Akram's War

RRP: £8.99

One night, Akram Khan walks out of his house towards an appointed time and place where he is supposed to detonate a bomb that will end his life and that of many innocent bystanders. As he wanders thro …

Himmler’s Cook

RRP: £8.99

Aged 105, Rose has endured more than her fair share of hardships: the Armenian genocide, the Nazi regime, and the delirium of Maoism. Yet somehow, despite all the suffering, Rose never loses her joie …

The Midnight Watch

RRP: £20.00

WINNER OF THE 2016 THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS, MCKITTERICK PRIZE A fascinating, revelatory novel based on the true story of the ship, and its crew, that failed to come to the sinking Titanic’s aid. Set on …

The Prospector

RRP: £8.99

***J. M. G. Le Clézio is the Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Fiction***On the isle of Mauritius at the turn of the century the young Alexis L’Etang enjoys an idyllic existence with his parents and …

A Separate Development

RRP: £8.99

Young Harry Moto has problems with fallen arches, crinkly hair that won’t flatten down, a plump chest and, for a white man, unusually dark skin. Harry’s appearance provokes mercilessly sarcastic taunt …

Serenity House

RRP: £9.99

Max Montfalcon lay in bed and tried to remember how many people he had killed…Old Max, the genial giant of Serenity House, north London’s ‘Premier Eventide Refuge’, might have been left to die in pe …

The Love Songs of Nathan J. Swirsky

RRP: £8.99

It is the early fifties in Badminton, Johannesburg, where all the street-names recall British kings and queens and where retired soldiers relive the desert war in their dusty gardens. This small-town …

My Chocolate Redeemer

RRP: £9.99

Bella is a teenage chocolate junkie – fashion-mad and God-haunted – who lives in the lakeside village of La Frisette in France with her aristocratic grandmother. When an exotic black stranger turns up …

The Senility of Vladimir P

RRP: £8.99

As a former president of Russia loses his marbles, those around him get down to losing their morals.Former Russian president, Vladimir P, is going senile, marooned in a world of memories from his year …

West of Sunset

RRP: £14.99

In 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long behind him. In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruin, he struggled …

I Am No One

RRP: £8.99

Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2016Jeremy O’Keefe, a middle-aged Professor, returns to his native New York after a decade teaching at Oxford, and quickly settles into a lonely rhythm of unf …

Melnitz

RRP: £10.99

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 OXFORD-WEIDENFELD TRANSLATION PRIZE.1871. Cattle-dealer Solomon Meijer has made a reputation for himself as one of the few honest Jews in Endingen, a rare Swiss town in which …

Be Frank with Me

RRP: £7.99

A funny, poignant and unforgettable novel about Frank – one of the most lovable and unusual characters you’ll ever meet.For some boys fitting in means standing outMeet Frank – he isn’t like other kids …

In the City of Shy Hunters

Shy, afflicted with a stutter, and struggling with his sexuality, Will Parker comes to New York to escape the provincial western towns where he grew up. In New York, he finds himself surrounded for th …

Death by Water

RRP: £9.99

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZEAn astonishing interweaving of myth, fantasy, history and autobiography, Kenzaburo Oe’s Death by Water is the shimmering masterpiece of a Nobel Pr …

Dietland

RRP: £8.99

A wickedly funny, feminist revenge fantasy novel of one fat woman’s fight against sexism and the beauty industry. Dietland will be adapted into AMC’s 10-episode straight-to-series starring Julianna Ma …