The Sellout - WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016
`Outrageous, hilarious and profound.Â’ Simon Schama, Financi...
Lincoln in the Bardo - WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2...
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A STORY OF LOVE AFTER D...
Eileen - Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR T...
The North Water - Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2...
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A NEW YORK TIMES TO...
The North Water - Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2...
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A NEW YORK TIMES T...
All That Man Is - Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize ...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE Nine men. Each of...
Exit West - SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A Barack Obama top...
Mend the Living - WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 201...
Winner of the Wellcome Book Prize 2017. Longlisted for the ...
Exit West - SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR T...
A Little Life - Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 20...
WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE 2015 & SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BO...
Autumn - SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 SUNDAY TIMES TOP ...
Winter - from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 The dazzling second no...
The Unseen - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATION...
Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017Nobod...
Swing Time - LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Â’SmithÂ’s finest....
The Sellout - WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016
Swing Time - LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 ’Smith’s finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous’ Observer ‘Superb’ Financial Times ‘Breathtaking’ TLS ‘Pitch-perfect’ Daily Telegraph’A tale of two girls who meet in a West London dance class… A page-turner that’s also beautifully written ‘ Glamour’There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith’ Telegra...
Swing Time - LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 ’Smith’s finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous’ Observer ‘Superb’ Financial Times ‘Breathtaking’ TLS ‘Pitch-perfect’ Daily Telegraph’A tale of two girls who meet in a West London dance class… A page-turner that’s also beautifully written ‘ Glamour’There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith’ Telegra...
Sing, Unburied, Sing - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENÂ’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2017ONE OF BARACK OBAMAÂ’S BEST BOOKS OF 2017SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW STATESMAN, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, TIME AND THE BBC Â’A mustÂ’ Margaret AtwoodÂ’StaggeringÂ’ Marlon JamesÂ’A searing, urgent readÂ’ Celeste NgÂ’Disarmingly beautifulÂ’ SpectatorÂ...
The Power - WINNER OF THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
WINNER OF THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTIONONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S BEST BOOKS OF 2017 ’Electrifying’ Margaret Atwood ’A big, page-turning, thought-provoking thriller’ Guardian All over the world women are discovering they have the power. With a flick of the fingers they can inflict terrible pain – even death. Suddenly, every man on the planet finds they’ve lost control. Th...
The Glorious Heresies - Winner of the Baileys' Women's Prize for Fiction 2016
WINNER OF THE BAILEYS’ WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE 2016 We all do stupid things when we’re kids. Ryan Cusack’s grown up faster than most – being the oldest of six with a dead mum and an alcoholic dad will do that for you. And nobody says Ryan’s stupid. Not even behind his back. It’s the people around him who are the problem. The gangland boss using...
The Keeper of Lost Things - winner of the Richard & Judy Readers' Award and Sunday Times bestseller
WINNER OF RICHARD AND JUDY AUTUMN BOOK CLUB 2017 – ’One of the most charming novels either of us has read. Don’t lose it. Keep it’ Richard & Judy The perfect holiday read, recommended by thousands of readers One of the Mail on Sunday’s ’Best books for the beach this summer’Meet the ‘Keeper of Lost Things’… Once a celebrated author of short stories now in his twilight years, Anthony Peard...
The Obelisk Gate - The Broken Earth, Book 2, WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD 2017
Winner of the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel Book 2 in the double Hugo-Award-winning trilogy The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun has found shelter, but not her missing daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request only Essun can grant. Praise for this trilogy: Â’AmazingÂ’ Ann Leckie Â’Breaks unchar...
The Churchill Factor - How One Man Made History
A refreshingly original biography for fans of The Darkest Hour Â’The must-read biography of the year.Â’ Evening StandardÂ’He writes with gustoÂ… the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever Â… this book sizzles.Â’ The Times The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of Winston ChurchillÂ’s death, and written ...
Something in the Blood - The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
An “essential examination” (New York Times Book Review), this revelatory biography exhumes the haunted origins of the man behind the immortal myth. In this “sumptuous” (Publishers Weekly) portrait of the man who birthed an undying cultural icon, David J. Skal “pulls back the curtain to reveal the author who dreamed up this vampire” (Time). “A fascinating character whose own anxieties and ...
The Leavers - Winner of the PEN/Bellweather Prize for Fiction
FINALIST, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2017 FINALIST, PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION 2017 WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN/BELLWETHER PRIZE FOR FICTION NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2017 BY OPRAH, NPR, BUZZFEED AND HUFFINGTON POST ’Sensational’ – Guardian ’Utterly immersive’ – Daily Mail ’There was a time I would have called Lisa Ko’s novel beautifully written, ambitious, and moving...
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton ’“A man’s brain is a bomb,” he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. “My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A man’s brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe”’ In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Sym...
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness - `The Literary Read of the Summer' - Time
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMENÂ’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2018 THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 and THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Â’A sprawling kaleidoscopic fableÂ’ Guardian, Books of the Year Â’RoyÂ’s second novel proves as remarkable as her firstÂ’ Financial Times Â’A ...
Elmet - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Â’A quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettableÂ’ The Economist Â’A cleverly constructed rural Gothic fable . . . Elmet is a marvellous achievementÂ’ TLS Â’Pastoral idyll, political expose, cosy family saga and horror tale, it reads like a traditional childrenÂ’s story that turns into a gangster film: Hansel and Gretel meets The GodfatherÂ’ S...
Elmet - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Â’A quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettableÂ’ The Economist Â’A cleverly constructed rural Gothic fable . . . Elmet is a marvellous achievementÂ’ TLS Â’Pastoral idyll, political expose, cosy family saga and horror tale, it reads like a traditional childrenÂ’s story that turns into a gangster film: Hansel and Gretel meets The GodfatherÂ’ S...
The Sellout - WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016
`Outrageous, hilarious and profound.Â’ Simon Schama, Financial Times `The longer you stare at BeattyÂ’s pages, the smarter youÂ’ll get.Â’ Guardian `The most badass first 100 pages of an American novel IÂ’ve read.Â’ New York Times A biting satire about a young manÂ’s isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his g...
Autumn - SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER Â’In a country apparently divided against itself, a writer such as Smith is more valuable than a whole parliament of politiciansÂ’ Financial Times Â’Undoubtedly Smith at her best. Puckish, yet elegant; angry, but comfortingÂ’ The Times Â’A beautiful, poignant symphony of memories, dreams and transient realitiesÂ… The ...
History of Wolves - Shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZEHow far would you go to belong? Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the beautiful, austere backwoods of northern Minnesota. The other girls at school call Linda ‘Freak’, or ‘Commie’. Her parents mostly leave her to her own devices, whilst the other inhabitants have grown up and moved on. So when the perfect fa...
An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic - Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017
From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading – and reliving – Homer’s epic masterpiece. `My favourite classicist once again combines meticulous literary investigation with warm and wrenching human emotion – books like these are why I love reading’ LEE CHILD When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enrol ...
Citizen Clem - A Biography of Attlee: Winner of the Orwell Prize
**WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING****WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY***Book of the year: The Times, Sunday Times, New Statesman, Spectator, Evening Standard*‘Outstanding . . . We still live in the society that was shaped by Clement Attlee’ Robert Harris, Sunday Times’The best book in the field of British politics’ Philip Collins, The Times’Easi...
Frankenstein in Baghdad - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018 WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION Â’ExtraordinaryÂ… A devastating but essential read.Â’ Kevin Powers, bestselling author and National Book Award finalist for The Yellow Birds Â’Gripping, darkly humorousÂ…profound.Â’ Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for Redeployment From the rubble-strewn str...
Sight - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENÂ’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 Â’A stunning debutÂ’ GuardianIn Jessie GreengrassÂ’ superb debut novel, our unnamed narrator recounts her progress to motherhood, while remembering the death of her own mother ten years before, and the childhood summers she spent with her psychoanalyst grandmother.Woven among these personal recollections are significant events in medical history...