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Ilaria - ou la conquête de la désobéissance

Gabriella Zalapi
Un jour de mai 1980, Ilaria, huit ans, monte dans la voiture de son père à la sortie de l’école. De petits hôtels en aires d’autoroute, l’errance dans le nord de l’Italie se prolonge. En pensant à sa mère, I’enfant se promet de ne plus pleurer. Elle apprend à conduire et à mentir, read more >

En attendant le déluge

Dolores Redondo
À l’origine de ce roman époustouflant, des faits réels : entre 1968 et 1969, celui que la presse écossaise a surnommé Bible John tua trois jeunes femmes rencontrées dans une discothèque de Glasgow et disparut. En 1983, Noah Scott Sherrington, policier obsédé par Bible John depuis près read more >

Les voleurs d'ampoules

Tomasz Rozycki
Habitant au dixième et dernier étage d'une barre d'immeuble, chef-d'œuvre d'architecture brutaliste à l'époque du communisme tardif, Tadeusz s'est vu confier par son père une tâche difficile : aller porter un précieux, un miraculeux paquet de café en grains à M. Stefan, le seul voisin à read more >

Le premier renne

Olivier Truc
Laponie suédoise. Des corbeaux et des loups. Des rennes et des rêves. Et Anja, une jeune Sami, marginalisée. A qui on a confié le pouvoir de tuer. Anja, celle qui voulait écouter les pierres de la toundra. Celle qui ne veut plus se taire. Celle qui ne veut plus plier. Celle qui read more >

La realidad

Neige Sinno
Dans ce nouveau roman, Neige Sinno fait le récit du voyage au Mexique de deux jeunes femmes, Netcha, la narratrice, et Maga, une amie espagnole, il y a une vingtaine d’années. Celui-ci les mènera sur les traces du sous-commandant Marcos, en quête d’un village du Chiapas – justement appelé read more >

Jacaranda

Gael Faye
Quels secrets cache l’ombre du jacaranda, l’arbre fétiche de Stella ? Il faudra à son ami Milan des années pour le découvrir. Des années pour percer les silences du Rwanda, dévasté après le génocide des Tutsi. En rendant leur parole aux disparus, les jeunes gens échapperont à la read more >

Dors ton sommeil de brute

Carole Martinez
« Un long hurlement, celui d’une foule d’enfants, secoue la planète. Dans les villes, le Cri passe à travers les murs, se faufile dans les canalisations, jaillit sous les planchers, court dans les couloirs des tours où les familles dorment les unes au-dessus des autres, le Cri se répand read more >

Madelaine avant l'aube

Sandrine Collette
C’est un endroit à l’abri du temps. Ce minuscule hameau, qu’on appelle Les Montées, est un pays à lui seul pour les jumelles Ambre et Aelis, et la vieille Rose. Ici, l’existence n’a jamais été douce. Les familles travaillent une terre avare qui appartient à d’autres, endurent en read more >

Le ciel de Tokyo

Emilie Desvaux
Au cœur de Tokyo, la Gaijin House : une pension bohème réservée aux étrangers. Voyageurs, expatriés et paumés s`y rencontrent au hasard de leurs pérégrinations, parfois d`un accident de parcours. Il y a là Camille, jeune épouse en fuite qui ignore tout d`elle- même, Flavio, l`érudit read more >

Les lendemains qui chantent

Arnaldur Indridason
Pourquoi ce teinturier sans histoire, père célibataire, a-t-il disparu un soir en laissant son fils sans famille et sans protection ? Comment ce conducteur habile a-t-il pu s'engager sur ce glacier et disparaître ? N'y a-t-il personne pour trouver cela bizarre à l'exception de Konrad ? Un roman read more >

La Cité aux murs incertains

Haruki Murakami
« Tu dis : " La Cité est entourée de hauts murs et il est très difficile d'y pénétrer. Mais encore plus difficile d'en sortir. - Comment pourrais-je y entrer, alors ? - Il suffit que tu le désires »   La jeune fille a parlé de la Cité à son amoureux. Elle lui a dit qu'il ne read more >

Le bastion des larmes

Abdellah Taïa
À la mort de sa mère, Youssef, un professeur marocain exilé en France depuis un quart de siècle, revient à Salé, sa ville natale, à la demande de ses sœurs, pour liquider l'héritage familial. En lui, c'est tout un passé qui ressurgit, où se mêlent inextricablement souffrances et bonheur read more >

Toutes les vies de Théo

Nathalie Azoulai
Théo est en couple depuis vingt-cinq ans avec Léa, une juive pratiquante. Leur union est mise à mal par la situation politique française et internationale. Il ne comprend plus sa compagne, en particulier au sujet d'Israël. Théo rencontre alors Maya, jeune artiste libanaise qui lui fait read more >

Nul ennemi comme un frère

Frédéric PAULIN
Beyrouth, 13 avril 1975. Des membres du FPLP ouvrent le feu sur une église dans le quartier chrétien d’Ain el-Remmaneh. Quelques minutes plus tard, un bus palestinien subit les représailles sanglantes des phalangistes de Gemayel, inaugurant un déferlement de violence sans commune mesure qui read more >

Coeur noir

Silvia Avallone
  Le seul moyen d'atteindre Sassaia, un petit village niché dans les montagnes, est un chemin de terre très raide, caché parmi les hêtres. C'est de là qu'apparaît un jour Emilia, cheveux roux et crépus, fine comme un bâton, une adolescente d'une trentaine d'années aux bottes de combat read more >

L'âge fragile

Donatella Di Pietrantonio
Lucia n'a jamais quitté son village des Abruzzes. Pourtant, trente ans plus tôt, elle y a été témoin d'un crime terrible. Aujourd'hui, sa fille Amanda, partie étudier à Milan, est de retour auprès d'elle. Mais la jeune femme ne quitte pas sa chambre et s'enferme dans un silence inquiétant. read more >

Le désastre de la maison des notables

Amira Ghenim
Tunisie, 1935. Dans un pays en pleine ébullition politique se croisent les destins de deux éminentes familles bourgeoises : les Naifer, rigides et conservateurs, et les Rassaa, libéraux et progressistes. Une nuit de décembre, à Tunis, la jeune épouse de Mohsen Naifer, Zbeida Rassaa, est read more >

Frapper l'épopée

Alice Zeniter
Quand Tass était enfant, les adultes lui ont raconté l'histoire de sa terre à plusieurs reprises et dans différentes versions. Malgré tous ces récits, Tass n'a jamais bien su où commençait l'histoire des siens. Comme elle n'a jamais réussi à expliquer la Nouvelle-Calédonie à Thomas, son read more >

Jour de ressac

Maylis De Kerangal
"Finalement, il vous dit quelque chose, notre homme ? Nous arrivions à hauteur de Gonfreville-l'Orcher, la raffinerie sortait de terre, indéchiffrable et nébuleuse, façon Gotham City, une autre ville derrière la ville, j'ai baissé ma vitre et inhalé longuement, le nez orienté vers les tours read more >

La méthode sicilienne

Andrea Camilleri
Pour le fidèle bras droit du commissaire Montalbano, l'infatigable coureur de jupons Mimí Augello, c'est une nuit comme les autres lorsqu'il doit se sauver par la fenêtre de la chambre de sa maîtresse pour échapper au mari cocu. Ce qui l'est moins en revanche, c'est de tomber à l'étage du read more >

J'emporterai le feu

Leila Slimani

Giovanni Falcone

Roberto Saviano
Le 23 mai 1992, aux abords de Palerme, plusieurs centaines de kilos d'explosifs faisaient sauter la voiture du célèbre juge Falcone, l'ennemi numéro 1 de la mafia sicilienne. Le nouveau roman-enquête de Roberto Saviano reconstitue les étapes qui ont mené à cet assassinat. Tout commence vingt read more >

Rares ceux qui échappèrent à la guerre

Frédéric PAULIN
« Ce n'est pas un mercredi agréable de fin d'été. C'est seulement un jour comme les autres, un jour comme ceux qui ont précédé : Paris, feu et sang. » Beyrouth, 23 octobre 1983. Un attentat visant le poste Drakkar fait près de soixante victimes françaises parmi lesquelles pourrait read more >

L'inventaire des rêves

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Houris

Kamel Daoud
« Je suis la véritable trace, le plus solide des indices attestant de tout ce que nous avons vécu en dix ans en Algérie. Je cache l’histoire d’une guerre entière, inscrite sur ma peau depuis que je suis enfant. » Aube est une jeune Algérienne qui doit se souvenir de la guerre read more >

Un avenir radieux

Pierre Lemaitre
« Je viens sauver quelqu’un, se répétait-il, et maintenant qu’il se trouvait à deux heures de Prague, il sentait monter en lui une vive anxiété. » Une échappée belle de Paris à Prague, d’un studio de radio à des ruelles hostiles, d’un cachot glacé à une académie de billard, read more >

La lumière vacillante

Nino Haratischwili
Elles sont quatre : il y a Nene la romantique, Ira la cérébrale, Dina l'idéaliste et Keto l'observatrice. Voisines depuis l'enfance, elles grandissent ensemble à Tbilissi, en Géorgie, au moment où l'Union soviétique s'effondre et où se pose la question de l'avenir de leur pays. Chacune à read more >

Badjens

Delphine Minoui
« Bad-jens : mot à mot, mauvais genre. En persan de tous les jours: espiègle ou effrontée. » Chiraz, automne 2022. Au cœur de la révolte « Femme, Vie, Liberté », une Iranienne de 16 ans escalade une benne à ordures, prête à brûler son foulard en public. Face aux encouragements de read more >

Quelqu'un derrière les murs

Zygmunt Miloszewski
L`un des auteurs polonais les plus lus de sa génération ! À Varsovie, la tranquillité d`un immeuble est soudainement menacée quand un de ses occupants, pris d`une inexplicable panique, tente de s`extraire de l`ascenseur en marche et se fait décapiter. Après ça, d`autres locataires deviennent read more >

Cabane

Abel Quentin
Berkeley, 1973. Département de dynamique des systèmes. Quatre jeunes chercheurs mettent les dernières touches au rapport qui va changer leur vie. Les résultats de l'IBM 360, alias « Gros Bébé », sont sans appel : si la croissance industrielle et démographique ne ralentit pas, le monde tel read more >

Les guerriers de l'hiver

Olivier Norek
« Je suis certain que nous avons réveillé leur satané Sisu. – Je ne parle pas leur langue, camarade. – Et je ne pourrais te traduire ce mot, car il n’a d’équivalent nulle part ailleurs. Le Sisu est l’âme de la Finlande. Il dit le courage, la force intérieure, la ténacité, la read more >

Le héros de Berlin

Michael Hartung, qui tient un des derniers vidéo-clubs de Berlin, reçoit la visite d'un journaliste. Des dossiers exhumés de la Stasi montreraient qu'un jour de juillet 1983 Hartung, à l'époque aiguilleur, aurait organisé l'évasion de 127 personnes vers l'Ouest dans un train de banlieue. read more >

Ilaria - ou la conquête de la désobéissance

Gabriella Zalapi

Rares ceux qui échappèrent à la guerre

Frédéric PAULIN

L'âge fragile

Donatella Di Pietrantonio

La méthode sicilienne

Andrea Camilleri

Les guerriers de l'hiver

Olivier Norek

La Cité aux murs incertains

Haruki Murakami

Cabane

Abel Quentin

Badjens

Delphine Minoui

En attendant le déluge

Dolores Redondo

Madelaine avant l'aube

Sandrine Collette

Coeur noir

Silvia Avallone

Le désastre de la maison des notables

Amira Ghenim

Dors ton sommeil de brute

Carole Martinez

Nul ennemi comme un frère

Frédéric PAULIN

Jour de ressac

Maylis De Kerangal

Houris

Kamel Daoud

Jacaranda

Gael Faye

L'inventaire des rêves

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Le héros de Berlin

Quelqu'un derrière les murs

Zygmunt Miloszewski

Frapper l'épopée

Alice Zeniter

La realidad

Neige Sinno

J'emporterai le feu

Leila Slimani

Un avenir radieux

Pierre Lemaitre

Le premier renne

Olivier Truc

Toutes les vies de Théo

Nathalie Azoulai

La lumière vacillante

Nino Haratischwili

Le ciel de Tokyo

Emilie Desvaux

Les lendemains qui chantent

Arnaldur Indridason

Les voleurs d'ampoules

Tomasz Rozycki

Giovanni Falcone

Roberto Saviano

Le bastion des larmes

Abdellah Taïa

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The Sleepwalkers

Scarlett THOMAS
Still reeling from the chaos of their wedding, Evelyn and Richard arrive on a tiny Greek island for their honeymoon. It’s the end of the season and a storm is imminent. Determined to make the best of it, they check into the sun-soaked doors of the Villa Rosa. Already feeling insecure after seeing read more >

Young Mungo

Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world. They are caught between two of Glasgow’s housing estates where young working-class men divide themselves along sectarian lines, and fight territorial battles for the sake of reputation. They should be read more >

Earth

John Boyne
From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man whose direction in life takes a vastly different turn than what he expected.It’s the tabloid sensation of the two well-known footballers standing in the dock, charged with sexual assault, a series of read more >

The Midnight Feast

Lucy Foley
Midsummer, the Dorset coast In the shadows of an ancient wood, guests gather for the opening weekend of The Manor: a beautiful new countryside retreat. But under the burning midsummer sun, darkness stirs. Old friends and enemies circulate among the guests. And the candles have barely been lit read more >

The drowned

John Banville
From the renowned Booker Prize winner and nationally bestselling author of Snow comes a richly atmospheric new mystery about a woman’s sudden disappearance in a small coastal town in Ireland, where nothing is as it seems. "John Banville is one of my favorite writers alive, and I pick up his read more >

Orbital

Samantha Harvey
A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts--from read more >

The Bookshop Woman

Nanako HANADA
Nanako Hanada's life has not just flatlined, it's hit rock bottom... Recently separated from her husband, she is living between 4-hour capsule hostels, pokey internet cafes and bookshop floors. Her work is going no better - sales at the eccentric Village Vanguard bookstore in Tokyo, which Nanako read more >

Wednesday's Child

Yiun Li
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the Story Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award Named a Best Book of the Year by Los Angeles Times, Vulture, Esquire, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews A new collection?about loss, alienation, read more >

A Cage Went in Search of a Bird, Ten Kafkaesque Stories

Various Various
A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death *Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, New Statesman, Esquire and the New read more >

All that She Carried

Tia MILES
In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley’s granddaughter read more >

The Housemaid is Watching

Freida McFADDEN
“You must be our new neighbors!” Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my daughter’s hand and smile back: but the second Mrs. Lowell sees my husband a strange expression crosses her face. In that moment I make a promise. We finally have a family home. My past is far, read more >

The Safe Keep

Yael Van Der Wouden
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE* “Remarkable…Compelling…Fine and taut…Indelible.” —The New York Times • “Moving, unnerving, and deeply sexy.” —Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with the Pearl Earring • “A brilliant debut, as multi-faceted as a gem.” —Kirkus read more >

Precipice

Robert Harris
Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe. In London, 26-year-old Venetia Stanley – aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless – is having a love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age. He writes to her obsessively, sharing the most sensitive matters of read more >

Kala

Colin WALSH
In the seaside town of Kinlough, on Ireland’s west coast, three old friends are thrown together for the first time in years. They—Helen, Joe, and Mush—were part of an original group of six inseparable teenagers in the summer of 2003,withmotherless, reckless Kala Lanann as their group’s read more >

The Bookbinder of Jericho

Pip WILLIAMS
It is 1914, and as the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, women must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who live on a narrow boat in Oxford and work in the bindery at the university press. Ambitious, intelligent Peggy has been told for read more >

Western Lane

Chetna MAROO
A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete's struggle to transcend herself. Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game read more >

Juice

Tim Winton
'A hold-your-breath adventure set in an utterly plausible, sun-hammered future, Juice will stab your conscience and break your heart’ - Emma Donoghue 'A blistering cli-fi epic' - The Guardian, Best Books of the Autumn Survival is only the beginning. Two fugitives, a man and a child, read more >

Headshot

Rita Bullwinkel
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE READS OF SUMMER 2024 Named a Best Book of 2024 So Far by The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Elle, Vulture, and The Guardian “Make room, American fiction, for a read more >

My Favourite Mistake

Marian Keyes
Anna has just lost her taste for the Big Apple… She has a life to envy. An apartment in New York. A well-meaning (too well-meaning?) partner. And a high-flying job in beauty PR. Who wouldn’t want all that? Anna, it turns out. Trading a minor midlife crisis for a major life event, she switches read more >

Pineapple Street

JACKSON Jenny
Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected old money Stockton family, followed her heart, trading her job and her inheritance for motherhood but giving up far too much in the process; Sasha, a middle-class New England girl, has married into the Brooklyn Heights family, and finds herself cast read more >

After the Funeral

Tessa Hadley
Heloise's father died in a car crash when she was a little girl; at a dinner party in her forties, she meets someone connected to that long-ago tragedy. Janey's bohemian mother plans to marry a man close to Janey's own age - everything changes when an accident interrupts the wedding party. A read more >

The Silence Factory

Bridget Collins
The Sunday Times bestseller, from the author of The Binding 'Utterly original… ensnared me from the very first page' EMILIA HART 'Storytelling at its most immersive' ERIN KELLY The whole world disappears when you enter THE SILENCE FACTORY A glittering edifice, raw and shining. read more >

There are Rivers in the Sky

Elif Shafak
This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives – all connected by a single drop of water. In the ruins of Nineveh, that ancient city of Mesopotamia, there lies hidden in the sand fragments of a long-forgotten poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh. In Victorian London, an read more >

Evenings and Weekends

Oisin McKENNA
London, 2019. It’s the hottest June on record, and a whale is stuck in the Thames River. In the streets of the city, four old acquaintances want more from life than they’ve been given. On the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, their paths will intersect at a party that will change read more >

Butcher

Joyce Carol Oates
From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women’s asylum in the nineteenth century, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world In this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, read more >

You Are Here

David Nicholls
Marnie is stuck. Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that often feels like it's passing her by. Michael is coming undone. Reeling from his wife's departure, increasingly reclusive, taking himself on long, solitary walks across the moors and read more >

Our Evenings

Alan Hollinghurst
From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, “an engrossing tale of one man’s personal odyssey as he grows up, framed in exquisite language” (The New York Times Book Review) “The finest novel yet from one of the great writers of our time.”—The read more >

In Ascension

Martin MacInnes
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the ocean floor, leading her on a journey that will encompass the full trajectory of the cosmos and the passage of a single human read more >

The Mighty Red

Louise Erdrich
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK • A FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION "[A] sweeping, tender-hearted epic." —Harper's Bazaar In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, read more >

Parade

Rachel Cusk
From Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, comes this startling, exhilarating novel that once again expands the notion of what fiction can be and do. Midway through his life, the artist G begins to paint upside down. Eventually, he paints his wife upside down. He also makes her ugly. The read more >

The Night House

Jo Nesbo
From the internationally best-selling author, a chilling fresh spin on the classic horror novel • When the voices call, don't answer. “In The Night House, the horror begins immediately. And it only keeps calling from there.”—Josh Malerman, New York Times best-selling author of Bird read more >

The Morningside

Téa Obreht
After being expelled from their ancestral home, Silvia and her mother finally settle at the Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower in Island City where Silvia’s aunt Ena serves as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her new life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about read more >

Until August

Gabriel Garcia Márquez
The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for read more >

Gabriel's Moon

William Boyd
In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain’s greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant streets of sixties London to the sun-soaked cobbles of Cadiz and the frosty squares of Warsaw, as an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and obsession. Gabriel Dax is a young man read more >

Long Island

Colm Toibin
A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello’s door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes. Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since leaving Brooklyn - perhaps a little stifled by the in-laws so close, but twenty years married and with two children looking read more >

Playground

Richard Powers
New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize As Seen on CBS Saturday Morning • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Named a Best Book of 2024 So Far by The New Yorker and Vogue • Selected as "Fiction to Read this read more >

Tell Me Everything

Elizabeth Strout
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a “stunner” (People) of a novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world. “Tell Me Everything hits like a bucolic read more >

Miss Austen Investigates

Jessica Bull
A witty, engaging murder mystery featuring Jane Austen as an intrepid amateur sleuth—the first in a series. Jane Austen—sparkling, spirited, and incredibly clever—is suddenly thrust into a mystery when a milliner’s dead body is found locked inside a cupboard in the middle of a ball. When read more >

The Lost Story

Meg SHAFFER
As boys, best friends Jeremy Cox and Rafe Howell went missing in a vast West Virginia state forest, only to mysteriously reappear six months later with no explanation for where they’d gone or how they’d survived. Fifteen years after their miraculous homecoming, Rafe is a reclusive artist who read more >

Held

Anne Michaels
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE GILLER PRIZE • A breathtaking and ineffable new novel from the author of the international best sellers Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault—a novel of love and loyalty across generations, at once sweeping and intimate 1917. On a battlefield near read more >

The Glutton

A.K. BLAKEMORE
One man with an insatiable hunger: a novel of desire and destruction in Revolutionary France, based on a true story, from the Desmond Elliott Prize-winning author of The Manningtree Witches. Sister Perpetue is not to move. She is not to fall asleep. She is to sit, keeping guard over the patient's read more >

Three Days in June

Anne Tyler
It’s the day before her daughter’s wedding and things are not going well for Gail Baines. First thing, she loses her job – or quits, depending who you ask. Then her ex-husband Max turns up at her door expecting to stay for the festivities. He doesn’t even have a suit. Instead, he’s brought read more >

Close to Death

Anthony Horowitz
Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far away from the noise and grime of city life, allowing the residents to enjoy beautiful gardens, pleasant birdsong, and tranquility from behind the security of a locked gate. It is the perfect read more >

North Woods

Daniel Mason
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New read more >

Annie Bot

Sierra GREER
Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner, Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ready for him every night, wears the cute outfits he orders for her, and adjusts her libido to suit his moods. True, she’s not the greatest at keeping read more >

Dogs and Monsters

Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon weaves ancient fables into fresh and unexpected forms, and forges new legends to sit alongside them. The myth of the Minotaur in his labyrinth is turned into a wrenching parable of maternal love – and of the monstrosities of patriarchy. The lover of a goddess, Tithonus, is gifted read more >

Creation Lake

Rachel KUSHNER
Sadie Smith – a thirty-four-year-old American undercover agent of ruthless tactics and bold opinions – is sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France. Her mission: to infiltrate a commune of radical eco-activists influenced by the beliefs of an enigmatic elder, read more >

The Voyage Home

Pat Barker
After ten blood-filled years, the war is over. Troy lies in smoking ruins as the victorious Greeks fill their ships with the spoils of battle. Alongside the treasures looted are the many Trojan women captured by the Greeks – among them the legendary prophetess Cassandra, and her watchful maid, read more >

The Glassmaker

Tracy Chevalier
Venice, 1486. Across the lagoon lies Murano. Time flows differently here – like the glass the island’s maestros spend their lives learning to handle. Women are not meant to work with glass, but Orsola Rosso flouts convention to save her family from ruin. She works in secret, knowing her read more >

Enlightenment

Sarah Perry
Thomas and Grace are fellow worshippers at the Baptist chapel in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are kindred spirits – torn between their commitment to religion and their desire for more. But their friendship is threatened by the arrival of read more >

The Sleepwalkers

Scarlett THOMAS

Young Mungo

Earth

John Boyne

The Midnight Feast

Lucy Foley

The drowned

John Banville

Orbital

Samantha Harvey

The Bookshop Woman

Nanako HANADA

Wednesday's Child

Yiun Li

A Cage Went in Search of a Bird, Ten Kafkaesque Stories

Various Various

All that She Carried

Tia MILES

The Housemaid is Watching

Freida McFADDEN

The Safe Keep

Yael Van Der Wouden

Precipice

Robert Harris

Kala

Colin WALSH

The Bookbinder of Jericho

Pip WILLIAMS

Western Lane

Chetna MAROO

Juice

Tim Winton

Headshot

Rita Bullwinkel

My Favourite Mistake

Marian Keyes

Pineapple Street

JACKSON Jenny

After the Funeral

Tessa Hadley

The Silence Factory

Bridget Collins

There are Rivers in the Sky

Elif Shafak

Evenings and Weekends

Oisin McKENNA

Butcher

Joyce Carol Oates

You Are Here

David Nicholls

Our Evenings

Alan Hollinghurst

In Ascension

Martin MacInnes

The Mighty Red

Louise Erdrich

Parade

Rachel Cusk

The Night House

Jo Nesbo

The Morningside

Téa Obreht

Until August

Gabriel Garcia Márquez

Gabriel's Moon

William Boyd

Long Island

Colm Toibin

Playground

Richard Powers

Tell Me Everything

Elizabeth Strout

Miss Austen Investigates

Jessica Bull

The Lost Story

Meg SHAFFER

Held

Anne Michaels

The Glutton

A.K. BLAKEMORE

Three Days in June

Anne Tyler

Close to Death

Anthony Horowitz

North Woods

Daniel Mason

Annie Bot

Sierra GREER

Dogs and Monsters

Mark Haddon

Creation Lake

Rachel KUSHNER

The Voyage Home

Pat Barker

The Glassmaker

Tracy Chevalier

Enlightenment

Sarah Perry