FICTION
The heart and soul of any bookshop, Fiction is a world of pure imagination. Here Austen lies alongside Atwood, Morrison shares a shelf with Murakami. No matter who you are there is something here that will speak to you, expand your world, and enrich your understanding of humanity. Below you will find the most exciting new books in hardback and paperback - and a handful of our booksellers' all time favourite novels.
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Land
Maggie O'Farrell
"You will never understand how the land remembers, how deep the roots grow."
A spellbinding story of separation, longing, recovery and survival as a family makes a new home in the aftermath of tragedy. Land reveals buried treasure, overlapping lives, ancient woodland, persistent ghosts, a particularly loyal dog, and how, when it comes to both land and history, nothing ever goes away.
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Cool Machine
Colson Whitehead
21st July 2026
From two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead, comes an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings 1980s New York to vivid, unforgettable life.
A portrait of a city in transition, where shimmering skyscrapers rise to the heavens as displaced people huddle in abandoned tunnels below. In a dazzling display of protean imagination, Cool Machine roves all over the city, from Windows on the World to Sugar Hill, to show that in New York, and in the lives of Whitehead's vivid characters, it's what's below the surface that reveals the truth.
John of John
Douglas Stuart
Departure(s)
Julian Barnes
The News from Dublin
Colm Tóibín
Son of Nobody
Yann Martel
Vigil
George Saunders
Transcription
Ben Lerner
Glyph
Ali Smith
The Midnight Train
Matt Haig
The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout
The Jewel Keepers
Sara Sheridan
Raveheart
Graeme Armstrong
Nonesuch
Francis Spufford
The Delusions
Jenni Fagan
Look What You Made Me Do
John Lanchester
Kin
Tayari Jones
Love Lane
Patrick Gale
Yesteryear
Caro Claire Burke
The Given World
Melissa Harrison
Having Spent Life Seeking
Kae Tempest
Before I Knew I Loved You
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Hunger and Thirst
Claire Fuller
A Very Dangerous Pursuit
Ben Miller
Minor Black Figures
Brandon Taylor
A Plot to Die For
Ardal O'Hanlon
Uprising
Tahmima Anam
The Ship's Cat
Alex Howard
The Calamity Club
Kathryn Stockett
The Barbecue at No.9
Jennie Godfrey
This Immortal Heart
Jennifer Saint
Homebound
Portia Elan
Frame 37
Nicholas Shakespeare
Boyhood
David Keenan
Common Decency
Tom Allen
Fruit Fly
Josh Silver
The Night Hag
Hester Musson
This is Where the Serpent Lives
Daniyal Mueenuddin
Cast Away
Francesca de Tores
The Typing Lady and other fictions
Ruth Ozeki
My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein
Deborah Levy
People Pleaser
Bryony Gordon
The Infamous Gilberts
Angela Tomaski
Sweetbitter Song
Rosie Hewlett
Catherine: A Retelling of Wuthering Heights
Essie Fox
Lázár
Nelio Biedermann
Enough
Dawn French
Brawler
Lauren Groff
The House of Boleyn
Tracy Borman
Sisters in Yellow
Mieko Kawakami
This, My Second Life
Patrick Charnley
The Soul Catchers
Naoko Higashi
Cleopatra
Saara El-Arifi
Howl
Howard Jacobson
Lost Lambs
Madeline Cash
Inferno
Conn Iggulden
This Book Made Me Think of You
Libby Page
The Cromarty Library Circle
Shona MacLean
Innamorata
Ava Reid
Smallie
Eden McKenzie-Goddard
The Palm House
Gwendoline Riley
Chosen Family
Madeleine Gray
I Am You
Victoria Redel
Almost Life
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Celestial Lights
Cecile Pin
Lean Cat, Savage Cat
Lauren J. Joseph
Permanence
Sophie Mackintosh
Unapologetic Love Story
Elle McNicoll
The Name Game
Beth O'Leary
Stowaways
André Aciman
The Truth About Ruby Cooper
Liz Nugent
Esther is Now Following You
Tanya Sweeney
The Renovation
Kenan Orhan
Give Me Everything You've Got
Imogen Crimp
High and Low
Amanda Craig
Pixie
Jill Dawson
The Home of the Drowned
Elin Anna Labba
The Beheading Game
Rebecca Lehmann
Crux
Gabriel Tallent
I'll Take the Fire
Leïla Slimani
The Left and the Lucky
Willy Vlautin
A Stranger in Corfu
Alex Preston
Your Life Without Me
James Meek
The Daffodil Days
Helen Bain
Night Fire
Richard Strachan
Python's Kiss
Louise Erdrich
The Shadow of the Object
Chloe Aridjis
The Shock of the Light
Lori Inglis Hall
The Wise Witch of Orkney
Anna Caig
The Boleyn Secret
Alison Weir
Cameo
Rob Doyle
The Intruder
Freida McFadden
Ironwood
Michael Connelly
Little Vanities
Sarah Gilmartin
May We Feed the King
Rebecca Perry
The Old Fire
Elisa Shua Dusapin
Seven
Joanna Kavenna
A Beautiful Loan
Mary Costello
Berlin Shuffle
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
A Better Life
Lionel Shriver
Frida Slattery As Herself
Ana Kinsella
Good People
Patmeena Sabit
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Transcription
Ben Lerner
A writer returns to his college town, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety-year-old mentor. But after he drops his smartphone in the hotel sink, he arrives at Thomas's house with no recording device - a fact he is mysteriously unable to confess.
What unfolds from this dreamlike circumstance is both a brilliant meditation on those technologies that enrich and impoverish our connections to each other, that store and obliterate our memories, and a moving exploration of the relationships that make us who we are.
Taiwan Travelogue
Yang Shuang-zi
Winner of the 2026 International Booker Prize
Disguised as a translation of a rediscovered text by a Japanese writer, Taiwan Travelogue is a bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history and power.
Set in May 1938, the young novelist Aoyama Chizuko sails from Japan to Taiwan where her interpreter proffers tantalising glimpses of island life and helps her to taste as much of cuisine as her larger-than-life appetite can bear.
My Friends
Fredrik Backman
Heart the Lover
Lily King
Taiwan Travelogue: Winner of the 2026 International Booker Prize
Yáng Shuāng-zi
Flesh
David Szalay
Benbecula
Graeme Macrae Burnet
Autobiography of Cotton
Cristina Rivera Garza
Muckle Flugga
Michael Pedersen
Helen of Nowhere
Makenna Goodman
What Am I, A Deer?
Polly Barton
Hooked
Asako Yuzuki
The Long Shoe
Bob Mortimer
The Mercy Step
Marcia Hutchinson
Endling
Maria Reva
Helm
Sarah Hall
Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Predicament
William Boyd
The Names
Florence Knapp
Seascraper
Benjamin Wood
The Artist
Lucy Steeds
One of Us
Elizabeth Day
On the Calculation of Volume IV
Solvej Balle
The Director
Daniel Kehlmann
Slags
Emma Jane Unsworth
Circle of Days
Ken Follett
Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry
Audition
Katie Kitamura
Sharpe’s Storm
Bernard Cornwell
Women Without Men
Shahrnush Parsipur
A Family Matter
Claire Lynch
Vanishing World
Sayaka Murata
We Do Not Part
Han Kang
Flashlight
Susan Choi
Love Forms
Claire Adam
The Other Bennet Sister
Janice Hadlow
The Witch
Marie NDiaye
The Benefactors
Wendy Erskine
The Café with No Name
Robert Seethaler
Death Takes Me
Cristina Rivera Garza
Heap Earth Upon It
Chloe Michelle Howarth
Mere
Danielle Giles
My Name is Emilia del Valle
Isabel Allende
Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall
Every One Still Here
Liadan Ní Chuinn
Gunk
Saba Sams
The Oldest Bitch Alive
Morgan Day
Open, Heaven
Seán Hewitt
Room on the Sea
André Aciman
She Who Remains
Rene Karabash
Three Days in June
Anne Tyler
Walk the Blue Fields
Claire Keegan
The Book of Records
Madeleine Thien
Fundamentally
Nussaibah Younis
Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl
Andrea Lawlor
The Private Side of Friendship
Alexander McCall Smith
A Room Above a Shop
Anthony Shapland
We Are Green and Trembling
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
The City Changes Its Face
Eimear McBride
The Tarot Reader of Versailles
Anya Bergman
We All Live Here
Jojo Moyes
Albion
Anna Hope
By Your Side
Ruth Jones
The Pretender
Jo Harkin
Rejection
Tony Tulathimutte
The Sunshine Man
Emma Stonex
These Wicked Devices
Matthew Plampin
Tyrant
Conn Iggulden
What Does it Feel Like?
Sophie Kinsella
A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing
Alice Evelyn Yang
The Daisy Chain Flower Shop
Laurie Gilmore
The Ghosts Of Rome
Joseph O'Connor
The Healing Hippo Of Hinode Park
Michiko Aoyama
The Hounding
Xenobe Purvis
The House of Wolf
Tony Robinson
Nova Scotia House
Charlie Porter
Table for One
Emma Gannon
Twelve Post-War Tales
Graham Swift
Waist Deep
Linea Maja Ernst
Days of Light
Megan Hunter
Dominion
Addie E. Citchens
The Hitch
Sara Levine
Jean
Madeleine Dunnigan
The Möbius Book
Catherine Lacey
Overspill
Charlotte Paradise
The Persians
Sanam Mahloudji
The Remembered Soldier
Anjet Daanje
Aftertaste
Daria Lavelle
Boudicca's Daughter
Elodie Harper
Deepfake
Makis Malafekas
Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way
Elaine Feeney
The Original
Nell Stevens
Small Comfort
Ia Genberg
Tarantula
Eduardo Halfon
Borderline Fiction
Derek Owusu
Bring the House Down
Charlotte Runcie
Eating Ashes
Brenda Navarro
The Homemade God
Rachel Joyce
I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There
Róisín Lanigan
The Menu of Happiness
Hisashi Kashiwai
Repetition
Vigdis Hjorth
Beautiful Distance
Nao-Cola Yamazaki
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Beginning Middle End
Valeria Luiselli
From the award-winning author of Lost Children Archive, Valeria Luiselli, comes a wondrous, tender and expansive new novel about family, memory and time.
A road novel, a mother-daughter story, a mystery, Beginning Middle End is a shapeshifting novel that offers an exhilarating testament to the power and instability of the stories we hold most dear.
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
Love and Freindship
Jane Austen
The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Puffin in Bloom 4-Book Collection
Various
Persuasion
Jane Austen
Persuasion
Jane Austen
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
1984
George Orwell
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen Collection): Deluxe Edition
Jane Austen
The Bronte Sisters
Anne Brontë, Charlotte Bronte and Emily Brontë
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Persuasion
Jane Austen
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
They were counted.The Transylvania Trilogy. Vol 1.
Miklós Bánffy
A Man With No Title
Xavier Le Clerc
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
Emma
Jane Austen
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Middlemarch
George Eliot
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen Collection): Deluxe Edition
Jane Austen
Persuasion
Jane Austen
Murder For All Seasons
Agatha Christie
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Dracula
Bram Stoker
The Return of the King
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Persuasion
Jane Austen
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Sense And Sensibility
Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Emma
Jane Austen
The English Understand Wool
Helen DeWitt
The Two Towers
J. R. R. Tolkien
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Lewis Carroll
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories
Edgar Allan Poe
Sanditon And Other Stories
Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
The Outsider
Albert Camus
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Persuasion
Jane Austen
Middlemarch
George Eliot
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
The Two Towers
J. R. R. Tolkien
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Truman Capote
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Lady Susan
Jane Austen
The Complete Guide to Middle-earth
Robert Foster
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
The Snow Queen
Hans Christian Andersen
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
LOTE
Shola von Reinhold
Big Swiss
Jen Beagin
Box Hill
Adam Mars-Jones
Orlando
Virginia Woolf
In the Absence of Men
Philippe Besson
At Swim, Two Boys
Jamie O'Neill
Fingersmith
Sarah Waters
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
How to be Both
Ali Smith
Maurice
E.M. Forster
The Safekeep
Yael van der Wouden
Young Mungo
Douglas Stuart
We Are Together Because
Kerry Andrew
Permafrost
Eva Baltasar
Real Life
Brandon Taylor
At Certain Points We Touch
Lauren J. Joseph
The Exhibitionist
Charlotte Mendelson
Perfume and Pain
Anna Dorn
Evenings and Weekends
Oisín McKenna
Gender Theory
Madeline Docherty
Mrs S
K Patrick
The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst
Nightwood
Djuna Barnes
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
Ponyboy
Eliot Duncan
Perdido Street Station
China Miéville
The Topeka School
Ben Lerner
Pond
Claire-Louise Bennett
Lost Children Archive
Valeria Luiselli
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
The Starless Sea
Erin Morgenstern
Real Life
Brandon Taylor
To Paradise
Hanya Yanagihara
And the Land Lay Still
James Robertson
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood
The Young Team
Graeme Armstrong
The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño
His Dark Materials
Philip Pullman
The Sisters Brothers
Patrick deWitt
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Who They Was
Gabriel Krauze
Wellness
Nathan Hill
