Magical realism

To enter the world of Ben Okri's stories is to surrender to a new reality.

Memorable, atmospheric and compelling Times Literary SupplementLiv lives with her mother on a remote island in the Arctic Circle.

CROWE'S REQUIEM tells the story of John Crowe, a young man born into a village without any apparent history or contact with the outside world.

A homophobic Scottish labourer in London dies, and is condemned to confront his prejudices in the afterlife.

In an unnamed country, on the first day of the New Year, people stop dying.

What if, one day, Europe was to crack along the length of the Pyrenees, separating Spain and Portugal from the rest of Europe?

This is a story about a snow-covered island you won't find on any map.

In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers.

'A fantasy, a vivid dream.

Surreal and hilarious IndependentEnter Louis de Berni res' magical, tragic and hilarious South American odyssey.

The epic finale of the Latin American trilogy following The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts and Senor Vivo and the Coca LordWhile the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerrillas, unfrocked priests and reformed - though by no means inactive - whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfilment.

Lured South by tales of buried treasure, Milkman embarks on an odyssey back home.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World takes a tour through two parallel narratives, exploring consciousness, the subconscious and identity.

An assault on the senses, part murder mystery, part metaphysical speculation; a fable for our times as catchy as a rock song blasting from the window of a sports car.

*PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW*An eclectic, eccentric and altogether brain-bending collection of short stories.

*PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW*Tales of upheaval and confusion, longing and love in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake.

Reality bends all the more acutely with lack of sleep in this stunning novel from the master of the surreal.

Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home, the farm where she was kept as a slave.

Haruki Murakami's third novel, A Wild Sheep Chase is the mystery hybrid which completes the odyssey begun in Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973.

Flynn is a thirteen-year-old girl caught between her violent, out-of-control brother, Sam, and her mother, who is struggling to cope.

The stories collected in What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another.

The fifth novel from award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi, named one of Granta's best young British novelists.

'Funny, deep, shocking, wry, heartwarming and spine-chilling' - The GuardianMr Fox, by award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi, is a beautiful and immersive exploration of the labyrinthine world of imagination, storytelling and love.

Toru Okada's cat has disappeared.

Man Booker winner Anne Enright s moving and darkly funny debut novel of sex, death and reproductionGrace is a TV producer whose life is transfigured when she answers the door to a fully-fledged angel.

'Okay, tell me which do you want: to be able to fly or to be invisible?

By George is the utterly original story of a flawed but formidable family - and of two very different boys.

*PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW*Read this imaginative masterpiece from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian WoodThe year is 1984.

Book Two of 1Q84 ended with Aomame standing on the Metropolitan Expressway with a gun between her lips.

What if every woman in town suddenly went on strike?

Something strange is going on.

In the Florida Everglades, gator-park Swamplandia!

THE TIKTOK SENSATIONDiscover the million-copy bestselling fantasy read.

When the women in the Sparrow family reach thirteen, they develop a unique ability.

Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball, Baron Cosimo retires to the trees for the rest of his days, and Agiluf the Knight is an empty suit of armour.

A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern.

The second book in the trilogy which began with the Booker prize-winning The Famished Road.

When Piper, Phoebe, and Paige undo a spell that turned a local politician to stone, they little realize the powerful magic behind the hex.

Rescuing his sometime-friend Salmoneus from a roadside attack, Hercules finds himself joining Salmoneus' Theater of Fun.

Invited to judge a local beauty pageant, Hercules and his trusted companion Iolaus little suspect that they are fodder for the Klothon, a vicious serpent that feeds on the unwitting winners of the pageant.

When the Fire, the mighty sword of Hephaestus, falls into the hands of thugs determined to use its power against the innocent, Hercules is tasked by the gods to find and return the fearsome weapon to its owner.

From Jon Sopel, bestselling author and presenter of hit podcast The News Agents, comes an incisive examination of post-Brexit Britain and what it means for our future.

Over ten years after WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE EARTH, Mick Wall's seminal biography of the band, comes this major and extensively researched revision, which provides an unflinching look at life inside one of the biggest-selling rock bands of all time, and presents the definitive, final word on Led Zeppelin.

The autobiography of true national treasure LESLIE PHILLIPS, an actor who has featured in more British Number One box office smashes than anyone else and was the voice of The Sorting Hat in Harry Potter'A lively book full of amusing anecdotes and insights into the life of a zestfully ambitious actor' SPECTATORLeslie Phillips's story begins with a poverty-stricken childhood in north London, made all the worse when his father died when Leslie was just ten years old.

This is the tale of three women - one witch, one mermaid and one missing - and how Ruby was caught up in between.

I can think of few writers who can make the ordinary collide with the extraordinary to such beguiling effect.

in Bulgakov's allegorical masterpiece of Stalin s regime the devil is making a personal appearance in Moscow.

WITH AN AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR 'A major work of mounting tensions in which the human mind is the guinea-pig.

The extraordinary literary debut of Salman RushdieFlapping Eagle is a young Axona Indian gifted with immortal life after drinking an elixir from his wayward sister.

Salman Rushdie s critically acclaimed magical realist novel explores good and evil, power and responsibility, exile and homecoming.