Literary Fiction

‘Powerful… Intense and unforgettable' MAX PORTER‘I’m blown away… An astonishing work' AMY KEY‘Amazing… Truly a feat' RAYMOND ANTROBUS ‘Devastating, sharp with skilfully wrought language, this book is an...

In 2007, on the cusp of her thirties, Alicia faces her future with uncertainty in this stunning examination of ambition, desire, and the struggles of growing up.NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 BY TIME, OPRAH DAILY, USA...

Comic energy + telling details (some that shock) + and dialogue that pops. A story collection by George Saunders always surprises (in voice, or plot, or jokes) even as it shows us where we've gone completely off the trail.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026****SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**A GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT and NEW STATESMAN Book of the Year'Slick, sharp, strange and singular . . . You’ll gulp this novel down in one...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 'Spellbinding' THE TIMES 'An exquisite, languorous novel' OBSERVER 'Heartstoppingly vivid' OISÍN MCKENNA A radiant novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer...

Shakespeare’s The Tempest gets the Margaret Atwood treatment in this ingenious, funny, tear-jerking story about a theatre director intent on revenge.Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival...

Edmund Putnam, days away from the end of his 50th year, finds that his solitary life is about to change. The magazine to which he has given his best decades faces closure, and Edmund will likely lose his job this coming Monday morning. But before this...

From the author of the international bestseller Life of Pi, a fabulous novel connecting the lives of a foot soldier in the Trojan War with a scholar struggling to make sense of his life in modern-day Oxford.      

While the youth uprising sweeps across Europe, a debate about Franz Kafka appears in student magazines, arguing that publishing the texts Kafka left behind against his will is unfaithful to his legacy. When Kafka's best friend, Brod, is injured in an...

After dropping out of college, a young woman wanders through New York both invisible and vulnerable, studying the city's strong magic and longing for a man she knows will never love her back. She thinks she finds salvation when Charlotte Herzfeld, the...

A darkly funny and profoundly moving new novel by award-winning author Patrick Cottrell. And who did I think I was, trying to teach the troubled youth how to write?... I would say I was Dan Moran, a Korean adoptee, single, approaching forty, once...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Room and The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue takes readers on a thrilling ride through a simmering turn-of-the-century Paris on the edge of a dazzling future.‘Ratchets up the...

A slantwise account of queer life in the twentieth century and a testament to the liberatory power of friendship.A friendship is a filiation we choose. It holds love and laughter; it can extend our sense of the possible. Moved to honour a form of...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

Mina is thirty years old and leads a life in London built with great care and little spontaneity, in a frantic attempt to finally feel “right”. One evening she receives a phone call from her mother: her father has died. Mina returns home for...

A prophetic, darkly comic lost classic about down-and-outs in a fractured Berlin by the author of the Sunday Times bestselling rediscovery The Passenger 'A writer of great insight and talent' FT Berlin, 1920s: a beacon of culture and...

Fourteen tales selected from the breadth of Dazai’s fabled career, some never before seen in English No one really understands how we suffer. One day, when we’re adults, we may come to recall this suffering, this misery, as silly and...

'One of my favourite writers' OLGA RAVN, author of The Wax Child From the award-winning Danish writer: an exquisite portrait of a mother and daughter, exploring all that is said and all that is not. 'Slow your heart, slow your attention span –...

Everything is mine and is taken from me. That’s what it means to be a girl. Highly acclaimed in Denmark, Girlbeast is a fearless, unsettling, and poetic reimagining of the Lolita narrative, where power shifts unpredictably, and desire and coercion...

Andreas Egger knows every path and peak of his mountain valley, the source of his sustenance, his livelihood - his home.Set in the mid-twentieth century and told with beauty and tenderness, Robert Seethaler's A Whole Life is a story of man's...