William Styron In this brilliant collection of "long short stories, " the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sophie's Choice returns to the coastal Virginia setting of his first novels. Through the...

Catherine Menon ***ONE OF TELEGRAPH'S BEST NOVELS OF 2021******SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2022***'Supple, artful, skilful storytelling - it takes an immediate grip on the reader's...

Dan Josefson "Dan Josefson is a writer of astounding promise. . . a bold, funny, mordant, and deeply intelligent debut."  — David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite JestWINNER OF THE 2015 WHITING...

Pamela Evans A couple discover that some ties are just too strong in a tale of enduring love in 1950s London.A compelling story of love, loss and hope, A Song...

Julia Dahl A finalist for the Edgar and Mary Higgins Clark Awards, in her riveting debut Invisible City, journalist Julia Dahl introduces a compelling new character in search of the truth...

Cressida Connolly 'I always wanted to be friends with both my sisters. Perhaps that was the source, really, of all the troubles of my life...'It is the summer of 1938...

NIcholson Baker A selection from Baker's essays and journalism which form some of his most popular writing. The subjects range from extinct forms of punctuation to the tribulations of reading...

Colin McGinn McGinn sets out to make philosophy accessible to the layperson "by describing what it is like to be a philosopher from the inside". The result is part memoir,...

Beppe Severgnini The English must be explored carefully, because they still remain a mysterious continent. This book does so with wit and irony. It describes how the English dress, what...

Kaye Gibbons A story that traces the bonds between four generations of resourceful Southern women through stories passed from one generation to another. January 3, 1991 by Algonquin Books

Vivian Gornick Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of "urban peasants," Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's romantic depression over the...

Mortimer J Adler For the first time in paperback, the illuminating critique of modern thought from America's "Philosopher for Everyman" (Time). March 1, 1987 by Scribner Paper Fiction