A ship sails to a fictitious Ottoman island in 1901, bearing three passengers: the daughter of the deposed sultan, her doctor husband, and the royal chemist. They are met with rumours of pl... read more
An intelligent novel about the wounds of geography and history in modern Turkey: a centenarian artist begins to reveal her suppressed past and family secrets unspool.
An aged lady in London finds herself caught up in her neighbours' problems. To help will mean revealing herself as the daughter of a Nazi camp guard. A return to old haunts for the author of... read more
In his longest novel so far, McEwan looks at the span of a man's life from Suez to Covid, considering the effects of global events and personal trauma.
The history of a Jewish Hungarian family told across three centuries, beginning with the adoption of an orphaned German boy by a C18th Italian painter.
A new technology that can download a person's memory and then allows it to be shared - all of it - has taken the world by storm. Clever, funny, disconcerting.
From the library of Marguerite Littman.
The author’s fourth novel, published to critical acclaim, about an amnesiac. First edition, first impression. Jonathan Cape, 1981. The book is in... read more
Set in the Gaeltacht, these stories by Ireland's greatest C20th Irish-language writer delve into the customs and hardships of Western Ireland's rural communities with empathy and quiet illum... read more
Athena, Circe, Penelope, Helen et al.: female characters and narrators are given centre stage in this fine reworking of the familiar. By the author of Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman ... read more
Knausgaard's first novel since the completion of his My Struggle cycle. An unusually large star lights up the night sky in Norway, affecting the novel's characters in very different ways - s... read more
The first novel in seven years - and we've heard it's wonderful - by the author of All The Light We Cannot See. It traverses centuries and planets, veering between the siege of Constantinopl... read more
A 900-page epic from the Polish Nobel laureate. Biblical in scale and content, the book follows an C18th messiah called Jacob Frank who converts from Judaism to Islam and then to Catholicism... read more
The Nobel Prize winner's new novel is set against the backdrop of the 1954 CIA-backed military coup against the putatively pro-communist Guatemalan government: a story of high politics, corr... read more
The much-anticipated new novel from the author of A Gentleman in Moscow. Three ex-cons and one teenager attempt to make their way from Kansas to San Francisco. A paean to the American West o... read more
A 600-page behemoth of a novel, Crossroads is a cross-generational saga set in 1970s suburban Chicago. The paterfamilias is a pastor wondering whether to leave his failing marriage before hi... read more