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'A horrific tale of the slave trade, destined to become a classic' New York Times* PEN Literary Award Finalist 2026* New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2025* Time's 100...

A fresh, funny and deeply affecting thriller novel, about a thirty-something woman who begins stalking a celebrity crush - and about what happens when it all becomes a bit too...

She's spent her life holding everything - and everyone - together. But she's done being perfect.Now it's time to be herself.Dol Westward has always been the dependable one - the...

A skin-crawling debut that peels back the veil from the institution of marriage and exposes the rot underneath. Bea has just got engaged. It should be the most exciting time...

TAIPEI STORY is the electrifying new novel by bestselling literary phenomenon Rebecca F. Kuang, a profoundly moving coming-of-age story that explores first love, second language and final goodbyes - all...

DELUXE EDITION WITH STUNNING SPRAYED EDGE The worldwide sensation as you've never seen it before. Step into a bold new Divergent series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica...

A lush, must-have collector’s edition of The Hunger Games.Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The HungerGames have begun. . . .In the ruins of a place once...

Dark academia meets Billionaires meets Vampires in a brand-new paranormalromance series from Sunday Times bestselling author Elena Armas, as anunsuspecting heiress with a target on her back enlists the protection...

The highly anticipated, explosive conclusion to the Ninth House trilogy from #1New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo.Hell is empty and all the devils are here...Alex Stern made it to...

The life of a poet becomes a parable of hope in Yi Mun-yol’s searching novella of art, status and selfhood. With their family condemned as traitors, two young brothers are...

This ebullient, gallivanting novella encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic''s best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence. An ageing man holds court, spinning a single, unbroken stream of...

One of Cinema''s great masters revisits his childhood - and the end of his parent''s marriage - in a novella of awakeningOver the course of one summer, eight-year-old Pu Bergman...

Welcome to Vermilion Sands, the fully automated desert-resort ready to fulfil your most exotic whims. Out over the towering Coral D, sky artists paint the sky with clouds. A musical...

Vivid and alive, this powerful novella about one woman''s belated rebellion against the powers that be is Anita Desai at her finest. Nanda Kaul retreats to a quiet house in...

A flood brings not only rising waters but the full force of a brutal, racist worldWith the Mississippi flooding, a Black farmer struggles to get his pregnant wife to safety....

Five of Franz Kafka’s most compelling short animal stories, where fable, dark humour and unease collideA community gathers to listen to the singing of a mouse. An ape addresses an...

At once a gripping thriller and a heartbreaking elegy, this is Toni Cade Bambara''s powerful final testament, a hymn to Atlanta''s missing children. Zala Spencer is barely surviving on the...

From one of the great Chinese authors of the twentieth century, these newly translated stories illuminate the most intimate matters of the human heartSince childhood, Ruliang has sketched the same...

Edith Wharton''s ghost stories whisper of passion, exile, and the things we cannot forgetIn an old Dorset house, a couple settle into a life of quiet comfort – until a...

Arthur Conan Doyle’s tense, unsettlingly supernatural tale of obsession and controlAfter Austin Gilroy’s fiancée is hypnotised, he finds himself drawn into the orbit of the woman responsible – Miss Penclosa....

An intimate, magical novel about one enduring church in a rural Icelandic valley - an ode to a quiet way of life now lost to time forever The resting place...

Two sisters must find their way in a world designed to confine them. Marcelle is the elder sister, a woman whose ambitions focus on becoming the companion of a ''man...

Ursula k. Le Guin''s beautifully realised space epic of two young friends finding their lives steer a new, and unexpected course As the spaceship Discovery makes its slow way towards...

Four of Kurt Vonnegut’s best dystopian stories, Monkey Business distils his darkly comic vision of the modern world and the cost of trying to engineer a better life. In a...

Masks is Enchi''s elegant, seductive story of sexual deception, revenge, and the haunting legacy of the past. Ibuki loves widow Yasuko, who is young, charming and sparkling with intelligence. His...

Ngugi Wa Thiong''o''s stories of rebellion and sacrifice, where ordinary lives burn with extraordinary courageIn these tales of rebellion and sacrifice, ordinary lives burn with extraordinary courage. From fighters taking...

This miniature array of perfect stories by the legendary Margaret Atwood flash before us the joys and despairs of mothers good and bad, evoking laughter, compassion and recognition in us...

Five stories of desire and discovery set in 1970s Japan, from weird fiction''s most influential pioneer - Angela CarterAn Englishwoman muses on her affair with a younger Japanese man. A...

When the woman you love may be dead, or worse - unknowable - obsession takes over. A young woman is found dead in her Manhattan apartment. In the aftermath, the...

Written in the last years of Saramago''s life, Cain is a controversial and witty story of a wilful, authoritarian God. After killing his brother, Cain is condemned to wander the...

From Japan''s most famous, classic novelist comes a remarkable gem of wit, irony, and feline observationA stray kitten, catapulted to literary fame loudly observes the world of Meiji Japan in...

Colette’s elegant, unsettling study of love turned hostile - and all because of a cat. A young marriage begins to sour, poisoned by rivalry and resentment. At its centre is...

Dylan Thomas’s vivid, affectionate portrait of youth - and the journey towards finding one’s own artistic voiceA boy grows up in a small Welsh town, moving through school, family life...

A stunning, timeless story about race, friendship, what keeps us apart and what drives us apart, from the one and only Toni Morrison, with an introduction by Zadie Smith. Twyla...

A psychedelic post-apocalyptic vision of a world on the brink of civil war... In iDEATH, the sun shines a different colour every day. It is a happy place, made of...

Georges Perec’s cool, exacting portrait of a couple torn apart by consumer desireA young couple build their lives around the objects they long to own. From furniture to clothes to...

Graham Greene’s iconic thriller – a shocking tale of espionage and deceit, told from amongst the smouldering ruins of war-torn Europe. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless in post-war...

Huxley''s dystopian classic is a nightmare vision of the fate of humanity in a post-nuclear world. After a devastating global catastrophe, a group of scientists arrives in a ruined future...

A fiendishly brutal but brilliant, charming English murder mystery, from Agatha Christie''s favourite writer - the criminally underrated, Margery Allingham. Private detective Albert Campion is summoned to the village of...

A dazzling, daring tale of poets at the end of the world, Distant Star is Roberto Bolano''s miniature dystopian masterpieceAlberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unpromising member of Chile’s young...

Luminous, suspenseful and serene, The Master of Go is a compelling portrait, quietly devastating of two men – and a whole society – facing defeat. Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely...

Hemingway’s enduring story of resilience and solitude: One of the most powerful tales of courage and endurance ever writtenAn ageing fisherman sets out alone into the Gulf Stream, determined to...

What begins as a miracle of science soon turns into a nightmare... After a plague wipes out all of Russia’s chickens, eyes fall on zoologist Periskov and his strange discovery...

The classic, moving tale of a man born old, destined to die young, and live at odds with his time To the confusion and embarrassment of his family, Benjamin Button...

Two of Dostoevsky''s most powerful novellas of obsession, cruelty, and the fragility of the heartA pawnbroker paces beside his young wife’s body, attempting to piece together the circumstances that led...

Herman Melville''s enduringly comic and affecting tale of a man who takes quiet quitting to its extremeA new clerk in a Wall Street lawyer’s office causes dismay and confusion when,...

In a single afternoon''s walk, Virginia Woolf captures the infinite life of a garden... A couple pause among the flowerbeds, their thoughts drifting apart. A woman’s mind fixes on a...