AN Wilson Life has not always been harmonious at 12, Wagner Rise. But for the past seven years, philosopher extraordinaire Oliver Gold has caused an entire extended family to stop...

Julian Barnes We'd like to introduce you to Elizabeth Finch.We invite you to take her course in Culture and Civilisation.Her ideas are not to everyone's taste.But she will change the...

Richard Russo Empire Falls, Maine: once a thriving hub of industry, this small town nestles in a bend of the vast and winding Knox River, and has always been the...

Adele Geras An extended family gathers in late August to celebrate the seventy-fifth birthday of its formidable matriarch, Leonora. She is the daughter of the famous Edwardian painter Ethan Walsh,...

Anita DesaiA wonderful novel in two parts, moving from the heart of a close-knit Indian household, with its restrictions and prejuices, its noisy warmth and sensual appreciation of food, to...

Lauren Groff AMAZON.COM’s 2015 BEST BOOK OF THE YEARNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBARACK OBAMA'S BOOK OF THE YEARA FINALIST FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS...

Mary Gordon When Isabel Moore's father dies, she finds herself, at the age of thirty, suddenly freed from eleven years of uninterrupted care for a helpless man. With all the...

Michael Sebastian Available in English for the first time, Mihail Sebastian's classic 1934 novel delves into the mind of a Jewish student in Romania during the fraught years preceding World...

Steven Schindler Sometimes life is stranger than reality TV.When Johnny Koester is laid off from his TV production job in New York, he moves west, landing in Los Angeles just...

David Foster Wallace In these stories, the author renders the bizarre normal and the absurd hilarious, from the eerily real , almost holographic evocations of historical figures, to overtelevised game-show...

Ali Smith O brave new world, that has such people in't.Once upon a time not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red...

Hari Kunzru Jaz and Lisa Matharu are plunged into a public hell after their son, Raj, vanishes during a family vacation in the California desert. However, the Mojave is a...