Fiction

One of contemporary literature’s brightest talents follows up the former Waterstones Book of the YearNormal Peoplewith an incisive and affecting dissection of the lives and loves of a quartet of...

I wanted to lose myself in the small town of Pelion, Maine. To forget everything I had left behind. The sound of rain. The blood. The coldness of a gun...

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great...

Thrilling, twisted and unputdownable, Suskind's bravura tale about a perfumer on a sinister mission is shot through with gothic atmosphere and spine-chilling disquiet.Patrick Suskind'sPerfumeis a classic novel of death and...