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Wolfgang Koeppen’s postwar masterpiece in a luminous new translation by the poet Michael Hofmanntold over a single day in Munich in 1948. The first new cinemas and insurance offices are opening atop the ruins, Korea and Persia are keeping the world in panic, planes rumble in the sky (but no one lo...

“Very few writers can make the apocalypse hilarious and sentimental." ―Stuart Kelly, ScotsmanA fast-moving, heartbreaking collection of short fiction from "the American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselves" (Chicago Tribune).The word atavism, coined by a botanist and p...

In , Dorothy Parker distills a lifetime of wit, despair, and defiance into a single, unsteady cocktail-hour monologue. A woman, armed with charm and self-deprecation, insists she’s “not really drinking", as her voice wavers between irony and heartbreak. Beneath the sparkling surface of repartee...

Kathryn Stockett's first novel since the global bestselling phenomenon THE HELP- the sweeping story of a group of underestimated women and an 11-year-old orphan girl whose fates converge in Mississippi in 1933Oxford, Mississippi, 1933.Eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on n...

PROVENCE, 1920Ettie moves through the remote farmhouse, silently creating the conditions that make her uncle's artistic genius possible.Joseph, an aspiring journalist, has been invited to the house. He believes he'll make his name by interviewing the reclusive painter, the great Edouard Tartuffe.But...

A stylistically bold and innovative, cinematic horror novel about greed and paranoia, set amongst the grit and mud of the trenches in WW1. Perfect for fans of Stephen Graham Jones and Alma Katsu.From the New York Times bestselling author of Whalefall, and the co-author of The Shape of Water alongsid...

Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to make Plath an enduring feminist icon. It was published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author's suicide.'It is a fine novel, as bitter...

A beautifully written and dreamlike new novel about metamorphosis, desire and magic lanterns from award-winning writer Chloe Aridjis'One of our boldest writers' Deborah LevyA magnificent work of shadow-play and a meditation on desire, metamorphosis and mortality.Flora is visiting home in Mexico when...

The winner of the German Book Prize 2024- a woman finds solace in her interactions with internet scammers in this electric and moving novel about communication and isolation, needs and desires, and how far we are prepared to go for loveJuno Isabella Flock is a dancer and performance artist who spend...

In Paris, two couples form an intimacy that will change their lives forever. As they discover the clubs and cafes of the eleventh arrondissement, the four become inseparable, united by deeply held convictions about dating strategies, tunnelling in P.O.W. films and, crucially, the role of the Styrofo...

Despite their differences, sisters Viann and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann is content with life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. But when the Second World War strikes, Antoine is sent off to fight and Viann...

August 1794.A coach travelling north up the A1 is carrying newlywed Lydia Wickham (née Bennett) to join her husband’s regiment in Newcastle. What does her new life hold in store and what adventures and problems await? Will the social life be as lively as she hoped and who will she meet?A sequel t...

'An original voice' Colm Tóibín'Duncan brings a new way of seeing' Irish TimesDuring winter season in a secluded Alpine city, John Molloy, an Irish restorative sculptor, meets Bernadette, an enigmatic Italian sociologist. As John falls in love, a distressing moment from his youth rises into view...

‘Riveting’ Margaret Atwood‘I loved this book intensely’ Lauren Groff GuardianThe startling, witty, highly anticipated second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Atmospheric Disturbances.The plague is spreading.The Thirty Years’ War is beginning.Katharina Kepler is believed to be...

In this story told backwards, the life of Nazi war criminal, Doctor Tod T. Friendly is told from end to beginning. The doctor dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home.Escaping from the body of the...

'BEST READ OF THE YEAR SO FAR' THE TIMES'BOOKS AS FUN AS THIS ONE ARE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN' GUARDIANPhoebe Stone arrives at a grand beachside hotel in Rhode Island wearing her best dress and least comfortable shoes. Immediately she is mistaken for one of the wedding people - but she's actually the on...

Immersive, open-hearted speculative fiction debut that connects an irresistible cast of characters across six hundred years - for fans of Gabrielle Zevin, Kaliane Bradley, Emily St John Mandel, David Mitchell'A work of joyous and serious invention' KALIANE BRADLEY'Gripping. hauntingly beautiful' MAD...

Summer, 1993, and Alex Lane finds himself at the end of the University summer term, broke and without any concrete plans. So, when he's offered the chance to join a group of students tasked clearing out , a large Victorian residence, he jumps at it. "" daringly blends literary fiction with elements...

A lost river, a lost aunt, a found literary life: from the cult-favourite poet and author of The Baudelaire Fractal comes a glittering and erudite new novel of Paris.Some ruins are invisible.Under the pavements of Paris there lies buried an ancient river, the Bièvre. For years, Lucy Frost has walke...

Timely and timeless - a literary quest novel about trying to stay hopeful in hopeless times."One of the most brilliant British writers working today." - SpectatorWho decides the rules of the games we play?In August 2007, or thereabouts, a young philosopher leaves Oslo, heading for Greece, on a missi...

From the doomed coalfields of north-east England to sun-bleached southern Spain, two brothers confront each other and themselves to overcome their family legacyTwo brothers confront each other and themselves to overcome their family legacy, from the doomed coalfields of north-east England to sun-ble...

Four novellas on different themes: a literary friendship between two women poets; a Tasmanian highwayman and the DNA of righting wrongs; a fleeing French countess and a floundering marriage between an actor and a lover of hydrangeas; mysterious goings on at National Park.These four short fictions ar...

Charles Dickens's masterful assault on the injustices of the British legal systemAs the interminable case of 'Jarndyce and Jarndyce' grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by le...

Hailed as a best book of the year by practically everyone — from NPR to Time to the New York Times Book Review — this must-read is “dazzling" (The Guardian), “enthralling" (The Economist), and “truly triumphant" (Booklist)!In a lush New England forest stands one secluded house — where di...