Fiction: general and literary

Rediscover the brilliance of The Cost of Living in the Mermaid Collection - classic books by popular pioneering female authors republished to delight new generations of readers.

'Insinuating, haunting and lyrically pervasive' The New York Times Book ReviewA new translation by Tim ParksTwenty years after making his fortune in America, Eel is drawn back to the closest thing he has to a home: the Piedmontese countryside where he grew up poor and illegitimate.

Rediscover the brilliance of Down Among the Women in the Mermaid Collection - timeless classics by pioneering female authors, beautifully reissued to enchant today's readers.

Long before 'That 70's Show', there was the 70's.

The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings.

A man is waiting on his wife hand and foot, as he has done for decades.

The House of Sleep - Jonathan Coe's comic tale of love and obsessionSarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events; Robert has his life changed for ever by the misunderstandings arising from her condition; Terry, the insomniac, spends his wakeful nights fuelling his obsession with movies; and the increasingly unstable Dr Gregory Dudden sees sleep as a life-shortening disease which must be eradicated.

The International Booker Prize-shortlisted masterpiece on grief and loss, from one of France's most original writers at work todayA Leopard-Skin Hat may be Anne Serre's most moving novel yet.

Gus Rogers believes he has hit the bottom of his newspaper career; he has been asked to write a story about Teddy, the like-named child star of the hit show, Teddy's Family.

Dropped from the Olympic figure skating team, Nuria Marti's fate pivots her into a world of corruption, jealousy - and revenge.

Steinbeck's only work of political satire turns the French Revolution on its head, as amateur astronomer Pippin Heristal is drafted in to rule the unruly French.

HEARTSTOPPER MEETS BUFFY IN THIS SHARP, SWEET, AND BLOODSUCKINGLY FUNNY ROM-COM ABOUT LOVE AND VAMPIREDOM'This has to be one of my favorite reads of 2025!

Published when she was only nineteen, Francoise Sagan's astonishing first novel Bonjour Tristesse became an instant bestseller.

More than three decades have passed since the events described in The Witches of Eastwick and the three divorcees - Alexandra, Jane and Sukie - have left town, remarried, and become widows.

An unsettling new collection of Henry James's best short stories exploring ghosts and the uncanny'There had been a moment when I believed I recognised, faint and far, the cry of a child; there had been another when I found myself just consciously starting as at the passage, before my door, of a light footstep'I see ghosts everywhere', wrote Henry James, who retained a fascination with the supernatural and sensational throughout his writing career.

WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2012LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARD 2013WINNER OF THE SAMI ROHR PRIZE FOR JEWISH LITERATURE 2013What if everything you'd ever wanted was no longer enough?

From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsA powerfully thought-provoking portrait of modern warfare from one of the modern masters of war fiction'Barker is one of our most significant contemporary novelists' Daily Telegraph'The characters grab hold at the beginning and never loosen their grip.

Rediscover the brilliance of Fenny in the Mermaid Collection - timeless classics by pioneering female authors, beautifully reissued to enchant today's readers.

THE NAIL-BITING NOVEL OF FRIENDSHIP, RIVALRY AND THE THIN LINE BETWEEN INFATUATION AND OBSESSION.

'Wildly original, morose, uproarious.

On a Monday night in October in a small seaside town in Suffolk, a woman is brutally murdered.

THE STORIES THAT INSPIRED THE FILM COLETTE, out Jan 2019.

On his way home from a remote Pacific island, Dr Saunders travels with two strangers: the treacherous Captain Nichols, and Fred, a handsome Australian with a shadowy past.

'Brilliant' Sunday Times'A master storyteller' New York TimesWeird, withdrawn, and unloved, Fred is a young collector of butterflies.

'Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared with Proust and rightly so' Observer'One of contemporary literature's major works .

Award-winning writer Caryl Phillips presents a beautiful, heart-breaking novel of the life of Jean Rhys, author of Wide Sargasso Sea.

Years in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda have been no more than death in life to George Bowling.

From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsA powerfully thought-provoking portrait of modern warfare from one of the modern masters of war fiction'Barker is one of our most significant contemporary novelists' Daily Telegraph'The characters grab hold at the beginning and never loosen their grip.

'A perfectly formed set of stories about alienation in modern times' Independent'Mesmerizing - almost ecstatic' The New York TimesMary Gaitskill's coolly compelling, quietly devastating stories explore the messy complexity of relationships between lovers, families and friends.

Deystvie romana razvorachivaetsya v Moskve v neopredelennoye vremya posle nachala voyny s Ukrainoy.

Rick Yeager's campaigning in the teeth of a hostile political climate has landed him with a criminal record for civil disobedience.

Uns tragt die Hoffnung - der zweite Band der bewegenden Dresden-Trilogie von Sylvia B.

Drei Jahrzehnte nach dem 25.

Mercin Wjenk slusa do kruha nasich wjelelubjacych mlodych pisacych.

In 2035, memories are the ultimate weapon.

 Three years after a broken engagement that neither of them fully understood, two strangers strike up an easy, unexpected connection online.

In the icy fjords of the North, where snow sparkles like diamonds and the sea roars like a beast, Princess Dianka was no ordinary royal.

Being an Account: The Memoirs of Ernest Lycette, 1911–1921 is the first-hand memoir of Ernest Lycette, a Staffordshire scoutmaster and St John Ambulance volunteer who enlisted in the British Army in August 1914 and served through the First World War and its aftermath.

When the world synchronises for 0.

In the 15th century, a young Zimbabwean prince Biso lived with his stepmother, who was a queen and step siblings.

You know the story of the generous tree—the one that gave everything until nothing remained.

RAVISH THE QUIET follows Mercedes from the age of six, growing up in a home where abuse is hidden, ignored, and allowed to continue.

​A garden of secrets.

Life is good.

In a world where data never dies, a ghost is the ultimate virus.

The herons are gathering again.

Eight participants gather at an isolated lodge in the Welsh mountains for a week-long grief retreat.

When global stability begins to fracture, world leaders are pulled into a system they don't understand—and can't escape.

Ure InfectusBook One of Imperium Cicernus: The Chimera AdjustmentIn the Chimera Sector, the politicians fear the voters…because the voters have assassins.

This book follows after the Game on : Kwa Mbaths.