Jeremy Underwood is a long-suffering subeditor on The Daily Beast, Britain's mightiest tabloid. Returning from holiday, he notices two burqa-clad figures lurking outside the paper's offices in Kensington. Fear is in the air since two male suspects escaped from a mosque. Jeremy's observation sets off a chain of events that rapidly escalates, as the great ...

Summer, 1967. As London shimmers in a heat haze and swoons to the sound of Sergeant Pepper, a mystery film – Eureka – is being shot by German wunderkind Reiner Werther Kloss. The screenwriter, Nat Fane, would do anything for a hit but can’t see straight for all the acid he’s dropping. Fledgling actress Billie Cantrip is hoping for her big break but can’t...

A compelling new narrative of Civil War-era politics in Washington, D.C. incorporates family machinations, historical drama and riveting romance to delight readers of literary fiction. Emmy O’Malley Evers and her family have journeyed from the Pacific Northwest and survived murder, kidnapping and a train heist to build a life with Emmy’s father, a...

With its winks and nods to Flaubert's Madame Bovary, this is one of the most exciting finds of the season - Le Monde

A sharp, fresh novel about a woman who lives the life she's meant to lead but finds it lacking - from the author of the much-loved The Library of Unrequited Love

The story of a woman's life, from childhood to death, somewhere in provincial...

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Frances Hardinge weaves another darkly extraordinary tale in A Skinful of Shadows, her follow-up to the Costa Award-winning novel The Lie Tree

'Hardinge is an unusual talent who deserves to be read by children and adults alike'  Guardian

This is the story of a bear-hearted girl . . .

Sometimes, when a person dies, their spirit goes...

A smart, dark, and take-no-prisoners look at rape culture and the extremes to which ideology can go, The Red Word is a campus novel like no other. As her sophomore year begins, Karen enters into the back-to-school revelry—particularly at a fraternity called GBC. When she wakes up one morning on the lawn of Raghurst, a house of radical feminists, she gets a...

In a brilliantly constructed stream of consciousness,Phone tells the story of two men: Zack Busner and Jonathan De'Ath. Busner is a psychiatrist who has made his name through his unorthodox treatment of psychological damage, such as giving the controversial drug L-DOPA to patients ravaged by encephalitis, or administering LSD to World War II PTSD-sufferers...

An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self. It centers around a young Nigerian woman, Ada, who develops separate selves within her as a result of being born “with one foot on the other side.” Unsettling, heartwrenching, dark, and powerful, Freshwater is a sharp evocation of a rare way of experiencing...

With the smart suspense of Emma Donoghue’s Room and the atmospheric claustrophobia of Grey Gardens, Catherine Burns’s debut novel The Visitors explores the complex truths we are able to keep hidden from ourselves and the twisted realities that can lurk beneath even the most serene of surfaces.

“Once you start Catherine Burns's dark, disturbing, and...

They think I hurt someone.
But I didn't. You hear?
Cos people are gonna be telling you
all kinds of lies.
I need you to know the truth.

Joe hasn't seen his brother for ten years, and it's for the most brutal of reasons. Ed is on death row.

But now Ed's execution date has been set, and this might be the last summer they have together.

The astonishing new...

By Norway's bestselling novelist and the author of NORWEGIAN WOOD, a family story of epic scale.

Edvard grows up on a remote mountain farmstead in Norway with his taciturn grandfather, Sverre. The death of his parents, when he was three years old, has always been shrouded in mystery - he has never been told how or where it took place and has only a...

Never before available in English, Judgment is a work of startling power by David Bergelson, the most celebrated Yiddish prose writer of his era.
 
Set in 1920 during the Russian Civil War, Judgment (titled Mides-hadin in Yiddish) traces the death of the shtetl and the birth of the “new, harsher world” created by the 1917 Russian Revolution. As Bolshevik...

A thrilling and suspenseful novel from the bestselling author of The Snow Angel and The Winter Children.

The Snow Rose is the gripping story of a woman on the run from her past by Lulu Taylor, author of The Winter Folly.

I know they think I shouldn't keep her . . . That's why I've escaped them while I can, while I still have the opportunity . . .

Kate is on...

On a warm summer day in Berlin, Helena is hit by a truck while crossing the street. She awakens to the loving face of her husband Joachim. In addition to a few broken bones, she realizes she can’t remember anything about the accident, or even the last few years leading up to it. Retrograde amnesia the doctors call it and assure her that with time, she...

Steve Tait has an opportunity to turn his life around, provided he’s willing, and able, to challenge Wayne Jackson, the man who almost killed him the first time they met. At a considerable financial and resource disadvantage Tait is considered a fool for taking on a man who not only has wealth and power, but the determination to do whatever is necessary to...

Paris was only supposed to have been be a break from college when Josh Cohn is evicted from his lodging. But whilst sulking in a bistro he notices a beautiful Arabic girl who, minutes later, he witnesses drowning. In the same moment he pulls Neïla's unconscious form from the water, Josh is killed and the two ...

Life begins at thirty-eight for Long Island mom and writer Luna Lampanelli, when she kicks her secretly gay husband to the curb. She's got her freedom, but what she wants is love. Luna knows she doesn't need a man to exist, but try telling that to her heart. Against the advice of Sunny, her snarky best friend, and Jiminy, the cautioning voice in Luna's head...

At the age of 20, Sheyda Porrouya’s life is almost over. She was born in Iran on the day staunchly orthodox mullas declared the birth of the Islamic Republic and set about summarily purging the country of all things Western and un-Islamic. To make matters worse, as she matured, Sheyda seemed increasingly unable to...

From Black Hand criminals to stand-up cops, from innocent victims and ordinary people to schemers and dreamers: a novel that chronicles 100 years in the lives and relationships of those who have lived in New York City’s Little Italy. A multi-generational, multi- dimensional tale that digs deep into the minds and...

What is the literary and cultural benefit of a diaspora anthology? It presents work from a community, a family of writers. It represents a cultural contribution to Canadian literature. It makes it known where they come from personally and metaphorically, what inspires them. In this case, they are all writers who...

In exchange for the slavish obedience of her two daughters, the mother promises to support them against the tyrannical father. Rather than Montreal or the suburbs, the family settle in a hotel at the crossroads of a practically deserted village. An impenetrable forest surrounds the hotel where the usual customers...

A fiction writer in the tradition of Michael Chabon, Philip Roth, and David Gilmour, in Faithful and Other Stories, Daniel Karasik brings together an assortment of complex characters searching for meaning and connection in a world that is by turns violent and indifferent. These award-winning stories have received ...

Home isn't always where the heart is ...

The Taylor children spent their summers on Cape Cod basking in the support of parents anyone would be happy to have. Decades later, with their mother gone and the tendrils of dementia entwining their father, the three siblings have one last chance to relive their idyllic youth as they pack up the family home. But life...

What is the "use" of literature? Can we call a work of art "useless"? And how does "interpretation" dif­fer from "use"? In Useless Joyce Tim Conley sets forth a lively, often witty argument that the works of James Joyce, often thought difficult, obscure, and far from practical, are in fact polymorphous medita­tions on these perennial questions. Conley...

Set against the backdrop of the Civil War comes a tale of love lost and found.
Mary Thomson is no ordinary woman. She works alongside her husband William cutting firewood to sell in the city, earning the nickname “The Woodcutter’s Wife.” She kills a bear with her bare hands. And she prefers plowing a field to cooking a meal. The one thing she cannot seem to...

A moving story of struggle and conflict, but also triumph and optimism. Shelter staff and residents overcome pain, brutality and despair and move forward into lives of peace, empowerment, and hope.

The life and death drama of domestic violence is the backdrop to the daily struggle of the workers in a shelter. Manager Nancy, counselors Monica and Paula, and...

CAN YOU REDEEM YOUR LIFE IN A CORRUPT WORLD?

That’s the question for Callie Byrne, a street savvy Iraq vet recently out of drug rehab for heroin addiction, trying to reignite her life and regain custody of her son. Bartending in Philadelphia when a friend gets entangled with her ex-dealer, Callie must navigate the underground world of drug and sex...

Desperate to make ends meet, Ombima commits a “harmless” crime. When he tries to conceal his misdeed, the simple farm laborer becomes a reluctant participant in a sinister affair. If discovered, the consequences could be disastrous for Ombima’s family, friends, and a spate of unwitting, gossipy villagers.

A delicious tale of greed, lust, and betrayal...

A dazzling family love story reminiscent of Everything I Never Told You from a novelist heralded by Lorrie Moore as a "great new talent."

If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life?

It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell...

"The End We Start From is strange and powerful, and very apt for these uncertain times. I was moved, terrified, uplifted – sometimes all three at once. It takes skill to manage that, and Hunter has a poet’s understanding of how to make each word count.”—Tracy Chevalier

Pre-empted by publishers around the world within days of the 2016 London Book Fair, The...

'An intriguing and subversive debut, charged with the power of the ignored and the suppressed.' Hilary Mantel

'Eerie, original . . . A thrilling exploration of what makes us human.' i

You’ve seen a fox.

Come face to face in an unexpected place, or at an unexpected moment.

And he has looked at you, as you have looked at him. As if he has something to tell you...

All Nora Brown wants is to teach high school English and live a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one November day, moments after dismissing her class, a girl’s face appears above the students' desks—a wild numinous face with startling blue eyes, a face floating on top of shapeless drapes of purples and blues where arms...

New Edition Illustrated with 45 photos of the Badlands, the acclaimed 1996 Book-of-the-Month novel, Badlands, by Melinda Camber Porter.

"A Novel of Startling Lyricism." Publishers Weekly

““Badlands has a narrative with a weighty sensuality that carries the reader forward in a kind of drunken, dreamlike state.” New York Times

“Badlands ...

The award-winning author of The Green Glass Sea returns with smart and subversive new tales.

“[STARRED REVIEW] Magical stories unfurl with marvelous subtlety in this delightful collection from Klages (The Green Glass Sea).”
—Publishers Weekly

A rebellious child identifies with wicked Maleficent instead of Sleeping Beauty. Best friends Anna and Corry share...

Written by Oliver Kaufman, author and founder of theworldwithin.org, these stories delve into the minds and feelings of characters as they struggle to resolve, understand, and uncover the realities of their experiences.

Joy and emptiness, rest and effort, meaning and madness - these and other themes weave their way into the tales and the problems...

Big Bend, population 500. South Dakota, 1988. Eight-year-old Tiny Mite lives in a ramshackle farmhouse next to her grandfather’s crashed airplane andthe pine tree where she trains as a spy. Goddamn is her favourite word. Taking pictures with a homemade camera is her new big thing. She lives with Bee, her apocalypse-obsessed grandmother and Luvie, her...

Emma Derringer is an assistant at a branding agency in London. Each morning she arrives at the office, types in her password (Fresh_He11) and shoves her jacket under her desk (DEAR ALL, Please keep your coats and bags out of sight and NOT on your chairs as they are unsightly. Thx). Most days Emma wears a mask of indifference that disguises either her...

The Horse’s Mouth, famously filmed with Alec Guinness in the central role, is a portrait of an artistic temperament. Its principal character, Gulley Jimson, is an impoverished painter who bothers little about conventional values. His unquestioning certainty that he must live and paint according to his intuition without regard for the cost to himself or...

‘Kehlmann is one of the brightest, most pleasure-giving writers at work today, and he manages all this while exploring matters of deep philosophical and intellectual import.’

JONATHAN FRANZEN

‘What a strange and beautiful novel, hovering on the misty borders of the abstract and the real.’

IAN McEWAN on F

A chilling story of marital struggle and...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017

'Even by his high standards, his magnificent new novel is Jacobsen's finest to date, as blunt as it is subtle and is easily among the best books I have ever read.' IRISH TIMES

A group of children inherit an elemental paradise on earth in Roy Jacobsen's phenomenally bestselling new novel about love...

A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He’s not her child.

The two seem anxious and, at David’s ever more insistent prompting, Amanda recounts a series of events from the apparently recent past. As David pushes her to recall whatever trauma has landed her in her terminal...

A captivating novel for readers of Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale and Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See.

Occupied Norway, 1943. After seeing an allied plane go down over the mountains, headstrong fifteen year-old Kari Dahlstrøm sets out to locate the wreck. She soon finds the cocky American pilot Lance Mahurin and offers to take him to Sweden...