Salman Rushdie When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities, taking 'Roman' names, and move into...

Doris Lessing A hugely significant political novel for the late twentieth century from one of the outstanding writers of the modern era In a London squat a band of bourgeois...

Elif Batuman SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard and finds herself dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges...

Helen DeWitt Helen DeWitt’s 2000 debut, The Last Samurai, was “destined to become a cult classic” (Miramax). The enterprising publisher sold the rights in twenty countries, so “Why not just, ‘destined...

Richard Ford Frank Bascombe returns, with a new lease on life (and real estate), more acutely in thrall to life’s endless complexities than ever before. A holiday, and a novel,...

Howard Jacobson Acclaimed as Britain’s greatest and most underrated novelist, this is Howard Jacobson’s masterpiece.One day, out of the blue, Henry Nagel receives a solicitor’s letter telling him he has...

Florence Knapp In the wake of a catastrophic storm, Cora sets off with her nine-year-old daughter, Maia, to register her son's birth. Her husband, Gordon, a local doctor, respected in...

Drusilla Modjeska How does a woman find the shape of her own life? How does she come into a maturity that is truly her own?Taking the essay as 'a porous,...

Lillian Herlands Hornstein (Editor), GD.Percy (Editor), Calvin S. Brown (Editor) Compiled and edited by a board of distinguished educators, this single-volume encyclopedia contains vital information on the world's greatest literary masterpieces-and is...

Ben Markovits SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025'An elegant, devastating book.' OBSERVER'Funny, wise and knowing.' CLARE CHAMBERS'Packs a serious emotional punch.' DAILY TELEGRAPHWhen Tom wife had an affair, he resolved to leave...

Richard Russo A wonderfully fun and perceptive novel in the traditions of Thornton Wilder and Anne Tyler, The Risk Pool is set in Mohawk, New York, where Ned Hall is doing his...

Walker Percy Will Barrett, a lonely widower, suffers from a depression so strange and severe that he decides he doesn't want to continue living. But then he meets Allison, a...