The Lonely Londoners
A poignant and often humorous portrayal of West Indian immigrants striving to build new lives in 1950s London, navigating racism, loneliness…
Literary Fiction
Offshore
A vivid portrait of an eccentric houseboat community on the Thames, where lives intertwine in unexpected ways amid the struggle for belongin…
NW
Zadie Smith’s NW is a vivid, tragicomic portrait of four Londoners navigating the complexities of identity, class, and friendship in a city …
City of the Mind
An architect navigating the ruins of his failed marriage and the layered history of London, Matthew Halland confronts the past and present a…
London Fields
A terminally ill writer in a decaying London races against time to narrate the doomed Nicola Six’s story, a murder mystery entwined with dar…
A Stranger City
A gripping, polyphonic novel set in contemporary London, where the discovery of a dead woman in the Thames sparks a search that reveals the …
River
A woman escapes her past by moving to a London suburb, where solitary walks along the River Lea awaken memories of rivers from her life, ble…
Murphy
Samuel Beckett's first novel, Murphy, is a darkly comic exploration of isolation and the search for stupor in a fragmented world, told throu…
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
George Orwell's novel follows Gordon Comstock, a poet who rebels against society's obsession with money, only to face the harsh realities of…
A Concise Chinese–English Dictionary for Lovers
A young Chinese woman named Z arrives in London to learn English and navigate love, culture, and identity, told through her evolving English…
A Touch of Mistletoe
A poignant coming-of-age novel following sisters Victoria and Blanche as they navigate poverty, family struggles, and the pursuit of art and…
The Lowlife (Faber Editions)
A gritty dive into Hackney’s underworld through the eyes of Harryboy Boas, a Jewish bachelor whose life spirals into crime, debt, and violen…