The Predicament

Elif Shafak

Ladybird

In One Brief Moment All Eternity is an astonishing new novel by the bestselling, prize-winning novelist Elif Shafak. Spanning decades and continents, from revolutionary 19th century France to Istanbul, Egypt and Beirut, it is a profound meditation on creativity in times of political crisis and war, asking what literature can hope to offer when the world feels broken. Building a...

Barbara Kingsolver

Faber & Faber

The landmark new novel from the Global Bestseller, Double Women's Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver. ...

Madeline Miller

Bloomsbury

From the internationally bestselling author of The Song of Achilles and Circe comes a remarkable new short story A cursed father, a gifted daughter Mestra, daughter of the King of Thessaly, is gifted a unique ability by Poseidon: metamorphosis into any being she can imagine. Her father, on the other hand, is cursed. As punishment for disrespecting the goddess Demeter, he is ...

Jordan Tannahill

Harper

'Beautiful, hugely ambitious' GARTH GREENWELL 'I devoured each page' DOUGLAS STUART 'Hypnotic' TASH AW The lyrical new novel from Jordan Tannahill, the acclaimed author of The Listeners, follows a British archaeologist in Berlin who begins to see his dead lovers at a lake and cruising forest on the outskirts of the city. While cruising one evening by Teufelssee, a small glacial...

Callie Kazumi

Penguin

*Not Suitable For Vegetarians* 'Sinister, stylish and utterly addictive' Lucy Rose 'Butter meets Never Let Me Go' Erin Kelly 'Dark and delectable' B.A. Paris ________________________________ 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 ...

Monica Wood

Harper

A runaway global bestseller, available now in the UK comes a heartfelt, uplifting novel about a chance encounter at a bookshop. One bookshop. A thousand ways to rewrite a life. When Violet Powell is newly released from prison after killing someone in a drink-driving crash, she longs for a chance to start over. Harriet Larson believes stories can light a way through the lonelies...

William Boyd

Ladybird

Cold War Moscow is a place smouldering with secrets. Gabriel Dax has been tasked with delivering a mysterious Blanco drawing to celebrated defector Kit Caldwell. But Caldwell is convinced the KGB suspects him of treachery, and he wants out now. When Gabriel is ordered by his enigmatic handler Faith Green to help, he is pulled into a web of shifting loyalties and dangerous esca...

William Boyd

Penguin

'Extravagantly enjoyable' THE TIMES 'William Boyd once again brings to the spy novel his particular storytelling genius' MICK HERRON 'Boyd is one of my favourite authors - he never disappoints' KATE ATKINSON 'The Predicament is ingenious, thrilling and wonderfully entertaining' JOHN BANVILLE 'Boyd's addictive storytelling is at its very best as he navigates a collision of chanc...

William Boyd

Ladybird

BRITAIN'S MOST BELOVED STORYTELLER RETURNS WITH A TWISTING ADVENTURE OF OBSESSIVE LOVE AND ELEGANT ESPIONAGE . . . --- 'William Boyd once again brings to the spy novel his particular storytelling genius. The result is brilliant fun' MICK HERRON 'I enjoyed it hugely. Boyd is one of my favourite authors - he never disappoints' KATE ATKINSON 'A wonderfully intricate novel of esp...

William Boyd

Penguin

In his most exhilarating novel yet, William Boyd transports you to the vibrant streets of sixties London, as an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and obsession . . . 'William Boyd once again brings to the spy novel his particular storytelling genius. The result is brilliant fun' MICK HERRON 'Wonderfully ambiguous with notions of twisted reality and uncerta...

William Boyd

Ladybird

From the award-winning, internationally best-selling author, a romp of a novel, at once intimate and panoramic, about the adventures and misadventures of a nineteenth-century everyman "Picaresque, big-hearted and moving, this is Boyd at the top of his game." --The Guardian One man, many lives . . . Cashel Greville Ross experiences more of everything than most, from the rapturou...

William Boyd

Ladybird

Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover. One man, many lives. Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives: joyous and devastating, years of luck and unexpected loss. Moving from County Cork to London, from Waterloo to Zanzibar, Cashel seeks his fortune across continents in war and in peace. He faces a terrible moral choice in a village in Sri Lanka as par...