Literary Fiction

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HISTORY OF A PLEASURE SEEKER
Richard Mason

The author of The Drowning People returns with a sumptuous tale set in Amsterdam's Gilded Curve.

EVEN THE DOGS
Jon McGregor

From the Booker-nominated author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things and So Many Ways to Begin.

They break down the door at the end of December and carry his body away.

CHEF
Jaspreet Singh

ISBN: 9781408809570
Format: Paperback

Shortlisted for the 2009 Commonwealth Prize for Best Book and nominated for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

CHAPMAN'S ODYSSEY
Paul Bailey

ISBN: 9781408811474
Format: Paperback

A masterful new novel from the author of Peter Smart's Confessions and Gabriel's Lament, both shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction.

So here he was at last, where he had long feared to be.

Harry Chapman is not well, and he doesn’t like hospitals. Superficially all is as it normally is in such places, with nurses to chide him and a priest to console. But there are more than usual quotient of voices—is it because of Dr Pereira’s wonder drug that he can hear the voice of his mother, acerbic and disappointed in him as ever? Perhaps her presence would be understandable enough, but what is Pip from Great Expectations doing here?

SCISSORS, PAPER, STONE
Elizabeth Day

ISBN: 9781408807613
Format: Trade Paperback

A frank and beautiful story of damage, survival and restoration from an exhilarating new literary voice.

Charles Redfern is in a coma. As he lies motionless in hospital, his wife Anne and daughter Charlotte are forced to come together to confront their relationships with him —and with each other.