General Fiction - New & Classic Novels

** Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2020 **Longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for FictionShortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political FictionShortlisted for the...

The Sunday Times bestseller: Girl is the new novel by the legendary Edna O'Brien, author of The Country Girls (dramatised on BBC Radio 4 in August 2019).Captured, abducted and married...

Shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2015Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2015Sunday Times Top Choice Summer ReadA SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYElf and Yoli are two...

Ella May Wiggins' husband has run off again, and she must keep her four young children alive with the only work she can find -- the night shift at a...

WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019SHORTLISTED FOR THE ENCORE AWARD 2020From the author of This Is Memorial Device.'A gasp-inducing thrill of a ride.' i Independent'An exhilarating novel, burning with...

WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019Sammy and his three friends live in the Ardoyne, an impoverished, predominantly Catholic area of North Belfast that has become the epicentre of a...

*PAPERBACK NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER*LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2019LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019Not far from London, there is a village.This village...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2019LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019Mothers is peopled by men and women who find themselves at crossroads or dead ends -...

Caroline's Bikini is the tale of a classic love affair; a swirling cocktail of obsession and imagination.The moment that Evan Gordonstone - a successful middle-aged financier - meets Caroline Beresford...

Longlisted for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary AwardShortlisted for the 2019 Walter Scott Historical Fiction PrizeIrene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south...

Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together with Willie, their lanky navigator, they embark upon the Redex Trial, a...

Longlisted for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary AwardIrene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together with Willie, their lanky navigator,...

'Blazing.' Daily Telegraph'Outstanding.' New Statesman'A triumph.' Guardian'Utterly compelling.' Irish Times'The best Booker winner in years.' MetroIn an unnamed city, where to be interesting is dangerous, an eighteen-year-old woman has attracted...

Well we're back again,They never kicked us out,twenty thousand years of SHOUT SHOUT SHOUTDown through the epochs and out across the continents, generation upon generation of the Justified Ancients of...

'What are you feeling so anxious about? I'm the guy who has to go out there and lose.''That's what I don't like. That's what you don't realise. It's harder on...

Iris, a museum conservator in her late forties, is separating from her husband while bringing up two daughters in a house that's falling down. Raif is a stalled academic, as...

In the first book of Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, the story of the mysterious and charismatic Justine is told by her lover, an impoverished Irish teacher who has sought refuge across...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITING ASSOCIATION GOLD CROWN AWARDBased on a remarkable and little-known true story.Martinique, 1765, and brothers Emile and Lucien are charged by their French master with a...

The stunning return from the Orange Prize shortlisted author of The Observations and Gillespie and I'Pitches you headfirst into this outstanding, heartbreaking story of siblings, slavery and the savagery of...

The stunning return from the Orange Prize shortlisted author of The Observations and Gillespie and I'Pitches you headfirst into this outstanding, heartbreaking story of siblings, slavery and the savagery of...

'Mesmerising, compulsive, deliciously dark - and so good on the complex and thorny bond between friends. Kate Hamer's writing is incandescent.' Lucy Foley, author of The Hunting PartyPhoebe stands on...

WINNER OF THE 2019 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTIONShortlisted for the Edward Stanford Award2019 Walter Scott Prize Academy Recommended1923, north-eastern Italy: Maria Vittoria's father has left the village to...

'Crackling with zeitgeisty energy... Sam Byers's dizzying second novel comes over like an episode of Black Mirror as scripted by a "woke" Martin Amis.'Welcome to Edmundsbury, a small town in...

When a brutally murdered man is found hanging in a theatre, Detective Sergeant Rex King becomes obsessed with the case. Who is this anonymous corpse, and why has he been...

The Book of Chocolate Saints follows the unforgettable character Francis Newton Xavier and his journey towards salvation - or damnation - or perhaps both. In the swooning, hypnotic prose for...

In this masterful novel by the acclaimed Indian writer Vivek Shanbhag, a close-knit family is delivered from near-destitution to sudden wealth after a miraculous change in fortune. As the narrator,...

In this masterful novel by the acclaimed Indian writer Vivek Shanbhag, a close-knit family is delivered from near-destitution to sudden wealth after the narrator's uncle founds a successful spice company....

The year is 1949. In the bombed-out ruins of Cologne, Hanno Dasch is king. Director of the most successful black market operation in post-war Germany, Dasch has kept his clients...

'Every time Laura Lippman comes out with a new book, I get chills because I know I am back in the hands of the master. She is simply a brilliant...

'Omar Robert Hamilton brings vividly to life the failed revolution of 2011 on the streets of Cairo, in all its youthful bravery and naive utopianism.' - JM Coetzee'The City Always...

Anna is in love. Or maybe she's not. She's free spirit: definitely happy. Or is it more panicked? In any case, she is living life to the full. Or maybe...

My name is Ruby. I live with Barbara and Mick. They're not my real parents, but they tell me what to do, and what to say. I'm supposed to say...

If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as if I had gone through all that anyway...

Ryuosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan's great writers. He lived through Japan's turbulent Taisho period, including the devastating 1923 earthquake, only to take his own life at the age of...

Released to coincide with the flagship BBC One four part series, this is the latest edition of Louise Doughty's massive bestselling novel.'There can't be a woman alive who hasn't once...

WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE BORD GAIS IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE AWARD 2017SHORTLISTED...

From the bestselling author of Whoops! and The Debt to Pleasure comes a post-financial crisis, state-of-the-nation novel told with compassion, humour and unflinching truth. Featuring a contemporary cast of characters...

West Virginia: A church congregation vanishes in mysterious circumstances, only to be found dead some miles away. The evidence on the ground appears to indicate a ritual killing and the...

The no. 1 bestseller from the author of Kolymsky Heights'As significant as . . . le Carre in bringing a gritty new realism to the thriller.' Sunday TelegraphAn ancient scroll...

The Joke, Milan Kundera's first novel, gained him a huge following in his own country, and launched his worldwide literary reputation.'Kundera is the saddest, funniest and most lovable of authors.'...

Winner of the Waverton Good Read Award 2017Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2017Shortlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2017Imagine if your whole life changed...

Lose yourself in the legendary Edna O'Brien's simmering tale of a woman rediscovering herself on the French Riviera ...'The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose - there's no one like Edna O'Brien...

At the bitter end of the 1960s, upon his return home from combat in the Vietnam War, twenty-two-year old Eugene Allen writes a novel called HYSTOPIA. It is set in...

It's 1987. Billy Marvin, the tallest boy in ninth grade, has just witnessed history.Wheel of Fortune presenter Vanna White is on the cover of Playboy.Billy and his friends, Alf and...

When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud - a fellow architect - is caught in the crossfire and...

"Many years have now gone by, and jealousy compels me to keep her name a secret, even from my readers. But I must provide a full and truthful account of...

From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them. On the...