Literary Fiction

Recently orphaned and left destitute, Briar Monroe accepts the protection of Lord Danville and the shadowed sanctuary of Thornby Manor. As Briar navigates the undercurrents of a household ruled by watchful servants and locked doors, she is drawn ever deeper into a web of suspicion, desire and fear. Whispers in the night, figures at windows, and a constant sense of being watched leave her questioning not only the truth about Thornby, but her own safety within its walls.

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With an introduction by Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall. Originally published in 1956, The Long View is Elizabeth Jane Howard's uncannily authentic portrait of one marriage and one woman. Written with exhilarating wit, it is a gut-wrenching account of the birth and death of a relationship. In...

The minds of five normal people merge in a beautiful, unnerving first contact story where the strangest thing humanity has to face is each other, from the critically acclaimed author of Sleeping Giants. “I’m you now. We all are.” When advertising executive Carole Veilleux loses it at...

Painting a candid picture of a family in crisis, Something in Disguise is a haunting, heartfelt novel from the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard. May's second marriage to Colonel Herbert Brown-Lacy is turning out to be a terrible mistake. Her son, Oliver, leaves...

Cult author David Keenan's most mature, magical and profoundly realised novel yet, centred on a young boy in Glasgow 'A challenging, unconventional and daring piece of fiction ' THE INDEPENDENT 'Blending emotional sincerity with pulpy pastiche' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Psychedelic post-punk fantasia'...

A young woman with little interest in games takes up a job in Frankfurt at a famous gaming company, naively set on reinvention. On her morning commute, in the familiar clutches of tedium and self-loathing, she encounters a nice-eyed stranger who returns her forgotten umbrella and finds herself catapulted into a dizzying, year-long whirlwind of obsession – not just with this endlessly attractive spectre, but also with the feverish karaoke trips from which she draws the ultimate solace.

Quand Mathias, 11 ans, violoniste prometteur, demande à sa mère de participer à la " Tournée des étoiles ", un concours de jeunes talents, elle choisit de tout faire pour qu'il réalise son rêve, malgré la sclérose en plaques précoce dont il est atteint. Gustave, son grand-père, un compositeur distrait et loufoque, décide d'acheter un van afin de transformer cette tournée d'auditions en véritable aventure. Tandis que Mathias nourrit le secret espoir, grâce à la musique, de renouer avec son père dont il reste sans nouvelles... 

The re-dipping of dishes was a small matter, but the emotional texture of married life is made up of small matters. This one had become invested with a fatal quality. Imogen, the beautiful and much younger wife of distinguished barrister Evelyn Gresham, is facing the greatest challenge of her...

Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic...

As the First World War takes hold, a young girl comes of age in a troubled London. Capturing the longing, excitement and poignant comedy of adolescence, The Beautiful Visit is the debut novel from the beloved author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard. 'She helps us to do the...

"We have to search for the truth. What is the use of bringing children into a world that is not worth living in?" In this sharp, experimental satire, Virginia Woolf explores the gap between male reputation and reality. A group of women, disillusioned by the supposed "greatness" of the world...

A leisurely weekend among the British gentry reveals the cracks in their upper-class society in this "beautifully crafted" historical fiction novel set in pre-WWI England (Washington Post). It is the autumn of 1913. Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his...

From the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, in Odd Girl Out, Elizabeth Jane Howard reveals with devastating accuracy a marriage put in a most destructive situation. Anna and Edmund Cornhill have a happy marriage and a lovely home. They are content, complete, absorbed in their...

In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into East Prussia, Solzhenitsyn has written what Nina Krushcheva, in The Nation, calls "a dramatically new interpretation of Russian history." The assassination of tsarist prime minister Pyotr...

From New York Times bestselling author Tom Perrotta, hailed by critics as “the Steinbeck of Suburbia” (Time), “our Balzac of the burbs” (Chicago Sun-Times), and “an American Chekhov” (The New York Times), comes a gripping and darkly nostalgic tale about a tumultuous summer in 1970s...

気力を喪うひと、生きる理由が分からなくなるひと、そして惑う母、辛い父に捧ぐ、懐かしくて真っさらな日本人の物語

A love letter to pop music, American Spirits charts an icon’s fall—and an obsessive fangirl’s rise. One of Vulture's Most Anticipated Books of 2026 "A titillating romp!" —Booklist (starred review) “I imagine the book as a Lynch film with a score by Lana Del Rey." —Los Angeles...

An immersive, page-turning novel about surviving as a funny woman in the male-dominated world of comedy—and what happens when the most promising female star of her generation disappears. “An utterly addictive read.”—Amy Tintera, New York Times bestselling author of Listen for the Lie In...

Arrival meets Wild Dark Shore in this captivating novel that follows a family over fifty years—a bold and compassionate exploration of the universe around us and what it truly means to be human. “The Radiant Dark is incandescent.” —Sarah Jessica Parker It’s March 1980, and Carol Girard...

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“An act of intricate, puzzle-minded fabulism. Part Italo Calvino and part Ed McBain.”—Jim Lewis, Author of New York Times Notable Book Ghosts of New York “[A] playful literary mystery . . . Fans of Anthony Horowitz will find a lot to like.” —Publishers Weekly A clever, electrifying...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Best Book of the Year (So Far) · A People Best Book of March From the iconic crime writer who “inspires cultic devotion in readers” (The New Yorker) and has been called “incandescent” by Stephen King, comes the third and final book...

Before Love became a household name, she was Lacey Dove Bart, a determined teen with dreams of stardom. Desperate to escape her bleak small-town life, Lacey dazzles at an audition for the prestigious Newland Academy, catching the eye of mega producer Jimmy Coins. Lacey’s friend and co-performer, Carrie-Anne, believes they’re on the brink of achieving their shared dream of escaping Appalachia. But a betrayal by Lacey leaves them both reeling.

The inspiration for One Battle After Another "Quite simply, one of those books that will make this world - our world, our daily chemical-preservatice, plastic-wrapped bread - a little more tolerable, a little more human . . . [Pynchon's] voice - absolutely unmistakeable and absolutely inimitable...