23 May
Henrik Ibsen died in 1906. Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the god father" of modern drama and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre. Read more Ibsen plays
Read the opening extract of the brand new Liz Fenwick book before its publication on 23/05/2013
The Humans Matt Haig
May 2013 Book of the Month.
A funny and touching exploration into what it is to be human. After solving the world’s greatest mathematical riddle Professor Andrew Martin is found naked walking on... Format: Hardback - Released: 09/05/2013
Flight Behaviour Barbara Kingsolver
May 2013 Book of the Month.
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010 and on the shortlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013.
A topical, engrossing and thought-provoking read exploring how... Format: Paperback - Released: 18/04/2013
The Dinner Herman Koch
May 2013 Book of the Month.
This is one of those books like The Slap and We Need to Talk About Kevin where no one is likeable and the outcome difficult... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2013
Fallen Land Patrick Flanery
May 2013 Book of the Month.
A complex and thought-provoking psychological thriller that, through the metaphor of the characters' experiences, explores the utter failure of the American dream. A Boston family, looking for... Format: Hardback - Released: 01/05/2013
Elijah's Mermaid Essie Fox
May 2013 Book of the Month.
A panoply of characters bring Victorian London’s polarised society vividly to life. The lives of two orphans brought up by their grandfather and a baby found in... Format: Paperback - Released: 09/05/2013
Tigers in Red Weather Liza Klaussmann
May 2013 Book of the Month.
Eight publishers were fighting over this debut novel from London-based New Yorker Klaussmann and all you need to do is read the Opening Extract to see why.... Format: Paperback - Released: 09/05/2013
The Twelve Justin Cronin
May 2013 Book of the Month and eBook of the Month.
The Passage was a huge and sweeping thriller telling the story of the end of civilisation and what happened to the... Format: Paperback - Released: 25/04/2013
The Round House Louise Erdrich
May 2013 Book of the Month.
Hailed in the US as a Native American To Kill A Mockingbird and winner of the 2012 US National Book Award, this is a masterclass in... Format: Hardback - Released: 08/05/2013
The Cleaner of Chartres Salley Vickers
A captivating, magical and slightly sinister story of secrets, forgiveness, loss and love. It’s the perfect book for readers who loved Joanne Harris' Chocolat. No one knows where the mysterious cleaner came from, and she is happy to hide... Format: Paperback - Released: 23/05/2013
Other Featured Books this Month
The Silver Thread Kylie Fitzpatrick
A beautiful, vividly written, historical murder mystery based around the lives of a group of the 30,000 convict women shipped to Australia in the 1840s. The inspiration for this story came from a 3m sq quilt, called The... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2013
The Age of Miracles Karen Thompson Walker
May 2013 Debut of the Month.
This stunning debut has a fascinating premise that 'the earth is slowing down' and it provides a unique framework... Format: Paperback - Released: 09/05/2013
The Burial Courtney Collins
May 2013 Debut of the Month.
A breathtakingly brilliant debut novel in the tradition of Cormac McCarthy, inspired by the life of legendary female... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2013
Golden Boy Abigail Tarttelin
May 2013 Debut of the Month.
This controversial book dealing with issues of identity, gender and sexuality and freedom of the press is set to... Format: Hardback - Released: 09/05/2013
Appetite Philip Kazan
May 2013 Debut of the Month.
14th Century Florence is vibrantly and sensually brought to life in this captivating story of a chef with an... Format: Hardback - Released: 09/05/2013
Sketcher Roland Watson Grant
May 2013 Debut of the Month.
This atmospheric, uplifting and deeply moving debut, set in the 1980s in an impoverished area of Louisiana, is a... Format: Paperback - Released: 23/05/2013
Big Brother Lionel Shriver
May 2013 eBook of the Month.
Once again Shriver takes on a contentious topic head-on. In the case of Big Brother it is the effects on a family of a morbidly obese ‘big... Format: Hardback - Released: 09/05/2013
Going Back Rachael English
A warm and appealing debut about family, friendships and love, of difficult decisions and lifelong consequences from one of Ireland’s best known radio presenters. Going Back follows Elizabeth Kelly and her friends, young economic migrants from Dublin, as they escape... Format: Paperback - Released: 23/05/2013
Ambition Julie Burchill
Oh the excitement in the office when we heard that Ambition was being reissued 24 years on from its original publication. This rude, raunchy, sleazy, addictively readable, guilty pleasure still has... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2013
Miss Garnet's Angel Salley Vickers
Salley Vicker's sensational debut novel, 'Miss Garnet's Angel' is a voyage of discovery; a novel about Venice but also the rich story of the explosive possibilities of change in all of us at any time.
Her new book, The... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/01/2001
The Lacuna Barbara Kingsolver
Winner of the prestigious 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction.
The Poisonwood Bible was a very special book, this one, her first in ten years, is a very worthy book. You need stamina and time to tackle it and you do... Format: Paperback - Released: 11/04/2013
A Thousand Pardons Jonathan Dee
Described by Pulitzer Prize Winning author Jennifer Egan (A Visit from the Goon Squad) as ‘a rare thing a genuine literary thriller - suspenseful and packed with dramatic events’ - and we can only agree that this page-turner is... Format: Hardback - Released: 23/05/2013
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
One of Susan Fletcher's favourite books.
A fascinating story told from the perspective of a mother and her four daughters who have been taken to the Congo, by the father of the family, on a mission to bring God to... Format: Paperback - Released: 11/04/2013
The Universe Versus Alex Woods Gavin Extence
We meet a 17-year old Alex as he is stopped by customs at Dover with a glove compartment full of marijuana and Mr Peterson's urn of ashes on the passenger seat beside him. I'm hooked. [We then go back to... Format: Paperback - Released: 09/05/2013
The River of No Return Bee Ridgway
What an original and engaging debut. Who would have thought you could have put romance, science fiction, magic historical fiction and time travel into such an unforgettable story. If you loved The Time Traveler's Wife or The Night... Format: Hardback - Released: 23/05/2013
The Deception Artist Fayette Fox
In this sharp and funny literary debut set in Northern California during the 1980s recession, Fayette Fox delves deep into the dark heart of an ordinary American family - and finds out that make-believe isn't just for kids.
A Piece of... Format: Paperback - Released: 16/05/2013
The Memory of Lost Senses Judith Kinghorn
A lyrically written and wonderfully evocative, romantic historical novel that draws you into the intriguing and secret lives of the characters in the hot lazy summer of 1911. A Countess, her grandson, a famous author writing her memoir and a... Format: Paperback - Released: 23/05/2013
The Colour of Milk Nell Leyshon
Written by 15-year old Mary in her dungeon awaiting the gallows in the 1830s, with a secret she cannot tell - this is an amazing book. Her country, semi-literate voice is highly compelling, forcing you to race through the slim... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2013
Summer Lies Bernhard Schlink
From Bernhard Schlink, the internationally best-selling author of The Reader, come seven provocative and masterfully calibrated stories. Tender yet unsentimental, achingly personal yet utterly universal, Summer Lies asks what it means to love, to deceive and ultimately, to be... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2013
Wife 22 Melanie Gideon
A witty and wise story about a woman amidst a midlife crisis who agrees to anonymously participate in a survey about marital happiness, only to experience a reawakening through the power of confession. Satirising our obsession with the internet the... Format: Paperback - Released: 23/05/2013
The Ask and the Answer Patrick Ness
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2010.
Prize-winning author Patrick Ness follows up The Knife of Never Letting Go with equally hard hitting The Ask and the Answer. Trying to escape, Todd and Viola fall into the hands of Mayor... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2013
Monsters of Men Patrick Ness
Winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2011.
This is a spine-tingling, page turning read. Heaped with well-deserved awards, the Chaos Walking Trilogy comes to a brilliant conclusion in Monsters of Men.
Set in a dystopian future in a world... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2013
The Knife of Never Letting Go Patrick Ness
A 2013 World Book Night selection.
The electrifying and unflinching debut novel about the impossible choices of growing up by award-winning fiction writer Patrick Ness.
Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award.
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Award 2009. Winner of... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2013
The Son Michel Rostain
Winner of the Prix Goncourt for Debut Fiction in 2011.
An award-winning bestseller first published in France with a truly unique perspective. Follow a grief-stricken father, after the sudden death of his son - through the son's eyes. This witty, wisdom-laden... Format: Hardback - Released: 23/05/2013
More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops Jen Campbell
Having mined her own memories and those of her colleagues, Jen Campbell opens her challenge for Weird things Customers say to fellow Booksellers worldwide. As a Bookseller of long standing, weird customer sayings and queries were like beacons in the... Format: Hardback - Released: 18/04/2013
The Last Lawsons Jason Hinojosa
A subtle and compelling debut novel about a suburban American family coming to terms with its tragic and shameful past. Exploring themes like sexuality, voyeurism and death, there is a constant mood of suspense that leaves readers breathtakingly waiting for... Format: Hardback - Released: 24/04/2012
The Knot Jane Borodale
From the author of the Orange New Writers shortlisted The Book of Fires comes The Knot, an extraordinarily evocative story of obsession, love and secrets. Format: Paperback - Released: 25/04/2013
Zoo Time Howard Jacobson
Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2013.
The new novel from the author of The Finkler Question, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2010. Zoo Time is a novel about love - love of women, love of literature and love... Format: Paperback - Released: 23/05/2013
The Garden of Evening Mists Tan Twan Eng
Winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize 2012.
It's Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambrige and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals, Yun Ling Teoh seeks solace among the jungle fringed plantations of Northern Malaya where she grew... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2013
The Conception of Zachary Muse Jason Hinojosa
This compelling, allegorical tale of the transformative power of nature, the devastatingly positive and negative effects of love and the power of feminine beauty is frankly hard to categorise. The writing is evocative and lyrical and the story has more... Format: Book - Released: 26/02/2013
Scenes from Early Life Philip Hensher
I was a baby during the war. We stayed inside for months. All my aunts took turns in feeding me. I couldn't be heard to cry. You see, there were soldiers in the streets. They would have known what a... Format: Paperback - Released: 31/01/2013
The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012.
A breathtakingly original rendering of the Trojan War - a devastating love story and a tale of gods and kings, immortal fame and the human heart. Format: Paperback - Released: 09/05/2013
Prodigal Summer Barbara Kingsolver
Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.
Format: Paperback - Released: 11/04/2013
Pigs in Heaven Barbara Kingsolver
Pigs in Heaven travels the roads from rural Kentucky and the urban Southwest to Heaven, Oklahoma, and the Cherokee Nation, testing the boundaries of family and the many separate truths about the ties that bind. It is a spellbinding novel... Format: Paperback - Released: 11/04/2013
Homeland Barbara Kingsolver
A collection of 12 stories, with settings ranging from northern California to the hills of eastern Kentucky and the Caribbean island of St Lucia, that explore the twin themes of family ties and the life choices one must ultimately make... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/1998
The Woman Who Dived into the Heart of the World Sabina Berman
In the wake of her sister's death, Isabelle moves from her home in California to her birthplace in Mexico to take over the running of the family tuna company. There, she discovers a wild child - a thing with no... Format: Paperback - Released: 09/05/2013
Sweet Tooth Ian McEwan
The year is 1972. The Cold War is far from over. Britain is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism. Serena Frome is being groomed for MI5. Serena is sent on a secret mission which brings her into the... Format: Paperback - Released: 09/05/2013
Telegraph Avenue Michael Chabon
From the bestselling author of 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay'; his first novel in 5 years is a lovingly painted pop-culture epic. As summer in Oakland, California, draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are hanging... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/04/2013
Idiopathy Sam Byers
This bitterly humorous debut is a novel of love, narcissism, and ailing cattle. Katherine has given up trying to be happy. Her cynical wit repels the people she wants to attract, and attracts the people she knows she should repel.... Format: Hardback - Released: 25/04/2013
And the Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini
So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one...Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and stepmother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and... Format: Hardback - Released: 21/05/2013
The Red House Mark Haddon
Two families. Seven days. One house. Angela and her brother Richard have spent twenty years avoiding each other. Now, after the death of their mother, they bring their families together for a holiday in a rented house on the Welsh... Format: Paperback - Released: 25/04/2013
The Liars' Gospel Naomi Alderman
Naomi Alderman's The Liars' Gospel makes the oldest story - the story of Jesus - entirely new. 'He was a traitor, a rabble-leader, a rebel, a liar and a pretender to the throne. We have tried to forget him here.'... Format: Paperback - Released: 25/04/2013
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Girl with a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier
A 2013 World Book Night selection.
Centring on Vermeer’s household in the 1660s in Delft, this speculative historical novel tells of his relationship with a servant girl, Griet, who became his...
Wildwood Colin Meloy
This delightful book isn’t easy to categorise. Written and illustrated by a husband and wife team this surreal, fairytale-like story is full of adventure and excitement – beginning with the...
The Paradise Guest House Ellen Sussman
April 2013 Book of the Month.
Romance, mystery and self-discovery are all in this poignant novel of one woman’s journey to Bali in...
Peaches for Monsieur Le Cure Chocolat 3 Joanne Harris
A fascinating novel. In one way comforting, as you find yourself back in the village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes for a third time (Chocolat and The Lollipop Shoes). In another...
Major Benjy Guy Fraser-Sampson
April 2013 Book of the Month.
The delightful reinvention of E F Benson’s world of Mapp and Lucia continues with the trials and...
The Last Runaway Tracy Chevalier
April 2013 Book of the Month.
Set in Ohio in 1850, the stunning new novel from the bestselling author of Girl With...
The Headmaster's Wager Vincent Lam
Percival Chen is headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon, a patriot, fiercely proud of his Chinese heritage. He is also a compulsive gambler and an incorrigible womanizer....
The Merde Factor (Paul West 5) Stephen Clarke
Funny, outrageous, irreverent, politically incorrect and not to be missed! The fifth adventure for our Englishman in France. Paul West is living the Parisian dream (but with no money, no...
Under Wildwood Colin Meloy
A sequel to the best-selling Wildwood, this sees its heroine Prue McKeel miserable back at home after her adventures in the magical Wildwood. Prue is always drawn back to...
Absolution Patrick Flanery
Shortlisted for the 2013 RSL Ondaatje Prize.
A sharp, clever, violent novel spanning the transition of South Africa from apartheid through Truth and Reconciliation to the present as seen by three...
The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul Deborah Rodriguez
In a little coffee shop in one of the most dangerous places on earth, five very different women come together. SUNNY, the proud proprietor, who needs an ingenious plan -...
Skios Michael Frayn
April 2013 Book of the Month.
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012
This is a slickly written farce of mistaken identity set on...
Tales of the Jazz Age F. Scott Fitzgerald
A collection of early short stories which helped make F. Scott Fitzgerald's name.
Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, opened the 66th Cannes Film Festival.
A 'Piece...
All the Sad Young Men F. Scott Fitzgerald
Published a year after The Great Gatsby, this short-story collection showcases many of the celebrated novel's themes, as well as its unique writing style.
Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great...
The Beautiful and Damned F. Scott Fitzgerald
Containing obvious parallels with F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's own lives, The Beautiful and Damned is a tragic examination of the pitfalls of greed and materialism and the transience of...
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
Regarded as Fitzgerald's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Great Gatsby is a vivid chronicle of the excesses and decadence of the Jazz Age, as...
This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald
A critical account of its own era, introducing many themes which would be developed in later works, Fitzgerald's first novel was an instant critical and commercial success, propelling him into...
Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald
Peopled by an unforgettable cast of aristocrats and high-fliers, Tender is the Night is at once a scathing critique of the materialism and hypocrisy of the Roaring Twenties and a...
The New Republic Lionel Shriver
Through the character of Edgar Kellogg, ex fat kid, ex corporate lawyer and now wannabe journalist, Shriver explores the lengths you’ll go to and the things you’ll do when you...
Dancing to the Flute Manisha Jolie Amin
Abandoned as a young child, the street urchin Kalu has, against all odds, carved out a life for himself in rural India. One day, a travelling healer overhears Kalu playing...
The Art of Leaving Anna Stothard
Leaving has always come naturally to Eva Elliott. The daughter of a pilot,she spent her childhood leaving schools and cities. Now an adult, she enjoys the thrill of saying goodbye...
The Scent of Lemon Leaves Clara Sanchez
Having left her job and boyfriend, thirty-year-old Sandra decides to stay in a village on the Costa Brava in order to take stock of her life and find a new...
Ancient Light John Banville
'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.' In a small town in 1950s Ireland a fifteen-year-old boy has illicit meetings with a thirty-five-year-old...
The Uninvited Liz Jensen
A seven-year-old girl puts a nail-gun to her grandmother's neck and fires. An isolated incident, say the experts. The experts are wrong. Across the world, children are killing their families....
Umbrella Will Self
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012.
Radical in its conception, uncompromising in its style, Umbrella is Will Self's most extravagant and imaginative exercise in speculative fiction to date.
Sir Peter Stothard,...
Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
From the award-winning author ofHalf of a Yellow Sun a powerful story of love, race and identity. Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, 'Americanah' is a richly...
The Lower River Paul Theroux
Award-winning writer Paul Theroux draws upon personal experience of living in Malawi in his eye-opening novel, about one man's return to an Africa he no longer recognises, The Lower River...
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jay Gatsby's parties are legendary. Night and day, the rich and beautiful descend upon his mansion to drink and to dance. For Nick Carraway, newly arrived on Long Island, the...
The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid
In the wake of September 11, Changez, a Pakistani man in Manhattan, finds his position in the city he loves suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship with Erica eclipsed by...
The Storyteller Jodi Picoult
Once again Jodi Picoult doesn’t shy away from controversial subject matter, this time the Holocaust, using it as the emotional backbone to a compelling, arresting story of the cruelty and...
Burning Bright Tracy Chevalier
Tracy Chevalier's new novel is set in London at the end of the eighteenth century and its a wonderful read on every level. It is three years after the French...
Falling Angels Tracy Chevalier
A poignant and historical tale of two families brought reluctantly together, Falling Angels is an intimate story of childhood friendships, sexual awakening and human frailty. Its epic sweep takes in...
Remarkable Creatures Tracy Chevalier
In this story of female friendship and fortitude, Tracy Chevalier shows her skill for working history’s lost individuals into far-reaching fiction. Set in 19th century Lyme Regis, it centres on...
The Lady and the Unicorn Tracy Chevalier
Jean le Viste, a newly-wealthy member of the French court, commissions a series of tapestries to hang in his chateau named 'The Lady and the Unicorn.' Nicolas, his chosen designer,...
The Virgin Blue Tracy Chevalier
The compelling story of two women, born four centuries apart, and the ancestral legacy that binds them. Perfect for fans of Barbara Erskine, Kate Morton and Sarah...
The Alchemist A Fable About Following Your Dream Paulo Coelho
If you have only recently discovered Coelho, or if you have yet to discover this utterly brilliant and breathtaking author, then jump into one of his novels right now.The Alchemistwas...
Manuscript Found in Accra Paulo Coelho
Through a translated 10th century manuscript, based on the words and wisdom of a mysterious man known only as the Copt, Paulo Coelho addresses some fundamental human questions such as...
When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man Nick Dybek
Loyalty Island is a small fishing community dependent on the Gaunt family fleet for survival. Each winter, Cal's father - a captain of the fleet - sets sail for Alaska...
The Prisoner of Heaven Carlos Ruiz Zafon
THE PRISONER OF HEAVEN returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop. It begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957, one...
May We be Forgiven A. M. Homes
Harry is a Richard Nixon scholar who leads a quiet, regular life; his brother George is a high-flying TV producer, with a murderous temper.They have been uneasy rivals since childhood.Then...
The Month Before's Featured Books
No Way Back Matthew Klein
Jimmy thinks he knows about loss, about fear, about paranoia. He should think again. Every time Jimmy Thane has been faced with a crossroad, he's taken the wrong path. But...
The Garden of Evening Mists Tan Twan Eng
Winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize 2012.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012.
It's Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambrige and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals,...
The Beauty of Murder A. K. Benedict
March 2013 Debut of the Month.
A compelling, genre-bending crime debut packed full of atmospheric detail that brings a dark and macabre Cambridge...
Schroder Amity Gaige
How can such a simple thing like changing your surname end up with a good and likeable person and father ending up in prison? Amity Gaige has written two previous...
Five Star Billionaire Tash Aw
Justin is from a family of successful property developers. Phoebe has come to China buoyed with hope, but her dreams are shattered within hours as the job she has come...
Queen's Gambit Elizabeth Fremantle
March 2013 MEGA Debut of the Month.
Rich in atmosphere and period detail, and told through the eyes of Katherine and her young...
Habits of the House Fay Weldon
Aimed squarely at fans of Downton Abbey this is a pitch-perfect, witty and fun romp of life above and below stairs and an elegy to the last days of aristocracy...
Black Vodka Ten Stories Deborah Levy
March 2013 Short Story Collection of the Month.
Ten elegant, witty yet unsettling short stories explore the dislocations of...
Narcopolis Jeet Thayil
Winner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2013.
Stretching across three decades, with an interlude in Mao's China, it portrays a city in collision with itself. With a...
The Fine Colour of Rust P. A. O'Reilly
March 2013 Debut of the Month.
With humour, vivid writing and wry observations about the very different approach and pace of life in...
The Chemistry of Tears Peter Carey
London 2011, Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the unexpected death of her lover of thirteen years. As the mistress of a married man she has to...
Various Pets Alive and Dead Marina Lewycka
March 2013 Book of the Month.
A wonderful book full of political and social comment along with some brilliant characters and an impressive...
Lost and Found Tom Winter
March 2013 Debut of the Month.
A charming and poignant debut that draws you into...
Jellybird Lezanne Clannachan
March 2013 eBook of the Month.
This intriguing mystery, come romance, come ghost story will have you hooked and trying to guess what...
Lucia on Holiday A Mapp & Lucia Novel Guy Fraser-Sampson
Lucia on Holiday is a new addition to the Mapp and Lucia canon, based on the immortal characters first created by E.F. Benson. Perfect reading for followers of Benson's original...
A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar Suzanne Joinson
It is 1923 and Evangeline English, keen lady cyclist, arrives with her sister Lizzie and their zealous leader Millicent at the ancient city of Kashgar to establish a mission. As...
In One Person John Irving
Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a 'sexual suspect', a phrase first used by John...
Instructions for a Heatwave Maggie O'Farrell
It's July 1976. In London, it hasn't rained for months, gardens are filled with aphids, water comes from a standpipe, and Robert Riordan tells his wife Gretta that he's going...
The Childhood of Jesus J. M. Coetzee
After crossing oceans, a man and a boy arrive in a new land. Here they are each assigned a name and an age, and held in a camp in the...
Another Country Anjali Joseph
Excelling at character and with a laser sharp interest in small details that brings scenes to life, her follow-up novel to the award winning Saraswati Park tells the story...
Questions of Travel Michelle de Kretser
March 2013 Book of the Month and eBook of the Month.
From the Booker and Orange longlisted author of The Lost Dog...
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Ben Fountain
Nineteen-year-old Billy Lynn is home from Iraq. And he's a hero. Billy and the rest of Bravo Company were filmed defeating Iraqi insurgents in a ferocious firefight. Now Bravo's three...
The Sandcastle Girls Chris Bohjalian
One woman's journey into her family's past reveals a shocking story that has never been told. 1915, Aleppo, Syria. When Elizabeth Endicott steps off the boat from Boston, armed only...
Life After Life Kate Atkinson
Chosen by the prestigious Kirkus Reviews as one of 10 titles in 2013 that ‘will sweep you off your feet’
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013.
What if you had...
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