Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Soft Machine
The first novel in William Burroughs' anarchic 'Cut-Up Trilogy'. A world populated by hanged soldiers, North African street urchins, addicted narco...
View full detailsHeartburn
40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, WITH A FOREWORD BY STANLEY TUCCI 'I have bought more copies of this book to give to people, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, t...
View full detailsWe Need To Talk About Kevin (Serpent's Tail Classics)
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2010 ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of a boy nam...
View full detailsHornby: High Fidelity
THE MILLION-COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER & SOURCE OF THE 2020 HULU SERIES 'One of my favourite novels' Zoe Kravitz in Vulture ______________...
View full detailsGeek Love
Lil Binewski, born a Boston aristocrat, was in her time the most stylish of geeks. That is to say she made her living by biting the heads off live ...
View full detailsPenguin Essentials: Junky
"Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life." Originally published in 1953 ...
View full detailsLanny: LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
From the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller Longlisted for the Booker Prize 'Startling, moving and o...
View full detailsRainbow Milk: an Observer 2020 Top 10 Debut
AN OBSERVER TOP TEN DEBUT 2020 'Sensuous and thrillingly well written', Observer 'When did you last read a novel about a young, black, gay, Jeho...
View full detailsA Brief History of Seven Killings: WINNER of the Man Booker Prize 2015
*WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015* JAMAICA, 1976 Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but...
View full detailsJeeves Omnibus Vol 1
'It beats me why a man of his genius is satisfied to hang around pressing my clothes and what not,' says Bertie. 'If I had Jeeves's brain I should...
View full detailsHenry: A Family Recipe
The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller What's the secret ingredient to your happiness? Laura Griffin is preparing for an empty nest. The thought of N...
View full detailsAffinity (Virago V S.)
An eerily brilliant and spooky tale of spiritualism and deception 'Now you know why you are drawn to me - why your flesh comes creeping to mine, a...
View full detailsThe Blacktongue Thief
Review The Blacktongue Thief is a delight from start to finish. What begins as a sidekick's view of the hero's journey soon blossoms into a finely...
View full detailsAll the Pretty Horses: The Border Trilogy (Book 1)
John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever want...
View full detailsThe Corrections
`Intelligent, compellingly readable, funny and above all generous spirited, it is a rare thing, a modern novel with both head and heart' Daily Mail...
View full detailsHappy All the Time: With an introduction by Katherine Heiny (W&N Essentials)
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
This dazzling and satirical quest for truth, love, and identity follows Desiderio, a city employee caught in a chaotic reality attack orchestrated ...
View full detailsColor Purple
Set in the deep American South between the wars, THE COLOR PURPLE is the classic tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregatio...
View full detailsThe Time Keeper
Banished for centuries, as punishment for trying to measure time, the inventor of the world's first clock is finally granted his freedom, along wit...
View full detailsThe English Girl: A compelling, sweeping novel of love, loss, secrets and betrayal
Joan Seabrook, a fledgling archaeologist, has fulfilled her lifelong dream to travel to Arabia and has arrived in the ancient city of Muscat with h...
View full detailsRevolutionary Road
Hailed as a masterpiece from its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright young couple who are bored...
View full detailsIm Sorry You Feel That Way
'IT'LL EASILY BE ONE OF MY BOOKS OF THE YEAR' Hannah Beckerman 'It's a warm book and a touching one. And did I mention it's funny? Just read it. Yo...
View full detailsThe Island: The million-copy Number One bestseller 'A moving and absorbing holiday read'
'This is one of the most touching, gripping and inspiring books that I have ever read. Hislop seamlessly weaves an accurate history of a Greek isla...
View full detailsTipping The Velvet (Virago V S.)
From the oyster huts of Whitstable to the music halls of Victorian London, Tipping the Velvet is the glorious first novel from this much-loved auth...
View full detailsCasebook of Victor Frankenstein
Victor Frankenstein begins his anatomy experiments in a barn in the secluded village of Headington, near Oxford. The coroner's office provides the ...
View full detailsPatternist Series: Wild Seed (Book 1)
"A book that shifted my life... Epic, game-changing, moving and brilliant." — Viola Davis It begins in the African forest where two immortals meet,...
View full detailsVintage Huxley: Island
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAW For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisatio...
View full detailsThe Great Believers
WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS WINNER OF THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD - BARBARA ...
View full detailsThe Marriage Portrait: the Instant Sunday Times Bestseller, Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023
Shades of Grey
Hundreds of years in the future, after the Something that Happened, the world is an alarmingly different place. Life is lived according to The Rule...
View full detailsOlga Dies Dreaming
'Deeply satisfying and nuanced . . . a tender exploration of love in its many forms' Observer 'Gonzalez couples engrossing political intrigue with...
View full detailsRequiem For A Dream
"Harry Goldfarb, heroin addict and son of lonely widow Sara, cares only about enjoying the good life with girlfriend Marion and best friend Tyrone ...
View full detailsTrainspotting
Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting on a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-...
View full detailsFlight Behaviour
"The flames now appeared to lift from individual treetops in showers of orange sparks, exploding the way a pine log does in a campfire when it is p...
View full detailsThe Prisoner of Heaven: The Cemetery of Forgotten Books 3
THE PRISONER OF HEAVEN returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop. It begins just before Christmas...
View full detailsThe Labyrinth of the Spirits: From the bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind (Cemetery of Forgotten Books 4)
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Magnificent: a dizzying tale of drama, intrigue and passion' MAIL ON SUNDAY As a child, Daniel Sempere discovered am...
View full detailsThe Strawberry Thief
DISAPPEAR INTO THE WORLD OF THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING CHOCOLAT . . . 'So wise, so atmospheric, so beautifully written' Marian Keyes 'The most ...
View full detailsThe Rachel Incident: The hilarious bestseller about unexpected love, shortlisted for the TikTok Book Awards - Book of the Year (UK & Ireland)
The Thirteenth Tale
'Simply brilliant' Kate Mosse, international bestselling author of Labyrinth *** Everybody has a story... Angelfield House stands abandoned and ...
View full detailsAnansi Boys
Bursting with the imaginative power of Neil Gaiman, this story blends fantasy with humour and drama. Fat Charlie Nancy is not actually fat. He was ...
View full detailsSteel: Neighbours
Neighbours is a novel of friendship, support, trust and love, and what it takes to bring people together, by the world’s favourite storyteller Dani...
View full detailsPalahniuk: Survivor
Tender Branson, the last surviving member of the Creedish death cult, has commandeered a Boeing 747, emptied of passengers, in order to tell his st...
View full detailsVintage Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin
The Night Watch
The Brass Verdict: Inspiration for the Hottest New Netflix Series, The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller Series)
Review A superb legal thriller that manages three final twists ...The labyrinthine workings of LA law, bribery and the machinations of the FBI all...
View full detailsThe Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, Allan Karlsson is waiting for a party he doesn't want to begin. His one-hundredth birthday par...
View full detailsExciting Times
'The book of the summer ... Kept me rapt until the final page' THE TIMES 'A sharp, smart, witty modern love story. I loved it' David Nicholls, au...
View full detailsThe Wall: LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
* A Financial Times and Evening Standard Book of the Year * * LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 * 'Masterly . . . A signal achievement . . . R...
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