Summer Reads

'Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation' - Olivia Laing Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive'A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem, weak and half-blind. On she stumbles -...

(Available after 3-20 days)'Powerful and provocative' - Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the Sunday Times bestselling How to be an Antiracist'A MUST read for any white women who consider themselves "feminist"' - Scarlett Curtis, author of the Sunday...

A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting love—with all its complications—by debut author Ashley Herring Blake.Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls—nothing is there for her but memories of a...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Grapes of Wrath is an epic human drama, with a stunning new cover by renowned artist Bijou Karman.'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut...

An epic, Pulitzer winning story of the great American West and search for honour, heroism and love. Portraying the bravery, ambition, defiance and ruthlessness of the settlers in the great wilderness, McMurthy’s novel delicately balances myth and fact,...

Winner of a PEN/Heim Grant.Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung.Blurring the lines between magical realism, horror, and science-fiction, Chung uses elements of the fantastic and surreal to address the...

Things get textual when a steamy message from a random wrong number turns into an anonymous relationship in this hilarious rom-com by Lynn Painter.Bad luck has always followed Olivia Marshall...or maybe she's just the screw-up her family thinks she is...

A philosophical novel described by fellow existentialist Sartre as 'perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood' of his novels, Albert Camus' The Fall is translated by Robin Buss in Penguin Modern Classics.Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in...

'This book is a deep, sensual plunge, a worship of the body, inside and out' -- The TimesThe most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator,...

Robin Kirkpatrick's masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy, published in a single volume, is the ideal edition for students as well as the general reader coming to this great masterpiece of Italian literature for the first time The Divine...

'Few novelists match the intensity of her vision' --  J. G. BallardNo one knows why the ice has come, and no one can stop it. Every day it creeps further across the earth, covering the land in snow and freezing everything in its path. Through this...

When Matthew Lewis’s The Monk was published in 1796, readers were shocked by this gripping and horrific novel. Lewis’s story, which drove the House of Commons—of which he was a member—to deem him licentious and perverse, follows the abbot Ambrosio as he...

A woman finds herself filling a pit in the forest in the middle of the night; a family lock each other in their bedrooms to battle a strange plague; a wizard punishes two beautiful ballerinas by turning them into one hugely fat circus performer; a...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER   “Defiantly populated with living women . . . beautifully drawn, dense with detail and specificity . . . Notes on an Execution is nuanced, ambitious and compelling.” —Katie Kitamura, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (Editors' Choice) "A...

'One of the best books I've ever read' -- Richard Osman'Tender and elegant' -- Guardian'Unlike anything else in modern English literature' -- D.J. Taylor, SpectatorA damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the quiet village...

The paperback box set (3 books) of the #1 New York Times bestselling Caraval series!All three books in the New York Times bestselling Caraval series are now available together in a beautiful paperback boxed set.Welcome, welcome to the...

Caroline Kepnes’s anti-hero Joe Goldberg is back for the fourth time. Who claims that “the third time is a charm?" Everyone’s favorite stalker will set the record straight. New York Times bestselling author Caroline Kepnes, whose...

FINALIST for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. A BEST BOOK OF 2022 - Oprah Daily・TIME Magazine・Washington Post・Publishers Weekly・Lit Hub. Bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs Mieko Kawakami invites readers...

Tolstoy's passionate and iconoclastic writings—on issues of faith, immortality, freedom, violence, and morality—reflect his intellectual search for truth and a religion firmly grounded in reality. The selection includes 'A Confession,' 'Religion and...