Fiction

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Updated May 14, 2026
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Kin
Jones, Tayari
Paper Book
Kin is the kind of all-encompassing reading experience I'm always hoping to find- smart and funny. ANN PATCHETT A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage-a novel that sparkles with wit, intelligence...
Vigil
Saunders, George
Paper Book
**THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'The first must-read book of the year' Vogue 'Resonates deeply in our fractious, selfish age' Independent 'One of America's most distinguished and original writers'...
Book Club kete. a novel / The loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Desai, Kiran
Paper Book
When Sonia and Sunny first glimpse each other on an overnight train, they are immediately captivated, yet also embarrassed by the fact that their grandparents had once tried to matchmake them, a clumsy meddling that only served to drive Sonia and Sunny apart. Sonia, an...
A far-flung life
Stedman, M. L.
Paper Book
THE PHENOMENAL SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER By the multi-million-copy bestselling author of The Light Between Oceans The 'Australian Gone with the Wind' - a breathtaking epic novel set in the vast outback of Australia - about resilience, family...
John of John
Stuart, Douglas.
Paper Book
The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo. Oprah's Book Club Book of the Month.'John of John has the emotional range and sense of sympathy of his earlier books, but this book is special, it...
This is not about us : fiction
Goodman, Allegra
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A kaleidoscopic portrait of a modern American family--steadfast, complicated, begrudging, and loving--from the bestselling author of Isola "Wise, witty . . . a deliciously readable book [about] the delicate minutiae of family life, played beautifully,...
Brawler
Groff, Lauren
Paper Book
THE LATEST SHORT STORY COLLECTION FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MATRIX 'Brawler captures a towering talent.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Groff conjures a whole world in each brilliant story.' CLAIRE FULLER 'You'll walk...
The eleventh hour
Rushdie, Salman
Paper Book
Dazzling new short stories from Salman Rushdie that transport us around the world from Bombay neighbourhoods to elite English universities If old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour. 'Salman...
Is this a cry for help?
Austin, Emily
Paper Book
Emily Austin, the bestselling "queen of darkly quirky, endearingly flawed heroines" (Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus), returns with a luminous new novel following a librarian who comes back to work after a mental breakdown only to confront book-banning crusaders in an empowering story...
The complex
Mahajan, Karan
Paper Book
A New York Times Editors' Choice * A New Yorker Best Book of the Year So Far * A Most Anticipated Book of 2026: The Washington Post, Vulture, Lit Hub, The Millions, Chicago Review of Books "A sweeping tale of political machinations,...
A guardian and a thief
Majumdar, Megha
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026 A GUARDIAN 'BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2026' SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK TIME MUST-READ BOOK WINNER OF...
The Golden Boy
Finn, Patricia.
Paper Book
Departure(s)
Barnes, Julian
Paper Book
Departure(s) is a work of fiction - but that doesn't mean it's not true. 'An elegant, thoughtful final book' THE TIMES 'His "last book" ... proves one of his best' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Metafictional, moving, unmistakably Barnes'...
The News From Dublin
Toibin, Colm.
Paper Book
A woman in Galway hears of the death of her son in the First World War. An Irishman seeks anonymity in Barcelona, haunted by crimes he has committed. A man goes to Dublin from Enniscorthy to implore the Minister for Health for a special favour. A young woman is pregnant during the Spanish Civil War....
Python's kiss : stories
Erdrich, Louise
Paper Book
From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich, a captivating collection of short stories. It was as though I was chosen-marked out by the python's kiss for wisdom or maybe sorrow. Or perhaps, I think now, a sense of the ridiculous in extremes of...
This is where the serpent lives
Mueenuddin, Daniyal
Paper Book
Intimate and epic, elegiac and profoundly moving: a tour de force destined to become a classic of contemporary literature 'Set to be a standout novel of 2026 ... Brutal, funny and brilliantly told' Patrick Gale, Guardian 'All the makings of a classic'<...
The ferryman and his wife
Grytten, Frode
Paper Book
A LIBRARY READS PICK AND ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 For everyone who loved The Correspondent and When the Cranes Fly South, the renowned, bestselling Norwegian author Frode Grytten takes readers on a quietly epic journey: ferry driver Nils...
Good people
Sabit, Patmeena
Paper Book
CHOSEN AS A 2026 MUST-READ BOOK BY THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, STYLIST, SUNDAY INDEPENDENT, NEW ARAB AND BBC CULTURE 'AWFULLY ADDICTIVE . . . PEOPLE, GOOD AND BAD, ARE GOING TO LOVE IT' GUARDIAN 'SHARP,...
A better life
Shriver, Lionel
Paper Book
'A superb satirical novelist' WASHINGTON POST In a provocative novel addressing contemporary immigration by the sharply observant Lionel Shriver, a New York family takes in a Honduran migrant - who may or may not be the innocent paragon she claims to be. 'An incendiary provocateur'...
Westward women
Martin, Alice (Novelist)
Paper Book
'An audacious first novel to set beside Margaret Atwood's provocative first novel The Edible Woman' JOYCE CAROL OATES 'Intimate, nostalgic, and downright terrifying' OLIVIA GATWOOD 'Haunting, nostalgic and sharply observant' WOMAN'S WEEKLY<...
Evelyn in transit : a novel
Guterson, David
Paper Book
A crystalline short novel about defying expectations, hitting the road, and seeking the right way to live. Radically open-minded, formidably strong, and unusually clear-eyed about herself and others, Evelyn Bednarz has always been a misfit. She's easily bored, unsuited to life at...
Bad Asians
Li, Lillian
Digital file
What we can know : a novel
McEwan, Ian
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the Booker prize-winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be...
Flashlight : a novel
Choi, Susan
Paper Book
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker * Time * New York * The Washington Post * NPR * Los Angeles Times * The Boston Globe * The Guardian * Vanity Fair * Elle *...
Some bright nowhere
Packer, Ann
Ebook
AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK 'One of those rare books that once you've finished, comes with you for life' RACHEL JOYCE 'A moving book ... I was enraptured by it' PHILIPPA PERRY 'Readers, you will shed tears and talk long into the night about this book' ANDREW SEAN GREER ...
Discipline
Pham, Larissa
Paper Book
'A writer to keep a close eye on' The New York Times 'Quiet and beautifully written, Discipline plays masterfully' Buzz MagazineWhen two people fall apart, who gets to tell their story?Christine is a young writer touring her debut novel - a thinly disguised tale of the affair she had with her...
So old, so young
Ginder, Grant
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Most Anticipated Novel of 2026 by Time, Town & Country, Bustle, and Zibby Media * A Best New Book by People, New York Post, Library Journal, and BookBub * February Book Club Pick by Good...
The Take
Yang, Kelly.
Paper Book
Palaver
Washington, Bryan
Paper Book
A modern literary romcom and a life-affirming novel of family, mending, and how we learn to love, from the award-winning Bryan Washington.
Saoirse
Hurtubise, Charleen
Paper Book
Exploring the fine line between dishonesty and reinvention, Saoirse is an evocative and compelling story of a woman perpetually in flight. A book for fans of Trespasses by Louise Kennedy and Barbara's Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead.
Pick a colour
Thammavongsa, Souvankham
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE 2025 A TLS AND TIME MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR From Giller Prize and O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labor, and class. 'I live in a world of...
Helm
Hall, Sarah
Paper Book
The wondrous, elemental new novel from a 'writer of show-stopping genius' - about nature, people and the sliver of time we have left.
Minor black figures
Taylor, Brandon
Paper Book
A painter. A priest. One hot New York summer. 'A genuinely swoony summer romance' New York Times 'Brilliant' Raven Leilani 'Stunning' Observer Wyeth is a newcomer to New York, a young Black painter who is trying to find his place in the...
Queen Esther
Irving, John
Paper Book
After forty years, John Irving returns to the world of his bestselling classic novel and Academy Award-winning The Cider House Rules, revisiting the orphanage in St. Cloud's, Maine, where Dr Wilbur Larch takes in Esther, a Viennese-born Jew whose life is shaped by anti...
The wilderness : a novel
Flournoy, Angela
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITIC CIRCLES AWARD FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE ...
The Frenzy: Stories
Oates, Joyce Carol.
Paper Book
A gripping collection of propulsive, psychologically suspenseful stories by the legendary Joyce Carol Oates "who is surely on any shortlist of America's greatest living writers" (The New York Times Magazine) "A genius in the truest sense of the word."--Rebecca Makkai ...
Lost lambs
Cash, Madeline
Paper Book
'A voice like no other' Lena Dunham The instant Sunday Times bestseller 'I LOVED IT . . . Masterfully and totally realised' PANDORA SYKES 'The most wildly original book of the year' ...
A beast slinks towards Beijing
Yang, Alice Evelyn
Paper Book
A dark, magical realist debut family saga that moves through the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, the Cultural Revolution, and the present day to explore the effects of intergenerational trauma, the legacy of colonialism, and the inescapability of fate. Qianze has not seen her father in eleven...

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