Narrative theme: Interior life

  • She wants you gone

    £9.99

    Bex has the perfect stepdaughter. Only she knows something is very wrong. When the new family moves to the remote Suffolk countryside, danger threatens in this twisty, atmospheric psych thriller.

  • Jane Eyre

    £18.99

    Jane Eyre, the beloved heroine, is for many their first introduction to a truly independent female character in classic literature. Charlotte Brontë develops an assertive and passionate character in Jane, whose search for belonging and freedom, while radical at the time of publication, remains refreshingly relevant for the modern-day reader.

  • Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and other stories

    £18.99

    Dr Jekyll has been experimenting with his identity. He has developed a drug which separates the two sides of his nature and allows him occasionally to abandon himself to his most corrupt inclinations as the monstrous Mr Hyde. But gradually he begins to find that the journey back to goodness becomes more and more difficult, and the risk that Mr Hyde will break free entirely from Dr Jekyll’s control puts all of London in grave peril.

  • As young as this

    £9.99

    Elliot. Joe. Tommy. Nathanael. Wren. Oliver. Malik. Zach. Frank. Patrick. Noah. These are the men Margot has loved, liked, lusted over. Since she was seventeen, she’s pictured them like stepping stones – each one bringing her closer to finding someone to share her life with and, eventually, father the children she’s always imagined in her future. From her first sexual encounter, to her first love, from grown-up dilemmas to spontaneous thrills, she’s soaked up every experience available to her, discovering friendship, joy, and despair. Through all of this she’s refined her search until she believes she’s arrived at ‘the ending’ to her story. So how did she find herself here, single at thirty-four, and about to make the biggest decision of her life?

  • I want to go home but I’m already there

    £16.99

    Aine should be feeling happy with her life. She’s just moved in with Elliot. Their new flat is in an affluent neighbourhood, surrounded by bakeries, yoga studios and organic vegetable shops. They even have a garden. And yet, from the moment they move in, Aine can’t shake the sense that there’s something not quite right about the place. It’s not just the humourless estate agent and nameless landlord: it’s the chill that seeps through the draughty windows; the damp spreading from the cellar door; the way the organic fruit and veg never lasts as long as it should. And most of all, it’s the upstairs neighbours, whose very existence makes peaceful coexistence very difficult indeed. The longer Aine spends inside the flat – pretending to work from home; dissecting messages from the friends whose lives seem to have moved on without her – the less it feels like home.

  • The picture of Dorian Gray

    £18.99

    Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury, he apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt lifestyle and untouched by age. But up in his attic, hidden behind a curtain, his portrait tells a different story.

  • Tilt

    £16.99

    Picked as a most anticipated book of 2025 by Vogue, LitHub, TIME and Goodreads

    ‘Heralds the arrival of a powerful new literary voice’VOGUE

    ‘Had me turning the pages well into the night’ JESSICA KNOLL, author of BRIGHT YOUNG WOMEN

  • Colony

    £10.99

    Burnt-out from a demanding job and a bustling life in the city, Emelie has left town to spend a few days in the country. Once there, in the peaceful, verdant hills, down by the river she encounters a mysterious group of seven people, each with personal stories full of pain, alienation, and the longing to live differently. They are misfits, each in their own way, and all led by the enigmatic and charismatic Sara. How did they end up there? Are they content with the rigid roles they’ve been assigned? And what happens when an outsider appears and is initially drawn to their alternative lifestyle but cannot help but stir things up?

  • Flesh

    £18.99

    Once a shy young man from a town in Hungary, István is carried gradually upwards on the currents of the 21st century’s tides of money and power, moving from the army to the company of London’s super-rich, with his own competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth winning him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely. Spare and penetrating, ‘Flesh’ asks profound questions about what drives a life: what makes it worth living, and what breaks it.

  • A house for Mr Biswas

    £12.99

    From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, A House for Mr Biswas is V.S. Naipaul’s best-loved novel, a tragicomic tour de force.

  • Dream count

    £20.00

    ‘The major publication milestone of 2025’ OBSERVER

    A publishing event ten years in the makinga searing, exquisite new novel by the best-selling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists-the story of four women and their loves, longings and desires.

  • The vanishing point

    £20.00

    The stories in Paul Theroux’s ‘The Vanishing Point’ are both exotic and domestic, their settings ranging from Hawaii to Africa and New England. Each focuses on life’s vanishing points – a moment when seemingly all lines running through one’s life converge, and one can see no farther, yet must deal with the implications. With the insight, subtlety, and empathy that has long characterized his work, Theroux has written deeply moving stories about memory, longing, and the passing of time, reclaiming his status, once again, as a master of the form.