A murder enquiry kicks off at a think-tank conference in the Cotswolds during a Prime Minister's 7-week tenure... Coe is always entertaining and sharp.
A deadpan memoir of hard-scrabble work in the gig economy with its performance metrics, night shifts and low pay. This has been a best-seller in China.
We have been fervent advocates of the first two in this series at Sandoe's and we have high expectations for the third - in which Tara meets a man who, like her, has been reliving November 1... read more
A woman moves from the city to the countryside after splitting up from a man she still loves but no longer desires. Alone, she sifts through her memories of their parting: spilled coffee, un... read more
In this second book of his espionage trilogy (a sequel to Gabriel's Moon), beloved Boyd deploys his reluctant spy in Guatemala and West Berlin, where he stumbles on a plot to assassinate JFK... read more
The reissue of these novels by Cary - once a great bestseller - is an inspired choice by Everyman. Featuring the ex-con Sara Monday, the disgraced lawyer Tom Wilcher and the irresistibly raf... read more
A sprawling, magnificent love story in which the protagonists have to navigate their families, nations and pervasive cultural complexities. This is Desai's first novel since The Inheritance ... read more
A surgeon returning home from the trenches at the end of WW1 finds himself at odds with his wife and haunted by what he has seen. First English translation of this powerful 1926 novel.
A man's journey on a wooden boat from a small town, Vaim, to a larger city and then back again, lured by a past love. Fosse's first new novel since his 2023 Nobel Prize.
A reissue of Frame's 1966 novel, in which a middle-aged art teacher retires from the suburbs to a cottage on a warm island in the north of New Zealand. Her new freedom and solitude are not t... read more
Once the most widely read of German romantic stories, the capricious water nymph Undine has inspired countless artists and writers, from E.T.A. Hoffmann to George MacDonald, Arthur Rackham a... read more
A generous, humorous portrait of a CofE community looking for a resident rector and dealing with ripples of grief, suspicion and anxiety in the aftermath of the death of a member of the Chur... read more
Maine 1919: a return to the world of his bestselling classic The Cider House Rules. Esther, a Jewish orphan, is adopted by the Winslow family. The novel follows her life as she retraces her ... read more
An immersive, rather sinister novel of ambition, success and artistic corruption in 1980s' London. The fourth in his Morning Star series, it nevertheless works well on its own and is a good ... read more
Four fugitives hide from Franco in the aftermath of the Civil War, fighting their desire to return home and learning to survive in the wild, unforgiving Cantabrian mountains.
High comedy wrenched from illness and the business of being an acclaimed writer. The latest autofiction from the celebrated and prodigiously inventive writer of Priestdaddy and no one is tal... read more
A short coming-of-age novel set in Ischia, in which a young man spends a summer learning how to fish, to desire and to endure. Full of vitality and the sense of a young life on the brink of ... read more
Set in 2119 after the UK is mostly submerged by rising seas, McEwan's latest combines a Ballardian dystopia with a deft mystery - a case of a disappearing poem rather than a body in the libr... read more
A short, unnerving novel about difficult and dynamic people, in which Klaus Kinski returns to the German stage in 1971 with a performance about Jesus Christ, provoking outrage.
Already a huge bestseller in Europe, this novel - written with a bludgeon wielded in fury - is set during Finland's Winter War with the USSR in 1939-40. It centres on Simo Häyhä, the snipe... read more
Warned that she only has a year before she loses her eyesight forever, Mona's grandfather resolves to take her to see a great work of art each week. A stirring book about beauty, loss, melan... read more
In 1741, Vitus Bering was shipwrecked off Kamchatka and the surviving crew began to devour the noble herbivore that became known as Steller's sea cow: it was hunted to extinction within thir... read more
Longing and absence inflect this novella about a mother who abandons her Pyrenean family. This first appeared in Toibin's collection Mother and Sons (2006).
From Persephone Books, another novel by the author of the much-loved Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. Published in 1939 in the week of the war's outbreak, it tells the story of working-class ... read more