Biography & Memoir
Sea Lovers
Valerie Martin
Wondrous beings and everyday monsters walk the pages of Orange Prize winner Valerie Martin's kaleidoscopic collection of stories
The Passport
Herta Muller
A beautiful, haunting novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Fifteen Dogs
André Alexis
A pack of dogs are granted the power of human thought – but what will it do to them? A surprising and insightful look at the beauty and perils of cons…
The Dressmaker
Rosalie Ham
An unforgettable novel of love, hate and haute couture – now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth and Hugo Weaving, to be rele…
Boy on the Wire
Alastair Bruce
A beautifully written, stirring exploration of truth, memory and guilt
Death by Video Game
Simon Parkin
We play games to kill time. But what does it mean when games start killing us?
A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me
David Gates
The master of suburban tragicomedy returns triumphantly with a collection of wry, hilarious stories of individuals coming up against life's compl…
Jernigan
David Gates
Jernigan is the great lost American masterpiece of suburban despair, a modern Revolutionary Road or Stoner
The Twilight Hour
Elizabeth Wilson
Amid the seedy glamour and big freeze of London in 1947, a murder unravels a web of deceit
Saint Mazie
Jami Attenberg
An ingenious novel that imagines the life and times of Mazie Philips, a real-life saint from New York City, by the highly acclaimed author of The Midd…
A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines
Award-winning classic novel of prejudice, community and what it means to be a man in the American South. New edition with an introduction by Attica Lo…
Sister Noon
Karen Joy Fowler
By the bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Sister Noon is the story of Lizzie Hayes, whose dull life is about to be shaken u…
The Lights of Pointe-Noire
Alain Mabanckou
A moving meditation on home, home-coming and belonging from Francophone Africa's most important writer
The Evening Chorus
Helen Humphreys
A story of four lives torn apart by war, falling in and out of love, and the unlikely moments that come to define a life – now available in paperback
Pleasantville
Attica Locke
Politics is a matter of life and death in this thrilling third novel from Orange Prize shortlisted author of Black Water Rising
The Moth
Catherine Burns
Pull up an easy chair and settle into the most spell-binding collection of real stories you will ever read.
Leonora: A novel inspired by the life of Leonora Carrington
Elena Poniatowska
A novel inspired by the life of Leonora Carrington, a great Surrealist painter utterly possessed by her art, Leonora is The Girl with the Pearl Earrin…
The Seven Madmen
Roberto Arlt
An extraordinary portrait of 1920s Buenos Aires, with the existential angst of Sartre's Nausea, the spiritual drama of Dostoyevsky's The Bro…