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Margaret Atwood’s taut, psychologically complex novel — a Canadian journalist’s Caribbean escape becomes entanglement in a coup and genuine danger. A thriller that explores voyeurism, bodily autonomy, and political complacency, and one of Atwood’s most formally accomplished early works.

Margaret Atwood’s underrated 1979 novel — three people in Toronto navigating a suicide’s aftermath, failing marriages, and emotional paralysis. Precise, unsentimental, and rich in Atwood’s characteristic irony, this portrait of small cruelties and accumulated distances is one of her most accomplished works.

Vonnegut’s prescient 1952 debut dystopia — a near-future America where machines have replaced human labour and the engineers who manage them form a ruling class. His satirical intelligence is already fully formed: dark comedy, humanism, and anger at dehumanising systems that feel more relevant than ever.

Haruki Murakami’s rich, immersive novel — a portrait painter, a hidden painting, and a world where reality and imagination dissolve. Drawing on Japanese history and Western music, a 700-page work of extraordinary texture and depth from a writer at the full height of his extraordinary powers.

Hiromi Kawakami’s quietly mesmerising novella about memory, longing, and the strange persistence of past love. Prose of understated precision that accumulates into something deeply moving — essential for readers who love her work and a perfect introduction for those discovering her for the first time.

New stories from George Saunders — Booker Prize winner and one of America’s most celebrated fiction writers. With characteristic wit, compassion, and formal ingenuity, Vigil explores the ordinary moments where human beings reveal their deepest selves. Funny, moving, and utterly essential.

Three devastating stories set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles — slim, spare, and extraordinarily powerful. Colum McCann’s fiction about ordinary people caught in the machinery of history is some of the most important writing about Ireland in a generation.

Khaled Hosseini’s devastating and triumphant second novel follows two Afghan women whose lives intertwine across three decades of war. A fierce, emotionally intelligent portrait of survival, resilience, and the bonds that sustain us when everything else is taken away.

One of the twenty-first century’s most celebrated novels — a story of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against Afghanistan’s turbulent history. Khaled Hosseini’s unforgettable debut traces two boys whose bond is shattered by a single moment of cowardice, and a lifetime of consequence.