**Brutally violent, Blood Meridian is the story of a teenage runaway in the nineteenth-century American South, as a sadistic gang unleashes its massacre across the desert border land.It is the work that sealed Cormac McCarthy's reputation as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers – his magnum opus.**‘Imagine if the authors of the King James Bible, their hands guided by Satan, wrote a western’ – The TimesThrough the hostile...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe critically acclaimed, ***New York Times-***bestselling epic, a saga of land, blood and power, follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family from the Comanche raids of the 1800s to the oil booms of the 20th century.Eli McCullough is just twelve years old when a marauding band of Comanche storm his Texas homestead, brutally murde...

Amane is ten years old when she discovers she's not like everyone else. Her school friends were all conceived the normal way, by artificial insemination, and raised in the normal way, by parents in 'clean', sexless marriages. But Amane's parents committed the ultimate taboo: they fell in love, had sex and procreated. As Amane grows up and enters adulthood, she does her best to fit in and live her life like the rest of society: cultivating intense relationships with anime characters, and li...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everett's The Trees is a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America.‘Page-turning comic horror’ – The Guardian‘Satire in the great tradition of Swift by way of South Park’ – The Daily Telegraph‘Hilarious and horrifying’ – The New YorkerWhen the rural town of Money, Mississippi is beset by a series of brutal murders, a pair of detective...

From Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later. The Sunday Times bestseller, Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel is a story of parallel worlds and possibilities that plays with the very line along which time should run.'A cunning time-travel narrative . . . unputdownable' - The Guardian Best Books of the Year'So wise, so graceful, so rich' - Nao...

The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky.In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely intertwined. They are each, in their own way, doing something very dangerous. And in this world, there seems no way to save them both.Something extraordinary is starting.'1Q84 has a range and sophistication that surpasses anything else in his o...

'Huang's Immaculate Conception is unlike anything else I've read this year... a heartfelt love letter to art, and a superb work of fiction' New York TimesAn achingly tender and twisted portrait of companionship that captures the tenuous line between love and possession.Mathilde is a dizzyingly talented, tortured artist and Enka, struggling to create art that feels original, is immediately drawn to her. The two strike up ...

In the distant future, humans are on the verge of extinction and have settled in small tribes across the planet under the observation and care of the Mothers. Some children are made in factories, from cells of rabbits and dolphins; some live by getting nutrients from water and light, like plants. The survival of the race depends on the interbreeding of these and other alien beings - but it is far from certain that connection, love, reproduction, and evolution will persist among the inhabit...

'A meditation on how horror can lurk beneath the surface of even the most poreless skin' New York TimesWinner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Bisexual Novel 2024A WIRED Best Book of 2023An Audible Best Horror Book of 2023For fans of The SubstanceOur narrator produces a wondrous sound from the piano learned from her mother and father, who fle...

THE RECORD-BREAKING KOREAN DARK-ROMANCE SENSATIONWhen hunger consumes you, what can be left of morality?HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD ACROSS 10 LANGUAGES'An instant cult classic. You have to read it' HARPER'S BAZAAR'If Parasite takes a wide angle, Hunger uses a tight shot' ARTREVIEW'Ambitious... A compelling read' ESQUIRE'An instan...

**One of the most controversial and talked-about novels of all time. Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho is a multi-million-copy bestseller hailed as a modern classic – a violent and outrageous black comedy about the darkest side of human nature.With an introduction by Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.**I like to dissect girls. Did you know I’m utterly insane?Patrick Bateman has it all: good looks, youth, charm, a job on Wall Street, ...

Mariana Enriquez's A Sunny Place for Shady People is her first story collection since the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed. Featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, the occult and the macabre, the stories explore love, womanhood, LGBTQ counterculture, parenthood and Argentina's brutal past.