Is it possible to die a happy death? This title tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society\'s rules by committing a murder and escaping punishment, then experimenting with different ways of life and finally dying a happy man.

A devastating and pulse-pounding tale that will feel all-too-relevant in today\'s world, based on a true story from Korean history. Hope is dangerous.

\'There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can. There are few who ever could\' John ScalziThe mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple effect across the stars in this powerful new novel by award-winning author Ann Leckie.

A moving portrayal of the struggle between desire and duty in nineteenth-century New York high societyNewland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingénue, when May\'s cousin, Countess Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The Countess brings with her an aura of European sophistication and a hint of scandal, having left

\'Let us now praise Ray Bradbury\' THE TIMES Bradbury\'s first story collection is a must-read for any fan of the genre, spinning stardust and cobwebs in its wondrous wake. It contains twenty-seven stories, from science fiction\'s master storyteller.

Under the watchful eye of The Company, three characters - Grayson, Morse and Chen - shapeshifters, amorphous, part human, part extensions of the landscape, make their way through forces that would consume them. A blue fox, a giant fish and language stretc

Book Four in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time. Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-desert planet is green with life.

Wrong Norma is Anne Carson\'s first book of original material in eight years. As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-designed book, drawn and annotated by the author.

\'Cormac McCarthy was such a virtuoso, his language was so rich and new . . . McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute. His sentences were astonishing.\' - Anne Enright-----\'A drought-busting, brain-vexing double act\' GuardianAlicia Western is the following: Twenty years old.

Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attache to the Soviet embassy in Paris. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate and unfiltered.

*Soon to be a live-action Netflix series!* Boy meets boy. Boys become friends.

Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about favourite books, and bittersweet stories from her full and varied life. She\'s sailed through the Pacific for years, been held up by pirates, worked at Sydney\'s Kings Cross with drug addicts and prostitutes, campaigned on numerous environmental issues, and worked the yacht Breaksea Girl with her husband, La

A chilling masterpiece of the horror genre, Dracula also illuminated dark corners of Victorian sexuality. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to advise Count Dracula on a London home, he makes a horrifying discovery.

A rich, magical new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - now a top ten Sunday Times bestseller It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home.

Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life - and the fate of his country - forever changed. Together with his sister-in-law, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile in Chile.

Optimism demands action. Optimism is an active choice.

\'Bad Island is an extraordinary, unsettling document: a silent species-history in eighty frames, a mute future archive. I can imagine it discovered in the remnants of a civilisation; a set of runes found amid the ruins.

Winner of the 2018 Sapir Prize. You need to bribe someone into giving you weed?

Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it\'s awful.\' This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh to characterize the first production of Waiting for Godot at the Theatre de Babylone in 1953. He went on to predict that the play would, in time, represent the most important premiere to be staged in Paris for forty years.

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017\'Fiona Mozley is a rising star of British fiction . . . Elmet is a quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettable. It is hard not to feel that at 29, Ms Mozley has only just begun\' The EconomistFresh and distinctive writing from an exciting new voice in fiction, Elmet is an unforgettable novel about family, as well as a beautiful meditation on land