A young woman is torn between her Korean heritage and American upbringing. Min Jin Lee's acclaimed debut novel.

The timeless and unique collection of short stories is Ali Smith's first. 'I love her prose' - Kate Atkinson

An impassioned plea for freedom and justice, set in a world uncomfortably like our own.

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, Freedom Song is a subtle and elegiac novel that celebrates the rhythms of modern Calcutta, politically, artistically and socially

The second issue of a new anthology from renowned literary critic John Freeman, Freeman's: Family features never-before-published stories, essays, and poetry by Booker-winner Marlon James, Tracy K. Smith, Claire Messud, Aminatta Forna, Aleksandar Hemon, Kiese Laymon, Alexander Chee and more.

This newly translated selection of 36 of the best decadent tales from the French fin-de-siecle brings together some the most exotic, stylized, and cerebral literature in the French language. Hilarious and horrifying, these extraordinary, corrosive little tales cast a cold eye on the modern world. Superbly translated and introduced by Stephen Romer.

Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea. Charles falls in love, but Sarah is a disgraced woman, and their romance will defy all the stifling conventions of the Victorian age.

Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution, originally published in 1837, opens with the death of Louis XV in 1774 and ends in 1795 when Bonaparte quelled the insurrection of the Vendemiaire. It is a work of great narrative and descriptive power that was itself meant to be revolutionary.

A collection of eight short stories, which help students gain deeper insights into French literature and life.

One of du Maurier's most popular novels, in a beautiful new hardback VMC set of Daphne du Maurier classics.

Frenchman's Creek is ideal for a teenage audience: the novel's heroine is a headstrong young woman of the Restoration court, who escapes convention for a life of adventure with her lover, a daring French pirate.

`What was it about complaining that felt so good? You and your fellow sufferer emerging from a thorough session as if from a spa bath, refreshed and tingling?'

As Ada fades into the background of her own mind and these selves - now protective, now hedonistic - seize control of Ada, her life spirals in a dark and dangerous direction. Narrated from the perspectives of the various selves within Ada, and based in the author's realities, Freshwater explores the metaphysics of identity and being.

Friday Black heralds the arrival of a thrilling new American literary star

Friday nights, the best night of the week, the night they all looked forward to more than they cared to admit - talking, drinking, laughing and crying together. They were six female friends, different in age and circumstances, but with one common need: the warmth and support of their Friday nights.

The day Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison opened the Whistle Stop Cafe, the town took a turn for the better. It was the Depression and that cafe was a home from home for many of us. Ruth was just the sweetest girl you ever met. And Idgie? She was a character, all right. But how anybody could have thought she murdered that man is beyond me.

Maigret becomes increasingly frustrated as his attempts to prove that a brutal, repulsive murder has been committed at a local bookbinder prove fruitless. The mystery revolves around a series of seemingly unconnected incidents and characters.

The city, reeling from the impact of the 2008 terrorist attacks, weighs heavily on Amit's mind, as does the unexpected absence of his childhood friend Ramu, a drifting, opaque figure who is Amit's last remaining connection to the city he once called home.

'So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the surface - that the trilogy remains excitingly vivid' - Sunday Times 'Wonderfully entertaining' - Observer Athens, 1941.

The funny, wise and brilliant new novel from the star of QI and the author of Between the Stops