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From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes the highly entertaining sequel to Talking it Over. In Talking it Over Gillian and Stuart were married until Oliver - witty, feckless Oliver...

A special edition of Julian Barnes’s first novel with an introduction from the author and previously unseen archive material.Christopher and Toni found in each other the perfect companion for that universal...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for FictionFlaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and...

With her husband descending into the advanced stages of dementia, Vivian discovers that reading from his favourite cookery books can call forth a temporary alleviation and a flash of happiness. But her...

In 'Bark', Jeanne-Etiene Delacour takes pleasure in the avoidance of any threat to his longevity. Formerly a gourmand and a gambler but now an ascetic, his fastidious new lifestyle is the result of an...

Sylvia Winstanley, the youngest and most competent resident in a home for the elderly and self-labelled maverick, begins a written correspondence with the author of Flaubert's Parrot. We are treated to...

Major 'Jacko' Jackson, now retired, takes his yearly, self-appointed furlough to London. But time has moved on, and the kitchenware on the itemised task list his wife has provided him with is not the...

The ambiguous relationship between Ivan Turgenev and the ingénue starring in the revival of one of his early plays is revealed through the fragments of sources left to a researcher. It is a love predicated...

Gregory ponders as he sits in the barber's chair at various stages of his life. His youthful preoccupation with the adult world gives way to the brash chippiness of the university student, and on, finally,...

A classical music aficionado and concert-goer bemoans the degradation of civility and respect among his fellow audience members. He develops a series of measures to counteract the prevalence of inconsiderate...

Christopher's early declaration that he has known his parents all his life is shown to be misguided. Following the widowing of one of their associates, and the emergence of their latter day estrangement,...

Janice and Merrill, two widows, converse about their departed husbands over breakfast. Fond memories of their spouses are recounted, but it is in what they leave unsaid that they find the greater sustenance.Part...

Anders Bodén, an esteemed sawmill manager and casual tour guide to those unfamiliar with the small Swedish town he calls home, finds a happy outlet for his knowledge of trees and local history when a...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Graham Hendrick, an historian, has left his wife Barbara for the vivacious Ann, and is more than pleased with his new life. Until, that is, the day he discovers...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant...

"Flaubert pensait qu'il est impossible d'expliquer "une forme artistique par une autre forme d'une autre espèce", et que les bons tableaux n'ont pas besoin de commentaires. Braque pensait que l'état idéal...

Ils venaient toujours vous chercher au milieu de la nuit… Alors il avait dit à Nita qu’il passerait ces heures inévitablement sans sommeil sur le palier, près de l’ascenseur. Il attendrait que la porte...

Un premier amour détermine une vie pour toujours : c’est ce que j’ai découvert au fil des ans. Il n’occupe pas forcément un rang supérieur à celui des amours ultérieures, mais elles seront toujours affectées...

Elle se tenait devant nous sans notes, ni livres, ni trac. Elle laissa son regard errer, sourit, immobile, et commença : "Vous aurez remarqué que le titre de ce cours est “Culture et Civilisation”. Ne...

Ceux qui veulent nier le passage du temps disent : quarante ans, ce n’est rien, à cinquante ans on est dans la fleur de l’âge, la soixantaine est la nouvelle quarantaine et ainsi de suite. Je sais pour...

On pourrait commencer, prosaïquement, par ce qui peut être décrit comme une robe de chambre. Rouge — ou plus exactement écarlate — et allant du cou jusqu’à la cheville, laissant voir des ruchés blancs...

Ce sont les romans qui disent le plus de vérité sur la vie : ce qu’elle est, comment nous la vivons, quel sens elle pourrait avoir, comment nous la goûtons et l’apprécions, comment elle tourne mal et...

Nous vivons à ras de terre, à hauteur d'homme et pourtant – et par conséquent – nous aspirons à nous élever. Créatures terrestres, nous pouvons parfois nous hisser jusqu'aux dieux. Certains s'élèvent...

Médecin anglais spécialiste de Flaubert, Geoffrey Breathwaite découvre dans un recoin du musée Flaubert, à Rouen, le perroquet empaillé qui inspira à Louise, la vieille servante d’Un coeur simple, une...

'BARNES'S MASTERPIECE' - OBSERVERIn May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House....

In these seventeen essays (and one short story) the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner examines British, French and American writers who have meant most to him, as well as the cross-currents and overlappings...

The updated edition of Julian Barnes’ best-loved writing on art, with seven new exquisite illustrated essays‘Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that...

When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this disarmingly witty book, Julian Barnes confronts our unending obsession with the end. He reflects on what it means to miss God, whether...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020*'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening StandardThe Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle...

From the hairdessing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, to the concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign against those who cough in concerts; from the woman...

A genre-blending flash fiction collection: mysterious, tender, twisted. Surprises await in every tale. From cats' whiskers to Sunday roasts, from riverbanks to penned love letters, these tales will surprise,...

After a thousand years underground, a colony of survivors digs its way to the surface. A swarm of mind-controlling aliens invades a small town. Upon moving to a new city, a woman suspects her roommate...

The final book of the In Rod We Trust series. As with its four predecessors, this book offers you stories with both things and ideas, that range between shadows and substance where they can dwell in the...

Isaac Asimov’s Robot series – from the iconic collection I, Robot to four classic novels – contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing the Three...

Three irresistible short stories by the global phenomenon Ali Hazelwood, now available together in paperback for the first time, with an exclusive bonus chapter.Mara, Sadie, and Hannah are friends first,...

"The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath is a haunting exploration of the human psyche. Set against the backdrop of 1950s America, the novel follows Esther Greenwood, a talented and ambitious young woman, as she...

**Pre-order DREAM COUNT, the searing, exquisite new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie now!** From the Women's Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun come twelve...

Killandrio Bludd is defending a young man who was arrested while standing over a murder victim's grave holding a shovel. The only witness, the victim's wife, swears the defendant did it. Killandrio smells...

"The self-same material that rules the universe, haunts our dreams, distorts our visions; dark matter is the blind-eye of Man turned inward. This strange, wondrous mystery that rules any and all creatures...

"Don't you want to be loved or just to love someone?" He didn't tell his mother just how sad love had made him. One more weight of sadness to what he already carried around with him.

Acclaimed comedy writer Bill Alive, author of RICH, SKINNY, AND SUPER SPIRITUAL, brings you five hilarious stories of love, second chances, and delusional business plans!In "Bernard, the Incurable Entrepreneur,"...

Allie suffered a horrible breakup two years prior. Valentines Day was the last thing on her mind. Romance was not even something she thought about. She hadn't planned on meeting a great guy perfect for...

Don't Leave Me Hangin' is a collection of short stories that leave the ending of the story for the reader to decide.  It contains 39 short stories (enough for one a week during the school year) in a variety...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. “In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul...

The No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's timeless coming-of-age novella, The Body - set in Castle Rock and originally published in his 1982 short story collection Different Seasons, and adapted into...

This ebook contains Oscar Wilde's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook)...

Can the perfect village save the perfect wedding? INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE EXTRACT FROM A POSTCARD FROM ITALY Cher, the landlady of the Duck & Puddle...

A dark and disturbing ebook original from the master of the crime genre.A famous writer asks a boxman to open an old safe that comes with the mansion he's just bought. It's not as easy a job as he's used...

Sherlock Holmes is not only the most famous character in crime fiction, but arguably the most famous character in all fiction. In sixty adventures that pit his extraordinary wits and courage against foreign...

Explore an exciting and scary paranormal world that most Seattle residents are unaware of.There is a world that the mortals sometimes glimpse in shadows or dreams, so beware where you walk at night and...

Memoirs of a Lagos Junior Banker  is a collection of hilarious, dramatic, and sometimes ridiculous stories about the world of Nigerian banking, written by Africa's flash fiction Queen, Tolulope Popoola.Welcome...

Charles David Jones is an ordinary man whose life turns dark when he becomes infected by a strange and deadly parasitic force known as Occultus Foniás. As his transformation progresses, he is driven to...

Beyond the stars is a collection of 12 exciting and imaginative sci-fi short stories written especially for teens.Each story takes you to a new world, far in the future, others closer to home-where anything...

Sable West used to find comfort in poetry, coffee shops, and the quiet rhythm of a well-placed metaphor. But after a sudden health crisis and a life-altering surgery, she wakes to a new reality—one she...

This book contains 50 of the most beautiful Christmas stories ever written. It is a treasury of fiction by great writers of the past two centuries: Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa...

The Greatest Christmas Stories of All Time is a treasury of short fiction by great writers of the past two centuries — from Dickens, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy to Willa Cather, Damon Runyon and Beatrix Potter....

Here you will find all the Christmas stories written by Lucy Maud Montgomery. - The Red Room - A Christmas Mistake - A Christmas Inspiration - The Josephs' Christmas - Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket...

Thomas was raised in captivity. He has been experimented on, hurt, and humiliated. He struggles to trust anyone except his newfound family in the Katu Pack.  His wolf is an abomination, larger than any...

This collection of contemporary short stories dig into how women are shaped by the events of their lives, and how they might shape themselves despite that. They are all set in Australia, and reflect the...

Author David Benjamin has always been fascinated by Christmas—and by Christmas stories, starting with the Book of Luke. But the holiday tale that tickled Benjamin's literary fancy was Charles Dickens'...