Naoise Dolan explodes onto the scene with Exciting Times, a slyly humorous and scorchingly smart modern love story

1996. Freya Seymour and Josephine Grey are invincible - beautiful and brilliant, the two best friends are on the cusp of Oxbridge, and the success they always dreamed they'd share. 2014. Freya gets in touch, looking for a conversation Josephine has run away from for eighteen long and tortured years.

The No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling series set at the time of Queen Elizabeth I, perfect for fans of C. J. Sansom and The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel

Ken MacLeod's most relevant and accessible novel to date.

A man delves into his mysterious lover's past, with terrifying results - a prize-winning thriller from the French master of noir

'A pointless anecdote told in 99 different ways, or a work of genius in a brilliant translation by Barbara Wright. In fact it's both. Endlessly fascinating and very funny.' Philip Pullman This special edition contains a foreword by Umberto Eco with an essay by Italo Calvino.

Explores the dilemma of being an outsider - even in one's own country - and of allegiance. This book evokes beautiful but harsh landscapes, whether the shimmering deserts of author's native Algeria or the wild, mysterious jungles of Brazil.

MOVE OVER JASON BOURNE, MARC DANE IS HERE .

Murder. Corruption. Dark secrets. A titanic wave of refugees. Can Anna solve a terrifying case that's become personal? A gritty, topical crime thriller from one of Finland's finest crime writers. Anna Fekete is back!

The climactic final volume in a gripping historical trilogy set in Venice, about ambition, revenge and the rise of a vampire assassin

James Joyce's only surviving play has divided Joyceans for a century. Illuminating the themes of performance that are so prominent throughout Joyce's fiction, Exiles sees Joyce staking his claim definitively within the European theatrical tradition.

23-year-old Catherine is mainly interested in Facebook and flirting, but she reluctantly takes a job at a local care home after her mother puts her foot down - and soon discovers that her new workplace contains many secrets.

Callum has been given an opportunity: Jozsef's house is the perfect place to live. All that Jozsef asks in return is for some company while he's ill and the promise that someone will be there to help him at the end. It's fortunate then, when Callum meets Lauren who works in Human Resources and specialises in getting rid of people.

The fourth and final part of the Murderbot Diaries series that began with All Systems Red.

Kate Moore is an expat mum, newly transplanted from Washington DC. In the cobblestoned streets of Luxembourg, her days are filled with play dates and coffee mornings, her weekends spent in Paris or skiing in the Alps. Kate is also guarding a secret - one so momentous it could destroy her neat little expat life.

William Thackeray called it "the most laughable story that has ever been written since the goodly art of novel-writing began." As a group of travellers visit places in England and Scotland, they provide through satire and wit a vivid and detailed picture of the contemporary social and political scene.

This Norton Critical Edition restores the full title to the 1771 novel and emphasises the growing recognition of Smollett as a major British author.

A powerful fable originally published by Faber in 1983, translated by Nobel laureate and two-time Booker prize winner J. M. Coetzee.