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‘A summer book for life’ ALI SMITH‘Dazzles on every page’ KATIE KITAMURA‘I was utterly captivated’ KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVEFrom the award-winning author of Lost Children Archive, Valeria Luiselli, comes a wondrous new novel about family, time and starting over.All I had to do, or so I tho...

The first novel in English from a major talent of European literature, feted by Katie Kitamura and Claire Messud.The social contract is non-negotiable. The woman must be a mother. The woman must be desirable. The woman must be a caregiver. When Anna gives birth, she surrenders completely to motherho...

'One of Spain's most acclaimed writers'New York Times'Spain's finest contemporary novelist' GuardianA REDISCOVERED POST-WAR LOVE STORY FROM ONE OF SPAIN'S MOST ACCLAIMED AUTHORS.1950s Barcelona. A rebellious daughter of a wealthy family meets an ambitious rogue at a party.Teresa was born with every...

'Told with warmth and wit, Mason's prose shimmers in this immersive ode to stories, to the land, and its people' Lucy Steeds, author of The Artist'A charming, funny, exhilarating Vermont adventure' Clare Fuller, author of Swimming Lessons'Full of joy - and exactly the kind of reading experience we c...

Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existenc...

An Observer Pick for 2019One summer following the Second World War, Robert Appleyard sets out on foot from his Durham village. Sixteen and the son of a coal miner, he makes his way across the northern countryside until he reaches the former smuggling village of Robin Hood's Bay. There he meets Dulci...

Cricket is just a shy kid who likes drawing when he first meets Olympia. She's older, more confident; she bullies him into some light vandalism and instantly he's in love. When they're together, they talk about their futures, how they're going to travel the world, the beauty and rapture of art.Then...

An electrifying novel about the Nazi who reinvented himself, Albert Speer'Which is the most seductive, truth or fiction?'This is the story of Albert Speer- The protege. The 'good Nazi'. The star. The mythmaker.In 1969 Speer, Hitler's favourite architect and Minister of Armaments and War Production...

A gripping and powerful story of connection and displacement set in 2000s Palestine'A novel of huge power' ESTHER FREUD'A haunting, lyrical novel that seems almost to dissolve time. Everyone should read it' LOUISE KENNEDY'Compassionate and beautifully observed' GUY GUNARATNE'Cleverly conceived and b...

A hypnotic and haunting novel of motherhood, loss, and the invisible ties that bind us together, from Booker Prize-shortlisted Daisy JohnsonA hypnotic and haunting work of fiction about losing yourself and finding your family, the finest novel yet from Booker Prize-shortlisted Daisy Johnson'Elementa...

The blistering 1928 Bolsehvik satire, unpublishable in the Russia until 1988 - in a brand new translation'A love that cannot be throttled by the rubber tube of an enema bulb is immortal.'Bookish and idealistic Vladimir is tormented with love for Olga; he brings her flowers when other men bring her f...

‘McMurtry is one of our best, and one of his finest’ – Los Angeles TimesIn this acclaimed novel that inspired the Academy Award-winning film, Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry created two characters who won the hearts of readers and film-goers everywhere: Aurora Greenway and her daughter, E...

From the author of The End We Start From, a sweeping, gorgeous story that begins with a life-changing tragedy and a country on the eve of war.

This is Larry McMurtry's ballad in prose: his heartfelt tribute to a bygone era of the American West. In his final novel, he to the vivid and unsparing portrait of the nineteenth-century and cowboy lifestyle made so memorable in his classic Lonesome Dove.Long Grass, Texas. Once hailed as heroes for...

Shortlisted for the 1990 Booker Prize, a darkly comic novel of class, the long shadow of war and unrequited first love, now with a new introduction by Yiyun Li.Liverpool, 1950. Sixteen-year-old Stella is hired as assistant stage manager by a repertory theatre company and soon falls into a heady infa...

Shortlisted for the 1974 Booker Prize, a razor-sharp and mercilessly funny novel of friendship, class and desire, now with a new introduction by A. K. Blakemore.Freda and Brenda divide the bed they share with a barricade of books, then spend their days working side by side in a wine-bottling factory...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2026SHORTLISTED FOR THE CLIMATE FICTION PRIZEWINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZEA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, IRISH TIMES, BBC, WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, PUBLISHER'S...

In August 1905 a party of young men set sail for England. Amongst them were ordinary farmers and bootmakers, a miner and a bank clerk. Together they made up the All Blacks, an unknown rugby team from Auckland, New Zealand. And they had come to show the world what they could do. What they didn't know...

The spellbinding debut novel that launched the career of one of the greatest Italian writers of the twentieth centuryElisa - orphaned as a child, raised by a 'fallen woman', fed by fairy tales - has lived in an outlandish imaginary world for years. When her guardian dies, she feels compelled to conf...

What just happened? The classic book you will need to dissect - the story of a writer whose research into a forgotten female author breaks down into a deeply creepy and weird tale of female erasure and resurrection.Deeply unnerving and utterly original - the book you will need to talk about.A writer...

Here is the story of lives painfully intertwined.An unnamed narrator is haunted by nightmarish memories of her father and desperate for the attentions of her lover. Her only companion is the androgynous with whom she lives, an initially remote and dispassionate man who ultimately becomes an ominous...

Our Culture‘s Most Anticipated Books of the Summer 2026!A controversial arts collective is rolling out their most audacious project to date: a second moon, set to launch from the Mojave Desert and into the Earth’s atmosphere at the summer’s end. The problem? No one seems to understand how “M...

A comic thriller where, too many craft beers and one crappy punch later, a dutiful trip back home to family spirals into a baffling whirlwind of murder, pills and fraud.After many peaceful years abroad, JP has returned home to Mexico to visit family and help care for his elderly mother. Instead, how...

In a special seat in a fabled Tokyo cafe, you're offered something irresistible - not just a warm, comforting coffee, but the chance to go back in time to revisit the ones you love.