Fiction

I'm in love with this shot by @bogbilleder⁠ of the Women Writers Series from the British Library!⁠
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This is a curated collection of forgotten works by early to mid-century women writers highlighting fiction from the 1910s to the 1960s, offering escapism, popular appeal and plenty of period detail to amuse, surprise, and inform. Each work sees fictional heroines challenge the attitudes of their time and highlight women’s experience inside and outside the home.⁠
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In the best tradition of Tessa Hadley, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ann Patchett--an astonishing, keenly observed period piece about an ordinary British woman in the 1950s whose dutiful life takes a sudden turn into a pitched battle between propriety and unexpected passion.

Gregory Maguire unveils the first in a three-book series spun off the iconic Wicked Years, featuring Elphaba's granddaughter, the green-skinned Rain.

Ten years ago this season, Gregory Maguire wrapped up the series he began with Wicked by giving us the fourth and final volume of the Wicked Years, his elegiac Out of Oz.

From the author of the international bestseller Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this book follows four new customers who hope to travel back in time in a little Japanese café.

In a back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee--the chance to travel back in time.

An outstanding array--52 pieces in all--of selected fiction from the multiple-award-winning, internationally bestselling author Neil Gaiman, introduced with a foreword by Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James.

The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America.