'It's unbelievable... It's completely blown my mind' Zadie Smith Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about his life with painful honesty. He writes about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with r
Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case. For religious reasons, a seventeen-year-old boy is refusing the medical
In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls drift through a hot smoggy August and tedious summer school classes. There's dependable Toshi; brainy Terauchi; Yuzan, grief-stricken and conf
From the international phenomenon Karl Ove Knausgaard, the extraordinary final volume of 'the most significant literary enterprise of our times' (Guardian)In this final novel in the My Struggle cycle, Karl Ove Knausgaard examines life, death, love and literature with unsparing rigour and begins to count the cost of his project. The End reflects on the fallout from the earlier books, with Knausgaard facing the pressures of literary acclaim and its often shattering repercussions. It is at once a meditation on writing and its relationship with reality, and an account of a writer's relationship with himself - from his ambitions to his doubts and frailties.'Epic... It creates a world that absorbs you utterly' Sunday Times'Compulsively addictive' Daily Telegraph'My Struggle has strong claim to be the great literary event of the twenty-first century' Guardian'A mesmerising, thought-provoking and genuinely important work of art' Spectator
THE BLUEST EYE chronicles the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in 1940s Ohio: Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola. Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays each night for blue eyes like those of her p
2015 Man Booker Prize longlist THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Fiction Prize ‘It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon…’ This is the way Abby Whitshank a
One day Mr Gumpy decides to take a trip along the river in his boat. But the children, the rabbit, the cat, the pig and lots more friends decide to join him. Everyone''s having a lovely time until the animals start kicking, bleating, hopping and flapping and the boat starts to rock. What will happen...?''A story of real drama observed with gentle humour''GUARDIANWinner of the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1970, this picture book classic has entertained children and adults alike for over 40 years.
Amy Tan's moving and poignant tale of immigrant Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters that inspired the BAFTA nominated filmIn 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco,
It's time to get out of the bath but Shirley's not listening. She's floated away to a secret watery land beyond the plughole?to where knights ride white horses, and kings and queens float in moats ar
Sterne's utterly original novel—the meandering, maddening "autobiography" of one of literature's oldest comic characters, with an introduction by Tom McCarthyDoomed to become the "sport of fortune" by
Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year 'Outstanding...a stunningly good read' Observer 'Mark Haddon's portrayal of an emotionally dissociated mind is a superb achievement...Wise and bleakly funny' I
One day Mr Gumpy decides to take a trip along the river in his boat. But the children, the rabbit, the cat, the pig and lots more friends decide to join him. Everyone's having a lovely time until the
Yoko Ogawa, a lonely teenaged girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - an unspoken infatuation that draws out darker possibilities. A y
The Boy Who Saw True is based on the diary entries of a young Victorian whose extraordinary supernatural talent reveals itself within these pages. By turns naïve, insightful, funny, and moving, it is
