A tale of two mothers, one daughter and a fatherland on the brink of catastrophe...
The biggest novel yet from the master of American fiction, the New York Times bestselling author of The Women, T.C. Boyle. A New York Times Notable Book 2012.
The island of Anacapa, off the coast of California, is overrun with black rats which are threatening the ancient population of ground-nesting birds. Alma Boyd Takesue of the National Park Service is campaigning to exterminate them once and for all, but her systematic plan [...]
National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids, Patti Smith writes of her childhood in this glittering memoir
Richard Ford is a true master of American fiction alongside John Updike, Saul Bellow and Raymond Carver. This is his most accessible novel to date. It is a story about a boy whose parents rob a bank to pay their debts, and get caught. The boy, Dell is shipped off to a [...]
From the bestselling author of Lempriere's Dictionary. John Saturnall's Feast is a novel of 17th century life, love and war. It's the story of an orphan who becomes the greatest cook of his time. With the magic of Patrick Suskind's Perfume and the setting of Hilary Mantel's [...]
The aloof and enigmatic Constance Schuyler lives alone in Manhattan. At a literary party she meets Sidney Klein, a professor of poetry twenty years her senior. Intoxicated by her chilly beauty, Sidney pursues the young woman with restless determination and soon proposes [...]
At the heart of the story is an interracial couple, Steve and Jabulile, living in a newly - tentatively - free South Africa, he a university lecturer she a lawyer, both comrades in the Struggle and now parents of children born in freedom.There is nothingso extraordinary [...]
First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then the murders, which happened later. In 1956, Dell Parsons' family came to a stop in Great Falls, Montana, the way many military families did following the war. His father, Bev, was a talkative, plank-shouldered [...]
A thrilling, plot-twisting novel set in Europe during the first world war, from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart, Restless and Ordinary Thunderstorms
A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella. James Joyce, Ulysses Recently having abandoned his RD Laing-influenced experiment in running a therapeutic community - the so-called Concept House in Willesden - maverick psychiatrist Zack Busner arrives at Friern Hospital, a [...]
A stunning debut novel about an astronaut's return to earth and the losses he must confront - elegant, moving, and deeply resonant with our times. Mathematical genius. Brilliant engineer. Revered astronaut. Keith Corcoran is all of these things and more, but his [...]
There were people on the banks of the river. Among the tangled waterways and giant anacondas of the Brazilian Rio Negro, an enigmatic scientist is developing a drug that could alter the lives of women for ever. Dr Annick Swenson's work is shrouded in mystery; she refuses to [...]
Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and [...]
Deeply funny, moving, idiosyncratic and unforgettable, Pigeon English introduces a major new literary talent