Monica Ali's gorgeous first novel is the story of one woman, Nazneen, born in a Bangladeshi village and transported to London at age eighteen to enter into an arranged marriage. Already hailed by the London Observer as "one of the most significant British novelists of her generation," Ali has written a stunningly accomplished debut about one outsider's quest to find her voice.

Christopher John Francis Boone relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. This improbable story of Christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating novels in recent years. "Think of The Sound and the Fury crossed with The Catcher in the Rye and one of Oliver Sacks's real-life stories." -The New York Times

In the tradition of Michael Cunningham's The Hours and A.S. Byatt's Possession, a breakout novel about one of America's greatest writers, Henry James. Toibin is ""a great and humanizing writer"" who describes complex relationships in "supple, beautifully modulated prose." -The Washington Post Book World

One of the most talented writers at work today returns with his first new fiction in five years. "Wallace is the best kind of show-off, a writer who is not complacent with his writerly gifts....He can risk magnificently, and when he succeeds, the result is startling, visionary fiction." -San Francisco Chronicle

One of America's premier writers, the bestselling author of Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The Book of Daniel, and World's Fair turns his astonishing narrative powers to the short story.

"Bad boys abound in this knockout collection of short stories. . . . [Cavell] writes with the assurance, the intelligence, and the ownership of his craft of an author who's been winning laurels all his life." -The Boston Globe

In Symptomatic, Senna takes questions of identity a step further, in a beautifully written novel that is at once suspenseful, erotic, clever, and, as The New York Times wrote of her debut Caucasia, "deeply intelligent."