General Fiction - New & Classic Novels

It is the essence of Roberto Calasso's particular genius to have evolved a unique way of reconstructing the imaginative heart of some of the world's greatest cultures. In The Marriage...

This wonderful novel, set in England and Russia at the time of the Great War, tells the story of Alice Fry - an independent woman in a world ruled by...

Londinium's burning...This does for the Roman governor, Suetonius Paulinus, what I, CLAUDIUS did for the stuttering Emperor whose armies invaded Britain in AD43: an obscure historic figure is suddenly centre-stage....

She'll do whatever it takes to find happinessWhen her mother dies, Sarah Mortonby is shocked to discover she has inherited a wealthy estate. She is advised to sell the crumbling...

The circus arrives without warning. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Against the grey sky the towering tents are striped black and white. A sign hanging upon...

The year is 1985 and Brian has just started his first term at university, armed with the obligatory CND membership and a complete set of Kate Bush albums. But he...

1880s Sudan. When Akuany and her brother are orphaned in a village raid, they are taken in by Yaseen, a young merchant whose vow to care for them will tether...

A funny, moving and insightful novel about dysfunctional families and our disaffected hero's attempts to cope with the possibility of paternity. Clyde Carmichael is an underachieving teacher at a posh...

This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all.It's about the legacy of war and the end...

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling Harlequin, this is the second instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series. In Harlequin, Thomas of Hookton travelled to France as an archer...

Wild Iris''Wild Iris is wonderfully inventive, by turns grim as a Belfast Sunday and raucous as a Dublin Saturday night. Ruth McKee writes with dash and daring, and the result...

For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most yonder dimensions of possibility....

American Agnes Samuel is the kind of woman whom people remember: beautiful, witty, cool. But does anyone in the sleepy Fenland village of Warboys remember another Agnes Samuel, a frightened...

It is 1914 and the beautiful Angel Lucas is the pride of the village. But when she becomes pregnant everybody thinks the father is the young priest she works for,...

Winner of the Orange Award for New Writers 2009Artist, lover, wife, mother: can one woman be them all?Born in 1924, Jennet Mallow grew up with a disillusioned mother and a...

'Someday, when I am rich, I am going to invite someone from my travels to visit me in America.'Brad Newsham was a twenty-two-year-old travelling through Afghanistan when he wrote this...

Matilda Quartey is fourteen years old when sophisticated black Gold Coast lawyer, Robert Bannerman, sets eyes on her and resolves to take her as his second wife. For Julie, his...

Welcome to Walls of Water, North Carolina, a place where secrets run thicker than the town's famous fog.Once upon a time, Willa Jackson's family owned the beautiful house on the...

Catriona McCabe, 28, only ever known as CAT, is trying to improve her career as a sports journalist and move on from a failed relationship. hat better way to do...

What if being Royal was a crime? The UK has come over all republican. The Royal Family exiled to an Exclusion Zone with the other villains and spongers. And to...

The path to happiness is rarely easy... A young woman struggles against family loyalty and class prejudices in The Tailor's Wife, an engrossing saga from Alexandra Connor. Perfect for fans...

This anthology, compiled by the novelist Molly Keane and her daughter, freelance journalist Sally Phipps, contains an array of the best in Irish literature: both the famous and the less...

I am Not Sidney Poitier is a hilarious and irresistible take on race, class and identity.The sudden death of Not Sidney Poitier's mother orphans him at age eleven. He is...