Fiction

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Updated April 24, 2026
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Vigil
Saunders, George
Paper Book
Pre-order the latest book from the Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo - a playful, wise, electric novel taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO, in the twilight hours of his life, as he is ferried from this world into the next 'He will be read...
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...
The loneliness of Sonia and Sunny : a novel
Desai, Kiran
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years--an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of Loss<...
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...
A far-flung life
Stedman, m L.
Paper Book
Western Australia, 1958- here, for generations, the MacBrides have lived on a remote sheep station, Meredith Downs. A million acres, it's an ocean of arid land. One ordinary day, on a lonely road, patriarch Phil MacBride swerves to avoid a kangaroo. In seconds, the lives of his entire...
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...
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...
Good People
Sabit, Patmeena.
Paper Book
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'...
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....
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...
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.
Discipline
Pham, Larissa
Paper Book
A taut, provocative debut novel about creativity and sex, coercion and control, with shades of Rachel Cusk and Katie Kitamura.
What we can know
McEwan, Ian
Paper Book
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS FICTION AWARD 2025** 'McEwan's most richly layered work' Sunday Times 'A gripping page-turner' Observer 'A daring, beautiful novel, full of wisdom and heart' Elif Shafak A quest, a literary...
Westward Women
Martin, Alice.
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<...
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' ...
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.
The river is waiting
Lamb, Wally
Paper Book
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two Oprah Book Club Picks--She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True--Wally Lamb comes the propulsive story of a young father who, after an unbearable tragedy, reckons with the possibility of atonement...
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...
Queen Esther a novel
Irving, John
Paper Book
Esther Nacht is born in Vienna in 1905. Her father dies on board the ship to Portland, Maine; her mother is murdered by anti-Semites in Portland. Dr. Larch knows it won't be easy to find a Jewish family to adopt Esther; in fact, he won't find any family who'll adopt her. When Esther is...
Half his age
McCurdy, Jennette
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER Half His Age is a highly anticipated, funny, sad, thrilling novel about sex, class, desire, and power - and the (often misguided) lengths we'll go to to get what we want, from Jennette McCurdy, the three-million copy bestselling author of I'm Glad My Mom...
Flashlight
Choi, Susan
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 WATERSTONES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026 A moment is all it takes to shatter a family. The echoes last a lifetime... 'Ferociously smart and full of surprises...
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...
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.
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