Literary fiction Books

Even before Lawrence Block could rest on his laurels from In Sunlight or In Shadow, a question arose: what would he do for an encore? There is such a wealth ...

Welcome to the dream world. What you are about to encounter is the unfiltered stuff of the dream, and that is wild, terrifying, provocative, and unsettling ...

“Brilliant... Larry Brown has slapped his own fresh tattoo on the big right arm of Southern Lit.” -The Washington Post Book World Now a major motion picture ...

She's had no education, and you can't call what her father's been trying to give her "love." So at seventeen, Fay Jones leaves home, carrying a purse with ...

Braiden Chaney has no arms or legs. Walter James has no face. They lost them in Vietnam, along with other, more vital parts of themselves. Now, twenty-two ...

"Katarina Bivald talks about her characters like you talk about your best friends. She gives her story absolutely everything she has."-FREDRIK BACKMAN, #1 ...

‘A perceptive, moving exploration of guilt, grief and complicity’Sunday Express ‘Boyne does not put a foot wrong in this masterly novella’ Mail on ...

‘A satire of writerly ambition wrapped in a psychological thriller... An homage to Patricia Highsmith, Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe, but its execution is ...

Bestselling author John Boyne's A History of Loneliness tells the riveting narrative of an honorable Irish priest who finds the church collapsing around him ...

Named Book of the Month Club's Book of the Year, 2017 Selected one of New York Times Readers’ Favorite Books of 2017 Winner of the 2018 Goldsboro Books ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 as a direct response to the inhumanity suffered worldwide throughout, and following, ...

'An exhilarating read' Spectator ‘Unsettling and utterly compelling’ Woman and Home ‘incredibly well-written’ Good Housekeeping 'Hypnotically clean, clear ...

‘An epic.... Impactful and provocative’ The New York Times ‘An almost note-perfect piece of first-person storytelling’Guardian ‘Subtle, intelligent and ...

'His relish is infectious' Times 'The funniest book I've read in ages. Savage but compelling' Ian Rankin 'Funny, rumbustious, unstinting and wonderfully ...

‘Utterly compelling… powerful and disturbing’ Sunday Independent 'Compelling... a potent portrait of a flawed young man' Daily Mail 'A strong set-up, and ...

In this collection of twelve dark, unerring and surprising short stories, John Boyne explores the extremities of the human condition in all its brilliance ...