Literary Fiction

These 30 short stories, comprising Somerset Maugham's first collection, are set in locations ranging from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. They include "Rain," "The Three Fat Women of Antibes," "The Voice of the...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE SWEDISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD • A profoundly moving debut novel that follows an elderly man’s struggle to maintain autonomy over his own life: an emotional story of love, friendship, fatherhood,...

Daisy Jones and the Six meets Patricia Highsmith in this addictive, intense novel about the brutal and ferocious road to glory, from the award-winning author of My Husband.  Ever since she was a child, Cléo, the French-American...

What if you could enter the mind of the person you love the most?Enka meets Mathilde in art school and is instantly drawn to her. Mathilde makes art that feels truly original, and Enka—trying hard to prove herself in this fiercely competitive...

A love story, a coming-of-age tale and a war novel wrapped in one, the incomparable Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping story that reintroduces us to the Del Valle family who we met in The House of the Spirits.In this spellbinding historical...

BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GROUP. 'A jagged diamond of a book' OBSERVER. 'A woman of intellect and style' CELIA MCGEE, NEW YORK TIMES. 'Timeless, brilliant and frighteningly insightful' DAILY MAIL. Told...

This smash bestseller about privileged Vassar classmates shocked America in the sixties and remains “juicy . . . witty . . . brilliant” (Cosmopolitan). At Vassar, they were known as “the group”—eight...

Get lost in this taut tale about mothers and daughters, survival and life from the author of Sea Wife. A NATIONAL BESTSELLER.A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK!“You will open this book and you will not stop reading...

A very special bottle of wine sends 4 neighbors back to 1950s Paris, where they each find the key to a happy future.“A glorious time-slip caper... Just wonderful”  — Daily Mail.When Hubert Larnaudie, chair of the management...

Mitsuko, a schoolteacher at the Kitamura school, inspires both rumour and curiosity in the parents of her students because of her unconventional manner - not least when she tells the children the fable of a princess whose hand in marriage is promised to...

A taut story of hidden violence and self-deception from “an Indian Chekhov” (Suketu Mehta). An upper-middle class couple in Bangalore, Venkat and Viji, find their quiet life upended—and the flaws in their marriage exposed—when two...

A NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER. A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE. A vibrant tale of love, companionship, and renewal set against the transformations of 1960s Vienna. “How I loved this book! Filled with truth after truth,...

Read Alice Munro’s dark and powerful exploration of the human heart in this ten-story collection. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009. ‘Brilliant at evoking life's diversity and...

A “revelatory” (The Boston Globe), “exhilarating” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of twelve stories that “[redraw] the boundaries between fiction and memoir” (O: The Oprah Magazine), from Nobel...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Eight “sparkling [and] beautifully drawn” (Entertainment Weekly) stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro.“Each of the stories...

These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009. ‘Brimming with intensely believable characters and rich...

**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS PICK**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009. Previously published as 'The Beggar Maid', Alice Munro's wonderful collection of stories reads like a novel, following Rose's...

Discover Alice Munro’s first mesmerising and atmospheric short story collection. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 200. ‘A remarkable writer whose major characters emerge in shining clarity....

BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • Forget room service: this is a riotous elegy, a deadpan celebration of colliding worlds, and a spirited defense of love. Blending incisive wit with surprising compassion, Hotel World is a wonderfully invigorating,...

“A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces.” —Madeline Miller“A shining tour de force about a long friendship’s respects, disrespects, loyalties and moralities.” —Ali Smith From the...