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Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is...

WINNER OF THE 2026 ORWELL PRIZE FOR FICTION The narrator of Ben Lerner's new novel...

"Contrapposto is the best meditation on art and artists I have read - it is...

'It's about Harlem in the '80s. Colson Whitehead wrote three books about Harlem, one in...

The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and...

'Christian Kracht is the great German-language writer of his generation' Joshua CohenTwo men venture through...

An electrifying novel about the Nazi who reinvented himself, Albert Speer 'Which is the most...

A woman in Galway hears of the death of her son in the First World...

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Life of Pi comes a modern and imaginative...

The greatest rediscovered classic of recent years, Stoner is a literary legend. This is the...

'The ethos that shines through this remarkable collection is, to quote Simone de Beauvoir, one...

A captivating dystopian masterpiece. For fans of Charlotte Wood and Cormac McCarthy. It is the...

The ear is the organ of fear. It is a door to that which is...

I never meant to get so drunk. Each time it happened I swore it would...

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry is a powerful, triumphant, Pulitzer-winning tribute to the American West....

An intensely moving novel about three friends living in political exile and the emotional homeland...

'You will never understand how the land remembers, how deep the roots grow' A spellbinding...

'Absolute joy' Sarah Winman 'The funniest of writers. . . Villa Coco is such a...

The instant Sunday Times bestseller'A painfully optimistic book that does the favour of making you...

It's time for a new season of The Real West Wing, and viewers are looking...

Robert Harris returns to Ancient Rome in his latest thriller. Julius Caesar is dead, and...

'Knox at his most ambitious, scathing, hilarious best.' CHARLOTTE WOOD You can't choose your family,...