Piranesi

Karan Mahajan

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 IN THE WASHINGTON POST, VULTURE, LIT HUB, THE MILLIONS, CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS In a sprawling complex in Delhi, the sons and daughters of SP Chopra, one of India's political architects, live together vying for influence in a family shaped by the great man's legacy. Sachin Chopra leaves for America, with his bride Gita following not long afte...

Jaclyn Moriarty

Three strangers' lives converge in the waiting room of Sydney's Time Travel Agency - a nondescript shopfront that promises impossible things... It's a crisp, wintry Thursday when Anna is hit by a car. In the wake of this chance encounter - possibly lightly concussed, possibly thinking clearly for the first time in a long time - she quits her miserable job and agrees to a job at...

Amy Abdelnoor

'A haunting, lyrical novel that seems almost to dissolve time. Everyone should read it' LOUISE KENNEDY 'Compassionate and beautifully observed' GUY GUNARATNE 'Cleverly conceived and brilliantly engaging . . . a powerful novel. Read this' PRISCILLA MORRIS 'Ambitious and complex but handled with impressive ease' ROSE TREMAIN 'A brave book ... It rings with truth' ELIZABETH LAIRD ...

James Meek

An explosive modern novel from the award-winning writer of The People's Act of Love Mr Burman is unmoored. Still reckoning with the death of his wife Ada, and struggling to understand his grown-up daughter Leila, he finds himself on a train to London, at the invitation of the police. He is to meet Raf, a young man suspected of trying to blow up St Paul's cathedral - and a m...

Kristin Hannah

One of the greatest storytellers of our time' - Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads SingAnnie Colwater's only child has just left home for school in England. On that same day, her husband of twenty years confesses that he's in love with a younger woman. Left alone in the beautiful California house which was once a home, Annie comes to the painful realization that the year...

Douglas Stuart

The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo.'John of John has the emotional range and sense of sympathy of his earlier books, but this book is special, it has an urgency, an immediacy, a brilliant sense of place, the drama of fierce emotion repressed, concealed and volcanically exposed' - Colm Tóibín'To r...

Susanna Clarke

1806. England is beleaguered by the long war, and centuries have passed since magicians faded from view. But one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell. Proceeding to London, he raises a woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French. Yet the cautious Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician. Young, handsome and daring, Jonathan Stra...

Susanna Clarke

Short Stories. Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk Faerie is never as far away as you think. Sometimes you find you have crossed an invisible line and must cope, as best you can, with petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time in embroidering terrible fates, or with endless paths in deep, dark woods and houses th...

Susanna Clarke

"Nineteen-year-old Merowdis Scot is an unusual girl. She can talk to animals and trees-and she is only ever happy when she is walking in the woods. One snowy afternoon, out with her dogs and Apple the pig, Merowdis encounters a blackbird and a fox. As darkness falls, a strange figure enters in their midst-and the path of her life is changed forever."--Back cover ...

Susanna Clarke

The 20th Anniversary Edition of the Hugo-award winning, epic New York Times Bestseller and basis for the BBC miniseries, where two men change England's history when they bring magic back into the world, now with a new introduction from V.E. Schwab.In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars in 1806, most people believe magic to have long since disappeared from England - until the reclu...

Susanna Clarke

SHORTLITED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARD 202000Piranesi lives in the House. 0Perhaps he always has.0In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls.0On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi...

Susanna Clarke

Two magicians shall appear in England. The first shall fear me; the second shall long to behold me ...The year is 1806. England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation's past. But scholars of this glorious history discover that one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell whose displays of magic send a thr...