Ficción

By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Home and Gilead, a modern American masterpiece by an author whose work 'defines universal truths about what it means to be human' (Barack Obama)'A classic.' Guardian'A...

In Friend of My Youth, a novelist named Amit Chaudhuri visits his childhood home of Bombay. The city, reeling from the impact of the 2008 terrorist attacks, weighs heavily on Amit's mind, as does the...

Called to the peaceful wooded churchyard of St-John's-at-Hampstead, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose faces one of the most audacious and unusual murders of his career. The case leads Archie to...

Andrew Crumey's novels are renowned for their unique blend of science, history, philosophy and humour. Now he brings the same insight and originality to this story cycle whose title offers an ironic twist...

6 atmospheric 19th c stories about depraved femmes de fatales

<p><strong>'Something terrible is happening here. Something terrible has already happened.'</strong></p><p><em>Snegurochka</em> opens in Kiev in 1992, one year...

One novella and 6 stories dealing with identity and solitude

WATERSTONES THRILLER OF THE MONTH AUTHOR: 'Britain's Patricia Highsmith' (Sunday Times) Discover the original psychological thriller as a sleep-deprived young mother struggles to stay sane.'A lost...

"Engaging and entertaining, it's the perfect read to provide a bit of escapism." – Rhianon Holley; Buzz Magazine. Fargo Hawkins is 20, he's Harry Swaine's gardener. One day, after he sees a fight between...

Belfast, 1976. The city is rife with rackets. Paramilitary gangs, the British Army, Police and Intelligence struggle for control. A young man vanishes and his severed arm is discovered in a refuse dump....

An enormously satisfying, exciting and enriching book, Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the lives of detective Sartaj Singh and Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. Sartaj,...

At the centre of Be as Children is an ailing Vladimir Lenin, infected not with syphilis, as some historians have claimed, but with Christian fervour. Regressing stroke by stroke to an infancy of his own,...

Jamal Khan, a psychoanalyst in his fifties living in London, is haunted by memories of his teens: his first love, Ajita; the exhilaration of sex, drugs and politics; and a brutal act of violence which...

'Echo's Bones' was intended by Samuel Beckett to form the 'recessional' or end-piece of his early collection of interrelated stories, More Pricks Than Kicks, published in 1934. The story was written at...

A young man driving across Ireland with his wife asks her how long she would wait before being with another man if he died. A man is trapped, hidden, in a small changing room by the sea on Galway Bay,...

Stella Benson sets off for Hilltop, a tiny Sussex village housing a family that is somewhat larger than life. Her hopes for the Maddens may be high, but her station among them, as au pair to their irascible...

#14 in the New York Times '100 Best Books of the 21st Century' The first in Rachel Cusk's landmark trilogy, shortlisted for the Folio Prize and the Goldsmith Prize and longlisted for the IMPAC Prize.'A...

Tells the story of a priest's lifelong struggle with his passions, part of an autobiographical trilogy with Le Calvaire and Sebastien Roch.

Apriest struggles to bring salvation to his taciturn flock in late 19th c Spain.

Heaven, reported St John in Revelation, was a cubical city 12,000 furlongs high made of 'pure gold, like unto clear glass'. That was 1,900 years ago, and Heaven today has changed out of all recognition....

OLD GOD'S TIME (MARCH 2023), SEBASTIAN BARRY'S STUNNING NEW NOVEL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW A stunning return from the prize-winning and best-selling author ofThe Secret Scripture Jack McNulty...

May, 1937. Josephine Tey is in London to oversee a BBC radio production of her play, Queen of Scots. Meanwhile, the country is preparing to crown a new king. At the height of the Coronation celebrations,...

Cousin Bazilio - A tale of sexual folly and hypocrisy set in 19th c Lisbon

Theodore, described as the heretical memoirs of a gay priest, was seventh in The Guardian's Top Ten Paperback Originals.

New Renaissance knowledge leads to the exploration of America

An 18-th c Prince creates an ideal city on paper which comes to life

From provincial obscurity to one of the most famous writers of his day.

Study of obsession and aesthetics in fin-de-siecle France.

You were brought up on mythology. Hollow mythology. That's why you're all stuck, all angry, a prince in the wrong story. A prince with a black eye. Fleeing a world he has rejected, Robin finds solace...

Winner of the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year'a beguiling mixture of poetry, moving prose and magical realism' - Stephen McGinty, The Sunday TimesJeda is a girl on the cusp of adulthood, living...