General Fiction - New & Classic Novels

Winner of the Betty Trask Award, Never Mind is the first in Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as...

'A beautifully written meditation on life and loss' Harpers & QueenWinner of the Age Fiction Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award Gilgamesh is the epic story...

To the Hermitage tells two stories. The first is of the narrator, a novelist, on a trip to Stockholm and Russia for an academic seminar called the Diderot Project. The...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE 2021'Terrifyingly entertaining.' Kelly Link'Masterful.' Washington Post''Alice in Wonderland set in the gig economy.' New York Times'What is this?' Los Angeles TimesShortlisted for the...

'The audacity of this magical author duo to sneak in and steal Christmas in the sexiest way possible . . . the charming holiday romp you absolutely need in your...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA AWARD FOR FIRST NOVEL 2010A controversial No.1 bestseller in India, The Temple-goers introduces us to a sensational new story-telling talent - and a shocking new side...

One day in 1968, at the height of the Biafran civil war, Ijeoma's father is killed and her world is transformed forever. Separated from her grief-stricken mother, she meets another...

"This unflinching novel chronicles a woman's relationship with a violent man in a way that brings fresh insight to the subject . . . engaging and uplifting." -O, The Oprah...

'Heart-wrenching . . . a story that needs to be remembered' FERN BRITTON 'Enthrallingly told . . . it's extraordinary how despite everything hope for the future shines out' RACHEL...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A.S. BYATTWhen eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers' residence in Paris, little does she know what fascinating secrets the house itself contains. Henrietta finds that her...

'Oates's imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carroll's' Rose Tremain Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America's most acclaimed...

'Can we please all stand and have a moment of silence for those students who died. And can we now have a moment of silence for those who killed them.'Nick...

Shahid is a clean-cut student, trying to make an impression on his college lecturer, Deedee Osgood, who gives his spirits a lift when she takes him to a naked rave...

Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry the troubled and bitter Rasheed, who is thirty years her senior. Nearly two decades later, in a climate...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB FIRST NOVEL AWARD'Divine . . . the smart, sexy read you need' Evening Standard'Startlingly impressive' Daily Mail'An electric new novel' GuardianExiled from his university position...

A Templar in disguise. A dangerous scientist. And a killer who turns hearts to iron . . .In 14th-century Italy, Mondino is a university anatomist - a man of science...

New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan island, 1746. One rainy evening in November, a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat pitches up at a counting-house...

The fabulous debut novel by George Lester, also known as That Girl, named PinkNews' Drag Artist of the Year 2023!'A funny, sparkly, and joyful celebration of drag! Boy Queen celebrates...

72-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident. Plagued by insomnia, he tries to push back thoughts about the things he would prefer to forget - his wife's recent...

On a white-hot day in Tripoli, Libya, in the summer of 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman is shopping in the market square with his mother. His father is away on business -...

Where Have You Been? is award-winning novelist Joseph O'Connor's first collection of short stories in more than twenty years. Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York's Lower...

An emotional, heartwarming story from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand about a grieving family that finds solace where they least expect it.Celebrity chef Deacon Rowe is struggling with...

Told in Sebastian Barry's characteristically beautiful prose, A Long Long Way evokes the camaraderie and humour of Willie and his regiment, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, but also the cruelty and...

Every Sunday, Caro finds herself back in the place where it all began, lured by memory, a certain guilt and all the accumulating losses to which she cannot be reconciled....

The key to contentment in the Scottish climate is the right attitude to rain - just as in life the key to happiness lies in making the best of what...

'And just like that my boy was gone.' Maisie Brennan is standing on a podium on the twentieth anniversary of the death of her son, trying to find the first...

'The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float. Nigeria was like that for me: mostly...

Wait now, light me up so we do this right, yes, hold me steady to the lamp, hold it, hold, good, a slow pull to start with, to draw the...

Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize For Fiction. From the author of the acclaimed YEAR OF WONDERS, an historical novel and love story set during a time of catastrophe, on...

From Ancient Greece, via contemporary Britain, into the future, from childhood to old age and beyond, the stories in No More Angels capture the idiosyncrasies of modern life. A train...

A gripping page-turner set in occupied France from international multi-million copy seller Joanne Harris. With the sensuous writing we come to expect from her, this book has a darker core....

The impressively versatile Joanne Harris in her psychological thriller mode, at her darkest and most unsettling. Perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves, Susan Hill, Nicci French and Val McDermid.'A magnificently...

The Lollipop Shoes picks up the story of Vianne and her daughters and takes us on a magical and spellbinding journey to Paris. Exquisitely written with the fluid and beautiful...