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A flood brings not only rising waters but the full force of a brutal, racist worldWith the Mississippi flooding, a Black farmer struggles to get his pregnant wife to safety....

Five of Franz Kafka’s most compelling short animal stories, where fable, dark humour and unease collideA community gathers to listen to the singing of a mouse. An ape addresses an...

At once a gripping thriller and a heartbreaking elegy, this is Toni Cade Bambara''s powerful final testament, a hymn to Atlanta''s missing children. Zala Spencer is barely surviving on the...

From one of the great Chinese authors of the twentieth century, these newly translated stories illuminate the most intimate matters of the human heartSince childhood, Ruliang has sketched the same...

Arthur Conan Doyle’s tense, unsettlingly supernatural tale of obsession and controlAfter Austin Gilroy’s fiancée is hypnotised, he finds himself drawn into the orbit of the woman responsible – Miss Penclosa....

An intimate, magical novel about one enduring church in a rural Icelandic valley - an ode to a quiet way of life now lost to time forever The resting place...

Masks is Enchi''s elegant, seductive story of sexual deception, revenge, and the haunting legacy of the past. Ibuki loves widow Yasuko, who is young, charming and sparkling with intelligence. His...

Ngugi Wa Thiong''o''s stories of rebellion and sacrifice, where ordinary lives burn with extraordinary courageIn these tales of rebellion and sacrifice, ordinary lives burn with extraordinary courage. From fighters taking...

When the woman you love may be dead, or worse - unknowable - obsession takes over. A young woman is found dead in her Manhattan apartment. In the aftermath, the...

Written in the last years of Saramago''s life, Cain is a controversial and witty story of a wilful, authoritarian God. After killing his brother, Cain is condemned to wander the...

From Japan''s most famous, classic novelist comes a remarkable gem of wit, irony, and feline observationA stray kitten, catapulted to literary fame loudly observes the world of Meiji Japan in...

Colette’s elegant, unsettling study of love turned hostile - and all because of a cat. A young marriage begins to sour, poisoned by rivalry and resentment. At its centre is...

Dylan Thomas’s vivid, affectionate portrait of youth - and the journey towards finding one’s own artistic voiceA boy grows up in a small Welsh town, moving through school, family life...

Georges Perec’s cool, exacting portrait of a couple torn apart by consumer desireA young couple build their lives around the objects they long to own. From furniture to clothes to...

A fiendishly brutal but brilliant, charming English murder mystery, from Agatha Christie''s favourite writer - the criminally underrated, Margery Allingham. Private detective Albert Campion is summoned to the village of...

A dazzling, daring tale of poets at the end of the world, Distant Star is Roberto Bolano''s miniature dystopian masterpieceAlberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unpromising member of Chile’s young...

What begins as a miracle of science soon turns into a nightmare... After a plague wipes out all of Russia’s chickens, eyes fall on zoologist Periskov and his strange discovery...

Herman Melville''s enduringly comic and affecting tale of a man who takes quiet quitting to its extremeA new clerk in a Wall Street lawyer’s office causes dismay and confusion when,...

In a single afternoon''s walk, Virginia Woolf captures the infinite life of a garden... A couple pause among the flowerbeds, their thoughts drifting apart. A woman’s mind fixes on a...

A magical portrait of the mundane and everyday, made otherworldly in Gertrude Stein''s one-of-a-kind prose poetry. Objects. Food.And, Rooms. Together these three subjects make up Tender Buttons, Gerturde Stein''s beautifully...

DescriptionTwo literary giants take to the road on a comic journey - both chaotic, and completely unforgettableTired of the grind of work, two apprentices set out on a walking tour...

This is Alcott as you have never seen her before - gothic, and gloriously unsettlingA young governess arrives at a grand country house and quickly wins the confidence of its...

In the decaying hills of Dunwich, something monstrous stirs Wilbur Whateley is a strange child – of uncertain parentage, growing to abnormal size at abnormal speed. Shunned by the villagers...

Three supernatural tales of longing and loss from the grand-dame of Gothic fiction, Mary Shelly When a storm drives their boat towards the rocks, a group of sailors is saved...

A magical, mystical novella about the art and power of storytelling, this is Italo Calvino''s miniature masterpiece. A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then in...

Sally Bowles is the dazzling centrepiece of Goodbye to Berlin, distilling Isherwood''s genius into the tale of one baudy, brilliant woman. 1930s Berlin is a realm of glamour and sleaze,...

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORTWICE WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR''A masterly work of historical witness and moral reckoning'' OBSERVER, Fiction to look out for in ''26An...

The next book in the blockbuster Empyrean series, Threshing Day, contains thirteen stories starring your favorite characters and their dragons. The deluxe first edition includes sixteen beautiful original full-color illustrations...

Don't miss this heart-stopping drama from the nation's favourite storyteller! Will the sleeping shadows of a family's past torment a new generation? Twenty years ago, an unspeakable crime tore Jack's...

'A work of genius' Independent'Brilliantly cinematic . . . Irving shows considerable skill as scene after scene mounts to its moving climax' New York Times'A remarkable novel, a rare creation,...

'Witty, tenderhearted, fervent' New York Times'Difficult to define, impossible not to admire' Daily Telegraph'An old-fashioned, big-hearted novel... somewhere between Trollope and Twain' Boston Globe'Superb in scope and originality, a novel...

'A cleverly observed and deeply authentic novel about a marriage in turmoil, and the power the past can have over our present. Arresting and engaging ... Convincing characters and layers...

A dark Scottish island crime thriller featuring a compelling and brilliant female detective, a brutal murder, and a close-knit community where everyone has something to hide. Home is where the...

The sudden, devastating breakup of a relationship in the winter of 2021 left Catherine Lacey depressed and adrift. She began cataloguing the wreckage of her life and the beauty of...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF EXPECTATION'Hope breathes fresh thinking into the dusty corners and overgrown hedges of the English country house dilemma' The Times'Superb ... Anna Hope engages,...

'Wonderfully authentic, electrifying' Clare ChambersTwo couples. Twenty years. One unforgettable story.Dylan, Stevie and Ben have been inseparable since their days at Trinity, when life pulsed with possibility. A single glance...

Damian Werner has made peace with the fact that he'll never see his fiancee, Ewa again. After all, she disappeared ten years ago.But when someone posts a picture online, claiming...

The gripping new novel from internationally bestselling master of historical fiction Bernard Cornwell If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe ... The year is 1813. France is...

Exploring childhood ambition, youthful desire, midlife reinvention and the unsparing clarity of old age, Ozeki brings us eleven richly imagined stories of characters standing at life's thresholds.A college student falls...

As the youngest-ever High Priest of his secret Boston Society, husband to brilliant Moira, and boyfriend to influential psychic David, Rhys McGowan has it all. Now he just has to...

An eerie and evocative Victorian-set horror thriller about how a well-meaning butcher's daughter from London's Whitechapel grew up to become the baker who stuffed her pies with the flesh of...

'This is a book about searching in the best sense - full of ideas, beauty, doubt and adventures' ELIZABETH KOLBERT 'Fascinating and masterfully written' ALICE WINN From the Sunday Times...

'Pure, steamy fun, and the perfect summer read' Ali Hazelwood, author of The Love HypothesisFrom New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Alex Aster comes this year's hottest romance.Elle...

'The perfect mix of horror and heart' - KYLIE LEE BAKER, author of Bat Eater 'Cho Yeeun is amazing. Insanely amazing' - BORA CHUNG, author of The Midnight Timetable'The epitome...

WHO IS THE BIGGEST VILLAIN IN YOUR OFFICE? A gripping and incisive psychological drama from the internationally bestselling author of DallerGut Dream Department Store.Eight people receive a mysterious invitation to...

Katharine Hepburn was a legend. This is the novel of how she became one.After the devastating loss of her beloved brother, young Katharine Hepburn determines that she will be famousand...

THIS LOVE STORY IS HOTTER THAN FICTIONWhen Emmy Miura falls asleep reading a newly purchased romance novel (after her visit to a sex psychic her sister swears by), the last...