A collection of our best reads in fiction for the cultured and worldly reader.

this Collection Includes:

- The Bee Sting - Paul Murray

A brilliantly amusing, profoundly sad depiction of an Irish family struggling to connect.

- The Other Side of Paradise - Vanessa Beaumont

A story of duty, scandal, and a mother’s desperate attempt to protect her sons from a secret that will destroy them.

- This Strange Eventful History - Claire Messud

This Strange Eventful History charts the unfolding story of a Franco-Algerian family over three generations, in a work of breathtaking historical sweep and vivid psychological intimacy.

- Rosarita - Anita Desai

A beautiful, haunting novel set in Mexico that explores memory, grief, and a young woman’s determination to forge her own path.

- My Friends - Hisham Matar

An intensely moving novel about three friends living in political exile and the emotional homeland that deep friendships can provide 

- Her Side of the Story - Alba de Cespedes

A captivating feminist classic about a woman's struggle for independence in fascist Italy.

- The Most - Jessica Anthony

A tightly wound, consuming tale about a 1950s American housewife and her refusal to get out of her swimming pool.

- The Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

The novel serves as a postcolonial and feminist prequel to Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre.

- So Late in the Day - Claire Keegan

This novella follows a man who is looking back over the years, remembering a woman that, perhaps, he might have had a life with if he had been another, better, man.

- Long Island Compromise - Taffy Brodesser-Akner

An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, and the wild legacy of trauma and inheritance.

- How to Leave the House -  Nathan Newman

This is the story of twenty-four hours in the life of an anxious man, and his small-town odyssey in pursuit of a missing package.

- The Bridegroom Was a Dog - Yoko Tawada

Haunting and atmospheric, Tawada's dark fable about a schoolteacher's romance with a dog-like man makes for a unique reading experience.

- Double Blind - Edward St Aubyn

Following three friends across the globe, this thrilling, ambitious novel is as compelling about ecology, psychoanalysis, genetics and neuroscience as it is about love, fear and courage.