Winner of the Booker Prize 2019. Teeming with energy, humour and heart, this is a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people. Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the...
Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life -...
The classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that made Alice Walker a household name.
Set in the deep American South between the wars, The Color Purple is the classic tale of Celie, a young...
Every Weekend, In Basements And Parking Lots Across The Country, Young Men With Good White-Collar Jobs And Absent Fathers Take Off Their Shoes And Shirts And Fight Each Other Barehanded For...
Through one life, Colm TóibÃn tells the breath-taking story of the 20th century. It is a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family. THE MAGICIAN tells the story of Thomas...
New cover reissue of Maya Angelou's first and possibly best-loved volume of her autobiography. One of America's most important classics, it ties in with Angelou's new poetry anthology...
Published more than sixty years following the author's death at Auschwitz, a remarkable story of life under the Nazi occupation includes two parts--"A Storm in June," set amid the chaotic...
The first new novel in a decade from the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of BRICK LANE'Bold, compassionate, big-hearted, pitch-perfectly written, and utterly unputdownable' Neel...
From the twice-Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home : Dazzling, essential, entirely unlike anything else -- a memoir on modern womanhood, rejecting oppressive...
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as...
Fearless and essential - the highly anticipated final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography'. It resumes and expands Levy's pioneering examination of a...
Following the international success of THE COST OF LIVING, this final volume of Levy's 'Living Autobiography' is a boldly intimate meditation on home and the spectres that haunt it. It...
Discover Thomas Savage's dark poetic tale of a small town in early 20th century American - the inspiration for the new Jane Campion film. Phil and George are brothers and joint owners of...
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Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest young thinkers - a guide to what everybody is talking about...
Following a run of concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by...
Longlisted for the Wainwright Book Prize 2019A life-affirming book about the British countryside, the cycle of nature, solitude and contentment, through the prism of a brilliant new nature...
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to
He is unbearable, vain, proud, brutal, inconsistent, human. Without him, I would have rotted to death. Abdel looked after me without fail, like I was an infant. Attentive to the smallest...
Regarded by many as Henry James's finest work, and a lucid tragedy exploring the distance between money and happiness, The Portrait of a Lady contains an introduction by Philip Horne in...
2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREWINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZENAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, THE WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE,...
Mikael lives with his parents on a small, remote island. At the age of nine, his father disappears into the sea. Mikael keeps silent about what actually happened. Guilt and inner conflicts...
Guardian columnist Dr Ben Goldacre takes us on a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the bad science we're fed by the worst of the hacks and the quacks'¦When Dr Ben...
From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, comes her masterpiece, ten years in the writing - an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently...
"The two central activities in my life - alongside writing - have been reading and gardening." Penelope Lively has always been a keen gardener. This book is partly a memoir of her own life...
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one...
Two women arrive in a village on the Spanish coast. Rose is suffering from a strange illness andher doctors are mystified. Her daughter Sofia has brought her here to find a cure with the...
On 19 November 1737 the slave-ship Leusden left Elmina (Ghana) with a 'cargo' of 700 abducted and imprisoned Africans who would be sold as slaves in Surinname. One of them was the...
It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she...
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one...
Conor has the same dream every night, ever since his mother first fell ill, ever since she started the treatments that don't quite seem to be working. But tonight is different. Tonight, when...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and...
After honeymooning in Italy Max de Winter returns with his young bride to Manderley, the family estate in Cornwall. Yet the former mistress's presence lingers throughout the house. The shy...
In this honest and stunning novel, now a major motion picture directed by Barry Jenkins, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the...
Aan het einde van de negentiende eeuw hebben de koloniale heersers het Afrikaanse continent onder elkaar verdeeld. In die tijd wordt de dertienjarige Zaiwulo vanuit het oerwoud naar het hof...
Alice Munro's peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but always spacious and timeless stories is once again everywhere apparent in this brilliant new collection. In...
