Anita Brookner Enigmatic Claire is 30 and lives alone in Marylebone. She is content with her life, although she recognises she has become more reserved and independent since her wilder...

Leila Mottley A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system—a debut that announces...

Olivia Manning Living and working in Rumania, Guy and Harriet Pringle are forced to evacuate to Greece before the advance of the German army. This classic work of post-war fiction...

Charles Baxter The Feast of Love is a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. In a re-imagined A Midsummer Night's Dream, men and women speak...

Richard Russo Richard Russo's slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New York—and in the life of one of its...

Lynne Sharon Schwartz Lynne Sharon Schwartz's third novel established her as one of her generation's most assured writers. This is a acutely absorbing story. According to Lydia Rowe's friend George,...

Carol Shields and Blanche Howard For Jocelyn and Charles, the demands of family and career mean a ten-month separation, during which they decide to communicate with one another by writing...

Milan Kundera Translated from the French by Linda Asher.Sometimes - perhaps only for an instant - we fail to recognize a companion; for a moment their identity ceases to exist,...

Jane Smiley A successful Iowa farmer decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a...

Adania Shibli Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba—the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some...

Monica Ali Still in her teenage years, Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage with a disappointed man who is twenty years older. Away from the mud and heat of...