It is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It...

A chance sighting on a bus; a letter which should never have been read; a pianist with a secret that touches the heart of her...

It's almost Christmas. Cecilia lies sick in bed as her family bustle around her to make her last Christmas as special as...

1996: in a Ugandan dive bar, the 'freight dogs' gather. An anarchic group of mercenary pilots from Texas, Russia, Kenya and...

A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in...

Welcome to a world where every desire is visible, rising from the body as a plume of Smoke. A world where bodies speak to one...

Olga is an orphan raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the turn of the 20th century. Smart and precocious, she...

'The laws of Smoke are complex. Not every lie will trigger it. A fleeting thought of evil may pass unseen. Next thing you know...

'A Girl Comes of Age Against the Knife.'
So begins the story of Betty.
Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a Cherokee father and...

Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life, biding her time with her youngest son - who is...

John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he's on his way to live as a white man. But when the stagecoach passengers learn...

From the author of the 'great' (Dolly Alderton), 'terrific' (Zadie Smith) The New Me, comes a subversive, hilarious portrait of...

Retreating from the ruins of his marriage, Mike leaves London for the wildness of the Yorkshire moors, where he falls in with a...

Das Boot is the thrilling story of a U-boat commander and his crew during World War II. It is autumn 1941 and a German U-boat...

'And so at the Majestic everything returned to the way it had been before. The gleaming tiles became dulled. Sofas as sleek as...

Janet is sad. And she's quite happy with that. But the world has other plans... Sad Janet introduces a hilarious, provocative new...

The suburbs of Par Mars. Two shopping centres, rows of estates and thematically designed neighbourhoods.

Twenty-four-year-old...

A novel unlike anything that came before it that changed all that came after it - a cult classic for readers of Maggie Nelson,...

At the Travelodge bar near Waterloo bridge, the unnamed narrator of Dead Souls meets the disgraced poet Solomon Wiese, and hears...

Get Shorty follows the fortunes of Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark with a talent for making a 'slow pay' come across. His...

I have taken apart every panel of this, like an ornamental fan. But we stayed in the cottage for three weeks only, just three...

'You be me, and I'll be you' I whispered.
As children, Sam and Elli were two halves of a perfect whole: gorgeous identical twins...

A beautifully written love story set in 1960s Soho amid the revival of fascism

When twenty-year-old Vivien Epstein, a Jewish...

A thrilling story of fame, fortune, and impossible choices.

Caleb Horowitz is twenty-seven, and his wildest dreams are about...

Vera was painting the pony's hooves gold in the dining room; Janet said this was bad for him; poison would seep into his...

Written in the last year of Roth's life, this is the impassioned story of a young man's love affair with literature, and with his...

Jamal loves to run. But one morning - as he is training on a path winding up a steep cliff - he stumbles across a woman in...

There once was ...

a woman who loved her husband's cock so much that she began taking it to work in her lunchbox.

a man who...

A producer at the Belfast bureau of the BBC, Tessa is at work one day when the news of another IRA raid comes on the air. As the...

Two wildly different women - one a grifter, the other an heiress - are brought together by the scam of a lifetime in a...