Fiction
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 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
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…
Glass
Alex Christofi
Huckleberry Finn meets The Rosie Project, with added window cleaning – the Desmond Elliot Prize-listed comic debut of the year, now in paperback. Winn…
See You in Paradise
J Robert Lennon
Unsettlingly brilliant stories by a dazzling stylist with an aberrant sense of humour
The Sexual Life of Catherine M.
Catherine Millet
The sensational erotic memoir that shocked the world, now re-issued as a Serpent's Tail Classic.
Missing
Sam Hawken
A tough, terrifying thriller depicting one man's fight to rescue two young girls from the cartels in the lawless chaos of a Mexican border town.S…
Spoiled Brats (including the story that inspired the film An American Pickle starring Seth Rogen)
Simon Rich
Growing up is hard to do, and generation Y seem to be finding it harder than ever. Meet Simon Rich's latest creations in these very funny short s…
Small Crimes
Dave Zeltserman
Now a major film starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones' Jaime Lannister)
Travelling Sprinkler
Nicholson Baker
A brilliantly clever, comic novel about love in middle-age by an American master.
