Contemporary Fiction
Fire Rush
Jacqueline Crooks
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023
AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVEL OF...
Piglet
Lottie Hazell
Her life is so full, so why is she hungry?
For Piglet – an unshakable childhood nickname – getting married is...
The Husbands
Holly Gramazio
You wait ages for The One . . . then 203 come along at once
One night Lauren finds a strange...
The House of Doors
Tan Twan Eng
It is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and...
Chrysalis
Anna Metcalfe
NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023
An unnerving, compelling and utterly contemporary debut novel about...
The Sleepwalkers
Scarlett Thomas
Still reeling from the chaos of their wedding, Evelyn and Richard arrive on a tiny Greek island for their honeymoon....
The Weekend
Charlotte Wood
Sylvie, Jude, Wendy and Adele have a lifelong friendship of the best kind: loving, practical, frank and steadfast. But when...
The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa
Stephen Buoro
Fifteen-year-old Andrew Aziza lives in Kontagora, Nigeria, where his days are spent about town with his droogs, Slim and Morocca,...
The Vulnerables
Sigrid Nunez
'A sharp-eyed and tender novel about human connection in a time of crisis' -- Paula Hawkins
'Once you discover Sigrid Nunez,...
The Hypocrite
Jo Hamya
What happens when we stop idolising the generations above us? Stop idolising our own parents?
What happens when we become frightened...
Wellness
Nathan Hill
An Oprah's Book Club Pick
A powerfully affecting novel about how we change, grow and age, Wellness is a story of marriage, middle...
The Hero of This Book
Elizabeth McCracken
Shortlisted for the 2024 Wingate Prize
‘A sublime gift’ Meg Mason
A taut, ground-breaking new novel about a writer's relationship with her...
Cursed Bread
Sophie Mackintosh
If you eat the bread, you'll die, he said. The statement made no sense, but it filled me with an...
One Small Voice
Santanu Bhattacharya
India, 1992. The country is ablaze with riots. In Lucknow, ten year old Shughankar witnesses a terrible act of mob...
The Pole and Other Stories
J. M. Coetzee
The Pole tells the story of Witold Walczykiewicz, a vigorous, white-haired pianist, who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish patron...
The Happy Couple
Naoise Dolan
Meet the wedding party:
THE BRIDE AND GROOM
Celine and Luke are meant to get married and live happily ever after. But...
The Dog of the North
Elizabeth McKenzie
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023
‘Even funnier, even more romantic than McKenzie’s wonderful last’ - Karen Joy Fowler
Penny...
This One Sky Day
Leone Ross
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION
Dawn breaks across the archipelago of...
Kick the Latch
Kathryn Scanlan
A New Yorker Book of the Year
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK AWARD 2023
About one woman’s fine, hard life...
