Fiction

Love is in the air, but what does that mean for Greg Heffley? A Valentine's Day dance at Greg's middle school has turned his world upside down. As Greg scrambles to find a date, he's worried he'll be left out in the cold on...

From Freida McFadden, bestselling author of The Housemaid, comes a gripping story of obsession, secrets and the dark side of motherhood.Abby has always dreamed of becoming a mother, but years of failed fertility treatments have left her hope fading. When her trusted assistant offers...

Katabasis by R. F. Kuang is a dark fantasy novel about a brilliant but troubled graduate student who must descend into a mysterious underworld to rescue her missing professor. As she travels through a strange and dangerous realm, she confronts rivalries, ambition, and the...

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney follows two brothers dealing with grief and complicated personal relationships after the death of their father. As they navigate love, identity, and emotional distance, their lives intersect with the women around them in ways that challenge their understanding of intimacy,...

Dune by Frank Herbert is a sweeping science‑fiction epic set on the desert planet Arrakis, where young Paul Atreides becomes entangled in political intrigue, mystical prophecies, and the deadly struggle for control of the universe’s most valuable resource. The novel blends complex world‑building, philosophy,...

One of the most controversial and celebrated novels of the twentieth century, Lolita is narrated by Humbert Humbert, a European émigré whose obsession with twelve-year-old Dolores Haze leads him across America and towards destruction.Nabokov's prose is dazzling, witty and unsettling, turning a story of...

Victor Frankenstein dreams of creating life, but when his experiment succeeds, the creature he brings into the world is rejected by everyone, including its maker. What follows is a haunting story of ambition, loneliness and responsibility.This Oxford Children's Classics edition presents Mary Shelley's complete,...

To escape the stress of the holidays, the Heffleys decide to leave the cold behind and head to a tropical island resort for some fun in the sun. But what's supposed to be a stress-free vacation quickly turns into a nightmare.Sunburn, stomach troubles, misbehaving...

The world's supa-est hero is back! In Big Jim Begins, the thirteenth adventure in Dav Pilkey's bestselling Dog Man series, we travel back to the beginning to discover how Big Jim came to be and how the friends we know and love first found...

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins is a dystopian novel set in the world of The Hunger Games. The story returns to Panem and explores the brutal tradition of the Hunger Games during an earlier period, revealing more about the political power of...

A Thousand Blues by Cheon Seon-ran is a reflective science-fiction novel set in a near-future world where technology and humanity closely intersect. The story follows a group of characters connected to a worn-down racing robot whose unexpected emotions begin to affect the people around...

In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar is a novel set in Libya during the oppressive rule of Muammar Gaddafi. It follows nine-year-old Suleiman as he navigates fear, political repression, and betrayal within his family and society. The story explores themes of childhood,...

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden is a gripping debut novel set in 1961 in the Dutch countryside. The story centres on Isabel, a solitary woman living in her late mother’s country house, whose ordered life is disrupted when her brother Louis brings...

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami is a surreal and imaginative novel following two parallel narratives: Kafka Tamura, a fifteen-year-old runaway searching for his past, and Nakata, an elderly man who can communicate with cats. Their journeys intertwine in a world filled with...

The apocalypse will be televised. One minute Carl is standing outside in his boxers, chasing his ex-girlfriend's prize-winning show cat, Princess Donut. The next, every building on Earth has collapsed into the ground and the survivors have been invited into an eighteen-level dungeon that...

Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage, watched over by silent guards. They have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time and only the vaguest recollections of their lives before. Above ground, a world awaits. Has...

All games must come to an end. In the stunning finale to the global phenomenon of the Inheritance Games saga, everyone is a player, long-held secrets are unveiled and impossible mysteries are finally solved.In the grandest of games there is so much to win:...

Sometimes a fresh start begins with a familiar face. At the Marble Cafe in Tokyo, the owner hosts special Monday matcha tastings, and over the course of a year, a series of customers find their way to its welcoming tables.A woman who needs to...

The villain isn't supposed to be king. Elsa has one plan: finish Royal Elite School, get into her dream university and leave the past behind. Then she catches the attention of Aiden King, the school's ruthless, untouchable king, and everything changes.Aiden has a black...