Romane & Erzählungen

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Half of a Yellow Sun

Set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood. The three main characters in the novel are swept up in the vi…

Paul Auster

Baumgartner

BAUMGARTNER is a respected author in his mid-70s, who is unsteady on his feet, but with the sharpest of minds, which he uses to journey back to his past - the centre of which is the relationship with his …

Jonathan Coe

Middle England

Jonathan Coe is the author of thirteen novels, all published by Penguin, which include the highly acclaimed bestsellers What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep,The Rotters' Club, Number 11 and Middle England…

Roald Dahl

The Complete Short Stories 2

A complete collection of surprising and sinister tales from one of Britain's most celebrated writers Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in 1916 in Wales of Norwegian parents. He wa…

Mark Z. Danielewski

House of Leaves

Als der Pulitzer-Preisträger Will Navidson mit seiner Frau und den beiden Kindern in das Haus zieht, ahnt er nicht, wie hier sein Leben aus den Fugen geraten wird. Ganz beiläufig filmt er die alltäglichen…

Omar El Akkad

What Strange Paradise

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the widely acclaimed, bestselling author of American War—a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving novel that looks at the globa…

Percival Everett

The Trees

The Booker Prize-shortlisted satire of revenge and racial justice in America.

Ken Follett

A Place Called Freedom

Viele Jahre hat Mack McAsh, ein Bergmann in den schottischen Kohlengruben, davon geträumt, dieser Sklavenarbeit zu entkommen. Als er schließlich nach London gelangt, bringt ihm der Wechsel nicht die erseh…

Ken Follett

Jackdaws

A Failed Mission Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance try to destroy a telephone exchange vital to Nazi communications. Heavily defended, the mission fails disastrously. A Daring Plan With invasi…

Ken Follett

The Armour of Light

Taking the reader straight into the heart of late 18th century Europe and the Industrial and French Revolutions, the fifth novel in the ground-breaking Kingsbridge series, The Armour of Light, is No. 1 in…

Neil Gaiman

American Gods + Anansi Boys Leatherbound Edition

Updated and expanded with the author's preferred text A modern masterpiece from the multiple-award-winning master of innovative fiction Neil Gaiman First published in 2001, American Gods became an instant…

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Paradise

Shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize and published by Bloomsbury for the first time. By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 Born in East Africa, Yusuf has few qualms about the journey he i…

Rachel Joyce

Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North

'Short but very special. ... funny, touching and quite beautiful.' Matt Cain 'A powerful finale to her classic trilogy of heartbreak and healing.' Clare Chambers 'An unforgettable story. It's beautiful …

Claire Keegan

Foster

Stephen King

Holly

HOLLY Gibney, one of King's most compelling and resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind disappearances in a Midwestern town. 'I could never let HOLLY Gib…

Danya Kukafka

Notes on an Execution

Spellbinding and beautifully written, an irresistible, unbearably tense thriller' Megan Abbott 'Destined to become a contemporary classic' Esquire 'Provocative, intelligent, thrilling, moving' Paula Hawki…

James McBride

Deacon King Kong

"Terrific…deeply felt, beautifully written, and profoundly humane."-The New York Times Book Review cover "Hilarious…A rich and vivid multicultural history."-Time Magazine From James McBride, author of t…

Ian McEwan

Lessons

The story of a life. The story of the year. 'Lessons shows [McEwan] at the very peak of his powers. He has written his masterpiece' Daily Telegraph When the world is still counting the cost of the Secon…

Ian McEwan

Machines Like Me

Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be…