World Literature
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The Essential Akutagawa: Twenty-Two Short Stories by Japan’s Master Storyteller
$16.99 Add to cart“Akutagawa displays an insightful and keenly creative intelligence in prose so lucid its sophistication is hardly visible.” –Chris Power, The Guardian
Japan’s master storyteller Ryunosuke Akutagawa (- Author: Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 480531799X
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
$25.00 Add to cartChiltern creates the most beautiful editions of the World’s finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before: the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful col
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1914602722
- Language: English
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Murder on the Prince Regent: An Unputdownable Historical Murder Mystery
$17.99 Add to cartThe ship rocks violently, and Gemma leans against the door to steady herself, but the figure on the narrow cabin bed doesn’t move at all…
London, 1859. Nurse Gemma Tate boards the American packet shi
- Series: A Tate and Bell Mystery #6
- Author: Shapiro, Irina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1805089668
- Language: English
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Song of Ancient Lovers
$30.00 Add to cartAward-winning Colombian author Laura Restrepo weaves contemporary themes and ancient myth in this story of star-crossed lovers in a world on the brink of collapse.
Retelling the mythical love story bet
- Author: Restrepo, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0063356155
- Language: English
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All the Lights
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2008 Leipzig Book Fair Prize
A man bets all he has on a horse race to pay for an expensive operation for his dog. A young refugee wants to box her way straight off the boat to the top of- Author: Meyer, Clemens
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 191675130X
- Language: English
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Folded Corners
$15.99 Add to cartKnocknashee, County Kerry, Ireland
1941
For twenty-one-year-old Grace Fitzgerald, life is finally looking bright. Orphaned as a child and later struck down by polio, she then endured years of cold indif
- Author: Grainger, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: June 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1917732155
- Language: English
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The Road to the Country
$18.00 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE NIGERIA PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
A sweeping, heart-racing, mystical novel about a university student in Lagos trying to save his brother, and himself, amid the chaos of Nigeria’s civil wa- Author: Obioma, Chigozie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0593596986
- Language: English
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The Distance: Dreams and Despair
$19.99 Add to cartThe Distance tells the story of two Swiss immigrants, Thomas and Wilbert, who arrive in British Columbia’s Kootenay region in the early 1900s, lured by promises of adventure and prosperity. Their drea… [more below]
- Author: Pollard, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: January 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1038327970
- Language: English
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The Wardrobe Department
$27.00 Add to cartMairead works all hours in a run-down West End theatre’s wardrobe department, her whole existence made up of threads and needles, running errands to mend shoes, fixing broken zips and handwashing unde
- Author: Garvey, Elaine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1805302361
- Language: English
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Disinheritance: The Rediscovered Stories
$30.00 Add to cartA collection of fiction by the Booker Prize-winning author and “one of the 20th century’s great female writers” (The Washington Post), drawn from her ample body of work that has been out of the public… [more below]
- Author: Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1640097368
- Language: English
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A Fortunate Man
$29.95 Add to cartA Nobel Prize-winner’s unforgettable novel about a man who sheds the stifling country life of his childhood for the excitement of Copenhagen.
This masterpiece of Danish literature, admired by the like- Author: Pontoppidan, Henrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1681379279
- Language: English
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Elegy for April
$18.99 Add to cartQuirke returns in the third volume of John Banville’s celebrated series
A junior doctor at a local hospital, April Latimer is a scandalous presence in the conservative and highly patriarchal society o- Series: Quirke #3
- Author: Banville, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 125042142X
- Language: English
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Capitalists Must Starve: A Novel
$18.95 Add to cartWinner of 2018 Hankyoreh Literature Award, this work is based directly on the life of Kang Juryong, a female worker who led a strike at the Pyongwon rubber factory in Pyongyang in 1931, climbing the r… [more below]
- Author: Park, Seolyeon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1917126212
- Language: English
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Unfinished Portrait
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Christie, Agatha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 0063452561
- Language: English
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The Knowing
$20.00 Add to cart“Soul medicine for the smartphone weary… Life-affirming. Brilliant.”
–Matthew Quick, New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook
From the acclaimed author of A Room Called Earth
- Author: Ryan, Madeleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1964992230
- Language: English
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Lolly Willowes: Or, the Loving Huntsman
$17.00 Add to cartA satirical feminist classic about a woman who leaves her stifling place in her brother’s London home for the wilds of the English countryside, where she meets and makes a deal with the devil himself-… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Townsend Warner, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0593449320
- Language: English
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The Cracks We Bear
$19.99 Add to cart“Chilean writer Infante’s penetrating English-language debut centers on a woman coping with the challenges of new motherhood while reflecting on her late mother. This slim and subtle work packs a stin… [more below]
- Author: Infante, Catalina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1642861596
- Language: English
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The Sun Also Rises: A Norton Critical Edition
$26.63 Read moreThis Norton Critical Edition includes:
The text of Ernest Hemingway’s best-known novel.
Introduction and explanatory footnotes by Michael Thurston.
A rich selection of background and contextual mater… [more below]
- Series: Norton Critical Editions
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: January 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0393656004
- Language: English
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On Earth as It Is in Heaven
$20.00 Read moreTo turn earth into heaven is a tall order, but no matter where they live on this planet, the people in these stories hold out hope that at least a small portion of heaven might brighten their patch of
- Author: Gaitonde, Vishwas R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1949039609
- Language: English
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Letters from an Imaginary Country
$18.95 Read moreRoam through the captivating stories of World Fantasy and Mythopoeic Award winner Theodora Goss (the Athena Club trilogy). This themed collection of imaginary places, with three new stories, recalls S… [more below]
- Author: Goss, Theodora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1616964405
- Language: English
