Literary

The eagerly anticipated second novel from the author of the international bestseller, The Kite RunnerPoor, uneducated Mariam is terrified and only fifteen years old when she is shipped off to Kabul to marry a troubled man thirty years her senior. Nearly two decades later, pretty fifteen-... More

‘An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny.’—Sunday Telegraph ‘Time, love, age, memory, death, chaos, passion and the spirit of place: this capacious novel wraps its arms effortlessly around all the great themes while entertaining us with a funny and wistful love story ... More

It is June, 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come ..."On Chesil Beach" is another masterwork fro... More

Winner of the Booker Prize 2002 Piscine Molitor Patel, otherwise known as Pi, lives in Pondicherry, where his father runs and owns the city’s zoo. When he is sixteen, his parents decide to emigrate to Canada, taking their large family with them, but tragedy strikes when the cargo ship carrying t... More

The new thriller from Michael Crichton, one of the most famous authors in the world, is sure to biggest book of Christmas 2006.   Is your loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? It's 2006: do you know who all your... More

'No matter what,' Julia had said, aware then of what was coming, 'let's always play cards.'  And they did; for even with her memory gone, a little more of it each day — her children taken, her house, her flowerbeds, belongings, clothes — their games in the communal drawing room ... More

Winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature ‘Perhaps the greatest revelation in the Spanish language since the Don Quixote of Cervantes.’ —Pablo Neruda ‘An extraordinary novel, a work of obsessional originality...García Márquez’s hypnotic history of his Buendías fam... More

Hilarious and tragic, at the heart of Catch –22 is a savage indictment of twentieth century madness, and a desire of the ordinary man to survive it. “The greatest satirical work in the English language since Erehwon” Philip Toynbee, Observer “Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically fu... More

  'When her grandmother learned of Ashima's pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family's first sahib. And so Ashima and Ashoke have agreed to put off the decision of what to name the baby until a letter comes…'   For now, the label on his hospital co... More

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2006‘Kiran Desai is a terrific writer’ —Salman RushdieIn a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga lives and embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace from a world he has found too messy for justice, when his orp... More

At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an American stranger. As dusk deepens to dark, he begins the tale that has brought him to this fateful meeting . . . Among the brightest and best of his graduating class at Princeton, Changez is snapped up by Underwood and S... More

'The best short story Hemingway has written' Sunday Times Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, in a perfectly... More

‘Theroux has long been the most exciting contemporary practitioner of a literary tradition honed to elegantly crafted terseness by Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene. Always a terrific teller of tales and conjurer of exotic locales, he writes lean prose that lopes along at a compelling... More

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