Fiction books

Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction Longlisted for the National Book Award One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best ...

An earthquake strikes at the heart of London, its epicenter a theatre where a lavish production of "The Tempest" has just opened. Thus, the scene i...

'If there is a more inspired writer of fiction than Aleksandar Hemon currently at work in English, I haven't read him. Startlingly fresh and origin...

A lifetime of restraint and placid affection erupts when a retired bank manager falls for a young girl, as far removed from him in background and e...

A young and successful journalist working in New York, Maureen English appears to have the perfect life and family. But Maureen's husband, a highly...

Joseph Tallantire has hope and ambition - like his father before him he is determined to make something of himself and improve his lot. But life i...

Originally published in 1997, "Drown" instantly garnered terrific acclaim. Moving from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urba...

Scotland Street witnesses the wedding of the century of Angus Lordie to Domenica Macdonald, but as the newlyweds depart on honeymoon Edinburgh is i...

Even the arrival of her baby can't hold Mma Makutsi back from success in the workplace, and so no sooner than she becomes a full partner in the No....

Nineteen-fifty-three is synonymous in the British memory with the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June. But less well known is what happened ...

'A brilliant blending of crime, mystery, and American history. Terrific entertainment' Stephen King Darktown is a relentlessly gripping, highly in...

The last time Tess de Vere saw William Benson she was a law student on work experience. He was a twenty-one year old, led from the dock of the Old...

'A joy to read' Amanda Craig 'Shades of Cold Comfort Farm...Charming' Guardian English Animals is a subversive, wry debut that fans of Marina Lew...

'A young woman's battle for acceptance in a male-dominated world; her misadventures in love; and her torturous journey to track down her real paren...

It's the start of another school year at St Ambrose. But while the children are in the classroom colouring in, their mothers are learning sharper l...

This absorbing, ironic, bitter-sweet collection of nine stories marked Lorrie Moore's talented debut. Sharp, cruel and funny, the stories are prese...

Anna is in love. Or maybe not. She's a free spirit: definitely happy. Or is it more panicked? In any case, she is living life to the full. Or mayb...

This book was shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore explores the passi...

Junot Diaz's new collection, This Is How You Lose Her, is a collection of linked narratives about love - passionate love, illicit love, dying love,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018 For weeks, someone has been broadcasting people's secrets from the minarets of the city's mosques, striking ...

Mamoon is an eminent Indian-born writer who has made a career in England -- but now, in his early seventies, his reputation is fading, his book sal...

For better or worse, two families are about to become one . . . 'Sassy and romantic' Heat 'The perfect summer read' OK! The Ashworth sisters cou...

One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don't need things to get any worse, I hear the noises growing louder. I am sure they are ma...

The Beautiful Torment of a Dream is a personal exploration of the pressures of modern life, of the search for love and success, and the ultimate ne...

Product Description 'An extraordinary novel' ObserverIt is the greatest truth of our age: information is not knowledge.Manhattan, September 13, 2...

A girls' night out. A bad decision. A life, unravelling When Georgie is persuaded to join two old friends for Ladies' Night, she intends to have f...

'Just like Malory Towers for grown-ups' Sophie Kinsella Jenny Colgan's return to the Little School by the Sea - perfect for anyone who ever dream...

In a remote town in the Himalaya, Maya tries to put behind her a time of great sorrow. By day she teaches in a school and at night she types up dra...

'There came the splash of water and the rub of heels as Mrs Barber stepped into the tub. After that there was a silence, broken only by the occasio...

Amid the harsh landscape of the Ozark Hills, sixteen-year-old Ree is taking care of her mother and two brothers. Her father has put their house up ...

Review A sequel that in many ways is even more impressive ― Chicago TribuneA luminescent synthesis of a thriller and a literary novel. ― Indep...

Locked behind the Iron Curtain, a young boy grows up bewitched by his French grandmother's memories of Paris before the Great War. Yet despite what...

In the spring of 1938 Elise Landau arrives at Tyneford, the great house on the bay. A bright young thing from Vienna forced to become a parlour-mai...

Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive y...

Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 'Extraordinarily affecting' Alex Preston, Observer 'This is a novel whose engine is flesh an...

'Absolutely electric' Garth Greenwell 'A major talent' Financial Times 'Reminiscent of Donna Tartt's The Secret History' New Yorker Phoebe Lin...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR 'A landmark book by an important new voice in Irish writing'...

'A publishing phenomenon... [Sherrilyn Kenyon] is the reigning queen of the wildly successful paranormal scene.' Publishers Weekly 'Kenyon builds...

Rescuing an industrial spy from the hands of a criminal mastermind is a suicide mission for the GhostWalkers. And there's no one more up to the tas...

Product Description Danger brings together two guarded hearts in a battle for survival in this irresistible story from New York Times bestselling...

'A great epic fantasy debut' James Islington on Soul of the World With its memorable characters, vivid world-building and unique magic systems, B...

'Kenyon boldly goes where no author has gone before and claims yet another genre as her own. [She is] a publishing phenomenon . . .' Publishers Wee...

'Frances Brody has the knack of spinning a tale that has the charm of the period' Daily Mail Nothing ever happens in August, and tenacious sleuth ...

In the village of Hawkins Hollow, three young friends unwittingly unleash a three-hundred year curse. Now, every seven years, the locals are plague...

Trust is the most precious commodity of all. In the cutthroat world of Sweden's financial elite, no one knows that better than corporate raider Da...

'Frances Brody has made it to the top rank of crime writers' Daily Mail Taking the perfect photograph can be murder . . . Yorkshire, 1928. Indom...

When Admiral Kylara Vatta and a ship full of strangers were marooned on an inhospitable arctic island, they uncovered secrets that someone on Ky's ...

'Gripping writing, a brilliantly realised future culture and sympathetic characters . . . An entertaining and compelling read' SFX FEAR THE SILENC...