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A taut, provocative debut novel about creativity and sex, coercion and control, with shades of Rachel Cusk and Katie Kitamura.When two people fall apart, who gets to tell their story?Christine is a young writer touring her debut novel - a thinly disguised tale of the affair she had with her professo...

Leaving their Munich apartment isn't as difficult as Frau Greta Hahn expected. Their new home in Buchenwald is even lovelier, with Europe's finest craftsmen right on their doorstep. Just beyond the surrounding forest lies a work camp where Frau Hahn's husband, SS Sturmbannführer Dietrich Hahn, tak...

I am the wish child, the future cast in water.Germany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Sieglinde lives in middle-class Berlin, where her father censors books, cutting out forbidden words like ‘love’ and ‘mercy’. Erich tends beehi...

In a sinisterly skewed version of England in 1979, thirteen-year-old triplets Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last remaining residents of a New Forest home, part of the government’s Sycamore Scheme. Each day the boys must take medicine to protect themselves from a mysterious illness to which...

A dream elegy for the political death of Hong Kong, from the author of Owlish.The city you grew up in is gone, as if sunk to the bottom of the ocean. Though so much has vanished with it - classmates, teachers, counterfeit watches, the erotic toe cleavage that used to lead the way down secret passage...

In a Norwegian November, when it is dark at waking and dark at sleeping, a novelist in her sixties sits next to a teenaged girl at the opera, and through their padded jackets feels a dreadfully familiar tension conducted from the parents seated on her far side.She thinks back to her sixteenth year...

''A jewel of a novel about a perfect family falling apart''DAVID NICHOLLS''The Children''s Bach is Garner''s masterpiece''PUBLIC BOOKS''A perfect novel. I was so stunned that I wanted to run around the block''RUMAAN ALAMAthena and Dexter Fox are happy. They love each other. They are friends.They liv...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A TIME MUST-READ OF 2025 DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK BONUS CHAPTERA family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon.Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of She...

Remember – words are your weapons, they’re your tools, your currency.On a Yorkshire farm, a man is brutally bludgeoned with a solid gold bar.A plucky young journalist sets out to uncover the truth surrounding the attack, connecting the dots between an amoral banker landlord, an iconoclastic colu...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTTHE NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2025THE NEW YORK TIMES "The Best Historical Fiction Novels to Read Right Now"PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 2025 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARAn extraordinary love story and a captivating novel about the power of memory and imagination.Flanders 1922. A...

In Argus, North Dakota, a fraught wedding is taking place.Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe. Gary thinks Kismet is the answer to all of his problems; Kismet can't even imagine her future, let alone the kind of future Gary might offer. During...

A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage-a novel about mothers and daughters, about friendship and sisterhood.the kind of all-encompassing reading experience I'm always hoping to find- smart and funny.ANN PATCHETTA magnificent new novel from the best...

Calcutta, September 1969Varsha Gupta wants fish for her lunch. Her family can't understand it; the three-year-old has never tasted fish in her life. The Guptas are strict vegetarians and don't allow it inside their Calcutta mansion. But Varsha claims she can remember another life, a mud house by a r...

‘A superb satirical novelist’ WASHINGTON POSTIn a provocative novel addressing contemporary immigration by the sharply observant Lionel Shriver, a New York family takes in a Honduran migrant – who may or may not be the innocent paragon she claims to be.‘An incendiary provocateur’ EVENING S...

The International Booker-shortlisted masterpiece continues - a story about a woman lost in time.Tara Selter is one of many.In a sprawling villa on the outskirts of Bremen, Tara Selter is starting to settle into a new kind of eighteenth of November. Her days with Henry, Ralf and Olga revolve around t...

'A thoroughly gripping and mesmerising work of black comedy and political disaster' - GuardianWinner of the 2017 Prix GoncourtÉric Vuillard’s gripping novel tells the story of the pivotal meetings which took place between the European powers in the run-up to World War Two. What emerges is a fasci...

describes Toni Morrison’s work of literary archaeology. She offers insights into how she arrives at a text through the act of imagination bound up with memory and shows how she explores two worlds – the actual and the possible – via the nimbus of emotion surrounding the journey of an image: fr...

A woman replays her abandonment by her mother, who is sometimes addressed as a male mother-god. She is also abandoned by her lover, to whom she is in thrall. She tries repeatedly to make or receive phone calls with the beloved figures, without success. She waits for their letters and imagines their...

It is 1837 and a brilliant German artist sets out to cross the mountains between Chile and Argentina. Perhaps nobody before him has been able to paint the sights that unfold: vast chasms, surreal plants and animals… But then something goes appallingly wrong.This is one of Aira’s great works, fil...

Sir Tony Robinson - actor, presenter, historical expert and star of Blackadder and Time Team - makes his adult fiction debut with this earthy, entertaining and gloriously witty recreation of the Anglo-Saxons, Alfred the Great, and the making of England.RomeFather Asser is waiting to die.His idealism...

In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot in a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh's most exciting leap yetLittle Marek, the abused a...

Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father's record collection. But when his family moved away, the two lost touch...

Raised from babydom into doubt, I’m as feminine as Rousseau. I, Hazel Brown, eldest daughter of a disappearing class, penniless neophyte stunned by the glamour of literature, tradeless, clueless, yet with considerable moral stamina and luck, left my family at seventeen to seek a way to live. It wa...

In a dazzlingly original work of non-fiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in - or spent time - in the greatest of A...