Fiction

Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that...

In Enter Ghost, Isabella Hammad’s second novel, Sonia Nasir—a 38-year-old British actress of Palestinian descent—returns to Israel to visit her sister in Haifa and is soon cast in an Arabic-language production of Hamlet in Ramallah. As she travels through Haifa, Gaza, Bethlehem, and Jerusalem,...

My name is Lucas. I am a three-and-a-half-kilogram Yorkie, born on the banks of the Danube and adopted in Madrid. And this is my story. For fifteen years, I witnessed—and was part of—a complicated, beautiful, and deeply human love: that of Silvia and Enrique....

La Misericordia Orphanage, Zabalburu (Bilbao), 1974. On her sixteenth birthday, Natalia, a young woman who has known nothing but beatings and silence, receives a visit from a rough and cold man who claims to be her father. He has returned. The nuns at the...

New York, 1918. After receiving news that the Great War is tearing Europe apart, Jessie Carson decides to leave the tranquility of the New York Public Library shelves and cross the ocean to join the American Committee for the Devastated Regions of France, founded...

Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka spends her days in her room in a care home outside Tokyo, relying on an electric wheelchair to get around and a ventilator to breathe. But if Shaka’s physical life is limited, her quick, mischievous mind has...

Open Heaven follows a transformative year in the lives of two teenage boys in a remote English village, where sixteen year old James, shy and newly aware of his sexuality, meets Luke, a charismatic and troubled outsider with a troubled past. As James grapples...

By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave laborer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds...

Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term, Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something from her. She believes she’ll find the answer here in Scotland, where an old friend of her father’s - now a famous writer...

Dee Dee, loving mother, grieving widow and occasional model, walks away from home with a kiss in the air before disappearing around the corner. And she doesn’t come home that night. Or the next... Maggie, her self-absorbed teenage daughter, refuses to accept that her...

Lucy Hart knows better than anyone what it's like to grow up without parents who loved her. In a childhood marked by neglect and loneliness, Lucy found her solace in books, namely the Clock Island series by Jack Masterson. Now a twenty-six-year-old teacher's aide,...

Emma ignores her friends and only thinks about having adventures like the ones she reads about in her comics. But nothing ever happens in Bland... Or maybe it does? Very close to the village lives a veterinarian for magical creatures. His name is Rusty...

From the internationally bestselling author of the Morisaki Bookshop novels comes a charming and poignant story set at a quiet Tokyo café where customers find unexpected connection and experience everyday miracles… Tucked away on a narrow side street in Tokyo is the Torunka Café,...

Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life. Grady calls his wife as she’s driving home to share some exciting news. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her...

Clara Graysword has survived the underworld of Eclipse City through thievery, luck, and a whole lot of illegal magic. After a job gone awry, Clara is sentenced to a lifetime in prison for inking tarot cards—a rare power reserved for practitioners at the elite...

Davi has done this all before. She’s tried to be the hero and take down the all-powerful Dark Lord. A hundred times she’s rallied humanity and made the final charge. But the time loop always gets her in the end. Sometimes she’s killed quickly....

There was a time when the fate of America was decided in the taverns of New Orleans. Spain, in the shadows, moved its pieces while a new nation was born. A young spy infiltrated conspirators, merchants, and patriots with a mission that could change...

Blythe Hawthorne has never let anyone tell her what to do; not society, not her overprotective father, and certainly not the man she’s bound herself to, no matter how rude and insufferable he is. In fact, she’s determined to be a thorn in his...

The reissue of a masterpiece. A memory woven of silences, betrayals and wounds that never heal. A moving, sober and truthful story, where the author renounces narrating the great historical events to focus his attention on the intimate and everyday, on the set of...

Together, the writer and foreigner, as she likes to call herself, Clara Obligado, and Raúl de Tapia, a biologist, botanist, and landscape connoisseur, as he likes to call himself, delve, with a mixed voice, into a forest where the roots of literature and science...