Margaret Drabble This sequel to "The Radiant Way" describes life in 1980s Britain and is set in a Yorkshire city to which some of the characters have decamped from London....

Dirk Bogarde Writer William Caldicott's life is complicated enough. He is about to embark on divorce proceedings when he receives a cryptic letter of farewell from his estranged brother James...

Author: Joyce Carol Oates An epic novel of an American family in the 1950s proves the tender division between what is permissible and what is taboo, between ordinary life and...

Carlos Fuentes Mexico, 1991: Black acid rain falls on "Makesicko City," the most polluted, most populated city in the world. Amid this apocalyptic landscape a prize is being offered to...

Ali Smith O brave new world, that has such people in't.Once upon a time not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red...

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...

Robert Bolano A tale of bohemian youth on the make in Mexico City from a master of contemporary fiction, and a sublime precursor to The Savage Detectives.Two young poets, Jan and...

Richard Russo Empire Falls, Maine: once a thriving hub of industry, this small town nestles in a bend of the vast and winding Knox River, and has always been the...

Ben Lerner From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century: a tale of...

Diana Athill In England half a century ago, well-brought-up young women are meant to aspire to the respectable life. Some things are not to be spoken of; some are most...

Karl Ove Knausgard Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles, beautifully illustrated by Anna Bjerger.I have just finished writing this book for...

Anne Enright An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of women.Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the famed Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But...