Fiction

A Kafaesque marvel and a biting satire of bureaucracy, medicine and modern life In Tokyo, in the middle of the night, an uncalled-for ambulance arrives to spirit away a man's...

Kobo Abe's existential and entertaining masterpiece 'This is the record of a box man' The streets of Tokyo have been seeing a strange phenomenon recently - people who have decided...

A mesmerizing novel about the magical and gritty world of Bucharest in the 1980s by a celebrated Eastern European writer 'Gripping, impassioned, unexpected' Los Angeles Times A dreamlike novel of...

A tale of intense friendship and almost overwhelming grief amongst the frozen fjords of rural Norway In winter, the black ice cracks like a gunshot across the lake, growing thicker...

A major anthology of great Japanese short stories, now in Penguin Classics This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the...

The dawning of a young man's homosexual and sadistic desires A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. Each night he imagines his body punctured with arrows,...

Spanning two centuries, Nicole Alexander's compelling novel is a story of love and faith, destiny and betrayal, in a land as richly diverse as the secrets it keeps. In the...

In perhaps his boldest and most personal novel, Tom Keneally explores the journeys of modern Australians alongside the imagined story of ancient Learned Man whose remains were discovered in Western...

A masterly work of art, which rearranges language and plays in the gaps between reality and fiction In gua Viva Clarice Lispector aims to 'capture the present'. Her direct, confessional...

A tale of wasted love, and beauty, by Japan's literary master Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the...

In her magnificent novel, Marguerite Yourcenar recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world. The Emperor Hadrian, aware his demise is imminent, writes...

Reissued in electric new backlist style for October 2016, American Pastoral won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997 WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Philip Roth's masterpiece provides a piercing look into...

Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times. Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and...

The gripping new thriller from the number-one Sunday Times bestselling author of The Thirst. THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER He's the best cop they've got. When a drug bust turns...

A chillingly powerful dystopian vision from one of Europe's greatest writers No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. Discover a chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from...

The first title in the acclaimed Inspector Wallander series. One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. When he reaches...

Three young friends are shot dead on Midsummer's Eve. Then one of Kurt Wallander's colleagues is murdered. Is it the same killer? It is Midsummer's Eve. Three young friends meet...

In this gripping thriller, Kurt Wallander's furious pursuit of a killer who scalps his victims will throw him and those he loves most into mortal danger. Midsummer approaches, and Inspector...

When a pillar of the local community vanishes, Inspector Kurt Wallander has a feeling the victim will never be found alive, but he has no idea how far he will...

A wonderful, epic story that tells the history of the greatest city in the world, from Roman times to the present day. A grand, epic story that tells the history...

A haunting yet beautiful story that moves the reader from start to finish. INCLUDES A READING GUIDE Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she...

A European classic of comic literature This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence. Saints and sinners, emperors and...

An enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family where one before did not exist. He is...

Reality bends all the more acutely with lack of sleep in this stunning novel from the master of the surreal. *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN...

An eclectic, eccentiric and altogether brain-bending collection of short stories *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* An eclectic, eccentric and altogether brain-bending collection of...

'Captivating and compelling. A masterpiece' Independent on Sunday Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia...

'The last major event in the history of the novel' Italo Calvino In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to...

A mesmerising, surreal novel - Murakami's most celebrated and influential masterpiece *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife...

A wildly inventive fantasy and a meditation on the many uses of the mind from one of the world's greatest writers *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS...

Leave reality behind and enter Murakami's fictional universe where nothing is ever as it seems *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* A marvelous hybrid...

A dizzying collection that displays Murakami's genius for uncovering the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary within the ordinary *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS,...

'Casablanca remade Japanese-style'- a moving, thoughtful story of long-lost love and second chances *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* A moving, thoughtful story of...

A mystery story about love, the cosmos and other fictional universes *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* A mystery story about love, the cosmos...

'Williams has fashioned an always engaging, psychologically convincing work of fiction-a consistent and well-realized portrait' The New Yorker By the author of Stoner, the surprise international bestseller After the brutal...

'Breathtakingly inventive' David Mitchell A masterwork by the incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous Italo Calvino. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino....

A triptych of allegorical fables told in Calvino's ingenious genre-defying style. Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, at the age of...

'The best thing he has ever written' Observer Discover the modern classic that has sold over two million copies. 'A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn...

'The best fictional report of the Spanish Civil War that we possess' Anthony Burgess Hemingway's great novel of the Spanish Civil War 'The world is a fine place and worth...

The gloriously moving and extravagantly filthy cult classic from the internationally bestselling author of Submission Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a...

'A brilliantly inventive novel... Malouf puts on a dazzling literary display in this arresting, original, lyrical work' Wall Street Journal In the first century AD, Publius Ovidius Naso, the most...

If her terrified cries had been heard by anyone but a wallaby squatting in a clump of bracken a few feet away, the picnic at Hanging Rock might yet have...

As Text continues the re-release of J. M. Coetzee's major works, this second instalment of four titles - with introductions from top emerging and established writers - will win over...

As Text continues the re-release of J. M. Coetzee's revered works, this second instalment of four titles-with introductions from top emerging and established writers-will win over a new generation of...

'A daring and colourful novel. A superb observer of the human race' New York Times Book Review Hugo Baumgartner is a man who doesn't belong anywhere. He's a Berlin Jew...

A mesmerising new novel from the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The English Patient. **LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018** An elegiac novel set in post-WW2 London about memory,...

The dreamlike story of a single mother and her estranged 11-year-old daughter by Yuko Tsushima, the 'archaeologist of the female psyche' Child of Fortune is deceptively gentle and dreamlike, teetering...

'A remarkable performance... As gripping as The Collector and The Magus' Observer Widely acclaimed since publication, John Fowles' most beloved novel is the ultimate epic historical romance. Charles Smithson, a...

The ground-breaking first novel from Umberto Eco - a murder mystery, an enthralling chronicle of the Middle Ages, a piece of biblical analysis and a stunning popular and critical success...