New Fiction
Hope: A Tragedy
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Riverhead Books
The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: No one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fle... Buy or find out more →
American Dervish
$29.99 – Paperback book / Orion
An extraordinary debut from a talented new writer.
Growing up as a first generation Pakistani-American in the suburbs of Wisconsin was, at best, unusual circumstance for a young boy. Hayat Shah's life brightens when his ... Buy or find out more →
The Little Shadows
$29.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
The eagerly anticipated new novel from the Commonwealth Prize winning author of the bestselling Good to a Fault follows three sisters into the backstage world of Polite Vaudeville before and during the First World War.
T... Buy or find out more →
Red Ruby Heart In A Cold Blue Sea
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Twelve-year-old Florine Gilham lives in a fishing village on the coast of Maine with her parents in what would appear to be an idyllic situation – on the waters in a harbour, where she and her friends run wild in the nea... Buy or find out more →
The Wolf Gift
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Chatto & Windus
A daring new departure from the inspired creator of The Vampire Chronicles (“unrelentingly erotic . . . unforgettable”—The Washington Post), Lives of the Mayfair Witches (“Anne Rice will live on through the ages of liter... Buy or find out more →
The Soldier's Wife
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Doubleday
Dan Riley is a major in the British Army. After a six month tour of duty in Afghanistan, he is coming home to the wife and young daughters he adores. The outside world sees those reunions as a taste of heaven after month... Buy or find out more →
The Rook
$29.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
At the start of Australian author Daniel O'Malley's impressive debut, a supernatural detective thriller distinguished by its adept use of humor, an unknown woman reads a letter that opens Dear You and closes Sincerely, M... Buy or find out more →
Galore
$21.95 – Paperback book / Other Press Llc
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, Caribbean & Canada and the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award; Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Thomas Head Raddall... Buy or find out more →
The Roundabout Man
$29.99 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline
By the Booker-shortlisted author of Astonishing Splashes of Colour, a wry, poignant novel about a man trying to escape his fame as the boy in his mother's bestselling books.
Who is the Roundabout Man?
He doesn't look lik... Buy or find out more →
The Sea On Our Skin
$29.99 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline
A lyrical novel of mothers and sons, love, family and the far-reaching consequences of betrayal, set on a small Pacific island.
Set in a tiny, traditional community on a Pacific island, this is the story of a marriage an... Buy or find out more →
Pure
$19.99 – Paperback book / Headline
A stunning coming of age novel set in a richly imagined post-apocalyptic world. For fans of THE PASSAGE and THE HUNGER GAMES this is a fantastic addition to the growing cannon of dystopian fiction.
We know you are here, ... Buy or find out more →
The Book Of Lost Fragrances
$32.95 – Paperback book / Random House
A scintillating thriller of murder and secrets, lovers separated by time, and a mystical perfume that unlocks past lives ...
Jac L'Etoile has always been haunted by the past, her memories infused with the exotic scents s... Buy or find out more →
The Map
$29.99 – Paperback book /
August Winthrop, an American who fought with the International Brigade in 1937, is talked into returning a 17th century chronicle containing a great mystical secret written by a Spanish Jewish physic fleeing both the Inq... Buy or find out more →
Marilyn's Last Sessions
$32.95 – Hardcover book / Canongate
*4.25 am, 5 August 1962, West Los Angeles Police Department
‘Marilyn Monroe has died of an overdose’, a man’s voice says dully. And when the stunned policeman asked ‘What?’, the same voice struggled to repeat ‘Marilyn Mo... Buy or find out more →
What Remains
$29.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
'Before you fall in love, or find a dear friend, you should know: this is the day I will meet someone whose memory will touch my heart and change my world forever. I believe the ability to do this is buried deep within e... Buy or find out more →
Jack Holmes And His Friend
$29.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
Many straight men and gay men are best friends, but if the phenomenon is an urban commonplace it has never been treated before as the focus of a major novel.
Jack Holmes is in love, but the man he loves never shares his ... Buy or find out more →
My Policeman
$29.95 – Paperback book / Random House
From the moment Marion first lays eyes on Tom - her best friend's big brother, broad, blond, blue-eyed - she is smitten.And when he comes home from National Service to be a policeman, Marion, a newly qualified teacher, i... Buy or find out more →
Pure
$22.99 – Paperback book / Hachette Livre
The author of the prize-winning, hugely acclaimed INGENIOUS PAIN returns to the 18th century with an enthralling tale set in pre-revolutionary Paris.
A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses ... Buy or find out more →
A Crown Imperilled: A Chaoswar Saga Book Two
$39.99 – Hardcover book / Voyager
War rages in Midkemia but behind the chaos there is disquieting evidence of dark forces at work.
Jim Dasher′s usually infallible intelligence network has been cleverly dismantled; nowhere is safe. He feels that the world... Buy or find out more →
The Lost Memory Of Skin
$29.99 – Paperback book / Profile
The acclaimed author of The Sweet Hereafter and Rule of the Bone returns with a provocative new novel that illuminates the shadowed edges of contemporary American culture with startling and unforgettable results
Suspende... Buy or find out more →
Miles Off Course
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster
In early 1933, Rowland Sinclair and his companions are ensconced in the superlative luxury of The Hydro Majestic - Medlow Bath, where trouble seems distant indeed.
And then Harry Simpson vanishes.
Croquet and pre-dinner ... Buy or find out more →
Currawalli Street
$27.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
A beguiling celebration of the extraordinary in ordinary people's lives, this gently moving and beautifully written novel tells the stories of the people of Currawalli Street across the generations. It's a modern classic... Buy or find out more →
Suddenly A Knock On The Door
$19.95 – Paperback book / Random House
Etgar Keret is an ingenious and original master of the short story. Hilarious, witty and always unusual, declared a ‘genius’ by the New York Times, Keret brings all of his prodigious talent to bear in this, his sixth bes... Buy or find out more →
I've Got Your Number
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
I've lost it. The only thing in the world I wasn't supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It's been in Magnus's family for three generations. And now, the very same day his parents are coming, I've lost it. The very same ... Buy or find out more →
The Third Reich
$37.95 – Hardcover book / Farrar Straus & Giro
On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war games champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple... Buy or find out more →
Iago: A Novel
$39.95 – Paperback book / Henry Holt & Company
An unforgettable adventure beginning where Shakespeare'sOthello leaves off
Wounded in love, tormented by his past, Shakespeare's most complex villain is brought magnificently to life in this tale of two adversaries—one a... Buy or find out more →
Lightning Rods
$36.95 – Hardcover book / New Directions
Helen DeWitt’s follow-up to her critically accalimed debut novel The Last Samurai arrives with a bang, ready to take on the complex issues surrounding sexual tension in the workplace with a wicked dose of satire and humo... Buy or find out more →
The Berlin Crossing
$29.99 – Paperback book / Headline
THE BERLIN CROSSING is a compelling, unforgettable novel that brings to life the very human story behind a momentous turning point in history.
Brandenburg 1993: The Berlin Wall is down, the country is reunified and thirt... Buy or find out more →
It's Fine By Me
$32.95 – Paperback book / Harvill
On his first day of school, a teacher welcomes Audun to the class by asking him to describe his former life in the country. But there are stories about his family he would prefer to keep to himself, such as the weeks he ... Buy or find out more →
Micro
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Three men are found dead in the locked second floor office of a Honolulu building, with no sign of struggle except for the ultra-fine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies. The only clue left behind is a tiny bladed ro... Buy or find out more →
Stone Arabia
$29.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Denise and Nik grew up in the ’70s LA music scene. Nik—handsome and gifted, with a knack for songwriting—was a star on the rise. Denise, his sister, was his biggest fan. Now, fleeting success long behind him, Nik makes h... Buy or find out more →
Zone One
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Random House
The most chilling, witty and downright beautifully written Zombie novel you'll ever read.
In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into t... Buy or find out more →
Jubilee
$29.99 – Paperback book / Orion
A heartwarming and nostalgic novel set during a street party for the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977.
It is 1977, the Queen's Silver Jubilee and a photographer captures a moment forever: a street party with bunting and Un... Buy or find out more →
Jane Austen: Blood Persuasion
$27.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
It is 1810, and the Damned are out of favor—banished from polite society. Jane Austen’s old undead friends have become new neighbors, raising hell in her tranquil village just in time to interrupt Jane’s work on what wil... Buy or find out more →
22 Britannia Road
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
'A riveting historical novel, set in post-WWII England . . .
crimes of love and war'
Oprah.com
In war we sometimes lose ourselves . . .
It is 1946 and Silvana and eight-year-old Aurek board a ship that will take them fro... Buy or find out more →
Dark Matter
$19.99 – Paperback book / Orion
A terrifying 1930s ghost story set in the haunting wilderness of the far north.
January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his lif... Buy or find out more →
Liar Bird
$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
PR whizz Cassandra Daley isn′t afraid of using all the dirty tricks of the trade to spin a story her way. A glamorous city-slicker, she has never given much thought to wildlife until she humiliatingly loses a PR war with... Buy or find out more →
Power And Beauty: A Love Story Of Life On The Streets
$39.99 – Hard back / Harper Collins
Hip-hop artist Tip "T.I." Harris has received every acclaim the music world has to offer. Now, working with bestselling celebrity collaborator David Ritz, T.I. applies all his talent and experience to the world of fictio... Buy or find out more →
Memory Wall
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Fourth Estate
Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr′s new collection of stories is about memory: the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others.
In the luminous and b... Buy or find out more →
The Angel Esmeralda
$29.99 – Hardcover book / Picador
The stories here, collected from all five decades of DeLillo's career, show an acknowledged master of the novel in complete command of the short form. In The Angel Esmeralda, DeLillo finds the freedom to represent the wi... Buy or find out more →
Ed King
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
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The Festival By The Sea
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
Gina Laurel is ready to move on from her quiet life at Shelly Beach – and she's got the brilliant job offer to prove it. But when her erstwhile lover – and director of the inaugural Shelly Beach Writers' Festival – takes... Buy or find out more →
Various Positions
$29.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Nuanced, fresh, and gorgeously well-written, Martha Schabas’ extraordinary debut novel takes us inside the beauty and rigour of professional dance, and the young women striving to make it in that world. Shy and introvert... Buy or find out more →
An Honourable Man
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Virago
A big and important Victorian novel set in London and the Sudan from a major international writer.
From one of Britain's most important writers, An Honourable Man is set in the tumultuous world of late Victorian England.... Buy or find out more →
Thirteen Flowers Of Nanjing
$27.95 – Hardcover book / Random House
This moving short novel is based on true events that took place during the Nanjing Massacre in 1937 when the Japanese invaded the Chinese city, slaughtering not only soldiers but raping and murdering the civilian populat... Buy or find out more →
The Marriage Plot
$29.95$26.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Madeleine Hanna was the dutiful English major who didn′t get the memo. While everyone else in the early 1980s was reading Derrida, she was happily absorbed with Jane Austen and George Eliot. Madeleine was the girl who dr... Buy or find out more →
Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close (Film Tie-In)
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies.... Buy or find out more →
We Bought A Zoo (Film Tie-In)
$19.99 – Paperback book /
In the market for a house and the adventure of a lifetime, Benjamin Mee decided to uproot his family and move them to an unlikely new home: a dilapidated zoo on the English countryside, complete with over 200 exotic anim... Buy or find out more →
The Transformation Of Bartholomew Fortuno
$22.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan
A sumptuous period story with the most wondrously vibrant cast of characters – this tale of secrets, friendship and forbidden love will leave you enchanted.
In the late 1860s, as America was recovering from Lincoln's a... Buy or find out more →
Me Before You
$29.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
Lou Clark knows lots of things.
She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick.
What ... Buy or find out more →
In Red
$23.95 – Paperback book / Archipelago Press
(Translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston)
In this latest groundbreaking novel, Magdalena Tulli creates a world that is unreal, yet strangely familiar and utterly convincing. Set in a mythical fourth partition of Pola... Buy or find out more →
Midwife Of Venice
$32.95 – Paperback book / Random House
At midnight, the dogs, cats, and rats rule Venice. The Ponte di Ghetto Nuovo, the bridge that leads to the ghetto, trembles under the weight of sacks of rotting vegetables, rancid fat, and vermin. Seeping refuse on the s... Buy or find out more →
Antwerp
$24.99 – Hard back / Macmillan
Antwerp is Bolano intensified and distilled. As his friend and literary executor, Ignacio Echevarria, once suggested, it can be viewed as the Big Bang of his fictional universe. It is the birth of Bolano's enterprise in ... Buy or find out more →
Forecast Turbulence
$22.99 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
The turbulent river rushes on.
′Everything flows,′ wrote Heraclitus, ′and nothing stays fixed.′
FORECAST TURBULENCE is a breathtaking and exquisitely lyrical collection of nine short stories and one memoir piece ... Buy or find out more →
The Prague Cemetery
$32.95$29.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill
An inspired twisting of history and fiction by the critically celebrated, best-selling author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum.
Nineteenth-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the gh... Buy or find out more →
Exile
$32.99 – Paperback book / Maclehose Press
Despite the tough discipline, the students at the International School in Moshi are free to run wild. For this motley cohort of ex-pat Europeans, Indian Tanzanians and wealthy Africans, it's all about getting high, getti... Buy or find out more →
I Curse The River Of Time
$32.95$9.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill
An enthralling novel of a mother and son's turbulent relationship from the author of Out Stealing Horses.
It is 1989: Communism is crumbling, and Arvid Jansen, thirtyseven, is facing his first divorce. At the same time, ... Buy or find out more →
1Q84
$39.95$32.95 – Hardcover book / Harvill
The Australian edition, exceeding 900 pages, comprises all three volumes of the book (which were published in Japan and the UK as separate books).
Read an early review of 1Q84 by friend of Readings and Melbournian Louis ... Buy or find out more →
The Cat's Table
$29.95$24.95 – Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England – a ‘castle that was to cross the sea’. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly ‘Cat's Table’ with an eccentric group of grown-ups and two ... Buy or find out more →
The Sense Of An Ending
$29.95$24.95 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape
Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize.
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumo... Buy or find out more →
Solace
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Picador
Mark Casey has left home, the rural community where his family has farmed for generations, to study for a doctorate in Dublin, a vibrant, contemporary city full of possibility. To his father, Tom, who needs help baling t... Buy or find out more →
Destiny
$16.99 – Paperback book / Headline
The author of DESIRE and PASSION is back with a fantastic new blockbuster - an irresistible story of ambition, secrets and true love.
Kate Fox was a teenage orphan from the rough side of the Bronx. Now a beautiful woman,... Buy or find out more →
Summer
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Sphere
An engrossing portrait of an extraordinary summer on a remote farm endured by two recently orphaned children - a stunning novel by a real talent.
When Grace Hooper, on the verge of womanhood, and her nine year-old brothe... Buy or find out more →
The Map And The Territory
$32.95$29.95 – Trade paperback / Heinemann
If Jed Martin, the main character of this novel, was to tell you its story, he would perhaps begin by talking about a boiler breaking down, one 15th December. Or about his father, a well-known and committed architect, wi... Buy or find out more →
Landfall
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Fig Tree
Alice Robinson is having doubts about her job on a fashionable London art magazine. Agreeing to house sit for her parents, she moves back to the suburban streets of her childhood, a world of Girl Guides, Tudorbethan hous... Buy or find out more →
When She Woke
$27.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Hannah Payne′s life has been devoted to church and family, but after her arrest, she awakens to a nightmare: she is lying on a table in a bare room, covered only by a paper gown, with cameras broadcasting her every move ... Buy or find out more →