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Famous author Olive Wellwood writes a special private book, bound in different colours, for each of her children. In their...

It is one of the more surprising facts about Old England that one can still find families living in the same houses their...

Melody Browne can remember nothing before her ninth birthday. Now in her early thirties, Melody lives in the middle of London...

The first novel from the great, incomparable Thomas Pynchon.

The quest for V. sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of...

By far the shortest of Pynchon's great, dazzling novels - and one of the best.

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance,...

Paddy Clarke is ten years old. Paddy Clarke lights fires. Paddy Clarke's name is written in wet cement all over Barrytown. Paddy...

With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his...

Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and...

The short story that inspired the play at the heart of BIRDMAN starring Michael Keaton, Ed Norton and Emma Stone

This...

A young boy, Victor, is collected from school by a stranger in a bowler hat - the stranger says he has won Victor in a game of...

One of Amos Oz's earliest and most famous novels, My Michael was a sensation upon its initial publication in 1968 and it has an...

In settings that range from small town Illinois to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, these stories are distinguished by Maxwell's...

Read Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler's funny and uplifting exploration of what it is to be an...

Colin. May. Frank. Berenice. The Prime children grew up in a bleak country farm house called The Beacon. Colin and Berenice...

Read the sweeping and enchanting new novel from the author of The Giant's House

Bertha is an enigma to everyone in Salford,...

No man has ever loved a woman and not imagined her in the arms of someone else.

Felix Quinn calls himself a happy man. He...

Sometimes the choice is too hard to bear...

Nikki Grant is only twenty-one when she discovers she's pregnant. Despite her...

These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them, about destructive marriages and...

Four very different women have made their way from Africa to Brussels. They have come to claim for themselves the riches they...

As a child Ludo is plucked out of the shantytown where he was born and transported to a world of languid, cosseted luxury. Now...

When the Khurana boys and their friend Mansoor set out for one of Delhi's markets, disaster strikes without warning. A 'small'...

Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa.

A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she...

There's something wrong next door. At least, that's what neighbors Howie Jeffries and Emily Phane both think. Since his daughter...

An unnamed author waits in a bar in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night. He is there to give a reading of his work but as he sits,...

First publication of a new collection of the Booker Prize-winner's stories including those from her most recent hardback 'Taking...

Blunt, brutal, but infused with a deep sympathy, Knockemstiff is a pitch-dark and hilarious collection of stories set in a tiny...

Young, newly married and intensely ambitious, Michael Davenport is trying to make a living as a writer. His adoring wife, Lucy,...

The stories in Liars in Love are concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth. Whether it be in the...

First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out...

Even as little girls, Sarah and Emily are very different from each other. Emily looks up to her wiser and more stable older...