Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize. From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a “musical, electric, fantastically profane“ (The New York Times) epic that explores the tumultuous...
Jane Smiley's most famous novel, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear centres on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his...
It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Female...
Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris. When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighbourhood so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real...
On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the...
Winner of more than 15 literary awards. Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming...
World Readers' Award 2016 Winner, The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2015. Beauty Is A Wound opens with the sentence, "One afternoon on a weekend in March, Dewi Ayu rose from her grave after...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison's Beloved is a dazzlingly and innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she...
Winner of the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction, Finalist for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet-sensual, fiercely...
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby. Mrs. Sucksby's household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves -...
After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's death, Isma has accepted an invitation from a mentor in America that allows her to resume a dream long deferred. But...
How to Be Both has two interconnected stories: one about a teenage girl called George whose mother has just died, and the other about an Italian renaissance artist, Francesco del Cossa. Depending on...
