General & literary fiction Books

"One of the freshest, most memorable story collections of my lifetime. And 'A Good Man,' one of the most important. Rarer than the newness, the wit, the vivid readability, is the deep caring understanding, the wholeness, the truth which this astonishing,...

These are four tales of contemporary life in a land where cannabis, rather than alcohol, customarily provides a way out of the phenomenological world. Thus, of the men in these stories, Salam uses suggestions supplied by smoking kif to rid himself of a...

A thrilling tale that leads from ventriloquism and mania to a family murder and emotional breakdown, Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland; or The Transformation (1798) ties revolutionary-era Gothic themes to struggles over the politics of Enlightenment on...

Rapturously received by critics and enthusiastically embraced by readers, The Great Leader is an enthralling, blackly comic take on the detective story that follows a retired detective in hilarious and bold pursuit of a sinister cult leader. Detective...

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction in 2003, The Caprices is a collection of stories artfully told across the theatre of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. An Anglo-Indian cavalryman, his homeland on the brink of revolution, finds himself in...

'Like Crazy (not) Rich Asians meets Jane Austen, Pride and Preston Lin is a delightful retelling of a beloved classic that had me smiling from page one.'-Evelyn Skye, New York Times bestselling author of The Hundred Loves of JulietIn...

Six-year-old Gracie Lynn is perpetually curious and bighearted. Convinced she knows how to save her beloved grandfather John from the 'worm' that is eating his brain - a metaphor her mother once used to explain John's dementia...

Can an eleven-year-old boy succeed where others have failed? Can he recover a kidnapped child, disprove a false accusation of assault or win a sleep-deprivation competition that has driven others mad with tragic consequences?He can, if he is accompanied...

'Soon the night will come, and to save my life, I must tell another story.'So begins the famous tale of Scheherazade, kidnapped from her parent's home in the desert by the Sultan's soldiers, and brought to his palace in the city. Every...

What I remember best about that week in January is trying to keep track of all the lies I told...1998. Ontario has been hit by a days-long, life-endangering ice storm, and on Regis University campus, with classes cancelled, the students are partying. In...

Erin McCabe's years as a criminal defence attorney have prepared her for almost anything - except for being on the opposite side of the interrogation table. A new client - a successful financial advisor - has been found stabbed to death on the...

An intensely moving, lyrical and often funny novel about a family whose story of migration from Kenya and India to England is told over three separate days, across six decades.Bedi and Sushma's marriage is arranged. When they first meet, they...

From the world's favourite author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, this novel is about chance encounters; it is richly atmospheric and packed with compassion and humour.Often a small and seemingly insignificant event can change the course of our...

Winner of the 2023 Prix Mdicis, Prix Dcembre, and Prix RinguetCline Wachowski, internationally renowned architect and accidental digital-culture icon, unveils her plans for the Webuy Complex, her first megaproject in Montreal, her hometown. But instead...

First published in 1878, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is the tragic story of aristocrat Anna Karenina and her ill-fated affair with the cavalry officer Count Vronsky. Although passionately in love, the couple finds their romance doomed by the...

A Romantic Tragicomedy of Faith, Family, and FollyRoss, twenty-three, isn't nearly as clever as he thinks he is. His brilliant idea to break up with his girlfriend, Lora Liamant, in an attempt to show her how terrible other men are and how empty life...

Franz Kafka is best known as the author of The Metamorphosis, The Trial and The Castle. Although he died before he had reached the age of forty, his groundbreaking work has left a profound cultural legacy and continues to influence writers and artists...

This anthology gathers 100 tales that share the winter theme of Hans Christian Andersen's classic. In addition to stories by Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, it includes works by Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Wilde, selections from Andrew...

From Minrose Gwin, award-winning author ofThe Accidentals, comesBeautiful Dreamers,a story of a precocious teen and her mother, their gay best friend, and the con man who unravels their family.It's 1953 when Memory Feather and her mother, Virginia, are...

Don't look back.Did Eurydice want to return from the underworld? Did anybody ask?In this brilliant portrait of rage and resilience, a Korean woman tries to connect with her younger brother and grapple with family tragedy through bedtime stories that...

When her hippie mother Edi goes missing the same week Sky Richard is assaulted at work-Sky wants to run away from everything. Instead, Sky goes looking for her mother and finds an estranged grandmother, the cult she was born in, and an unlikely ally. But...

A sweeping family saga set against the backdrop of a Sikh wedding.On the morning of his nephew's wedding, Devinder Gill is certain the delicate balance of his life will not be upset. Dev is married to Kuldip, and together they are raising two young...

Amish novelist Linda Byler spins a heartwarming tale set in the early 1800s at Christmastime.It's 1823 and life is not easy for fourteen-year-old Henry. With an alcoholic father, it's up to Henry to provide for his younger siblings. His mother, Caroline,...

Two lonely strangers. One chance encounter. Six winning numbers.Dot is a lonely pensioner. Max is a young offender. But a chance meeting in their local park changes everything for this unlikely duo. They soon find they share a wicked sense of humour and...

The never-before-published novel by Charmian Clift.'In those days the end of the morning was always marked by the quarry whistle blowing the noon knock-off.Since everybody was out of bed very early, morning then was a long time, or even, if you came to...

Set in contemporary Iran, Mirage delves into the complicated relationship between Roya and her identical twin sister, Tala.Their inseparable bond becomes hard to maintain as they grow older, but when they both get pregnant at the same time, their...

As teenagers, Helen, Annie and Laura were inseparable, bonding over family, boys and their dreams for the future. But when school ended, so did their friendship. Twenty-five years later, a snowstorm forces the three women to spend time together, leaving...

A novel of Felice Bauer, Franz Kafka's first fiance, and the story behind Letters to FeliceFranz Kafka scholars know Felice Bauer, his onetime fiance, through his Letters to Felice, as little more than a woman with a raucous laugh and a taste for...

"Stacey Levine's fiction is unlike anything else. Peculiar, vivid, preternaturally alert to the strangeness of the human condition, Mice 1961 is terrific."-Kelly LinkStacey Levine's new novel recounts a pivotal day in the fraught relationship of two...

'Don't go Mammy please.' Stuttered words filled her ears, sent frissons of guilt through her as she bent over him; held him to her thumping chest. Tears sliding from her face to his.Raef is left behind in Grenada when his...

A thousand years ago in an ancient Scottish landscape, a woman is on the run with her three bosom companions a healer, a weaver and a seer. If the men hunting her find them, they will kill her because she is the only one who stands between them and their...

New and exclusive short stories and poems inspired by bad mothers from some of today's fiercest women in horror. Featuring Rachel Harrison, Gwendolyn Kiste, Kristi DeMeester, and Kelsea Yu, edited by Lindy Ryan with a foreword by Sadie 'Mother...

On New Year's Eve of 1961, while visiting family in England, sisters Sophie and Olivia's lives are forever changed with the ill-fated discovery of a sapphire and diamond bracelet gifted to their mother, Elizabeth Grace Bennett Bannister.Their mother, a...

The free-standing successor and next novel by the author of the critically acclaimed The Last Thing You Surrender, Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s 54 Miles launches forward twenty years to the fateful weeks of March 1965-from the infamous "Bloody Sunday" march at...

A lost feminist masterwork by feminist and speculative fiction icon Joanna Russ about a lesbian's coming-to-consciousness during the social upheaval of the 1970s.When Esther, an English professor living in 1970s small-town New York, has her first lesbian...

This cornucopia of thrills and chills features 25 of the finest English-language tales of the uncanny and macabre. In addition to works by such stellar authors as Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mary Elizabeth...

A Bridgerton-inspired humorous Victorian romance featuring a defiant heroine who fights to escape a bad marriage, while her love for a forbidden man jeopardizes her chance at freedom.James Standish knows how to play society's game. He'll follow the rules...

In this stunning debut by a South Carolina attorney, Zach Stander, a lawyer with a past, and Addie Stone, his indomitable detective and lover, find themselves entangled in secrets, lies, and murder in a small Southern town.A high-profile murder case A...

This novel takes the reader on a journey into contemporary Tanzanian life in an honest and unsentimental way, from the bustling towns to its vast, dangerous wilderness.Set in Tanzania, Nothing Is Wrongfollows the lives of three people living on the...

Arnold Palmer has just died and The King of Video Poker is about to lose everything he loves.In Paolo Iacovelli's debut novel, we follow a nameless narrator. He is a normative, upper-middle-class American who commutes to Las Vegas to play high-stakes...

Discover this action-packed Assassin's Creed Fragments novel about siblings tested and separated by the bloody carnage of war between England and Scotland.Scotland, 1296. The winds of rebellion are blowing.The wars of independence for Scotland are on the...

A young artist meets Stephen Crane as America's hunger for empire draws them both into warOliver Fischer, a self-styled bohemian, boardwalk caricaturist, and student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, enrages his banker father and earns the...

A young Kurdish woman discovers a commitment to liberation, both personal and collective, through a harrowing journey to Rojava and the heart of armed struggle.Jncin is a young professor living in Berlin, born to a Yezedi father who years earlier was...

'Societies are oiled with the unpaid, unaccounted for, work of women. It is the very glue that binds us together, and yet we are blind to it; a woman's work remains invisible.'Rosalind Franklin knows that to be a woman in a...

A twisting new thriller from the author of The Replacement: Is the man she married in trouble-or is he just trouble?Kate and Jake agreed when they got married that they would always give each other space. But lately, Jake seems to want a lot more space...

Hannah alwaysfinds a way to get what she wants.Daughter to Chloe Cartwright, an eccentric prize-winning writer more interested in politics than parenthood, and sister to a rugby-star brother, Hannah has never excelled at much besides shoplifting...

A postapocalyptic noir that asks if love and political ideals can survive civilizational collapseA meditative, postapocalyptic noir, Mevlido's Dreams is an urgent communiqu from a far-future reality of irreversible environmental damage and civilizational...