

David Carter cannot help but wish for more: that his wife Eleanor would be the sparkling girl he once found so irresistible; that his job as a museum curator could live up to the promise it once held; that his daughter's arrival could have brought him...

Mrs Bridge, an unremarkable and conservative housewife in Kansas City, has three children and a kindly lawyer husband. She spends her time shopping, going to bridge parties and bringing up her children to be pleasant, clean and have nice manners...

A compelling, compact novel about a woman who walks out of her life and washes up in an out-of-season seaside town - from a powerful new Canadian-British voice After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy...

A smart, funny classic about a young and beautiful American woman who moves to Paris determined to live life to the fullest.The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas to conquer Paris in the...

Sally Jay Gorce is a girl hellbent on living. It’s the 1950s and she’s an American in Paris: witty, headstrong and disaster-prone. She dyes her hair pink, wears evening dresses in the daytime and prowls the Left Bank in search of love,...

BY THE AUTHOR WHO BROUGHT YOU THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA AND THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2!From the New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada comes an irresistible novel about what happens when a girl on the...