Ben Lerner Veering between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a dazzling introduction to one of the smartest, funniest and most audacious writers of... | David Mitchell Six lives. One amazing adventure. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and one of Richard & Judy's 100 Books of the Decade, soon to be a major motion picture starring Tom... |
Mikhail Bulgakov With his disorderly band of accomplices including a demonic, gun-toting tomcat, the devil begins to create havoc. Disappearances, destruction and death spread through the city like wildfire and Margarita discovers... | Jennifer Egan A novel that circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. It is about the... |
H. G. Wells Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD, where he is delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty and contentment in the form of the Eloi... | C. Robert Cargill; Sinem Erkas A superb contemporary debut fantasy, a dreamlike yet visceral journey through a Faerie land like no other. |
Malcolm Mackay An arresting, gripping novel of dark relationships and even darker moralities: introducing a remarkable new voice in crime fiction. Click on the title or jacket for the author's account of... | Suzanne Rindell Rose Baker is an orphaned young woman working for her bread as a typist in a police precinct on the lower East Side. Every day Rose transcribes the confessions of... |
China Mieville Fiction of the new century' - Neil Gaiman | Marilynne Robinson From the author of Housekeeping, Gilead is the long-hoped- for second novel by one of America's finest writers. Chosen by the New York Times Book Review... |
Sebastian Faulks Terrified, a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his eyes and pictures himself going out to bat on a sunlit cricket ground in Hampshire. Across the courtyard in... | Harper Lee A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends a black man charged with attacking a white girl. This book explores the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class... |
Flannery O'Connor Including "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "Everything That Rises Must Converge", this collection contains a complete collection of stories from one of the most original American writers... | Arthur Conan Doyle Accompanying Sherlock Holmes to an ill-omened house in south London, Dr Watson is startled to find a dead man whose face is contorted in a rictus of horror. There is... |
Jonathan Safran Foer In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key... The key belonged to his father, he's sure of... | Donato Carrisi A record-breaking bestseller and multiple literary prize-winner, The Whisperer came from nowhere to become an astonishing Italian publishing phenomenon |