The Following Story

Cees Nooteboom

This title comes with an introduction by David Mitchell. One morning Herman Mussert wakes up in a hotel room in Lisbon, where twenty years previously he slept with another man's wife. Yet he is quite certain that the night before he went to sleep as normal in his house in Amsterdam. And so Herman begins...

City on Fire

Garth Risk Hallberg

The New York Times bestseller. "Extraordinary...dazzling...a sprawling, generous, warm-hearted epic of 1970s New York". (Observer). Midnight, New Year's Eve, 1976. Nine lives are about to be changed forever. Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, heirs to one of New York's greatest fortunes; Keith and Merc...

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Few children's classics can match the charm and originality of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, the unforgettable story of sullen, sulky Mary Lennox, "the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen." When a cholera epidemic leaves her as an orphan, Mary is sent to England to live with her rec...