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Thomas Pynchon

Shadow Ticket

A private eye is catapulted on to a continent-hopping journey that proves difficult to escape.'A masterpiece... A vintage tale of adventure' Daily Telegraph 'Swing bands, spies and surreal danger... A wil…

Gabriel Garcia Marquez,

One Hundred Years of Solitude

"One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. . . . Mr. Garcia Marquez has done nothing less tha…

Jewelle Gomez

The Gilda Stories

'A groundbreaking work of Afrofuturism before the term was even coined' Guardian'A lush, exciting, inspiring read' Sarah WatersIn this radically reimagined vampire myth, the night hides many things... Lou…

Alan Hollinghurst

Our Evenings

'The best novel that's been written about contemporary Britain in the past ten years. It's funny but desperately moving too' - The Sunday TimesAlan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Lin…

Angie Kim

Happiness Falls

Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his famil…

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

A Grain of Wheat

Barack Obama, via Facebook: "A compelling story of how the transformative events of history weigh on individual lives and relationships."The Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writer's best-known nove…

Thomas Pynchon

Bleeding Edge

Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire... It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of …

Thomas Pynchon

Inherent Vice

Der neue psychedelische Roman von Thomas Pynchon: L.A., Ende der sechziger Jahre, Augenarzt Doc Sportello weiss, daß Liebe nur ein Wort ist, so wie ein Trip oder Marijhuana....und es tauchen eine Menge Su…

Shana Abe

An American Beauty

"Abé is an exquisite storyteller." ---Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Magnolia Palace The New York Times bestselling author of The Second Mrs. Astor returns with a spellbin…

Kazushige Abe,

Mysterious Setting

A madcap, darkly comic novel about the strange fate of a tone-deaf girl who just wants to sing, from a Japanese literary star"Abe's superpower is to transform everything he touches into exciting lite…

Kazushige Abe,

Nipponia Nippon

A fast-paced, darkly ironic novella from one of Japan's contemporary luminaries--and the husband of Mieko Kawakami--making his English language debutA teenager gripped by obsession seeks to free endangere…

Kobo Abe,

The Woman in the Dunes

Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties. Before his death in 1993, Abe was considered his country's foremost living novelist. His novels have …

Aria Aber

Good Girl

**Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025** A portrait of the artist as a young woman in a Berlin that can't escape its history: an electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees an…

Aria Aber

Good Girl

Kaleidoscopic, full of style and soul' Raven Leilani 'A no-bullshit must-read debut' Kaveh AkbarIn Berlin's underground, where techno rattles buildings still scarred with the violence of the last century,…

Aria Aber

Good Girl

"An exhilarating debut novel" (R.O. Kwon, The New York Times Book Review ) about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of self-discovery---a portrait of the artist as a young woman set in…

Aria Aber

Good Girl

In Berlin's underground, where techno rattles buildings still scarred with the violence of the last century, nineteen-year-old Nila finds her tribe. In their company she can escape the parallel city that …

Narine Abgaryan,

Three Apples Fell from the Sky

A multi award-winning story of friendship and feuds in a remote Armenian mountain village

Leila Aboulela

Bird Summons

BIRD SUMMONS is a magic carpet ride into the forest of history and the lives of women. Deep and wild' Lucy Ellmann, Booker-longlisted author of Ducks, NewburyportSalma, happily married, tries every day to…