Classics of Literature

'You don't have to go back. You will stay here at home, with me. This is where you belong.'One afternoon, in a little farmhouse in rural Virginia, the ailing Marie...

A BBC RADIO 2 BOOKCLUB PICKSHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTRE FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE, THE GOTHAM BOOK PRIZE AND THE LAMBDA AWARD*'Absolutely incredible. Beautiful, powerful writing. These pages will stay...

Author: Lore Segal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Five close friends in their 90s meet - as they have for decades - for their monthly 'ladies lunch', to puzzle,...

Author: Frances Mensah Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 526 Sparks fly and cultures clash in Frances Mensah Williams' romantic ode to self-love and multiculturalism. Dismissed as a cultural lightweight...

Author: Benjamin Hale (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 Bruno Littlemore; linguist, artist, philosopher. A life defined by a soaring mind, yet bound by a restrictive body. Born in...

Author: Priya Guns Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Damani is tired. Every day she cares for her mum, drives ride shares to pay the bills and is angry at...

Author: Joy Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 In her first novel since The Quick and the Dead (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), the legendary writer takes us...

Author: Pola Oloixarac Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'Devil-may-care daring and biting humour . . . Think Rachel Cusk's autofiction on skunk and OxyContin and you're in the right...

Author: Aravind Jayan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'Truly infectious' -Guardian Appa and Amma have driven home a shiny new Honda Civic to show off to their neighbours in...

Author: Marta Barone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'What an extraordinary voice! I was captivated from the first page and I know Marta's unique voice will stay with me...

Author: Daniel Woodrell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal, behaviour in his wrenching first collection of short fiction....

Author: Jennifer Johnston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 On a rainy afternoon on Killiney Hill a young man walking, without his overcoat, happens upon a woman gazing out over...

Author: Miriam Toews Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'Sets standards for grandmotherly swearing and outspokenness I can never hope to match. Go Grandma Elvira!' - MARGARET ATWOOD You are...

Author: Xochitl Gonzalez Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Deeply satisfying and nuanced . . . a tender exploration of love in its many forms' Observer 'Gonzalez couples engrossing political...

Author: Hannah Tovey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Ivy Edwards is thirty-one years old, funny, shameless, and a bit of a romantic. She's also currently trying not to cry...

Author: Dennis Lehane Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING PICK 2023 'You'll be lucky if you read a more engaging novel this year' The Times...

Author: Sue Minix Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 "A super cozy mystery... The perfect pick up for a weekend read by the fire. It has everything... Hijinks, who-dun-its, loveable...

Author: Agatha Christie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 An all-new collection of summer-themed mysteries from the master of the genre, just in time for the holiday season. Summertime -...

Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 Psychoanalysis famously privileges the vertical relationship between a child (the patient) and their parents over the seemingly equal and unproblematic horizontal...

Author: Neil Munro Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 356 Set against the background of Montrose's devastation of the Argyll heartlands in 1644, the action is seen through the eyes of...

Author: David Miller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 August 1924. John Conrad arrives at his parents' home on the outskirts of Canterbury, where family and friends are assembling for...

Author: Benjamin Hale (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 Bruno Littlemore; linguist, artist, philosopher. A life defined by a soaring mind, yet bound by a restrictive body. Born in...

Author: Julie Johnstone Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Sally, who married young to escape her appalling childhood, is often left to bitterly reflect on the hand she has been...

Like the great Jesus Christ himself, I had a lot of shit on my mind when I hit 33 ... I had three new-born future Ireland internationals to feed, a...

Author: Rebecca Miller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 A pregnant mother of two finds herself increasingly in thrall to her help, Nat. For Joad, the discovery of a haunting...

Welcome to The Empire theatre1922. When Jack Treadwell arrives at The Empire, in the middle of a rehearsal, he is instantly mesmerised. But amid the glitz and glamour, he soon...

'Sarai Walker has done it again ... upends the Gothic ghost story with a fiery feminist zeal.' - Maria Semple, bestelling author of Where'd You Go Bernadette'A riveting, gothic page-turner'...

Author: Pola Oloixarac Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'Devil-may-care daring and biting humour . . . Think Rachel Cusk's autofiction on skunk and OxyContin and you're in the right...

Author: Aravind Jayan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'Truly infectious' -Guardian Appa and Amma have driven home a shiny new Honda Civic to show off to their neighbours in...

Author: Adrian Duncan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'When I was sent by the Soviet state to London to further my studies in calculus, knowing I would never become...

Author: Kate Collins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'In her beautifully written debut, Kate Collins gives the haunted house novel a refreshing renovation, while retaining a deliciously chilling atmosphere...

Author: James Clarke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 1969. Thomas Speake comes to London to look for his father but finds Sanderson instead, a larger-than-life TV presenter who hosts...

Author: Peter Ritchie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Book 2 in the Detective Grace Macallan Thriller series. Scarred by the Troubles in Belfast, Billy Nelson returns to his Loyalist...

Author: Toby Barlow Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Will is a young American ad executive in Paris. Except his agency is a front for the CIA. It's 1959 and...

Author: Mary Gaitskill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In this seductive and shattering novel, Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: one is a...

Author: Sabina Murray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 In prose that is darkly humorous and alive with detail, Valiant Gentlemen reimagines the lives and intimate friendships of humanitarian and...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of QUEENIE comes a propulsive story of heart, humour, homecoming. People Person is a triumph. Caleb Azumah NelsonWonderful. Marian KeyesI loved it. Sara CollinsIt's...

Author: Amanda Craig Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2021 A Times, Sunday Times, Observer, Daily Mail and Financial Times Best Book of 2020 Pick...

Author: Christopher Priest Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Hollywood actress Jeanette Marchand was beautiful, talented, beloved by audiences. During a time of personal crisis, she declares she is going...

Author: Nalini Singh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Where are the broken? A propulsive question that unleashes a world of secrets in New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh's...

Author: Nalini Singh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Silence has fallen. The Psy are free to feel emotion. Free to love. But Silence was never a prison for Ivan...

Author: Christobel Kent Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 One wrong step and you're in deep water. Sukie has had enough of not putting herself out there. She has had...

Author: Ashley Hickson-Lovence Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE AS HEARD ON R4s FRONT ROW 'The football novel is back.' - The Times Wonderful.'...

Author: Pajtim Statovci Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Devastating in the most beautiful ways.' - Torrey Peters'Superb . . . Statovci is a major talent.' - New York Times...

Author: Sarah Hall (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 You were the last one here, before I closed the door of Burntcoat. Before we all closed our doors. In...

Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize & the Orwell Prize for FictionA Sunday Times Fiction Book of the Year 'a serious accomplishment' Sunday Times'vivid and expansive' Sophie Mackintosh'a lyrical celebration' TLS'a...

Author: Dennis Lehane Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING PICK 2023 'You'll be lucky if you read a more engaging novel this year' The Times...

Author: Christopher Priest Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Hollywood actress Jeanette Marchand was beautiful, talented, beloved by audiences. During a time of personal crisis, she declares she is going...