‘One of the most important American novels of the twentieth century’ The Times ‘It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves’ Ralph Ellison’s blistering and impassioned…
Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote Mennonite colony, over one hundred girls and women were raped by what many thought were ghosts or demons. Their accounts were dismissed as ‘wild female imagination’. Women Talking…
The ultimate Rome story Fresh from triumph in Britain and Gaul, Caesar is marching on Rome with his legions of hardened veterans. To unseat Pompey, now dictator of the empire, he must make the terrible…
Before the Malazan Empire, there was a time that set the stage for all those tales yet to be told . . . The winter is bitter. Civil war threatens Kurald Galain for the warrior…
‘A chilling reminder that sometimes home is where the hurt is’ Cara Hunter, bestselling author of Close to Home ‘This kept me up last night. Scary. Twisty. All too believable’ Jane Corry, author of My…
‘Wonderfully poetic … extraordinary freshness … a Virginia Woolf quality’ Margaret Drabble Territory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter. Its twelve chapters follow…
Lose yourself in the sun-drenched hills of the Amalfi coast with bestselling author of Songs of Love and War, Santa Montefiore… Gianluca has to admit his life is empty so, in search of serenity and…
Agatha Christie’s ingenious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet…
‘DEFTLY TACKLING THE SUBJECT OF RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE, THIS BEWITCHING NOVEL STIRS THE SENSES’ Good Housekeeping It isn’t often you receive a letter from the dead. When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave,…
This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be…
Three generations. One heartbreaking secret. And pasts about to be uncovered . . . Jess Penhaligon is on her way to Devon to receive an award for her botanical painting. Hosting her will be Kate,…
‘ONE DAY is destined to be a modern classic’ – Daily Mirror Twenty years, two people, ONE DAY. The multi-million copy bestseller that captures the experiences of a generation. ‘I can imagine you at forty,’…
‘Though their house was new, the wall had been there a long time.’ In these two stories, which have never before been translated into English, Tsushima shows how memories, dreams and fleeting images describe the…
The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and…
‘Kerouac’s grittiest novel … sensual and uninhibited’ The New York Times Driven mad by three years of endless telegrams, phonecalls, mail, reporters and snoopers in the wake of his hugely successful novel On the Road,…
‘Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird.’ Lawyer Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird…
Her first major literary success, Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead is an exalted view of her Objectivist philosophy, portraying a visionary artist struggling against the dull, conformist dogma of his peers; a book of ambition, power,…
New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook takes on the ripped-from-the-headlines topic of using DNA tracking to catch a killer in Genesis, an unforgettable medical thriller. When the body of twenty-nine-year-old social worker Gloria Montoya,…
Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise, Sabina leads a double life inspired by her relentless desire for brief encounters with near-strangers. Fired into faithlessness by a desperate longing for sexual fulfilment, she weaves a sensual web of…
In Agua Viva Clarice Lispector aims to ‘capture the present’. Her direct, confessional and unfiltered meditations on everything from life and time to perfume and sleep are strange and hypnotic in their emotional power and…
