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A powerful prison story that renews a grand Russian tradition of fabulist existential uncertainty

The Maid's Request tells the beautiful story of an enigmatic relationship between a 16th-century Italian painter and his servant.

At the behest of the French king the artist has journeyed from Italy to lead his school of students in the design and construction of a chateau in the Loire Valley.

Jem is a joyful mystery to Alice. She is something to give thanks for. And when she disappears from Alice's life, as suddenly as she entered it, a whirl of glamour, subversion and literary references, Alice is left bereft. But then she meets Giovanni, presumptuous and hectoring, passionate and beautiful, who leads her back to her childhood friend.

It is 1985, and Greta Wells wishes she lived in any time but this one: she has lost her brother to AIDS, her lover Nathan to another woman, and can not seem to go on alone.

When a genius inventor is seduced by a mysterious firm to create a robot, technology may save him - or be his undoing ...

This 'true feat of imagination and wonder' (Nikesh Shukla) transports readers on an odyssey of love, grief, mayhem and delight.

A single act unravels a mother-daughter relationship in this uncompromising debut. Winner of the 2018 Northern Book Prize

Brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the Booker Prize-finalist author of A Tale for the Time Being. One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his ...

A woman challenges biology and convention in her struggle for freedom: a multi-voiced enquiry into the frontier between humans and animals.

A modern saga spanning the whole of the 20th century, by one of Iceland's most celebrated writers

The ever-popular novels of Sunday Times bestselling sensation, Jenny Colgan, are given a beautiful contemporary new look in this re-issue series.

A searing literary debut with the compulsive qualities of a thriller

The irresistible new novel from Daisy Buchanan, the queen of the unconventional love story.

The film tie-in edition of the classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel for the major motion picture produced by Oprah and Steven Spielberg, coming in January 2024

A gripping literary thriller.

California's fertile Salinas Valley is home to two families whose destinations are fruitfully, and fatally, intertwined. Over the generations, between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of the First World War, the Trasks and the Hamiltons will helplessly replay the fall of Adam and Eve ...

From award-winning author Okechukwu Nzelu comes a spellbinding literary novel that asks, how do you move forward when the past keeps pulling you back?

One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is understandably perturbed and he finds himself an outsider in his own home. In 'Metamorphosis' and the other famous stories included here, Kafka explores the confusing nature of human experience with sly ...

The gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Ice Cream Girls and All My Lies Are True

A devastating haunted-house novel published for the chilling-tales season