Read a story from Diving Belles, by Lucy Wood

With a luminous, startling and utterly spellbinding debut collection, Lucy Wood is a spectacular new voice in contemporary British fiction.

An extract from Cairo

Read an extract of Cairo, Ahdaf Soueif’s account of the revolution and a personal journey into the city of her childhood.

An extract from Rifleman, by Victor Gregg, with Rick Stroud

This is the story of a true survivor.

A Front-line Life from Alamein and Dresden to the Fall of the Berlin Wall…

The Coward’s Tale

‘My name is Laddy Merridew. I’m a cry-baby. I’m sorry.’

‘And my name is Ianto Jenkins. I am a coward. And that’s worse.’

Read an extract from Vanessa Gebbie’s haunting novel.

Read the first chapter of Purgatory, by Tomas Eloy Martinez

‘Simon Cardoso had been dead for thirty years when Emilia Dupuy, his wife, found him at lunchtime in the dining room of Trudy Tuesday.’

The Virgin Suicides Reading Group Guide

The story of the five Lisbon sisters and the effects of their suicides on their small suburban community. Jeffrey Eugenides explores the heady territory of adolescent sexuality through the collective narrative voice of the young boys, now men, who fell under the sisters’ spell…

Middlesex Reading Group Guide

Sprawling across eight decades – and one unusually awkward adolescence – Jeffrey Eugenides’ long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire.

An extract from Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides

In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls’ school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls…

Anna Reid discusses her new book Leningrad

On 8 September 1941, eleven short weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. Had the city fallen, the history of the Second World War – and of the twentieth century – would have been very different.

A Q&A with Louise Levene

An interview with Louise Levene, author of Ghastly Business, a wickedly witty book of murder and media frenzy in the 1920s.

Take a sneak peek at In Darkness, by Nick Lake

Bloomsbury Publishing have ten copies of In Darkness by Nick Lake to give away this month!

But be quick the deadline for entries is October 1st!

Discover Ed King, by David Guterson

Read an extract from the new novel by the bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars, a dazzling, darkly funny, extraordinary modern take on an ancient tragedy…

An extract from The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini

An extract with a difference.

Experience the multi-million selling phenomenon in graphic novel form…

Discover A More Perfect Heaven

Read the first chapter of A More Perfect Heaven, How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos, by Dava Sobel, published this month via Bloomsbury.

A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In

Watch the book trailer for Magnus Mills’ A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In.

Pigeon English Special #2!

Watch an interview with Stephen Kelman, author of Pigeon English, and download the Reading Guide.

Pigeon English Special #1!

A story of innocence and experience, hope and harsh reality, Pigeon English, recently longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, is a spellbinding portrayal of a boy balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces around him that try to shape the way he falls.

Discover Dreams of Joy

Read an extract from Lisa See’s Dreams of Joy – a novel of unbreakable family bonds and strong-willed women, according to the Washington Post.

Take a sneak peak at Ed King, by David Guterson

Bloomsbury Publishing have ten copies of Ed King by David Guterson to give away this month!

Discover One Thousand and One Nights, by Hanan al-Shaykh

Erotic, brutal, witty and poetic, These are the never-ending stories told by the young Shahrazad under sentence of death to King Shahrayar. Now adapted by Hanan al-Shaykh the One Thousand and One Nights are revealed in an intoxicating new voice.

Win a bumper bundle of Bloomsbury books! [closed]

Phew! Try repeating that over and over and quicker and quicker. Anyway…

Bloomsbury have kindly given three Bookhugger readers the chance to win a selection of their latest and forthcoming titles.

The Lake Shore Limited Reading Group Guide

Three years after the death of her brother Gus, Leslie still thinks about what might have been if Gus hadn’t got on that plane on September 11th…