Damian Baxter is hugely wealthy and dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, England, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. He has but one concern--his fortune in excess...

Fourteen-year-old Jeremy Barker is obsessed with zombie movies. He attends an all-boys Catholic High School where roving gangs in plaid make his days a living hell. His mother is an absentee...

As 73-year-old Rosamond sits alone in her remote Shropshire house, her dying thoughts turn to her cousin’s granddaughter, Imogen, who has been blind from an early age. Rosamund realises that she...

Where Have You Been? is award-winning novelist Joseph O'Connor's first collection of short stories in more than twenty years. Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York's...

In the sweet shop Willy Chapman was free, absolved from all responsibility, and he ran his sweet shop like his life – quietly, steadfastly, devotedly. It was a bargain struck between Chapman and...

The year is 1970, and it's a long, hot summer. In a castle on a mountainside in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on a sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution....

Man Booker Prize-winning author Julian Barnes' 'Flaubert’s Parrot' deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England,...

When Regina Burns married Blue Hamilton, she knew he was no ordinary man. Regina enjoyed a circle of engaging friends and her own work as communications consultant, but she especially relished the...

In the heyday of the 1970s underground, Bobby DeSoto and Mary Whittaker--passionate, idealistic, and in love--design a series of radical protests against the Vietnam War. When one action goes...

This is a book about the beauty and complexity of the human soul, about God, love, and justice, and yet you can lose yourself in it as if it were a dream. You will be transported to New York of...

Narcissus and Goldmund' is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character. Narcissus, an instructor, has devoted himself to scholarly and spiritual pursuits....

The brilliant new collection of short stories from Man Booker Prize-winning author Julian Barnes. The stories in Julian Barnes’ long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and...

It is 1914, and Christabel Montgomery is happily preparing for her wedding when she receives the shattering news that her fiancé has been drowned at sea. Heartbroken, she tries to piece her life...

Julian Barnes’ Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel is based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s extraordinary real-life fight for justice.

‘Julian Barnes... has taken the bones of a long-dead...

Dave Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United States. We follow his life as he's driven from his home...