AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK 2026Discover the beautiful and uplifting novel about a musical prodigy and his mother forced to spend years searching for each other, the perfect holiday read for fans of Delia Owens s Where the Crawdad s Sing, Kristen Hannah and Clare Leslie Hall.
A beautifully written, haunting murder mystery, set in a rural Swedish town, where one community's secrets will be laid bare over the next twenty years .
Short stories and poetry: written by three Irish writers, two living in Wexford and one in Dublin who worked together virtually during the Covid 19 pandemic in 2020.
'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray I can still see Simenon coming into my office the next day, pleased with himself, displaying even more self-confidence, if possible, than before, but nevertheless with a touch of anxiety in his eyes.
Something between a tale and a polemic, these "e;fables of reason"e; are feats of narrative compression and contain much of Voltaire's best and funniest writing.
'A master of both detailed realism and fabulous storytelling GUARDIANFROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HISHAM MATARAfter an assassination attempt and in waning health, Naguib Mahfouz became more cautious in his twilight years.
The darkly comic, addictive new novel about friendship and envy from the bestselling author of JUST GOT REAL and GETTING RID OF MATTHEW'A brilliantly twisty drama to curl up with HEAT'Propulsive, with twists and turns I didn t see coming, yet warm and good-hearted.
Based on a real-life love triangle and later made into Fran ois Truffaut's famous New Wave film, Henri-Pierre Roch 's Jules et Jim is a paean to youth set in free-spirited Paris before the First World War.
A revelatory and richly varied collection of Poland's greatest short stories, with a foreword by Nobel Prize-winner Olga TokarczukWitty, surprising and sparkling, this anthology is an essential exploration of Polish literature.
Five stories of desire and discovery set in 1970s Japan, from weird fiction's most influential pioneer - Angela CarterAn Englishwoman muses on her affair with a younger Japanese man.
An intimate, magical novel about one enduring church in a rural Icelandic valley - an ode to a quiet way of life now lost to time forever The resting place of legendary Viking warrior Egil Skallagr msson s skull, Mosfell Church is a lonely, country church, fated to be destroyed.
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's stories of rebellion and sacrifice, where ordinary lives burn with extraordinary courageIn these tales of rebellion and sacrifice, ordinary lives burn with extraordinary courage.
Four of Kurt Vonnegut s best dystopian stories, Monkey Business distils his darkly comic vision of the modern world and the cost of trying to engineer a better life.
From 'a master crime writer' (Financial Times), a chilling story where Japanese tradition and Western crime collide now available in English for the first time Musashino, 1959.
THE NEW GRIPPING MYSTERY FROM 'NEXT-GEN NORDIC STAR' (LA TIMES) AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, RAGNAR JONASSON'ONE OF THE FINEST CRIME WRITERS IN THE WORLD TODAY' DAILY MAIL J nasson is an automatic must-read for me .
A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Spain.
An unsettling horror novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author, for fans of Stephen King, Catriona Ward and Chuck WendigYour worst nightmare is about to come true.
Perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston and Jasmine Guillory'A wonderfully hopeful, queer, LA love story' Anita Kelly, author of Something Wild & Wonderful'Highly relatable, laugh-out-loud funny, and full of hot-bartender sapphic swoon' Alison Cochrun, author of The Charm Offensive?
