Fiction

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.Sh…

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 st…

Pedro Paramo
Juan Rulfo
A legendary classic of magic realism and the most important Mexican novel ever written – with a new foreword by Gabriel García Márquez

Small Crimes
Dave Zeltserman
Now a major film starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones' Jaime Lannister)

After Me Comes the Flood
Sarah Perry
'A beautiful, dream-like narrative. Rarely do debut novels come as assured and impressive as this one.

Travelling Sprinkler
Nicholson Baker
A brilliantly clever, comic novel about love in middle-age by an American master.

Compartment No 6
Rosa Liksom
From the winner of the Finlandia Prize – two unlikely souls meet and spark on a journey across the Russian night.

The Death of the Poet
N Quentin Woolf
When you swear to love, to be faithful, or to do your duty, how does that promise bind you?

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014By the author of worldwide bestseller The Jane Austen Book Club: you can't choose your family, but they…

No Regrets, Coyote
John Dufresne
The biting satire and black humour of Carl Hiaasen meets the emotional depth of The Wire and the mayhem of a Coen Brothers movie. Now available in pap…

Eat My Heart Out
Zoe Pilger
Zoe Pilger's Eat My Heart Out made me think that Pilger might be the heiress to Angela Carter.

No Man's Land
Pete Ayrton
International First World War fiction, from the trenches to the Home Front.

Her Privates We
Frederic Manning
A new edition of a classic First World War novel, a brilliant and bitter picture of human conflict.

Familiar
J Robert Lennon
A woman's life becomes a mystifying puzzle in this electrifying literary thriller, now available in paperback.

The Body Hunter
Najat El Hachmi
Provocative, original, and deeply moving, The Body Hunter is a novel about learning how to understand and master our deepest desires.

Mood Indigo
Boris Vian
A forgotten classic of life, love and lost innocence, now a major movie directed by Michel Gondry.

Apocalypse Baby
Virginie Despentes
A fearlessly feminist roadtrip novel, packed with atmosphere and romance.