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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. ...

Min Jin Lee

Harper

'Profoundly generous and humane' DOUGLAS STUART 'Engrossing ... brilliantly imagined' COLM TÓIBÍN 'Extraordinary' TARA WESTOVER 'A novel I didn't want to end' ROXANE GAY Min Jin Lee, the acclaimed author of Pachinko, returns with a breathtaking contemporary epic that follows one family as they reckon with personal dreams and familial duty. John and Helen Koh and their three chi...

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 ...

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...

John Boyne

Puffin

'John Boyne is one of our best authors writing today. The Weight of Angels is wise, imaginative, funny, and extremely moving. Art and Life, Tragedy and Love, you'll find them all here in this rich and magnificent novel' Tan Twan Eng, Booker longlisted author of The House of Doors Can one rash decision prove the difference between a life well lived and a life destroyed? When t...

Marlon James

Ladybird

MARLON JAMES'S TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS 'Darkness is a mood in Jamaica . . .' The Disappearers is Marlon James's triumphant return to the Jamaica of A Brief History of Seven Killings - a place of heat and chaos, and of danger for anyone outside the heteronormal. So when eight gay men meet for the first time, in Kingston ...

Emma Cline

Penguin

A mesmerising portrait of an aging man's last pilgrimage, from the New York Times best selling author of The Girls and The Guest. A private plane cuts through the winter night, somewhere over Greenland. David, a retired executive, sits back in his leather seat, playing solitaire on his phone. Click. Click. Drag. Click. The notebook in his jacket pocket is filled with familiar ...

Olga Tokarczuk

Penguin

For the denizens of mythical Primeval, its fields and forests bounded by two rivers, the world beyond is nothing more than a dream. Yet their stories - or Times - are a microcosm of the tumultuous recent history of the world. The fortunes of the family of Michal the miller, whom conscription carries away in 1914, punctuate nearly a century of war and occupation. The outcast Cor...

Karan Mahajan

Penguin

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...

Kiran Desai

Penguin

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 An epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of Loss BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 ACCORDING TO NEW STATESMAN, I PAPER, BBC, GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, THE NEW YORK TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, THE TIMES, ECONOMIST, OBSERVER When Sonia and Sunny first glimpse each other on an ...

Julia Langbein

Penguin

" A LIT HUB MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A wild, wonderful essential novel' Claire Lombardo, author of The Most Fun We Ever Had 'Will remind you why you fell in love with reading' Oprah Daily, Best Book of Spring 2026 'Outrageously funny novel about hunger, desire, and the vulnerable' Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here Forty-year-old Jean Dornan cannot escap...

Rachel Cusk

Faber & Faber

** AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW ** From the critically-acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, an irresistible novel of fame, power, beauty and truth -- and a blazing renovation of the form. A little while ago, I told the actor M that I was thinking of writing her autobiography. She liked the idea. She's a good sport. Would you just make it up? she said. The film star M is o...

Takuya Asakura

Harper

Curl up with a good cat... Amane Morikawa arrives at the bookshop she's inherited from her grandfather in Onomichi, only to find a dusty space with empty bookshelves - and a group of characterful cats who've made it their home. Comforted by her new feline friends, Amane begins to connect with the people around her. A clockmaker who tends to the cats. A photographer. A record sh...

Natsuo Kirino

Canongate

Twenty-nine-year-old Riki is sick of her dead-end job, of struggling to get by ever since she moved to Tokyo from the country. So when someone offers her the chance to become a surrogate in return for a life-changing amount of money, it's hard to turn down.Retired ballet star Motoi and his wife, Yuko, have spent years trying to conceive. As Motoi grows increasingly desperate fo...

Dahlia De La Cerda

Scribe

A punk revival of Medea as a Mexican anti-angel of birth and death, from the International Booker Prize-nominated author of Reservoir Bitches. In Northern Mexico, Paulina, Perla, Antonia, Reina, and Jordan are striving to survive the barrio, hustling on the edge of a cartel-run economy, nursing the wounds made normal in a world that eats its own. Hovering over their trials is a...

Ana Paula Maia

Charco Press

By the International Booker Prize Shortlisted Author of On Earth As It Is Beneath Edgar Wilson has a gruesome job, one he is entirely unsentimental about--he cleans up roadkill in rural Brazil. But one day vultures are circling in the woods, and he can't not go see what they're gathering for. What transpires is a quest--a miserable day-long journey--for a couple of poor working...

Bora Lee Reed

Penguin

'Fans of Pachinko will love this' Good Housekeeping'Exceptional, immersive and evocative ... full of spirit' Buzz Magazine'Paints a heartfelt tale of wartime Korean orphanages and shanty towns' Yangsze Choo, New York Times-bestselling author of The Fox WifeTHE STUNNING HISTORICAL NOVEL FROM A REESE'S BOOK CLUB FELLOW1950, Pyongyang. Oksoon's father - confident that the war is o...

Jaclyn Moriarty

Harper

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...

Stacey Yu

Phoenix

'Strange, playful and intimate . . . I didn't want it to end' LUCY ROSE, author of The Lamb 'Soft and sharp, totally in control, utterly deranged. I lapped it up'KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE, author of Almost Life 'A spellbinding story . . . it will play on your mind for days' ORE AGBAJE-WILLIAMS, author of The Three of Us 'A fresh, funny, and totally bewitching girl-meets-cat love ...

Minyoung Kang

Puffin

The cult Korean psychological horror tale of revenge, reinvention, and what it takes to grow In the heart of a quiet town, a young woman tends to her plant shop, but beneath the surface of her lush, green sanctuary lies something far darker.... ________ Every garden needs a little weeding ... Tucked away in the corner of a neighborhood in Dosan, South Korea, is the Plant Shop...

Munir Hachemi

Penguin

An archaeologist travels to a distant planet to spend time among a mysterious community, a people who live in temperature-controlled domes, worship a deity called Dog, and repeat an elliptical phrase from which they draw their name: mulai, the tree comes. The descendants of a long-forgotten space mission, the Mulai have abandoned the social norms that once bound them to Earth. ...

Jennifer Ross

Harper

'A beautiful, hypnotic, emotional novel. I couldn't stop turning the pages' CECELIA AHERN *** Can they find each other in every lifetime after...? Claudia is searching for her past. Suffocating in the glamour of Hollywood, A-list star Claudia Baxter is desperate for an escape. But when she arrives at the Yorkshire estate of Doverley for her next project - an epic romance set in...

Amy Abdelnoor

Vintage

'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 ...

Chloë Ashby

Ladybird

'A beautifully poised and riveting novel about the intricacies and entanglements of a group of friends holidaying in the south of France. I was gripped from the start' Claire Powell, author of At The Table 'Sultry and very evocative' Jo Hamya, author of The Hypocrite Since they first met at university twenty years ago, Maggie and Will have spent the last two weeks of every su...

Isabel Allende

Bloomsbury

'If you were thrilled by The House of the Spirits, you'll love this' Marie Claire As a young girl, Aurora del Valle suffered a brutal trauma that erased the first five years of her life from her mind. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, she grows up with privilege, comfort and everything she could ask for. But while she is free of the limitations that most other women face, ...

Kim Jee Hye

Puffin

Welcome to Soyangri Book Kitchen, where a woman leaves her busy life in Seoul to open a bookshop café in the countryside where guests can stay overnight. An irresistible, escapist and cosy read, perfect for fans of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop. Readers love it: 'A heartwarming and soothing journey' ***** 'One of the best books I've read in a while... A beautiful book' ***** ...

James Meek

Canongate

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...

David Nicholls

Phoenix

Starter for Ten: the Sunday Times-bestselling comedy about love, class, growing up and the all-important difference between knowledge and wisdom 'Painfully funny' ELLE 'Hugely entertaining' DAILY MAIL 'Wincingly good' TIME OUT It's 1985 and Brian Jackson has arrived at university with a burning ambition - to make it onto TV's foremost general knowledge quiz. But no sooner has...