Fiction: general and literary

The Peacock and the Sparrow

I. S. Berry

Prize winning and critically acclaimed spy fiction from an ex-CIA operations officer.

The Last Days of Johnny Nunn

Nick Triplow

It’s 2011 and Detective Sergeant Max Lomax is reluctantly drawn out of the back office of Special Operations to investigate the death of a campaigning lawyer.

Sipsworth

Simon Van Booy

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die finds an unexpected reason to live

American Spirits

Russell Banks

From one of America’s most celebrated storytellers come three dark, interlocking tales about the residents of a rural New York town, and the shocking headlines that become their local mythologies.

The Which Way Tree

Elizabeth Crook

A loyal brother sets out with his tenacious younger sister to avenge her mother’s death at the jaws of a mountain lion in 19th-century Texas.

The Magic Kingdom

Russell Banks

A dazzling tapestry of love and faith, memory and imagination, The Magic Kingdom questions what it means to look back and accept onea??s place in history. With an expert eye and stunning vision, Russell Banks delivers a wholly captivating portrait of a man navigating Americana and the passage of time….

Big Red

Jerome Charyn

Narrated by a starry-eyed reporter, Big Red reimagines the tragic career of Rita Hayworth and her indomitable husband, Orson Welles. An insightful, tender portrait of a seemingly halcyon age before blockbusters and film franchises, Big Red promises to consume both Hollywood cinephiles and neophytes alike….

Late City

Robert Olen Butler

A 115-year-old man lays on his deathbed as the 2016 US election results arrive, and revisits his life in this moving story of love, fatherhood, and the American century from Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler…

Judge Walden: Back in Session

Peter Murphy

Judge Walden is back, to preside over five new cases at Bermondsey Crown Court.Retired resident judge Peter Murphy takes us back to the world of criminal trials in South London for another session with Charlie keeping the peace between his fellow judges – Marjorie, ‘Legless’ and Hubert – while fighting off the attacks…

Perfume River

Robert Olen Butler

Robert Quinlan and his wife Darla teach at Florida State University. Their marriage, forged in the fervor of anti-Vietnam-war protests, now bears the fractures of time, with the couple trapped in an existence of morning coffee and solitary jogging and separate offices. For Robert and Darla, the cracks remain below the surface, whereas…

Dragonfish

Vu Tran

Vu Tran has written a thrilling and cinematic work of sophisticated suspense and haunting lyricism set in motion by characters who can neither trust each other nor trust themselves. This remarkable debut is a noir page-turner resonant with the lasting reverberations of lives lost and lives remade a generation ago….