General Fiction

Notes from a Lost Country by Sinan Antoon follows Sami, a retired Iraqi doctor living in Brooklyn who is gradually losing himself to dementia and memories of Iraq before the war. Omar, an Iraqi army deserter, arrives in the United States carrying the physical...

A Stranger in Baghdad by Elizabeth Loudon is an intergenerational novel moving between Baghdad and London. The story begins in 2003, when Anglo-Iraqi psychiatrist Mona Haddad receives an unexpected visitor who may finally reveal what happened to her family before they left Iraq. The...

Too Soon by Betty Shamieh is a literary family saga following three generations of Palestinian American women. Arabella, a New York theatre director, is drawn into a complicated relationship and a theatre project in the West Bank. Her mother Naya and grandmother Zoya have...

In the 1930s, private eye Hicks McTaggart finds himself moving through a world of spies, swing music, political tension and increasingly strange clues. What begins like a detective case expands into the unpredictable territory associated with Thomas Pynchon. Shadow Ticket mixes noir, history and...

Burning with the fires of hope and possibility, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow will sweep you up and never let you go. Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her...

John Steinbeck’s East of Eden follows the intertwined Trask and Hamilton families in California’s Salinas Valley. Across generations, love, jealousy, inheritance and moral choice shape lives that echo the biblical story of Cain and Abel. A major American classic with enduring questions about family...

Malcolm hopes to thank his friend Rev Ruth with a quiet festive lunch, but her generous spirit turns the day into a much larger community gathering. As unexpected guests arrive and tensions rise, his carefully planned Christmas begins to unravel. Sally Page’s warm short...

Beginning in early twentieth-century Korea, Pachinko follows several generations of one family as their lives become intertwined with migration, survival and identity in Japan. Private decisions unfold against larger pressures of history, prejudice and economic change. Min Jin Lee’s sweeping family saga brings together...

Chuck and Joey are drawn together despite differences in age, income and ambition. Their relationship unfolds among creative dreams, awkward conversations and the pressures of trying to build a life while understanding another person. Jem Calder’s contemporary literary novel looks closely at intimacy, aspiration...

Jeffrey Archer follows two lives shaped by class, loyalty and war in Adam and Eve. Born on Armistice Day in 1918, Adam is the son of a shepherd and Eve is the daughter of an Earl. Their contrasting backgrounds do not prevent a connection...

M. John Harrison imagines a damaged, unsettling world in The End of Everything. Phillip Tennent earns his living collecting objects washed up along the Channel, in a landscape where the consequences of an earlier crisis remain difficult to explain. Familiar institutions have weakened, and...

It’s the summer of 1951 and everyone is looking to put the dark days of the war behind them. The government’s solution: The Festival of Britain, a celebration of the country’s creativity, grit and ingenuity. For foreign correspondent turned war reporter Harry Flynn, it...

Danny and Dino go trick-or-treating and stumble into a haunted house packed with witches, ghosts and vampires in this silly lift-the-flap Halloween adventure.

Jane Austen’s Emma is now available in an exclusive collector’s edition featuring a delicate laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping and ribbon marker, ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike. The Emma Jane Austen Collection Edition: Presents Austen’s final novel published during her lifetime,...

Running on the Cracks by Julia Donaldson is a gripping children's/YA thriller about fifteen-year-old Leo, who runs away from her uncle and travels to Glasgow in search of her Chinese family. Along the way, Leo meets Finlay and Mary, who help her feel safe...

A classic novel of desire and jealousy. Ann Prentice falls in love with Richard Cauldfield and hopes for new happiness. Her only child, Sarah, cannot contemplate the idea of her mother marrying again and wrecks any chance of her remarriage. Resentment and jealousy corrode...

A striking novel of truth and soul-searching. Returning from a visit to her daughter in Iraq, Joan Scudamore finds herself unexpectedly alone and stranded in an isolated rest house by flooding of the railway tracks.Looking back over the years, Joan painfully re-examines her attitudes,...

The Restaurant of Lost Recipes by Hisashi Kashiwai is the second book in the heartwarming Kamogawa Food Detectives series, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood. In a small Kyoto restaurant, a father and daughter recreate treasured dishes from their customers' memories. From a former...

Confessions of a Forty-Something Fk Up** by Alexandra Potter is a funny and heartfelt contemporary novel about starting over when life doesn't turn out as planned. Nell Stevens returns to London after her business and relationship collapse, only to discover that her friends have...

Days of Light by Megan Hunter is a sweeping historical novel inspired by the influential Bloomsbury Group, exploring love, loss, desire and the passage of time. It begins on Easter Sunday in 1938, when nineteen-year-old Ivy gathers with her bohemian family and their friends...