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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Name on the Door is Not Mine

C. K. Stead

RRP: £14.99

Gathered from throughout Stead’s career, these stories are a reminder of his deft storytelling and literary power. They are clever, sensual, wry and beautifully written, with Stead’s subtle sense of h …

Trenton Makes

Tadzio Koelb

RRP: £8.99

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE, 2018__________________________________________”A novel of bewitching ingenuity” New York Times”Electrifying” Lit Hub__________________________ …

Munmun

Jesse Andrews

RRP: £7.99

A brilliant satirist brings inequality to life in this one-of-a-kind read which is both hilarious and heartbreaking.In an alternate reality a lot like our world, every person’s physical size is direct …

Sweet Thames

Matthew Kneale

RRP: £8.99

In the summer of 1849, cholera threatens the city and the people of London. The authorities send millions of gallons of sewage cascading into the Thames – for many Londoners the only source of drinkin …

House of Stone

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

RRP: £9.99

Winner of the Edward Stanford Prize for Fiction with a Sense of Place, 2019Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, 2019Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, 2 …

The Ladies' Lending Library

Janice Kulyk Keefer

RRP: £7.99

From the award-winning author of Honey and Ashes and Thieves, The Ladies’ Lending Library is a richly evocative story for anyone who has longed for the heady days of bygone summers and the risky promi …

The One Who Wrote Destiny

Nikesh Shukla

RRP: £8.99

Evening Standard’s Wander List Guide to 2019 GetawaysGuardian’s Best Summer Books, 2018″A beautiful, brilliant modern classic.” Sabrina Mahfouz, GuardianNeha has just been diagnosed with the same term …

The Passage of Love

Alex Miller

RRP: £9.99

Robert Crofts, a young Englishman, arrives in Australia in the 1950s, determined to inhabit the outback. After five years of life on the land, he makes his way to Melbourne where, living in a boarding …

The Good Doctor of Warsaw

Elisabeth Gifford

RRP: £9.99

‘Uplifting … extraordinary’ Andrew Taylor’Extremely powerful’ The Times’Vivid, utterly inspiring.’ TelegraphYou do not leave a sick child alone to face the dark…Warsaw, 1940. The Jewish ghetto is …

The Necessary Angel

C. K. Stead

RRP: £8.99

Max Jackson, a New Zealander living and lecturing in Paris, has a complicated arrangement with his estranged French wife, Louise. In love with his younger Sorbonne colleague Sylvie, he finds himself e …

Trajectory

Richard Russo

RRP: £8.99

RTE Guide’s Book of the Year, 2018Richard Russo’s characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we’re familiar with from many of his novels. In ‘Horsema …

Oliver Loving

Stefan Merrill Block

RRP: £8.99

“An exquisitely moving novel of sorrow, love, and the miracle of human connections.” Kamila Shamsie, author of Home FireOne warm night Oliver Loving joins his classmates at the annual school dance, ho …

Spring Tide

Chris Beckett

A thought-provoking collection of contemporary short stories from the winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award 2013.Chris Beckett’s thought-provoking and wide-ranging collection of contemporary short stor …

The Life to Come

Michelle de Kretser

RRP: £8.99

Winner of the Miles Franklin Award, 2018Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, 2018 New Statesman’s best books of the year, 2018Michelle de Kretser’s fifth novel is both a delicious s …

Norma

Sofi Oksanen

RRP: £8.99

From the internationally acclaimed author of Purge and When the Doves Disappeared, comes a deliciously dark family drama that is a searing portrait of both the exploitation of women’s bodies and the e …

Freeman's

John Freeman

RRP: £10.99

‘The oldest is 70. The youngest, 26. In between, the best list of this kind I have ever seen.’ Marlon JamesIn three issues, the literary anthology from leading editor and literary critic John Freeman …

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