Celeste Ng   Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the...

Tom Perrotta   Tom Perrotta's thirtyish parents of young children are a varied and surprising bunch. There's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad dubbed "The Prom King" by the moms at...

Kiley Reid Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living showing other women how to do the same. A mother to two small...

Karl Ove Knausgard 18 years old and fresh out of high school, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to a tiny fisherman’s village far north of the polar circle to work as...

Charlotte Wood   People went on about death bringing friends together, but it wasn't true. The graveyard, the stony dirt - that's what it was like now . . ....

Ann PatchettSomewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne...

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...

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERIlja Leonard Pfeijffer’s moving and addictive masterpiece of European identity, nostalgia and the end of an era.‘A grandiose style, brilliant and rich. It will defy...

Roberto Bolaño Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chile’s young poetry scene. But the military coup of 1973 sees Alberto reborn as Chile’s leading celebrity poet,...

Paul Griffiths This work mixes reality with phantasmagoria as it encompasses adventure, Zen riddles, restaurant reviews and ancient legends. In a 14th century Italian prison cell two men are collaborating...

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...

Sam Byers A debut novel of love, narcissism, and ailing cattleIdiopathy (ɪdɪˈɒpəθi): a disease or condition which arises spontaneously or for which the cause is unknown.Idiopathy: a novel as unexpected...