Coming-of-age tale about a young girl who is slowly but surely (and lingeringly) initiated into the world of womanhood, and dominatrix-dom. First trained by Lady Julia Tingle, Astrid becomes a feared and desired mistress in her own right, leading us ...
Wealth has its privileges, as the group of hapless young women entrusted to rich libertines Dolly and Jack soon discover. The discipline-minded duo gleefully describe the seduction of and erotic punishments they inflict on their innocent charges in a...
A young and impressionable French maiden, witness to the finest--and lustiest manifestations of physical passion, now finds herself locked in a loveless marriage. Can there be a worse fate than this for a passionate woman? Surely there must be a way ...
Three fortunate young sailors on leave in Japan are the guests of a virile and generous merchant. On offer is the kind of sensual entertainment traditionally enjoyed by the sophisticated palates of the East; dancing girls and geishas, actresses and m...
The popularity of the Chinese storyteller goes back to the marketplace of the T'ang dynasty, but the familiar figure came into its own in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. This selection of stories from Feng Menglong's collection, Stories Old and...
From the acclaimed writer Susan Minot, author of Monkeys, Lust & Other Stories, and Folly, and the legendary filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, director of Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor (winner of nine Academy Awards, including Best Director and ...
Alex D. is on the verge of just about everything and consumed by a restless, unanswered longing that rebels against jumping through the hoops of school. Staring down the tunnel to a mundane adulthood, he is appalled by the banality and overwhelming p...
A powerful tale of romantic regret (The Seattle Post-Intelligencer), On the Water tells the poignant story of Anton and David, two oarsmen trained by a mysterious German coach in the golden Amsterdam summer of 1939. Anton stands on the banks of his b...
Published in the U.S. since 1979, Granta is a handsomely illustrated paperback featuring outstanding articles. "Granta’s contributors constitute an impossibly distinguished list.” -- The Washington Post...
Chapter 1 (noon prayer)The story opens with the main character, Raouf, on his way to celebrate the Muslim feast of the Sacrifice Eid-al Adha with a fellow computer designer named Athmane. An only child, Raouf was raised by immigrant parents (Egyptian...
A national bestseller from the “prolific and exceptionally insightful” (Globe and Mail) Roxane Gay, DIFFICULT WOMEN is a collection of stories of rare force that paints a wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America. DIFFICULT WOMEN tells...
Preempted by publishers around the world within days of the 2016 London Book Fair, THE END WE START FROM heralds the arrival of Megan Hunter, a dazzling and unique literary talent. Hunter's debut is a searing original, a modern-day parable of rebirth...
Teenage Linda lives with her parents in the austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a lost counter-culture world. Isolated at home and an outsider at school, Linda is drawn to the enigmati...
Paula Daly is acclaimed for her distinctive voice, masterful plotting, and terrifying depictions of ordinary people whose everyday lives are turned upside down through deception and murder. In her unsettling new domestic thriller, THE TROPHY CHILD, D...
“A storyteller of the first order.”―Joshua Ferris
“Josh Weil is a spectacular talent.”―Lauren Groff
Following his debut Dayton Literary Peace Prize-winning novel, The Great Glass Sea, Sue Kaufman Prize winner and National...
A convention-defying novel by bestselling writer Walter Mosley, JOHN WOMAN recounts the transformation of an unassuming boy named Cornelius Jones into John Woman, an unconventional history professor―while the legacy of a hideous crime lurks in the ...
With PARIS IN THE DARK, Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler returns to his lauded Christopher Marlowe Cobb series and proves once again that he can craft “a ripping good yarn” (Wall Street Journal) with unmistakably literary underpinnings. ...
Music and war, war and music―these are the twin motifs around which Bradford Morrow, recipient of the Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, has composed his magnum opus, THE PRAGUE SONATA, a novel more than a dozen...
It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property d...
London, 1958. Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy of Scotland Yard―newly promoted after good service during Nikita Khrushchev’s visit to Britain―is not looking forward to a European trip with his older brother, Rod. Rod has decided to take his ...
Kathy Acker’s practice of literary appropriation and pastiche made her notorious―as a rebel and a groundbreaker―when GREAT EXPECTATIONS was first published in 1982. Here, she begins rewriting Charles Dickens’s classic―splicing it with passa...
Selling over 100,000 copies in India, where it was published first in the original Tamil and then in a celebrated translation by Penguin India, Perumal Murugan’s ONE PART WOMAN has become a cult phenomenon in the subcontinent, captivating Indian re...
Haven’t we all wanted to pretend everything’s perfectly fine? Jane Campbell avoids confrontation at all costs. Given the choice, she’ll always let her husband, Leon―a bestselling thriller author―fight their battles. She’d prefer to focus ...
The first novel in ten years from award-winning, million-copy bestselling author Leif Enger, Virgil Wander is an enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging ...
Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner James Carlos Blake delves back into the dark realms of the Wolfe family, a clan whose roots run deep on both sides of the United States-Mexico border, and whose prevailing interests straddle both sides of the law. ...
Leo Maxwell is no ordinary attorney. He spends as much time tracking corrupt politicians and gangland leaders across the Bay area to piece together the facts of a crime as he does crafting courtroom rhetoric. But Leo has never quite recovered from di...
The latest installment in Val McDermid’s popular series featuring psychologist Tony Hill and detective Carol Jordan In the north of England, single women are beginning to disappear from weddings. A wedding crasher is luring the women away―only...
An extraordinary new novel by Samantha Harvey―whose books have been nominated for the Man Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize), and the Guardian First Book Award―THE WESTERN WIND is a riveting story of faith, ...
From “quite possibly the best historical novelist we have” (Philadelphia Inquirer), the fourth Joe Wilderness spy thriller, moving from Red Scare-era Washington, D.C. to a KGB prison near Moscow’s KremlinIn Moscow Exile, John Lawton...
This is one case Detective Miller won't want to open . . .The second rip-roaring mystery from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingham starring Detective Miller: unique, unconventional, and criminally underestimated...Unconven...
In the thirty-third installment of Donna Leon’s magnificent series, Commissario Guido Brunetti confronts a present-day Venetian menace and the ghosts of a heroism that never wasAround one AM on an early spring morning, two teenage gangs are arr...
"Jamie Quatro is a writer of sinuous, muscular power and grace. Two-Step Devil is a starkly gorgeous story of God and loss and art and love, and her best book yet.” —Lauren GroffFrom a New York Times Notable "writer of great ...
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone meets The Goonies in The Treasure Hunters Club—a rollicking murder mystery set in a seaside town filled with pirate lore, family secrets, unforgiveable grudges, secret societies, and of course,...
Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life. In a crumbling, is...
A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from “America’s best novelist” (Denver Post), the New York Times bestselling James Lee Burke Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and wi...
Amos Tutuola’s second novel recounting the fate of mortals who stray into the world of ghosts, now available in a standalone volumeFirst published in 1954, now acclaimed as a modern classic, and named one of TIME’s “100 Best Fantasy...
Amos Tutuola’s masterful first novel of a nightmarish quest into the land of the dead, now available in a standalone volume with an introduction by Wole SoyinkaWidely considered to be his masterpiece, Amos Tutuola’s debut novel The Palm-W...