Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Goethe’s Faust reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract with Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks...

JM Forster For Mallow, every day is a Bad Hair Day.Wearing a wig means Mallow can hide her hair loss. But now someone's sending her creepy messages. It's a race...

Nikki Gemmell This novel of sex, secrecy, and escape explores the truth about love and sex. Following the sexual awakening of its female protagonist who gradually becomes embroiled in a...

Marie Rutkoski After stealing her father's eyes back from Prince Rodolfo, Petra Kronos lives in constant danger. She and her tin spider, Astrophil, end up hiding out in London, where...

Emery Lord Can you plan happiness?It's been a year since Paige's first boyfriend died in a swimming accident and it's time she rejoined the real world.So she makes a plan:1....

Tim Winton Jerra and his best mate Sean set off in a beaten-up old VW to go camping on the coast. Jerra's friends and family want to know when he...

Muriel Spark Reality and Dreams, Dame Muriel Spark's twentieth novel, is a masterpiece of restraint. It's a slender book, but such is Spark's skill that the superbly entertaining work conjures...

Michelle Harrison While visiting her grandmother's house, an old photograph leads Tanya to an unsolved mystery. Fifty years ago a girl vanished in the woods nearby - a girl Tanya's...

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...

Gail Honeyman Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same...

Paula Polk Lillard and Lynn Lillard JessenWhat can parents do to help their youngest children in their task of self-formation? How does the Montessori method of hands-on learning and self-discovery...

Norton Juster Milo's extraordinary voyage takes him into such places as the Land of Expectation, the Doldrums, the Mountains of Ignorance and the Castle in the Air. He meets the...