Literary

Idristan

by Nick Weldon

Musicians, artists and writers colonise Wales, led by their muse Myfanwy Muff Maboob. Comic, moving, sexy and philosophical - a novel about jazz, love, squash and our experience of time.

The House on Butterfly Way

by Elizabeth Bevarly

Lisa Kleypas says "nobody does it better" than USA Today bestselling author Elizabeth Bevarly. Find out why in this rich, emotional new novel...

Once upon a time, in Manitou Hills, there was a home so radiant...

Tending Roses

by Lisa Wingate

“The best times of my life, the times that have passed by me the most quickly, were the times when the roses grew wild.”

The lessons that most enrich our lives often come unexpectedly. That’s what Kate...

Running the Rift

Bellwether Prize 2010

by Naomi Benaron

Running the Rift follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in which his country is undone...

The Clouds Beneath the Sun

by Mackenzie Ford

An exotic setting and a passionate, forbidden affair make The Clouds Beneath the Sun an irresistible page-turner that is sure to satisfy readers looking for an intelligent blend of history, romance, and intrigue....

The Northern Clemency

by Philip Hensher

In 1974, the Sellers family is transplanted from London to Sheffield in northern England. On the day they move in, the Glover household across the street is in upheaval: convinced that his wife is having an...

Welcome to the Great Mysterious

by Lorna Landvik

Megastar of stage, screen, and television, Geneva Jordan now has a command performance in Minnesota, where she agrees to look after her thirteen-year-old nephew, a boy with Down’s syndrome, while his parents...

Mysterious Aviator

by Nevil Shute

When Peter Moran, a former World War I pilot, picks up a man on the roadside while driving through a bitter rainy night, he is startled to discover that the bedraggled man is a wartime comrade of his who has...

The Thieves of Manhattan: A Novel

by Adam Langer

The famously false memoirs of James Frey may be yesterday’s news, but as this funny riff reminds us, literary fakes are as old as literature itself. Ian Minot is an aspiring writer who labors over short stories...

Strangers: A Novel

by Anita Brookner

Booker Prize-winner Anita Brookner captures the magic and depth of real life with this story of an ordinary man whose unexpected longings, doubts, and fears are universal.

Paul Sturgis is resigned to his bachelorhood...

The Cookbook Collector: A Novel

by Allegra Goodman

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Emily and Jessamine Bach are opposites in every way: Twenty-eight-year-old Emily is the CEO of Veritech, twenty-three-year-old Jess is an environmental activist and graduate student in philosophy....

Lonely Road

by Nevil Shute

Malcolm Stevenson, a wealthy ex-naval officer haunted by his memories of the war, finds his lonely life turned upside down one night when he runs into trouble on a road near the coast. What at first appears...

More I Owe You: A Novel

by Michael Sledge

In this mesmerizing debut novel, Michael Sledge creates an intimate portrait of the beloved poet Elizabeth Bishop — of her life in Brazil and her relationship with her lover, the dazzling, aristocratic...

The Bluesiana Snake Festival: A Novel

by Aubrey Bart

Through a blend of voices — Big Jim Bullshit, Shushubaby, and Brooklyn Bob, to name a few — the musical voice of New Orleans is revealed in its varied dialects, grooves reminiscent of ragtime, jazz,...

Towards Another Summer

by Janet Frame

“Self-styled” writer Grace Cleave has writer's block, and her anxiety is only augmented by her chronic aversion to leaving her home, to be “among people, even for five or ten minutes.” And...

A Dead Language

by Peter Rushforth

Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton-the faithless young naval lieutenant who abandons Madam Butterfly-was glimpsed fleetingly in Peter Rushforth's previous novel, Pinkerton's Sister. Now Ben steps out of the shadows...

Hamlet: A Novel

by John Marsden

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, but Hamlet can't be sure what's causing the stench. His rage at his mother's infidelities - together with his greed for the sensual Ophelia and his dead father's...

Landfall

by Nevil Shute

When Jerry Chambers, a young coastal patrol pilot during World War II, is accused of mistakenly sinking a British submarine he is reprimanded and sent to a remote posting to test an experimental new bomb, a...

The Fallback Plan

by Leigh Stein

A hilarious debut  novel about the tricky period between graduating from college and moving out of your parents’ house

What to do when you’ve just graduated from college and your plans conflict with those...

Wickett's Remedy

by Myla Goldberg

Lydia Kilkenny is eager to move beyond her South Boston childhood, and when she marries Henry Wickett, a shy Boston Brahmin who plans to become a doctor, her future seems assured. That path changes when Henry...