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Taylor Jenkins Reid

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this powerful novel about the cost of greatness, a legendary athlete attempts a comeback when the world considers her past her prime--from the New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising. Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. But by the time she retires from tennis, she is...

Jessica Andrews

'Consuming and sexy' The Times 'Unusually raw . . . so honest and hopeful' Financial Times ?? ?? ?? A girl grows up in the north-east of England amid scarcity, fearing her own desires and feeling undeserving of love. Years later, living in tiny rented rooms and working in noisy bars across London and Paris, she meets someone who offers her a new way to experience the world. ...

Andrea Abreu

Translated by Julia Sanches. 'A rich and prophetic world of women and low, grey clouds that merge with the sea. Pure poetry' Pilar Quintana 'Andrea Abreu is a lively meteorite in the landscape of Hispanic Literature' Fernanda Melchor 'I am overwhelmed. What a marvellous book, what a miracle' Sara Mesa It is June and Shit is sad. She knows she will not get to leave her neighbo...

Akwaeke Emezi

*A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* A ZOELLA BOOK CLUB PICK 'This book filled me with excitement and possibilities.' Jenny Colgan 'Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous.' @savidgereads 'Say hello to the book of the summer' @bettysbooksuk 'Fantastic .[Bokinfo]. ...

Mona Awad

The tragicomic novel of the summer, a 'dark and insane gem' from the author of the critically acclaimed TikTok sensation Bunny 'A dazzling wild ride of a novel - daring, fresh, entertaining, and magical.' -- George Saunders 'All's Well is an utterly delicious novel of pain and vitality, Shakespeare and the uncanny.' -- Lauren Groff Miranda Fitch's life is a waking nightmare...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'A delicious, important novel' The Times 'Alert, alive and gripping' Independent 'Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world. Americanah does both.' Guardian As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dicta...

Ottessa Moshfegh

An Instant New York Times Bestseller! "Lapvona flips all the conventions of familial and parental relations, putting hatred where love should be or a negotiation where grief should be . . . Through a mix of witchery, deception, murder, abuse, grand delusion, ludicrous conversations, and cringeworthy moments of bodily disgust, Moshfegh creates a world that you definitely don't w...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes from the talented bestseller and award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. ...

Douglas Stuart

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL - NPR - KIRKUS REVIEWS - TIME - AMAZON - THE WASHINGTON POST - THE TIMES (UK) - DAILY HIVE - THE TELEGRAPH - FINANCIAL TIMES - THE GUARDIAN - LITERARY HUB - THE HERALD (UK) - READER'S DIGEST - VANITY FAIR - LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS "Young Mungo seals it: Douglas Stuart is a genius." --The Washing...

Eliza Clark

The incendiary first novel from critically-acclaimed author Eliza Clark - 'an impressive, fiercely current debut' - i ...

Sheena Patel

An exhilarating, addictive take on obsession, race, gender and power dynamics through the lens of a corrosive relationship ...

Coco Mellors

For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple's impulsive marriage. [Bokinfo]. ...

Colleen Hoover

Moving, passionate, and unforgettable, this novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover follows two young adults from completely different backgrounds embarking on a tentative romance, unaware of what the future holds. After a childhood filled with poverty and neglect, Beyah Grim finally has her hard-earned ticket out of Kentucky with a full ride to Penn S...

Laurent Mauvignier

Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his family's farm; his wife, Marion; their daughter, Ida; and their neighbour, Christine, an artist. While Patrice plans a surprise for his wife's fortieth birthday, inexplicable events start to disrupt t...

Bret Easton Ellis

Incisive, controversial and startlingly funny, The Rules of Attraction examines a group of affluent students at a small, self-consciously bohemian, liberal-arts college on America's East Coast. Lauren, who changes the man in her bed even more often than she changes course, is dating Victor but sleeping with Sean. Sean - cool, ambivalent and deeply cynical - might be in love wit...

Taylor Jenkins. Reid

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, comes a breath taking novel about modern marriage, the depth of family ties, and the year that one remarkable heroine spends exploring both. ...

Taylor Jenkins Reid

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo "u200bTouching and powerful...Reid masterfully grabs hold of the heartstrings and doesn't let go. A stunning first novel."u200bPublishers Weekly (starred review) ...

Elle Cosimano

'I absolutely adored it!' ? ? ? ? ? 'These books are a blast!' ? ? ? ? ? 'My all-time favourite book character' ? ? ? ? ? Meet Finlay Donovan: - Single mum - Floundering crime writer - Accidental hit-woman Ever since she was overheard talking about her new book - and someone got the wrong end of the stick - she's been busier than ever, living the life of murder and mayhem usu...

Pedro Mairal

'A searing tale of seduction and betrayal, both wryly comic and deeply serious' Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend 'Intimate, irreverent, fast-paced and raw' Sunday Times Lucas Pereyra, an unemployed writer in his forties, embarks on a day trip from Buenos Aires to Montevideo to pick up a fifteen thousand dollar advance in cash. This small fortune ...

Sylvia Plath

One of our hand-picked classics that no home should be without, now with Beya Rebaï's beautifully atmospheric artwork. ...

Claire Keegan

It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church. ...

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Nine lives will be changed forever in the exhilarating new novel from the international bestseller. 'Addictive' Daily Telegraph 'Knausgaard retains the ability to lock you, as if in a tractor beam, into his storytelling' New York Times One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Kathrine, a priest, is flyi...

Anthony Doerr

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A dazzling epic of love, war and the joy of books' Guardian ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2021 A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 'Wonderment and despair, love and destruction and hope - all find their place in its sumptuously plotted pages' Observer 'There is magic in this place ... You just have to sit and breathe and wait and it will find ...

Claire Keegan

It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm, not knowing when she will return home. In the strangers' house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care. But in a house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers how fragile her idyll is ...

Cormac Mccarthy

Adapted by the Coen Brothers into an Academy Award winning film, No Country For Old Men is a dark and suspenseful novel from Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road.Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice - leave the scene as...

Neil Blackmore

'Witty, original and clever, this tale of Jacobean power and lust is a blast' THE TIMES, Best Historical Fiction of the Year Francis Bacon, philosopher, politician, writer, is an outsider at the court of King James I. He is clever but not aristocratic, has ambition but no money. So when his political enemies form a deadly alliance against him, centred around the King's poisonou...

Pat Barker

Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home as victors - all they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind has vanished, the seas becalmed by vengeful gods, and so the warriors remain in limbo - camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, kept company by the women they stole from it. The women of Troy. Helen - poor Helen. All th...

Virginia Feito

'Nastily good fun' Metro SET TO BECOME A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ELIZABETH MOSS Shirley Jackson meets Ottessa Moshfegh meets My Sister the Serial Killer in a brilliantly unsettling and darkly funny debut novel full of suspense and paranoia George March's latest novel is a smash hit. None could be prouder than Mrs. March, his dutiful wife, who revels in his accolade...

Elizabeth Strout

Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband - and longtime, on-again-off-again friend and confidante. Recalling their college years, the birth of their daughters, the painful dissolution of their marri...

Deborah Rodriguez

THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NOVEL. A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD IN THE UK. 'If you love The Kite Runner you'll love The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul' Look magazine In a little coffee shop in one of the most dangerous places on earth, five very different women come together . . . SUNNY, the proud proprietor, who needs an ingenious plan - a...