General & literary fiction Books

**Winner of the Asian American Writers' Workshop Pages in Progress Prize**'A delightful and perceptive jaunt into the heart of the Indian American community of New Jersey, Edison is a charming, often hilarious novel brimming over with...

The Thickness of Ice is a tender and tragic tale set in the remote sub-arctic tundra, in the small town of Churchill with a transient population on Hudson Bay. The barren icy landscape pervades the characters' lives and relationships. As the novel opens...

An introverted English professor's quiet life gets turned upside down when he falls for a dangerous, enigmatic sophomore.Mark Lausson has everything he thought he wanted: a coveted job at elite Sawyer College in Ohio. But at the start of his...

A wronged woman's voice is reclaimed in this gripping tale of revenge and romance-a medieval Gone Girl.Highland Scotland was no place for a woman in the early 1500s. Life was turbulent and short, battles were waged, and sisters and daughters were traded...

"Cuadros died of AIDS in 1996, two years after chronicling the disease in City of God, a book of poems and stories about queer Los Angeles. His belated follow-up takes the same form, with the same bracing urgency."-The New York Times"Without doubt one of...

The Bulgarian Training Manual is a comic novel that tells the story of Tina in her quest to find her true parents and jeans that fit.With the help of a mysterious book with magical powers, Tina makes her way from her waterlogged apartment in Hoboken, New...

Step back into the Roaring Twenties with F. Scott Fitzgerald's timeless masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, now re-imagined as a stunning illustrated edition.Featuring gorgeous illustrations by Jorge Coelho, this edition brings the glamour and excess...

The venue was the canteen block of the Red Hammer Cement Works. It was the usual set-up: way out of town, secretive directions to get there, and disco lights blazing...Moscow, 1993. The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union have...

In this novel about poverty, social inequality, and class contempt in Norway, nineteen-year-old supermarket worker Emily is single, pregnant, and struggling to make ends meet.Em's nineteen years old and pregnant. Her boyfriend Pablo has gone out "to take...

Gunslingers. Lawmen. Snake-oil Salesmen. Cowboys. Mad Scientists. And a few monsters.The Old West has never been wilder!THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UNCANNY presents sixteen original and never-before-published adventures by some of today' s most visionary...

A trans woman sets out to exploit a group of wealthy roommates, only to fall under the spell of their glamorous, hedonistic lifestyle in tech-bubble San Francisco.Years after fleeing San Francisco and getting sober, Jhanvi has made a life for herself...

Love is worth celebrating at any time of the year...The little English town of Lullbury Bay goes all out for Christmas each year, and Honor Martin loves it. After a bad breakup years ago, she's settled into the simple pleasures of working at the local...

The Old Capital is of one of the three works for which Yasunari Kawabata won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Set in Kyoto - the old capital of Japan for a thousand years - this lyric novel traces the life of Chieko, the beloved adopted daughter of a...

A crime committed in desperation is brought to light generations later, in this emotional saga of family love, loyalty, and lies...When Honey McCarthy is given a box containing trinkets left to her by her beloved great-aunty Beryl, she has no idea that...

A dazzling collection of short stories, includingThe 'Legend of Sleepy Hollow'and 'Rip Van Winkle' by Washington Irving 'The Sculptor's Funeral'by Willa Cather 'The Yellow...

Here, in one volume, are the stories that transformed Sherlock Holmes into a household name: the fateful first meeting of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson inA Study in Scarlet, the mysterious treasure ofThe Sign of the Four, the formidable Irene Adler of A...

The Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author returns with a new collection of literary horror and weird fiction that glitters with startling prose and tortured souls. Invaginies is an invasion, it is a perception that is bodily and transcendent creating...

In the stories of Exile in Guyville, probable futures and alternate realities take aim at unruly women, and show how they refuse to be ruled.With a speculative and surreal style, Amy Lee Lillard's prize-winning collection explores a living museum of...

A weird, wild ride across non-narrative vignettes and dryly funny aphorisms exploring the shared intensity of violence and the erotic.As if hauled up squirming from the bowels of the internet, Sex Goblin metabolizes sex writing, popular culture, and...

A vibrant debut short story collection depicting the disillusionment that comes with being young and queer in Puerto Rico. The visceral, wildly imaginative stories in Bad Seed flick through working-class scenes of contemporary Puerto Rico, where friends...

Cultural shifts of the late twentieth century reveal dark secrets at an elite prep school, in this posthumously discovered novel by the author of "Our Crowd."Located in bucolic Connecticut, the Crittenden School has long held a venerable reputation as...

Featured in these pages are Edgar Allan Poe's best-loved and most-feared literary creations: the clever C. August Dupin, precursor to Sherlock Holmes; the terrifying ghouls ofTales of the Grotesque and Arabesque; as well as the tragic...

**Winner of the Yomiuri Prize****Recipient of the 2022-23 William F. Sibley Memorial Subvention Award for Japanese Translation.**Introducing Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Japan's Italo Calvino in this fantastical tale of a Japanese prince who encounters both...

CBC BOOKS: 2024 SPRING FICTION PREVIEW A queer writer travelling through India can't escape the regrets of his past, nor the impending ruin of his present. "I am leaving for the winter I have to get away from this small town and all its dangers to write,...

Mike Mignola (creator of Hellboy) and Lemony Snicket (author of A Series Of Unfortunate Events) invent an entirely new vision of PINOCCHIO a bizarre and riveting new adventure through a beloved tale.An oversized slipcase art book elaborately illustrated...

"A masterpiece of women's frontier experience!" -KATHY SCHULZ, author of The Underground Railroad in Ohio"This is an amazingbook, and I couldn't stop reading it." -JOAN SILBER, PEN/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Secrets...

The Perfect Passion Dating Company at No. 24 Mouse Lane in Edinburgh's New Town is run by Katie Donald who has an innate instinct for bringing people together. She has developed a skill for finding out what it is that people really want. Along...

1964. A hoard of the finest Scotch whisky ever made - the legendary Dalziel Double Proof - goes missing.2023. Albie, youngest son of the wealthy Dalziel family, vanishes. His desperate mother turns to Robbie Gould, a disgraced reporter with a reputation...

'With its tight sentences and a fast pace,Afterlightmoves like detective fiction. It's a poignant novel in which a singlepregnant woman is mistreated in her conservative society; she remains resilient and determined to honor her baby'smemory...

The Queen of Steeplechase Park is the absolutely, positively, practically, almost-true story of infamous burlesque queen and magic meatball maker Belladonna Marie Donato. Pregnant at fifteen after gleefully losing her virginity to pansexual neighborhood...

One of The Millions Most Anticipated Books for Spring!Featured in Alta Magazine's New Books for May!Short stories from 25 emerging and established writers of Middle Eastern and North African origins, a unique collection of voices and viewpoints...

The Water Margin is an epic tale set in 12th century Imperial China, one of the earliest and greatest masterpieces of Chinese fiction. Weaving together historical details and memorable characters, it tells the exciting story of a rebellion against...

A classic of Japanese literature, brought to life in manga for the first time!This is the first manga edition in English of The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai's classic novel, often considered his masterpiece.Set in the aftermath of World War Two,...

A moving novel about the devotions of friendship and the power of love to heal, American Sycamore celebrates the American experiment and the importance of giving a damn.Rob Barrow's devotion to the American experiment has never wavered. For forty years...

Dear adventurer, It is our belief that this is one of the most important texts you will read should you plan to adventure in Gwelf. Once more our dear Wilburton sets off on adventure in Gwelf, but this time he ventures into the North into the territory...

'How can a person resist?' - The Paris ReviewStories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology and destiny.From the bestselling author of Strange...

Karol Charles does not have time for ghosts. It's Christmas Eve and she's at the office. Sure, her kids thought she'd be making cookies with them back at home, but this isimportant. This is what it means to "have it all." Then, a familiar cough from the...

Unleash the power of true love with the English translation of the captivating Japanese best-selling novel by Keisuke Uyama, Love Like the Falling Petals. This heart-wrenching tale takes you on an emotional journey as a young couple navigates the ups and...

Do you live a fabulous, glamorous life? 'Are you the talk of the town?'In the merciless world of reality TV, three women try to change their lives, but end up with far more than they bargained for. Zoe wants nothing more than to get...

Widowhood and weirdos, online and off, NORMA is so dark it smarts.It's a terrible freedom to linger unaccounted for.Norma is waking up and cracking up. Decades of marriage, housekeeping, and family responsibility: buried with her husband Hank. Now, she's...

Can killing be an act of love? Hypnotic, gruesome, and exultant, Joy Sorman's macabre ballet whirls from industrial slaughterhouses to the boutique butcher shops of Paris.Pim is a delicate youth-stringy, solemn, and prone to bouts of unexplained weeping...

The Survival Story of the Patawomeck Tribe of Virginia told through the lives of two womenThe survival story of the Patawomeck Tribe of Virginia has been remembered within the tribe for generations, but the massacre of Patawomeck men and the enslavement...

The Second World War is over, but young Tomas learns that Europe's wounds have not yet healed.'You come to see [Tomas] is conserving himself deliberately against the old suffering, the tired old guilt of the adults... Simplicity is a great...

In the era of compulsive touch-ups and digital poses, perhaps it is time to re-read our body in order to rescue perhaps it is time to re-read our body in order to rescue it and embrace it with joy. it and embrace it with joy. The thirty brief chapters of...

Eight years ago, Anne Elliot broke off her engagement to the dashing young naval officer Frederick Wentworth on the advice of a friend. Now twenty-seven and considered a faded beauty, she is resigned to a spinster's life when she learns that...

Set in 2018 against the backdrop of an overcrowded, fetid refugee camp on the beautiful Greek island of Samos, The Good Deed follows the stories of four women living in the camp and an American tourist who comes to Samos to escape her own dark secret...

Competition for a bridal magazine cover unleashes mayhem, forcing a mastermind maid of honour to stop being a people pleaser and start figuring out what she wants out of life. A hilarious, smart coming-of-age story.Olivia 'Liv'...

Blood soaks the earth. The ground is carpeted in corpses. Carrion birds feast as power-crazed warlords indulge their bloodlust in never-ending battle.An ancient convent watches over the ceaseless struggle. A sanctuary from war, the Convent of Sacred...