General Fiction

Francis and Diana, two scientists investigating a lichen, discover it has a remarkable property: it retards the aging process. Francis, realising the implications for the world of a youthful, wealthy elite, wants to keep it secret, but Diana sees an opportunity to overturn the male status quo by using the lichen to inspire a feminist revolution.

LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday, selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne.

'Rebecca meets The Secret History. Gloriously dark, gloriously gothic' SARA COLLINS Light a fire they can't put out...

A contemporary gothic debut with a feminist edge, for fans of Naomi Alderman and Madeline Miller

With riveting psychological complexity, The Ruins captures the glittering allure of the Mediterranean, and the dark shadows that wait beneath the surface.

Prizewinning debut of an extraordinary new voice in crime writing.

A classic slice of Japanese hard-boiled noir paying homage to the master of the genre: Raymond Chandler

In a convent in rural France, three ageing nuns remain. Cloistered within her failing faith and her failing body, Sister Bernard navigates each day by the simple markers domesticity; but when the convent is threatened with closure the soft threads of piety and daily existence unravel.

A novel of extraordinary intelligence and heart, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark and haunting examination of the tyranny of experience and memory.

The eagerly anticipated novel from Hanya Yanagihara, a brilliant exploration of inclusion and exclusion, race and empire, sexuality and disease, love and family.

From the author of the modern classic A Little Life, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia.