A swirling historical epic, published in India, which follows a quest for the essence of Sufism and the heady fragrance of ishq-e haqeeqi - love for the divine. From Afghanistan to Granada, ... read more
A scientist's investigations into light and motion are used to develop ways of tracking workers' movements. The dizzying narrative encompasses an experimental sci-fi film, military drone tec... read more
Mary Jocelyn, who leads a quiet but happy life with her widowed father at Dedmayne Rectory, is thrown into emotional disarray by an unexpected love affair. First published in 1924, it was pi... read more
A translation of the novel which won the 2015 International Prize for Arabic fiction. It follows one man's turbulent life through Tunisian politics, from his student days to his career as a ... 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
Although not well known in the UK, Lewis is one of the best conteporary US novelists. This, set on the coast of Maine, is a sort of parable of contemporary American society.
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
GJ's first novel in over two decades is set in C17th colonial Brazil and its last fugitive-slave settlement. She burst onto the literary scene in 1975 with the publication of Corregidora, a... read more
Ambrose Bierce, Robert Aickman, Tove Jansson, Alexander Pushkin, Henry James, Emily Brontë et al - an anthology of stories and excerpts from around the world. A new addition to the attracti... read more
A fictional portrait of the life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - pilot, aristocrat and author of Le Petit Prince. Iturbe's last novel, The Librarian of Auschwitz, was a huge success.
A powerfully written novel about a sculptor facing the end of her life, sexual chemistry, confinement and the transformative power of art. The other actor (apart from her new lover) in the n... read more
A woman's past erupts in the present: a novel about courage and love from the great Israeli writer, author of See Under: Love and A Horse Walks Into a Bar among others.
The author of Fates and Furies turns her hand to historical fiction with a vivid recreation of the life of the C12th French poet Marie de France. LG follows Marie's journey through Eleanor 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
A group of international mercenary pilots in Uganda in the mid-1990s fly weapons across Africa, selling them to the highest bidder. A young Congolese cowherd joins them and finds himself in ... read more
The tale of a gloomy childhood in mid-west America, a miraculously happy marriage and a move to France to help the war effort: this provides a beautifully written and unforgettable descripti... read more
A bravura upending of the clichés of the 'Great American Novel' from the author of Then We Came to the End. Set in early C21st America, Ferris's protagonist is a romantic in the style of Up... read more
His 2013 novel The Circle was an acute satire of the tech world and, in particular, Google. Now Eggers envisages a dystopian future in which the world's biggest search engine and e-commerce ... read more