Japanese fairy tales - enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world.

Dark and innocent, sublime and whimsical, these stories have the ageless feel of the best fairy tales. There are animal allegories like 'The Ungrateful Rat' where a rude rodent insults all the objects he meets - until he meets the Rat Trap - and morality tales like 'The Restaurant of Many Orders, where two hunters become hunted. There are also transcendent stories of childhood and mortal...

Are you lost or are you exploring?

When Zachary Rawlins stumbles across a strange book hidden in his university library it leads him on a quest unlike any other. Its pages entrance him with their tales of lovelorn prisoners, lost cities and nameless acolytes, but they also contain something impossible: a recollection from his own childhood.

Determined to solve the puzzle of the book, Zachary follows the clues he finds on the cover – a bee, a key and a sword. They guide him to a masquerade b...

Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a restless search for answers.

While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade.

Twenty-five years later, as the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster spreads across Europe, Ro...

A brilliant new collection of short stories from the unique mind of the internationallly bestselling author of Men Without Women and Killing Commendatore. In these eight stories, Haruki Murakami explores the world from his unique perspective.

THE NO.1 BESTSELLER'Gripping' Guardian'Powerful' The Times The Republic of Gilead maintains its repressive grip on power but it is beginning to rot from within.

Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been.

A contemporary novel of daughterhood and motherhood, from the Booker Prize-winning Irish author

'A magnificent novel'

SALLY ROONEY, author of NORMAL PEOPLE

'Might just be her best yet'

LOUISE KENNEDY, author of TRESPASSES

'Gem-packed language... A must-read'

MARGARET ATWOOD, author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE (via Twitter)

Nell - fun...

Smooth-talking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests and tireless sex - sister, employers, acquaintances are but co-stars among a cast of thousands to have passed through his busy bed. His foster brother, Terry, has to make do with the leavings as he trawls through life in a miasma of grief, burdened by an unmentionable past and the unlikelihood of ever having a good time in bed...

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2021

AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB SELECTION

AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF SEPTEMBER 2021

FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY

'Powers has extraordinary gifts as a writer' Guardian

'Impressively precise in its scientific conjectures, Bewilderment is no less rich or wis...