Fiction: general & literary

This is the story of Macon 'Milkman' Dead, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards geographically and inwards spiritually. Through the enlightenment of one man the novel recapitulates the history of slavery and liberation.

Jared Osborne, a Laurentians priest, investigates an itinerant preacher of unusual power and penetrates his inner circle, where he becomes an anguished collaborator in the dismantling of his own beliefs.

Women's work is a matter of life and death Nora Beady, the only female student at a prestigious medical school in Bologna, is a rarity. In the 19th century women are expected to remain at home and raise children, so her unconventional, indelicate ambitions to become a licensed surgeon offend the ...

This is a novel-in-verse which charts the life of its young protagonist from birth to adulthood, and explores questions of identity, belonging, addiction and dependency, sexuality, violence, family, and religion. It is also an interrogation of the events that led to the author's own mental breakd...

Three years after they narrowly escaped the IRA's worst punishment for informing, Northern Irish sisters Tessa and Marian Daly have built a new life in Dublin with their young children. Though Tessa is haunted by the abrupt and violent end to her old life, she does her best to immerse herself in ...

New translations of the best stories by the one of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential writers, Kafka, whose name has generated an adjective, is one of the best loved writers of the twentieth century. Known for his dark, enigmatic stories, for the absurd nightmares he depicts, h...

An unexpected death on a lonely road outside of Utah's Bears Ears National Park raises questions for Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito. Why would a seasoned outdoorsman and well-known paleontologist freeze to death within walking distance of his car? A second death b...

A strange encounter. An unlikely friendship. But will it survive when they both know the truth? As single mother Leah struggles to get her children ready one morning, the doorbell rings. Standing on the doorstep of their terraced house in Whitley Bay is a well-dressed stranger, Clio, who feels an...

The white elephant looms large over the town of Willard Park: a newly-constructed behemoth of a house, it towers over the other homes, including Allison and Ted Miller’s tiny hundred year old bungalow. When owner Nick Cox cuts down the Millers’ precious red maple–in an effort to make the unsightl...

Paperback edition of the novel based on the life of Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was the embodiment of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties. Ties in with the recent Gatsby mania. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OF THE JAZZ AGE NOW AN AMAZON ORIGINALS SERIES STARRING CHRISTINA...