Fiction books

Review In these lazy days of conformity and censorship, David Peace continues to experiment and excite. Tokyo Redux represents another peak in a g...

In The Dark Stuff Nick Kent profiles twenty-two of the most gifted and self-destructive talents in rock history. From Brian Wilson to Syd Barrett, ...

'Peerless.' Daily Telegraph 'Sprinkled with magic.' Observer 'Full of mischief, romance, fun and kindness.' The Times Soldier, journalist, histo...

Review Easily the most original novel of the year. This is the book I'll be giving people for Christmas. -- Cressida Connolly ― Spectator Book...

Step into the vibrant streets of 19th-century Istanbul, where intrigue and danger lurk around every corner. Join Yashim, a resourceful investigator...

Step into the enchanting yet harrowing world of Habibi, a graphic novel that weaves a tale of love, sacrifice, and survival against the backdrop of...

Review An entertaining and funny picture of Lagos life. ― Guardian A fine novel . . . worlds - rich and poor, urban and rural, privileged and pow...

Product Description In the summer of 1936, W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice visited Iceland on commission to write a travel book, but found themselv...

Product Description Empires of the Sea shows the Mediterranean as a majestic and bloody theatre of war. Opening with the Ottoman victory in 1453 i...

Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War Two, he is taken...

Review A fine writer and a rising star of Zimbabwean literature. -- J.M. Coetzee Engrossing, beautiful and deeply imaginative ... A masterful wri...

Review Sleepless Nights assembles a series of fleeting images and memories united by the high intelligence and beauty of Hardwick's prose. ― Sally...

A Radio 4 Book of the Week. 'Fascinating . . . filled with lively historical digressions.' New York Times 'Best True Crime of 2022' In 1888 Louis...

Review I was struck over and again by what an amazing writer she is. ― Helen DunmoreThis deft, haunting work compels on every page. ― Daily Ma...

Review Wonderfully illuminating ... Big-hearted and open-minded, this irresistible memoir helps to show how Glass has channelled and transformed t...

Review Albertine's dark humour and sharp prose lift her into another league . . . This book transcends rock 'n' roll. ― The Times Even more compe...

Review A magnificent book. I could not put it down. It is at once touching, exquisite, devastating and extraordinary - it's a wonderful narrative,...

Review 'Written in prose that disrespects established boundaries to reveal a unique and courageous voice, Julianne Pachico's The Anthill, is the s...

Review It's really hard for me to overestimate how important [Rose's] work has been for me . . . I don't feel like that about very many writers. -...

Review Stunning . . . Sexy and provocative, this is masterful storytelling by a brilliant writer. ― Daily Mail A fast-moving crime novel . . . a ...

'Smart, sophisticated and suspenseful.' HARLAN COBEN 'Sleek, cunning and breakneck.' MEGAN ABBOTT 'Thriller writing at its absolute best.' JEFFREY ...

Introduced by Helen Castor, lose yourself in an epic naval journey in the second novel in the Booker Prize-winning historical fiction Sea Trilogy b...

Review Great delicacy and freshness .... Notwithstanding its ancient setting, the novel is entirely modern in form, its characters and dialogue vi...

Review A masterpiece of evocation, it conjures up its imaginary island with superb fullness and immediacy. . . it's as a magnificent panorama of t...

'A classic.' Frank Keating, Guardian 'Unputdownable.' The Face Features a new introduction by Stuart Evers Following the 1985 final between Denn...

'What guts. What attitude! These are the immortals I wish I'd learned about at school.' OLIVIA COLMAN Channel the feminist power of mythical godde...

'What guts. What attitude! These are the immortals I wish I'd learned about at school.' OLIVIA COLMAN Channel the feminist power of mythical godde...

Why be healthy when the world is so sick? From the author of Perfidious Albion, a darkly comic and profoundly affecting novel about resistance, rad...

'Where most of us can barely trace our own footprints in the mass of moments that are the stuff of experience, numerous and storyless as grains of ...

'[Lippman] only seems to be getting better.' Entertainment Weekly 'A first-rate collection.' Booklist FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SUNBURN AND D...

The definitive account of the first rise and fall of Boy George and Culture Club, and British pop music in the 1980s. NEW EXPANDED EDITION, WITH A...

'Devastating in the most beautiful ways . . . you are in the hands of an absolute artist.' TORREY PETERS, author of DETRANSITION, BABY It is Apri...

Review This is a novel that lives firmly in the melancholia of the city's gentrification, hurtling readers through one woman's desperation to keep...

Review Wonderful . . . This is a book of discovery that speaks of music as a life force, that urges us to live our lives through music. It highlig...

For fans of Patricia Lockwood and Ben Lerner, audacious fictions of a generation wondering: what now? ** Chosen as a Guardian, White Review and NP...

An original and profound portrait of contemporary Britain told through the testimonies of its inhabitants. SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRI...

***Available for pre-order now*** The gorgeous, pocket-sized edition of the two brand-new Talking Heads ***As seen on BBC1 and iPlayer*** 'Give...

LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE AS HEARD ON R4s FRONT ROW 'The football novel is back.' The Times Wonderful.' IRENOSEN OKOJIE 'A novel rich i...

Review Perhaps the most inimitable [writer] produced in the English-speaking Caribbean. -- Fred D'Aguiar An extraordinary writer ... Courageous an...

Review 'Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.' ― The New Yorker 'It is the funniest, most life-affirming and most virtuosic novel I expect to rea...

Review This fine novel by one of Northern Ireland's most accomplished contemporary writers ... brilliantly evokes wartime love and heartbreak. -- ...

'Thought-provoking and charmingly rendered.' Guardian Imagine a world where seductive male sirens lure brave heroines to their death, where Icara ...

ONE OF THIS WEEK'S BEST NOVELS OF 2022 The perfect novel for fans of The Last Dance, Hoop Dreams and Winning Time 'Warm, humane, and tragic ... So...

'I don't know where to stop praising Benny and this amazing book...' - HEATHER MORRIS, The Tattooist of Auschwitz 'This book...is the stuff folk t...

A swallow flutters its wings into a dimly lit attic as Adele Foyle stumbles across the secret diary of the mother she has never met, and a shocking...

A classic mystery starring the glamorous Mitford sisters and inspired real events, The Mitford Vanishing is the perfect story for fans of Agatha Ch...

The brand new festive romance from Debbie Macomber, the #1 New York Times bestselling author and the queen of Christmas fiction! ALL SHE WANTS FO...

The beloved Sergeant Cribb series by Peter Lovesey The spiritualist movement has captivated a segment of Victorian London: manifestations, the occ...