Fiction

A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma of change is opening up new possibilities of loss and renewal. Within the rituals of literary culture, Faye finds the human...

Lanark, a modern vision of hell, is set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, and tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide range, its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, both personal...

In 1865, on a windswept peninsula jutting into the Atlantic, Tomás and his young son, Liam, work tirelessly on the monumental Ordnance Survey project to map all of Ireland. In a country still scarred and depopulated by the Great Hunger, their task is as...

As a choking smog wipes out crops and collapses her career, a chef flees a bleak city for a mysterious mountaintop colony untouched by the world’s decline. There, amid clear skies and rare ingredients, her enigmatic employer and his daughter have created a lavish...

An ordinary village an hour from London—pub, church, cottages, and familiar voices of love, work, and gossip—hides something extraordinary. Dead Papa Toothwort, a mythical figure drawn by local children, awakens from a long sleep, listening to the village and searching for a mischievous, ethereal...

Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, believes his mother died giving birth to him. One of Marek’s few consola­tions is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him when he was a baby. For some...

It is 1960. When Jennifer Stirling wakes up in the hospital, she can remember nothing-not the tragic car accident that put her there, not her husband, not even who she is. She feels like a stranger in her own life until she stumbles upon...

Spring, 2007 At twenty-six, Alicia Canales Forten feels trapped by the future everyone expects for her. She’s in a long-distance relationship, living under her mother’s watchful beliefs, and saving for a wedding to a future doctor. But one night in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Alicia...

A man tells a woman that they have met before – that they became lovers but then agreed to separate for a year. The year is now up, and he has come back for her. At first, she remembers nothing, but as he relates...

Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains drawn wide, is bright with starlight. They talk in whispers, not to disturb the maids who lie sleeping on the other side of the box room. The...

Word has come. King Lear is dead. His three daughters too, broken in battle. But someone has survived: Lear's queen.Though her grief and rage threaten to crack the earth open, she knows she must seek answers. Why was she exiled? What has happened to...

What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the...

Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too...

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a...

A nuclear family can destroy a woman artist. I’d always known that. But I’d never suspected how easily I’d fall into one anyway. When Jane, an aspiring writer, meets filmmaker John Bridges, they both want the same things: to be in love, to live...

A monumental work by one of Italy’s greatest writers, Lies and Sorcery unfolds as a sweeping tale of three generations of women, now presented in its first complete English translation. Elsa Morante, long revered as a towering figure of twentieth-century literature, crafted this debut...

Rufus Leung Gresham, future Earl of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel has a problem: the legendary Gresham Trust has been depleted by decades of profligate spending, and behind all the magazine covers and Instagram stories manors and yachts lies nothing...

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same...

After salaryman Hanio Yamada puts his life up for sale, interested parties quickly come calling with increasingly bizarre requests. What follows is a madcap comedy of errors, involving a jealous husband, a drug-addled heiress, poisoned carrots—even a vampire. For someone who just wants to...

Gabriel Fisher has always been extraordinary—born enormous, gifted beyond explanation, and never quite understood by the small town of Lakota, Wisconsin. After the death of the brother who raised him, he’s taken in by his strict Amish grandparents, who keep him hidden from the...

In exhilarating and lucid prose, Grossman gives us a provocative new take on the story of Samson: his battle with the lion, the three hundred burning foxes, the women he bedded, the one he loved and who betrayed him and the destruction of the...

These thirteen erotic short stories by the acclaimed author of Henry and June explore the nature of desire, taboo, and female sensuality. From the beach towns of Normandy to the streets of New Orleans, these thirteen vignettes introduce us to a covetous French painter,...

From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is...

Five friends. One weekend. No one escapes unscathed. Aima and Kalu are a longtime couple who have just split. When Kalu, reeling from the breakup, visits an exclusive sex party hosted by his best friend, Ahmed, he makes a decision that will plunge them...

For fans of Mystic River by Dennis Lehane and Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, Stephen Amidon’s Locust Lane is a taut and utterly propulsive story about the search for justice and the fault lines of power and influence in a seemingly idyllic town....

Awe and exhilaration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsession for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of...

A poignant, quietly arresting collection about the fragile threads that bind us across time, space, and memory. From Aysegül Savas, acclaimed author of The Anthropologists, comes Long Distance—a debut story collection that explores intimacy and alienation in the age of global mobility and digital...

From the beloved, critically acclaimed, bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving novel featuring Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, Tóibín’s most popular work in twenty years. Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian...

Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony’s parents, a huge extended family. It...

In 1982, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of Long Island, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and sons a week later, only slightly the worse for wear, and the...

Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult...

The Flynn family is coming undone. Catherine and Bud's open marriage has reached its breaking point as their daughters spiral in their own chaotic orbits: Abigail, the eldest, is dating a man in his twenties nicknamed War Crime Wes; Louise, the middle child, maintains...

Born into a household dominated by an omnipresent mother obsessed with her own anxieties, a father consumed by hygiene and architectural quirks, and a precocious genius brother who commands the family’s attention, Vero drifts through childhood in a haze of boredom and confinement. Trapped...

From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a spellbinding symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of Black women in a fading beach town. In life, Bill Cosey enjoyed the affections of many women, who would do almost...

From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a spellbinding symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of Black women in a fading beach town. In life, Bill Cosey enjoyed the affections of many women, who would do almost...

Friendship can change your life just as profoundly as love. Remy seems to have it all: her debut novel, drawn from the lives of her three closest friends, was an instant bestseller, and her publisher is eager for whatever comes next. But as pressure...

At fifty-eight, Dawn’s life feels like an unfinished story. Her marriage has unraveled, her two grown sons are busy living their own lives, and she’s left with a quiet house and too much time to think. But her mind doesn’t settle on the future—it...

When Brodie Moncur, a gifted young piano tuner, is offered the chance to work for a renowned pianist, he steps into a world far removed from his modest Scottish roots—a life of travel, refinement, and artistic brilliance. As he follows his employer on an...

In 'The Wave', a young man falls dangerously in love with the tenant downstairs, who is engaged to be married; in 'The Signorina', a flirtatious young woman is caught between her feelings and her parents' desire for a good match; in 'A Friend to...

Lucca Montale, a 32-year-old Danish actress, is rushed into hospital after a motor accident. She is severely injured after a head-on collision with a lorry. Robert, the doctor responsible for treating her, is obliged to break the news that she may never see again....

Lucky Armstrong is a sharp, street-smart grifter who’s just pulled off a million-dollar heist with her boyfriend, Cary. With new identities lined up and freedom within reach, she’s ready to disappear and start over—until everything falls apart. Left on her own for the first...

Edie is just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office, is sleeping with all the wrong men, and has failed at the only thing that meant anything to her, painting. No one seems to care that...

Maame (ma-meh) has many meanings in Twi but in my case, it means woman. It’s fair to say that Maddie’s life in London is far from rewarding. With a mother who spends most of her time in Ghana, Maddie is the primary caretaker for...

This edition of Macbeth is edited with an introduction by series editor Stephen Orgel. and was recently repackaged with cover art by Manuja Waldia. Waldia received a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators for the Pelican Shakespeare series. The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series...

Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising their beautiful son, Asher—was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined that she would end up back in...

From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testamants—this final volume of the internationally celebrated MaddAddam trilogy has brought the previous two books together in a fitting and joyous conclusion that’s an epic not only of an imagined future but of our...

One of the earliest examples of the classic murder mystery, Hoffman’s remarkable book has been the inspiration for a host of thriller and crime writers. Parisian goldsmith Monsieur Cardillac is a genius at his craft. Greatly admired throughout Paris, he is renowned for his...

A reserved young man leaves his quiet village in rural Turkey to learn a trade and experience life in 1920s Berlin. Amid the city’s vibrant streets, grand museums, fervent politics, and notorious cabarets, a chance encounter with a captivating half-Jewish artist changes him forever....

Heartbreak. Cancer. And a Tumor Named Maggie. A woman walks into a restaurant expecting a quiet night and too many samosas. What she gets instead is a confession—her husband is having an affair with a woman named Maggie. Soon after, she feels a sharp...

Young college graduate Carol Kennicott moves from a big city to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, the small town from which her new husband hails. Imbued with ideals of urban improvement, she dreams of redesigning her adopted village, but her efforts are thwarted by the narrow-mindedness,...