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The White Guard
Mikhail Bulgakov
Discover Mikhail Bugakov's classic literary love letter to the city of Kyiv. Drawing closely on Bulgakov's personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor, The White Guard takes place in Kyiv, 1918, a time of turmoil and suffocating uncertainty as the Bolsheviks, Socialists and Germans fight for control of the city. It tells the story of the Turbins, a once-w...
Dungeons And Drama
Kristy Boyce
A national bestseller! When it comes to romance, sometimes it doesn't hurt to play games. A fun YA romcom full of fake dating hijinks!No one loves musicals more than Riley Morris—her dream is to be a Broadway director. But when the spring show is canceled, Riley has to figure out a way to bring it back. Easier said than done—she's stuck working at her dad's game store. The plac...
The Wild Iris
Louise Glück
The poems in this collection are written in the language of flowers. Louise Gluck received the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris in 1993, and has also received the National Book Critics Award for Poetry and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award. ...
Consider The Lobster And Other Essays
David Foster Wallace
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humour? What is John Updike's deal anyway? And who won the Adult Video News' Female Performer of the Year Award the same year Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in his new book of hilarious non-fiction. For this collection, David Foster Wallace immerses himself in the t...
Conflict In Ukraine
Rajan Menon / Eugene B. Rumer
One of The New York Times' "6 Books to Read for Context on Ukraine""A short and insightful primer" to the crisis in Ukraine and its implications for both the Crimean Peninsula and Russia's relations with the West (New York Review of Books)The current conflict in Ukraine has spawned the most serious crisis between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War. It has undermi...
Final Offer
Lauren Asher
The Nazi Mind
Laurence Rees
How could the Nazis have committed the crimes they did? Why did they willingly - often enthusiastically - oversee mass murder? How did ordinary Germans tolerate the removal of Jewish people? And how do we ensure it never happens again? Bestselling author Laurence Rees combines history and the latest psychological research to help answer the most perplexing questions surroundi...
Faebound
Saara El-Arifi
THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER âe~Exquisite fantasy, with a complex, mysterious, and sumptuous world of elves, fae, and gloriously compelling romance âe" so enthralling, it has wrapped its magic around my heart and set it alightâe(tm) HANNAH KANER, bestselling author of Godkiller âe~A romantic fantasy of epic proportions, crackling with magic and passionâe(tm) SAMANTHA...
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman
One man. One cat. One alien invasion. Infinite chaos. Dive into the first explosive Dungeon Crawler Carl adventure - a wild mix of sci-fi, fantasy, and twisted survival comedy. 'If there's a better LitRPG than Dungeon Crawler Carl, I haven't read it' Shirtaloon, author of He Who Fights Monsters -- You know what's worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with ...
If He Had Been With me
Laura Nowlin
A New York Times Bestseller*A BookTok Viral Sensation* An achingly authentic and raw portrait of love, regret, and the life-altering impact of the relationships we hold closest to us, this YA romance bestseller is perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover, Jenny Han, and You've Reached Sam. If he had been with me, everything would have been different...Autumn and Finn used to be insep...
A Study In Drowning
Ava Reid
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NO. 1 NYT BESTSELLING NOVEL, FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WOLF AND THE WOODSMAN 'A love letter to stories - and to everyone silenced or forgotten in their retelling.' Allison Saft, author of A Far Wilder Magic Effy has always believed in fairy tales. She's had no choice. Since childhood, she's been haunted by visions of the Fairy King. She's found solace only i...
Pick me
Victoria Schade
They're playing for keeps ... Brooke Murphy has hit a creative block after a messy breakup, and she's on the hunt for something - or someone - to provide steamy inspiration for her trope-tastic romance novels. So when a pickleball match promises fresh inspiration in the form of Manhattan's most competitive finance bros, it's game on. She just needs to learn how to play - and ...
You Deserve Each Other
Sarah Hogle
Children Of The Mind
Orson Scott Card
Achieves and delivers more than almost anything else within the science fiction genre, Ender's Game is a contemporary classic - New York Times 'Card's prose is powerful here, as is his consideration of mystical and quasi-religious themes. Though billed as the final Ender novel, this story leaves enough mysteries unexplored to justify another entry; and Card fans should find th...
A Time Of Dread
John Gwynne
'Reminds me of why I became a fantasy enthusiast in the first place' - Robin Hobb, author of Assassin's ApprenticeThe first novel in John Gwynne's epic and stirring Of Blood and Bone trilogy.The Ben-Elim, a race of warrior angels, once vanquished a mighty demon horde. Now they rule the Banished Lands. But their dominion is brutally enforced and their ancient enemy may not be as...
Where The Dead Brides Gather
Nuzo Onoh
A powerful Nigeria-set horror tale of possession, malevolent ghosts, family tensions, secrets and murder from the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement and Queen of African Horror'. For readers of Octavia Butler, Ben Okri and Koji Suzuki.Bata, a young girl tormented by nightmares, wakes up one night to find herself standing sentinel before her cousin's do...
Naruto: Konoha's StoryThe Steam Ninja Scrolls: The Manga, Vol. 2
Masashi Kishimoto / Sho Hinata
A comedic story set in the universe of Naruto that features Kakashi, Guy, and Mirai Sarutobi, along with the rest of the new generation!Sarutobi Mirai has a lot to live up to as the granddaughter of Konoha's Third Hokage and the daughter of Sarutobi Asuma, the hero who gave up his life during the Great Ninja War. But as everyone continues to expect great things from her, she st...
Rule Of Wolves (King Of Scars Book 2)
Leigh Bardugo
See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with Shadow and Bone, now a Netflix original series. The wolves are circling and a young king will face his greatest challenge in the explosive finale of the instant No.1 New York Times-bestselling King of Scars Duology. The Demon King. As Fjerda's massive army prepares to invade, Nikolai Lantsov will summon every bit of his ingenuit...
The Booker Prize Shortlist 2025
Flesh
David Szalay
'Brilliance on every page' Samantha Harvey 'Spare, visceral, urgent, compelling. This book doesn't f**k around' Gary Stevenson 'So brilliant and wise on chance, love, sex, money' David Nicholls 'How do I get out of a reading slump? This is the book to do that' Rhianna Dhillon, BBC Radio 4 Through chance, luck and choice, one man's life takes him from a modest apartment in Hung...
The Land In Winter
Andrew Miller
? Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 ? ? Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2025 ? ? Winner of the Winston Graham Historical Prize 2025 ? 'One of the best writers at work today' TELEGRAPH 'Has an uncanny beauty and depth... A novel that travels into the darkest places of history and the strangest corners of the human mind' GUARDIAN 'Money, class, love...
The Rest Of Our Lives
Benjamin Markovits
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 An Observer 'Novel to look out for in 2025' and an FT 'Best Summer Read' 'Moving, smart and life-affirming.' OBSERVER 'Why aren't all novels like this?' THE CRITIC 'A triumphant twist on the great American road novel.' GUARDIAN 'So funny, wise and knowing.' CLARE CHAMBERS What's left when your kids grow up and leave home? When Tom Layward...
Audition
Katie Kitamura
A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, FINANCIAL TIMES, BBC, TIME, VOGUE, MARIE CLAIRE, ESQUIRE and ROLLING STONE BOOK TO READ IN 2025 'An original' RACHEL KUSHNER 'Gorgeously disquieting' HERNAN DIAZ 'One of our most brilliant writers' LAUREN GROFF One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilising novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love ...
The Loneliness Of Sonia And Sunny
Kiran Desai
When Sonia and Sunny first glimpse each other on an overnight train, they are immediately captivated, yet also embarrassed by the fact that their grandparents had once tried to matchmake them, a clumsy meddling that only served to drive Sonia and Sunny apart. Sonia, an aspiring novelist who recently completed her studies in the snowy mountains of Vermont, has returned to her ...
Flashlight
Susan Choi
**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025** 'Ferociously smart and full of surprises' Eleanor Catton, author of Birnam Wood 'A rich generational saga that teems with intelligence' Financial Times The astonishing story of one family swept up in the tides of the twentieth century, ranging from post-war Japan to suburban America and the North Korean regime One evening, ten-year-o...
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A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing
Alice Evelyn Yang
A dark, magical realist debut family saga that moves through the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, the Cultural Revolution, and the present day to explore the effects of intergenerational trauma, the legacy of colonialism, and the inescapability of fate. Qianze has not seen her father in eleven years, since he walked out of her life the night of her fourteenth birthday and disa...
A Private Man
Stephanie Sy-Quia
His grandfather had been a Catholic priest. A story in seven words, and his life the unsolved mystery.Rome, 1953. David is young, handsome, charismatic, and sworn to celibacy. He is freshly ordained, and about to return to England to begin life as a priest. Devotion to God is all he's ever known, and all he thinks he ever will.In London, Margaret is entangled in an impossible l...
The Sun And The Starmaker
Rachel Griffin
There once was a village so far north that most considered it the top of the world... and in that village, the Sun fell in love with her Starmaker. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Nature of Witches comes a whimsical and sweeping romantic fantasy. Nestled deep in the snowy mountains of the Lost Range, the village of Reverie is a small miracle. Beyond the reach...
Hot Chocolate On Thursday
Michiko Aoyama
FROM THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING ORIGINAL HEALING AUTHOR _________________ Much-loved modern classic by the author of WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY for fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD Readers love HOT CHOCOLATE ON THURSDAY: 'Slipped into my heart and warmed me, just like a cup of cocoa' ***** 'I definitely recommend this book!' ***** 'Thursday is the b...
Blurred Faces
Allan Radcliffe
' I mean, it' s nothing really. An old face from the past.' Two men meet on a dating app. It' s supposed to be a casual encounter between strangers. Jordan is only back in Edinburgh to visit his complicated family, and Davie is reeling from a painful breakup. Yet Davie recognises Jordan as someone he knew long ago, when they were both closeted teenagers at the same school. Back...
He's The Devil
Tobi Coventry
'MAGNETIC, CLAUSTROPHOBIC, WICKEDLY ALIVE' LUCY ROSE, AUTHOR OF THE LAMB 'IF STEPHEN KING, OTTESSA MOSHFEGH AND JOHN WATERS HAD A BABY - ITS THIS BRILLIANT BOOK' JODIE HARSH 'HORNY. GORY. RELATABLE.' KIRSTY LOGAN FLATMATES ARE HELL... 'Massimo lived here now. And things had begun to happen. Sounds, smells, dreams. A private horror show. A usurper in my ordered world...' Simon...
Still Into You
Erin Connor
Funny You Should Ask meets Almost Famous in this second chance, fake NOT dating, spicy, rockstar rom-com, from the author of the celebrated Unromance! 'When I tell you this man YEARNS. He's giving Conrad Fisher a run for his money' ????? 'Sloane and Dax are the perfect harmony of playful, heartfelt and always so, so hot' ????? 'What a freaking masterpiece' ????? ?????? When e...
Hunter's Treasure
Olivia Jackson
A brand new spicy forced proximity action adventure romcom set on a desert island! Perfect for fans of Christina Lauren, Jo Segura and Meghan Quinn. One treasure map. Two total opposites. A romance they never saw coming... When Sydney York ends up shipwrecked on a remote island, the last thing she expects is to end up on a treasure hunt. But when she meets Hunter Holden, the is...
Operation Bounce House
Matt Dinniman
"Matt Dinniman has cooked us all up a deliciously terrifying gamer geek stew, mixing up Avatar and Ender's Game, with a dash of The Last Starfighter and Independence Day thrown in. This tale is more twisted fun than you can shake a joystick at." Ernest Cline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ready Player One WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU BECOME YOUR PLANET'S FINAL BOSS? PRE-ORD...
A Vow Made Twice
Emma Denny
The heart-stopping new love story from Emma Denny, following beloved characters from One Night in Hartswood and All the Painted Stars. 'I loved every moment' Freya Marske, International bestselling author of A Marvellous Light, on One Night in Hartswood ........ Haunted by love. Bound by duty. After inheriting his father's title, Earl Ash Barden has no choice but to find a wif...
A Dark Forgetting [Special Edition]
Kristen Ciccarelli
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Crimson Moth (published as Heartless Hunter in North America) weaves an epic love story of a magical girl, the boy she left behind, and a deadly curse. A stunning deluxe edition with an exclusive sprayed fore-edge. Limited supply, only available in select territories. 'Lush, dark, and romantic. I could have remained lost in the ...
Insatiable
Leigh Rivers
**THIS PAPERBACK EDITION FEATURES BRAND-NEW EXCLUSIVE CHARACTER ARTWORK, AS WELL AN ICONIC QUOTE ON THE INSIDE COVER - PREORDER NOW TO SECURE A COPY!** From USA Today bestselling author and TikTok sensation comes the gripping, steamy dark romance series that everyone is talking about! 'Filled with TENSION, HEARTBREAK and ELECTRIC CHEMISTRY. This one will tear your heart right...
What We Tried To Bury Grows Here
Julian Zabalbeascoa
In late 1936, eighteen-year-old Isidro Elejalde leaves his Basque village in northern Spain, spurred by the rousing words of a political essayist to join the fight to preserve his country's democracy from insurrectionists. Months earlier, Spanish generals had launched a military coup to overthrow Spain's newly elected left-wing government. The generals assumed the population wo...
Two Can Play
Ali Hazelwood
*This edition includes exclusive four-colour interior artwork by Lilithsaur ft a very steamy scene, plus a brand-new bonus chapter* An enemies-to-lovers spicy novella set in the world of video gaming from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Deep End and Mate - now in print and ebook! Viola Bowen has the chance of a lifetime: to design a video game based on her all-time fav...
The Night Prince
Lauren Palphreyman
?? Forbidden romance. Werewolves. Kilts. This sizzling bestselling sensation has the internet OBSESSED. ?? 'Let me have you. Just once. Please.' As dark forces rise, Princess Aurora is caught between two powerful alphas. Princess Aurora may have survived the Wolf King, but now he wants her back. To take his throne, Aurora and Callum form a dangerous alliance with one of the ...
Love In Exile
Shon Faye
The acclaimed Top 10 Sunday Times bestseller on our search for love 'Uncommonly wise and honest. Love in Exile flooded me with a sense of continuity and hope. A masterpiece, from start to finish' - Maggie Nelson Shon Faye grew up quietly obsessed with the feeling that love was not for her. Not just romantic love: the secret fear of her own unworthiness penetrated every aspect...
I Don't Love You Anymore
Rithvik Singh
PRE-ORDER THE BESTSELLING INDIAN POETRY PHENOMENON NOW 'I love you. And I hope you love yourself enough to leave anyone who breaks your heart. Your heart was meant to be worshipped, not turned into a war zone.' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Reader, I hope these poems feel like a warm hug. I wrote them for the ones who f...
Greedy
Callie Kazumi
*Not Suitable For Vegetarians* 'Sinister, stylish and utterly addictive' Lucy Rose ________________________________ Ed is in trouble with the yakuza. He's gambled away all his money and his family is at risk. But just as he's about to lose everything, he receives an offer he can't refuse. A reclusive billionaire is looking for a private chef. The only catch- she has some. . ...
Women's Prize for Fiction 2025 Shortlist
Good Girl
Aria Aber
A portrait of the artist as a young woman in a Berlin that can't escape its history: an electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery 'Kaleidoscopic, full of style and soul' Raven Leilani 'A must-read ... Dark, breathtaking, profound, so fresh' Guardian 'A no-bullshit must-read debut' Kaveh Akbar In Berl...
The Persians
Sanam Mahloudji
'The word-of-mouth breakout' STYLIST 'As funny as it is moving' GUARDIAN 'A joy of a debut' DAVID MITCHELL 'Mesmerising' MONICA ALI 'Glorious' SARAH WINMAN 'Funny and profound' TASH AW 'Wonderful' MARIAN KEYES A stunning debut novel following five women from three generations of a once illustrious Iranian family as their lives are turned upside down Meet the women of the Valiat...
Fundamentally
Nussaibah Younis
'By normal, you mean like you? A slag with a saviour complex?' Nadia is an academic who's been disowned by her puritanical mother and dumped by her lover, Rosy. She decides to make a getaway, accepting a UN job in Iraq. Tasked with rehabilitating ISIS women, Nadia becomes mired in the opaque world of international aid, surrounded by bumbling colleagues. Sara is a precocious a...
All Fours
Miranda July
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS PICKA BEST SUMMER READING PICK FOR THE TIMES, THE DAILY MAIL, THE FT AND THE GUARDIANA 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR BBC R4 OPEN BOOK, THE OBSERVER, THE GUARDIAN, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER, GQ, GRAZIA, HERO, i-D, NYLON, VULTURE, READING...
The Safekeep
Yael Van Der Wouden
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2025 LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2025 An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge - for readers of Patricia Highsmith, Sarah Waters and Ian McEwan's Atonement. It is fifteen years after the Second World War...
Tell me Everything
Elizabeth Strout
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2025 'Stunning, deeply felt and profoundly intelligent' Guardian It's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing hi...
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Humankind
Rutger Bregman
It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. Humankind mak...
Hurricane Season
Fernanda Melchor
Written with an infernal lyricism that is as affecting as it is enthralling, Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor's first novel to appear in English, is a formidable portrait of contemporary Mexico and its demons, brilliantly translated by the award-winning translator Sophie Hughes. ...
Wise Children
Angela Carter
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy novel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identities as any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business. ...
Bad Habit
Alana S. Portero
'I urge you to read Bad Habit' PEDRO ALMODÓVAR 'Had me hooked from the first page ... Savour every word' DUA LIPA 'The book that everyone is reading' NEW YORK TIMES 'Sublime' ÉDOUARD LOUIS A SERVICE95 BOOK CLUB PICK Beautifully written and told in an irresistible voice, Bad Habit is a powerfully moving coming-of-age novel following a young trans woman in 1980s Madrid. An unna...
Children Of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age--a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne dis...
Lessons In Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
As read on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the Goodreads Choice Best Debut Novel Award A Book of the Year for: Guardian, Times, Sunday Times, Good Housekeeping, Woman and Home, Stylist, TLS, Oprah Daily, Newsweek, Mail on Sunday, New York Times Notable, India Knight, Hay Festival and many others 'Sparky, ri...
Modern Classics Memoirs Of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar
Framed as a letter from the Roman Emperor Hadrian to his successor, Marcus Aurelius, Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian is translated from the French by Grace Frick with an introduction by Paul Bailey in Penguin Modern Classics. In her magnificent novel, Marguerite Yourcenor recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world. The Emperor Hadrian...
Lie With me
Philippe Besson
THE NO.1 FRENCH BESTSELLER 'Stunning and heart-gripping' André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name 'A beautiful, shattering novel about desire and shame, about passionate youth and the regrets of age' Olivia Laing, bestselling author of Crudo Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first lo...
You Should Be So Lucky
Cat Sebastian
An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance for fans of Evvie Drake Starts Over, about grief and found family, between the new star shortstop stuck in a batting slump and the reporter assigned to (reluctantly) cover his first season--set in the same universe as We Could Be So Good. The 1960 baseball season is shaping up to be the worst year of Eddie O'Le...
None Shall Sleep
Ellie Marney
The Silence of the Lambs meets Sadie in this riveting psychological thriller about two teenagers teaming up with the FBI to track down juvenile serial killers. In 1982, two teenagers--serial killer survivor Emma Lewis and US Marshal candidate Travis Bell--are recruited by the FBI to interview convicted juvenile killers and provide insight and advice on cold cases. From the star...
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