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Fiction

Our Fiction Department carries novels and short stories for every taste: hardbacks and paperbacks, classic and contemporary, crime and thrillers, science fiction and fantasy, romantic and historical, British writers and those from overseas.

As well as all the bestsellers, classic titles and prize winners you'd expect, we feature many little-known and cult writers published by small independent presses, such as Hesperus and Pushkin Press, including an unrivalled range of fiction in translation. We also have the largest range of poetry titles in London.

Whether you're looking for an old favourite or something new, you'll always be able to find a book to suit, as well as books on CD.

You can email any queries to fiction@foyles.co.uk, or phone us on +44 (0) 20 7437 5660

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Lights Out in Wonderland Lights Out in Wonderland
DBC Pierre

DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little was one of the most controversial recent winners of the Man Booker Prize and it's safe to say that his new novel will prove equally as divisive. World-weary Gabriel Brockwell has had enough of life. But before he calls it a day, he's off on one last Bacchanalian adventure. Via a poison blowfish blow-out in Tokyo, he's on his way to Berlin, intent on organising the most extravagant dinner ever seen. A whirlwind of sex, drugs and philosophical trickery, this is a novel overflowing with ideas and verbal acrobatics that yokes together the most unlikely band of characters and offers a decidedly unconventional path to redemption.

Hear the author at our exclusive London event on 7th September.

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Our Kind of Traitor
John le Carre

Our Kind of Traitor After forty years in the game, John le Carré remains our finest and most relevant thriller writer. His latest sees a young couple holidaying in Antigua inadvertently embroiled with the schemes of a tattooed Russian millionaire. What follows takes us from the Caribbean to Paris, the Swiss Alps and finally London, where an unholy alliance between the financial interest of big business and British intelligence is revealed.

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Walking to Hollywood
Will Self

Walking to Hollywood From one of our most original and eloquent writers comes this triptych of stories weaving together fact, fancy, memoir and invention, as Will Self delves deep into his own psychosis, memory loss and OCD. Aside from the semi-autobiographical title story, 'Very Little' tracks the nematode worm of obsession through the mind and in 'Spurn Head' we encounter a madman, Death and a tear in the fabric of time itself.

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To the End of the Land
David Grossman

To the End of the Land Ora is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer's release from his Israeli army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. In a fit of preemptive grief, she sets out for a hike in the Galilee, leaving no forwarding information for the 'notifiers' who might darken her door with the worst possible news. Grossman's rich imagining of a family in love and crisis makes for one of the great antiwar novels of our time.

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Nourishment
Gerard Woodward

Nourishment Tory Pace, working at the gelatine factory to help the war effort, is appalled to receive a letter from her POW husband, asking for a dirty letter to keep his spirits up. But when she finally puts pen to paper, a whole new world of carnal possibilities is opened up to her. A moving and amusing story of making do in wartime from the author of the Booker-shortlisted I'll Go To Bed At Noon.

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Zero History
William Gibson

Zero History The latest genre-defying novel from William Gibson, author of Neuromancer and Spook Country introduces hard-up rock singer Hollis Henry, forced to turn for work to Hubertus Bigend, sinister Belgian proprietor of mysterious ad agency Blue Ant, previously encountered in href="display.asp?CID=BBWF&ISB=9780140266146&">Pattern Recognition. Assisted by ex-addict Milgrim, their mission is to acquire a slice of the military budget, which leads to encounters with some deeply unsavoury rivals.

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Fame
Daniel Kehlmann

Fame From the author of Measuring the World, the biggest-selling German language novel since Patrick Suskind's Perfume, comes this dazzlingly inventive collection of nine stories. From a man whose weekly highlight is the canteen's Weiner Schnitzel to a writer suicidal at the pointlessness of his own work, these stories that skirt the hazy edges of reality and contemplate the nature of identity in the modern world.

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The Museum of Innocence
Orhan Pamuk

The Museum of Innocence Set in Istanbul between 1975 and today, this tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique. Pamuk beautifully captures the identity crisis experienced by Istanbul's upper classes who find themselves caught between traditional and westernised ways of being.

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The Humbling
Philip Roth

The Humbling One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, Simon Axler has lost his magic, his talent and his assurance. When he goes on stage he feels like a lunatic and looks like an idiot. His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can't persuade him to make a comeback. In this long day's journey into night, told with Roth's inimitable urgency, bravura and gravity, all our life's performances are stripped bare.

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Generation A
Douglas Coupland

Generation A In the near future bees are extinct - until five unconnected individuals, in different parts of the world, are stung. A charismatic scientist with dubious motives eventually brings the quintet together, and their shared experience unites them in a way they could never have imagined. Occupying the perplexing hinterland between optimism about the future and everyday, apocalyptic paranoia, this is Coupland's most ambitious and entertaining novel to date.

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Last Night in Twisted River
John Irving

Last Night in Twisted River In 1954, in a logging and sawmill settlement in New Hampshire, a boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the constable, their lone protector a fiercely libertarian logger. In a story spanning five decades, John Irving's twelfth novel depicts the recent half-century in the United States as a world 'where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course'.

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