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From New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky, a delectable novel following one Manhattan block as an ancient cheesecake recipe-and a conniving landlord-change the Upper West Side forever.West 86th Street knows its desserts. It's the 1970s, and poppyseed strudel, praline ice cream cake, and...

Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boy's Own Story became an instant classic for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality. Lyrical and powerfully evocative, this is an American literary treasure.

Set in Cambodia during the regime of the-Khmer Rouge and in present day Montreal, tells the story of Janie, who as a child experiences the terrible violence carried out by the Khmer Rouge and loses everything she holds dear. Three decades later, Janie has relocated to Montreal, although the scars of...

a collection of short stories about the remarkable everyday things that happen when remarkable everyday people get together.It's not what you think, it rarely is, so flick the remains of your rubbish cigarette down the drain and don't pay to much attention to the rumours.

A new, modern look for Sebald's classic trilogy of books - Vertigo, and The Rings of Saturn - 20 years after the tragic death of one of our most pioneering and cherished writers'A book of excruciating sobriety and warmth and a magical concreteness of observation. I know of no book which conveys more...

A new, modern look for Sebald's classic trilogy of books - , The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn - 20 years after the tragic death of one of our most pioneering and cherished writers'Nothing like likely to be encountered in the course of one's regular reading. One emerges from it shaken, seduced...

In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger’s embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives.In this extraordinary novel J. M. Coetzee asks his reader...

a brilliant, yet brutal, portrait of a woman struggling to retrieve both life and love. For six months, Julia has lived alone in a drab Parisian hotel on an allowance from her ex-lover, Mr. Mackenzie. When his cheques stop, Julia decides to leave France and return to London. The tale of her ten day...

Set in a superficially romantic, between-wars Paris, QUARTET is a poignant tale of a lonely woman. Set against a background of winter-wet streets, Pernod in smoky cafes and cheap hotel rooms with mauve- flowered wallpaper, Marya tries to make something substantial of her life in order to withstand t...

'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna Morgan, eighteen years old and catapulted to England from the West Indies after the death of her beloved father. Working as a chorus girl, Anna drifts into the demi-monde of Edwardian London. But there, dismayed by th...

“Tender, riveting, and inventive is Clear, the newest offering and masterpiece from the brilliant Carys Davies. It will take your breath away…What a thrill." —Sarah Jessica ParkerOne of Vogue’s Best Books of the YearWinner of the 2024 Bookmark Festival Book of YearShortlisted for the 2024 Bo...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic.But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab's appalling crusade, it is equally...

The Wayfinder is an epic, sweeping novel set in the Polynesian islands of the South Pacific during the height of the Tu’i Tonga Empire. At its heart is Korero, a young girl chosen to save her people from the brink of starvation. Her quest takes her from her remote island home on a daring seafaring...

A love story that will last a lifetimeErica and Laure meet on the steps of the Sacré-Cœur in Paris, 1978. Erica is a student, relishing her first summer abroad before beginning university at home in England. Laure is studying for her PhD at the Sorbonne, drinking and smoking far too much, and slee...

The new book from the Booker Prize-winning Julian Barnes, about looking back, facing the future, and coming to the end of life.is a work of fiction - but that doesn't mean it's not true.It is the story of a man called Stephen and a woman called Jean, who fall in love when they are young and again wh...

A panoramic novel of European history, by an internationally bestselling writer. The whole truth, as the name implies, is the collective knowledge of all those involved. Which is why you can never piece it together again properly afterwards.Because a few of those who possessed a part of it are alway...

Perhaps even more chillingly relevant today than it was thirty years ago, this gripping and deeply personal interrogation of fascism to print at last in a remarkable full-color anniversary edition., William H. Gass’ colossal second novel, thundered onto the literary scene after three decades at th...

The stunning second novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts''Poignant, redemptive, electrifying.' - Catherine ChidgeyA novel about friendship and betrayal, ambition and grief, also a study of homecoming and heartbreak and an ode to taking risks no matter the...

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend.SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDSHORTLIS...

follows Ali Smith's 2024 novel Gliff and tells a story hidden in the first novel. Gliff is set in a near future rife with surveillance, where people can be labelled 'unverifiable' by the state. It follows siblings Briar and Rose as they attempt to survive in a world that strives to crush curiosity a...

A radical novel on androgyny and double selves, from the author of BookTok sensation I Who Have Never Known Men.FROM THE AUTHOR OF TIKTOK SENSATION I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MENThere's a voice in Aline's head- a voice that wants out.Brash, boisterous and sexually adventurous, this voice seems to be the...

A haunting novel exploring a mother’s fierce love for her disabled son as she grapples with her own mental health, by the author of the feminist cult classic The Princess of 72nd StreetAccording to Dr. Hovenclock, health meant wanting things. What would I have to pretend to want before he would le...

It's been years since the three Ryan sisters were all home together at their family's beloved house on Long Island. Two decades ago, their lives were upended by a tragic accident on their brother Topher's boat that drove him to suicide. Now, the Ryan women are back for Thanksgiving, but each carries...

BEHIND THE GLASS, EVERYTHING IS MORE BEAUTIFULOn the Santa Cruz waterfront, every house is as perfect as the people inside. Not so for Mitty and Bethel, the oddball pair in the dilapidated bungalow – they are the last vestiges of a town now housing the tech elite. But Mitty is about to cross the t...