Literary
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My Friends
$29.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete st… [more below]
- Author: Backman, Fredrik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1982112824
- Language: English
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Hunchback
$22.00 Add to cartA bombshell bestseller in Japan, a defiant, darkly funny debut novel about a young woman in a care home seeking autonomy and the full possibilities of her life–“not only a major achievement in disabi… [more below]
- Author: Ichikawa, Saou
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0593734718
- Language: English
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A Fan’s Notes
$17.00 Add to cartRejacketed, the first volume in Fred Exley’s autobiographical trilogy is reissued to coincide with the publication of the third new volume, Last Notes From Home.
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Exley, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 12 1988
- ISBN10: 0679720766
- Language: English
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Death by Water
$16.00 Add to cartNobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe is internationally acclaimed for his groundbreaking, incisive examination of humanity’s struggle through modernity. In Death by Water, his recurring protagonist and li… [more below]
- Author: OE, Kenzaburo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0802125530
- Language: English
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The Two-Tailed Snake
$13.99 Read moreNorth-east India, 1945. Tensions are rising, but fourteen-year-old Joya doesn’t pay much attention to ‘political business’ – she is more concerned with doing well at school and having fun with her bes
- Series: Fairlight Moderns
- Author: Ghosh, Nod
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1914148428
- Language: English
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From a Low and Quiet Sea
$16.00 Read moreSHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARD
“Beautiful and affecting” — David Nicholls, author of One Day A moving novel of three men, each searching for something they have l
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE- Author: Ryan, Donal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 0143133241
- Language: English
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The Unsealing: Love, Lust, and Murder in the Gilded Age (an Avenging Angel Detective Agency (Tm) Mystery), Collector’s Limited Editio
$28.99 Add to cartThis highly anticipated debut novel by Robert Brighton is inspired by a true crime ‘murder
of the century’ and transports us to Buffalo, New York, set against the backdrop of Gilded
Age splendor and exc
- Series: An Avenging Angel Detective Agency (Tm) Mystery #1
- Author: Brighton, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986517803
- Language: English
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Half in Love
$16.99 Add to cartFourteen remarkable stories that combine strong Western settings with a subtle and distinct female voice. This critically celebrated debut collection marks the exciting beginning of prize-winner Meloy… [more below]
- Author: Meloy, Maile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: June 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0743246853
- Language: English
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Wolf
$18.00 Add to cart“[Harrison] knows life in a way that few will admit to, and writes about it in a ribald, vigorous, and intelligent fashion. . . . A national treasure.” —Chicago Tribune
- Author: Harrison, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0802128874
- Language: English
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The Taste of Sugar
$16.95 Read moreMarisel Vera emerges as a major new voice in contemporary fiction with this “capacious” (The New Yorker) novel set in Puerto Rico on the eve of the Spanish-American War. Up in the mountainous region
- Author: Vera, Marisel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1631499041
- Language: English
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Ties
$17.00 Add to cartThe Strega Award-winning Italian author’s “scalding and incisive” novel of marriage and family bonds that come undone in the wake of an affair (Library Journal, starred review).
A New York Times Notab- Author: Starnone, Domenico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1609453859
- Language: English
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The Lost Wife
$18.00 Add to cartA rapturous novel of star-crossed love in a time of war–from the international bestselling author of The Secret of Clouds.
During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art studen- Author: Richman, Alyson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 042524413X
- Language: English
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Th?r?se and Isabelle
$15.95 Read moreTwo French schoolgirls discover obsessive pleasures in repressed secrets in this “masterpiece on the tyranny of love” (Independent, UK).
“Violette Leduc was Simone de Beauvoir’s protege, an erotic wr
- Author: Leduc, Violette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1558618899
- Language: English
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The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century
$9.94 Add to cartThe son of a carpenter, Julian Sorel is inspired by the writings of Napoleon to conquer the heights of society. His initial plan to work his way up through the church is, however, thwarted when he is … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Stendhal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539251
- Language: English
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Hard Copy: A Story of Girl Meets Printer
$18.99 Add to cartSpending long hours in her claustraphobic office cubicle, a customer service assistant is struggling. Isolated, frustrated and lonely, she finds comfort in only one thing: the office printer. As she c
- Author: Veldman, Fien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1035906473
- Language: English
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Extinction
$16.00 Add to cartThe last work of fiction by one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Extinction is widely considered Thomas Bernhard’s magnum opus.
Franz-Josef Murau–the intellectual black sheep of a powerfu- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Bernhard, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 1400077613
- Language: English
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Empty Wardrobes
$14.95 Add to cart“There is no doubting the authenticity of Carvalho’s vision and the originality and severity of her voice.” –Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books
For ten years Dora has ritualistically mour
- Author: de Carvalho, Maria Judite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 194964121X
- Language: English
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The Animals in That Country: Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award
$16.00 Add to cartOut on the road, no one speaks, everything talks.
Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to bullshit, Jean is not your usual grandma. She’s never been good at getting on with other humans, apart fr
- Author: McKay, Laura Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1957363169
- Language: English
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The Story of Zahra
$16.95 Add to cartZahra’s mother uses her as a cover for her meetings with a lover; Zahra’s strict father mistreats her for being complicit in her mother’s affair. Fleeing from Beirut in search of solace, Zahra stays w… [more below]
- Author: Al-Shaykh, Hanan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0385472064
- Language: English
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Concert Black
$29.99 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Above the Fire comes Concert Black, a hauntingly elegant novel that unspools a tale of music, obsession, and the fragile architecture of legacy.
Ellen Wroe, a celebrated bi
- Author: O’Donnell, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 9798228270350
- Language: English
