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1980. Llewelyn Moss is hunting antelope near the Rio Grande when he discovers the aftermath of a drug deal turned deadly. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice – walk away or take the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything.


And so begins a terrifying chain of events, as each player in this brutal game seems determined to answer one question: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The landscape is destroyed, nothing moves save the ash on the wind and cruel, lawless men stalk the roadside, lying in wait. Attempting to survive in this brave new world, the young boy and his protector have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves. They must keep walking.


Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Road is an incandescent novel, the story of a remarkable and profoundly moving journey. In this unflinching study of the best and worst of humankind, Cormac McCarthy boldly divines a future without hope, but one in which, miraculously, this young family finds tenderness.

Ophelia came to the elite Sorrowsong University to destroy Alex and his family.
But that was before she knew him. Before their love became each of their reasons for living.

Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American Dream.

My name is Teal Van Doren, and I’m where princes go to die.

I have a secret.
I stole a heart - or rather, a marriage contract.
It wasn’t mine to want, to touch, or even consider.
But it was there for the taking, so I took it.

Huge mistake.

Ronan Astor is nobility in this world.
Arrogant player.
Heartless bastard.
Vicious prince.

Now he’s out to destroy me.
But what he doesn’t know is that I’m coming for him too.

The hero of Hanif Kureishi's debut novel is dreamy teenager Karim, desperate to escape suburban South London and experience the forbidden fruits which the 1970s seem to offer. When the unlikely opportunity of a life in the theatre announces itself, Karim starts to win the sort of attention he has been craving - albeit with some rude and raucous results.

Ariel was first published in 1965, it contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems, written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963, including poems such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Edge', 'Daddy' and 'Paralytic'…

Ariel was first published in 1965, it contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems, written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963, including poems such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Edge', 'Daddy' and 'Paralytic'…

During a time of great turmoil, Gustave Flaubert created literature's most scandalous heroine: Madame Bovary. He then poisoned her with arsenic.

But what if, 175 years later, Emma – and the women history overlooked – could seize the quill from his hands and tell a different story?


In One Brief Moment All Eternity is a luminous reinvention of an iconic male writer, told through the eyes of the women – real and fictional – who shaped him: a devoted nursemaid, an Egyptian dancer and a passionate, jealous lover who refuses to be forgotten. Through their voices, visionary author Elif Shafak creates both an intimate portrait of a great artist and an epic meditation on storytelling itself: who gets remembered, who gets erased, and how can literature endure through political upheaval, war and injustice?

When twenty-year-old nursing student, Frances "Frankie" McGrath, hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on California's idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl.


But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different path for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurses Corps and follows his path.


As green and inexperienced as the young men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is overwhelmed by the chaos and destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed America. But Frankie will also discover the true value of female friendship and the heartbreak that love can cause.

This story is about what it was like to be a woman during World War II, when women’s stories were all too often forgotten or overlooked . . .

Vianne and Isabelle Mauriac are two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals and passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path towards survival, love and freedom in war-torn France.

When mysterious postcards from Japan arrive out of the blue, Samuel—a university lecturer who is profoundly disillusioned with life—doesn't know what to think. At around the same time, Samuel's girlfriend splits up with him, and he is heartbroken.


Samuel's good friend Meritxell suggests he takes a holiday to Japan—he can recover from his heartbreak and maybe discover who sent the postcards and why. When he arrives in Japan, he is so taken with the food, the scenery, the people, the temples, that he almost forgets to look for the sender of the postcards.