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On Chesil Beach
Author: Ian McEwan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Ian McEwan's celebrated novel, now an unmissable film starring Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan (Atonement, Brooklyn) It is July 1962....
Oliver Twist
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 Oliver Twist- orphan, trainee pickpocket, good boy. Elbow your way through the streets of Victorian London with Dicken's most...
North and South
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 'A really remarkable picture of the reality, as well as the prosperity, of northern industrial life, and an interesting...
Mirror To Damascus: 50th Anniversary Edition
Author: Colin Thubron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A 50th anniversary edition of Colin Thubron's celebrated first book, a portrait of Syria's capital city, with a new...
Michael Kohlhaas: Newly translated by Michael Hofmann
Author: Heinrich Von Kleist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 One man's fight for revenge against a corrupt justice system. Kleist's influential German novella has been newly translated...
Mao's Last Dancer
Author: Li Cunxin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 In a small, desperately poor village in north-east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school...
The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The captivating life of Margaret Douglas - a life of scandal, political intrigue and royal romance that spanned five...
Lives of Girls and Women
Author: Alice Munro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Moving, ribald and semi-autobiographical, Lives of Girls and Women is the only novel from Alice Munro, winner of the...
Keep Him Close: A moving and suspenseful mystery for 2021 that you won't be able to put down
Author: Emily Koch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Alice keeps her identity secret when she befriends the mother of her son's killer. Keep Him Close is a...
Jar City: The thrilling first installation of the Reykjavic Murder Mystery Series
Author: Arnaldur Indridason Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'A fascinating window on an unfamiliar world as well as an original and puzzling mystery' - Val McDermid An...
Intruder in the Dust
Author: William Faulkner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A murder mystery and a serious exploration of racism in the American South An elderly, proud black farmer, Lucas...
An Imaginary Life
Author: David Malouf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In the first century A. D. , Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverant poet of imperial Rome,...
Hanging Devils: Hong Jun Investigates: China Library
Author: Jiahong He Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Set in the mid-nineties,Hanging Devilsis a true-to-life story of cold-blooded murder and corruption from one of China's foremost legal...
Experience
Author: Martin Amis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Martin Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now. Experience, the book of his...
Enbury Heath
Author: Stella Gibbons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Gibbons' semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story about three siblings living in a Hampstead Heath cottage 'Don't show proper feelin', does it,...
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
Author: Richard Yates Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A mesmerising collection of stories from the superb Richard Yates First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road,...
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
Author: Bohumil Hrabal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 A European classic of comic literature This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved...
Dance of the Happy Shades
Author: Alice Munro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 2021 sees all of Alice Munro's backlist reissued in a new, modern look. These editions will appeal to a...
China Dream
Author: Ma Jian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A biting satire of Chinese totalitarianism from the critically acclaimed author of Beijing Coma and Red Dust. 'One of...
The Case for God: What religion really means
Author: Karen Armstrong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 An essential book for our times- a thoughtful, cultured response to Richard Dawkins There is widespread confusion about the...
After the Fire
Author: Henning Mankell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The last novel from international crime bestseller Henning Mankell. A brilliant and moving mystery set in the Swedish archipelago....
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author: Mark Twain Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Sail down the Mississippi with rascally Huck Finn! 'It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky...
12 Edmondstone Street
Author: David Malouf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 This remarkable book combines autobiography with a subtle, almost painterly sense of the ways in which the objects which...
The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain
Author: Gina Rippon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 An agenda-setting, myth-debunking book by neuroscientist Professor Gina Rippon that demolishes the idea of biology as destiny and the...
The Call of the Wild and White Fang
Author: Jack London Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A thrilling tale of Buck's fight for survival and rise to become leader of the pack, presented here with...
A Lover's Discourse
Author: Xiaolu Guo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A funny and charming new novel from Xiaolu Guo about love, language, displacement and finding our place in the...
Lost Horizon
Author: James Hilton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The gripping adventure story that invented Shangri-La, one of our most enduring literary mysteries. The gripping adventure that invented...
One Step Behind: Kurt Wallander
Author: Henning Mankell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Three young friends are shot dead on Midsummer's Eve. Then one of Kurt Wallander's colleagues is murdered. Is it...
Richard III and the Princes in the Tower
Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Alison Weir investigates one of the most enduring murder mysteries in English history - the death of the lost...
In Siberia
Author: Colin Thubron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A fascinating travel book by one of the most magical writers of his generation. This is the account of...
Independent People
Author: Halldor Laxness Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A magnificent Icelandic epic by the 'Tolstoy of the North' First published in 1946, this is a humane, epic...
The Whisperer
Author: Karin Fossum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Inspector Sejer returns in a stunning, psychologically acute new thriller from the Queen of Norwegian crime fiction Read the...
The Children Act
Author: Ian McEwan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Ian McEwan's brilliant, emotionally wrenching novel, now a major film starring Emma Thompson and Stanley Tucci Fiona Maye, a...
Faceless Killers: Kurt Wallander
Author: Henning Mankell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The first title in the acclaimed Inspector Wallander series. One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to...
Sidetracked: Kurt Wallander
Author: Henning Mankell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 In this gripping thriller, Kurt Wallander's furious pursuit of a killer who scalps his victims will throw him and...
The Dogs of Riga: Kurt Wallander
Author: Henning Mankell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 It is winter and Inspector Kurt Wallander receives an anonymous tip-off; two days later, a life raft washes up...
Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen
Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Britain's foremost female historian reveals the true story of this key figure in the Wars of the Roses and...
The Gentleman In The Parlour
Author: W. Somerset Maugham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A fantastic portrait of 1920s Burma and Thailand by the neglected 20th century master WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY...
Roots
Author: Alex Haley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 The radical, Pulitzer Prize-winning account of Alex Haley's own twelve-year search for his family's origins- a powerful memoir, a...
Queens of the Conquest: The extraordinary women who changed the course of English history 1066 - 1167
Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Full of passion and betrayal, murder and war, the first volume of an epic new series from bestselling historian...
The Divine Comedy
Author: Dante Alighieri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Poet and translator Steve Ellis completes his new version of Dante's Divine Comedy, the astonishing epic that has shaped...
Death at Intervals
Author: Jose Saramago Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'Death at Intervals is a delight- witty, clever, humane, light in tone, profoundly serious in matter' - Scotsman In...
Out Stealing Horses
Author: Per Petterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A moving tale of isolation, the painful loss of innocence and a eulogy for the traditional ways of life...
Arthur & George
Author: Julian Barnes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Now a major TV series starring Martin Clunes, Arsher Ali and Art Malik Now a major TV series starring...
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Author: Alice Munro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 2021 sees all of Alice Munro's backlist reissued in a new, modern look. These editions will appeal to a...
The Great World
Author: David Malouf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Every city, town and village has its memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations...
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE - 1492)
Author: Simon Schama, CBE Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 'Unforgettable...a delicious cacophony of conversations and clamorous arguments echoing across history' Daily Telegraph The landmark history of a...
The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason
Author: Christopher de Bellaigue Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A revelatory history that uncovers the modern foundations of the Islamic world. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE...