Literary fiction Books

Journalist Grace loves her son Jack with all her heart but she can't quite understand why, since his birth, she has felt at odds with herself. And – to add ...

Literary fiction

Cousins Ava Campbell (married, sensible, feeling old before her time) and Hope Scott (single, debt-ridden, in love with a man who will never love her back) ...

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Aoife is 32 and in an on/off relationship with sexy singer Jake. When she finds out she is pregnant, he decides the relationship is most definitely off and ...

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England, 31st August 1939: the world is on the brink of war. As Hitler prepares to invade Poland, thousands of children are evacuated from London to escape ...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2023 'Arnott has an eye and an ear for description that can elevate otherwise quiet moments to something genuinely ...

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A book that ‘speak[s] volumes about our need for connection-human, feline or otherwise’ (The San Francisco Chronicle), The Travelling Cat Chronicles is a ...

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From the bestselling author of P.S., I Love You, a fiercely feminist story collection that illuminates, sometimes in fantastical ways, how women of all kinds ...

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For fans of Schitt’s Creek comes a charming novel about a formidable matriarch who is confronted with the messiness of family, originally published as ...

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Winner of the 2016 Autumn House Fiction Prize, Andrew Bourelle��s debut novel, Heavy Metal, gives us a glimpse into the life of Danny, a teenager who seeks ...

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A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel that could do for Palestine what The Kite Runner did for Afghanistan. Forcibly removed from the ancient village ...

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A compellingly heartbreaking debut novel about the echoes of Partition and four friends whose dark secrets lead to a life-changing night that comes back to ...

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An autobiographical novel that’s a tender, witty exploration of the hardest questions: how to live, how to grieve, and how to die-from “the Mick Jagger of ...

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Richard Tull, a failed novelist, contemplates with jealousy the success of his rival and friend Gwyn Barry. He looks in vain for a means of damaging Gwyn's ...

Literary fiction

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, a dazzling collection of short stories that look ...

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A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by sixteen bestselling, award-winning writers. 'Wonderful... all killer, no filler' Red Magazine 'Dazzling ...

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Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the ...

Literary fiction

Description

The term 'literary fiction' came into common use in the early 1960s. It is primarily used to distinguish 'serious fiction'—works that are considered to have literary value—from genre fiction and popular fiction. The word 'literature' is sometimes used to refer to this category, though it can also describe a broader range of written works.