Fiction: Special Features

'Insinuating, haunting and lyrically pervasive' The New York Times Book ReviewA new translation by Tim ParksTwenty years after making his fortune i...

'Pavese's novels are works of an extraordinary depth where one never stops finding new levels, new meanings' Italo CalvinoJune, 1943. Allied aircra...

A Jay Qasim short story and prequel to EAST OF HOUNSLOW written for Quick Reads 2021 Business has been slow for Hounslow''s ...

A luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A. S. ByattWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELLMirrors shatter at the...

'Intense, gorgeous, troubling, seductive - a novel that has to be surrendered to rather than read' Sarah Waters AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER O...

You escaped. But he will never let you go.NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES: A page-turning thriller perfect for fans of Room and Gone GirlA windowless sh...

A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we''''d chosen a different path, from a master of the short storyIn this stirring, refle...

An intoxicating and evocative novel about the all-consuming love affair between two women in Paris and the ruin it leaves in its wake.''Captivating...

An intoxicating and evocative novel about the all-consuming love affair between two women in Paris and the ruin it leaves in its wake.'Captivating....

An NPR Best Book of 2021 New and selected fiction, over half in English for the first time, from the winner of the 2014 Neustadt Prize. Known inter...

Unlike most other Palestinian cities, Ramallah is a relatively new town, a de facto capital of the West Bank allowed to thrive after the Oslo Peace...

From Kentucky to the California desert, these forty-two short stories expose the hearts of girls and women in moments of obsessive desire and fanta...

''A beautiful collection that I both lost and found myself in. Unbelievably exciting stories from some show-stoppingly talented writers.'' Candice ...

A dazzling debut collection which, deftly and urgently, tells the stories of those living in the biggest and most complicated country on earth. ...

If the dead could speak, what would they say to the living?From their graves in the field, the oldest part of Paulstadt''s cemetery, the town''s la...

''Sublime short stories of race, grief, and belonging . . . an extraordinary new collection'' New Yorker''Evans''s new stories present rich plots r...

THE STUNNING FINAL INSTALMENT OF THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING DARK ICELAND SERIES **Sunday Times BOOK OF THE MONTH** ''Jonasson is an a...

Written in aid of the Huntington''s Disease Youth Organisation (HDYO), with a foreword from Catherine Martin, CE of the HDYO. The title story, F...

The title story, Fallen Eagles, is a Hamlet-inspired story about a Scottish boy who loses his idolised mountaineer father in an accident and blames...

'A fascinating study of a difficult love' John Burnside, GuardianYoung Ismail's world centres around his mother. Naïve and fragile as a paper doll,...

'What a great novel, its language and storytelling so light but also raw and lyrical. A tremendous writer. Read this book' ADRIAAN VAN DIS. Alan No...

A man and a woman meet in a park. The man has a story to share, one of a past relationship that contains echoes, similarities to the woman''s life ...

Named one of the ten best fiction books of 2018 by the New York Times en Espanol, Cockfight is the debut work by Ecuadorian writer and journalist M...