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Kamila Shamsie

Bloomsbury

_______________ WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDAND AND NEW YORK TIMES _______________ 'The book for our times' - Judges of the Women's Prize 'Elegant and evocative ... A powerful exploration of the clash between society, family and faith in the m...

John Boyne

Doubleday

Being in limbo, 30,000 feet in the air, offers time to reflect and take stock. For Aaron Umber, it's an opportunity to connect with his 14-year-old son as they travel halfway across the world to meet a woman who isn't expecting them. Unsettled by his past, and anxious for his future, Aaron is at a crossroads in life. The damage inflicted upon him during his youth has made him ...

Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Headline

'Is this book as good [as Fleishman]? It's better' THE NEW YORK TIMES 'The best book I've read this year' HARLAN COBEN 'Very, very good' ELIZABETH DAY 'The book of the summer, nay, the year' DAVID SEDARIS 'This book is DYNAMITE. Inhaled it in two sittings' CAITLIN MORAN 'Shocking, tender, profound and delicious' EMILY MAITLIS 'Lavishly comic' THE TIMES 'A lip-smacking tale' GUA...

Yael Van Der Wouden

Ladybird

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...

Bernhard Schlink

W&N

An exceptionally powerful novel exploring the themes of betrayal, guilt and memory against the background of the Holocaust. An international bestseller. For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Micha...

Andrew O'hagan

Faber & Faber

A BEST BOOK OF 2024 IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, THE SPECTATOR, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, INDEPENDENT, SCOTSMAN AND THE NEW YORKER 'Extraordinary.' MARINA HYDE 'Pitch-perfect.' OBSERVER 'An utter joy to read.' MONICA ALI 'Majestic.' INDEPENDENT 'A masterpiece.' JOHN LANCHESTER 'Addictively enjoyable.' GUARDIAN 'Sensational.' IRISH INDEPENDENT A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FO...

Édouard Louis

Puffin

The major new novel from the once-in-a-generation author of The End of Eddy 'One of the most important, politically vital and morally bracing writers of his generation' Keiran Goddard, Guardian 'Change fills me with admiration and inspiration, as well as renewed faith in writing itself' Maggie Nelson 'One of the major writers of our time' Garth Greenwell 'A mesmeric novel' ...

Ledia Xhoga

Daunt Books

There was a unicycle hanging from a metal rack, its lemon-coloured wheel hovering above my head. The last thing I remembered was that party in Manhattan, somewhere in the West Village, drinking odd-looking cocktails and eating walnut cookies . . . Everything seemed vague. In New York City, an Albanian interpreter cannot help but become entangled in her clients' struggles, de...

Elaine Castillo

Atlantic

'Moderation is a novel that refuses to do things by halves. It is a piercing, laser-precise exploration of big tech... breathtakingly funny...and a highly charged, passionate and tender love story. A wonderful book.' Kaliane Bradley, bestselling author of The Ministry of Time Girlie, a thirty-something Filipinx-American, works a day job at a social-media moderation centre, f...

Amy Bloom

Penguin

Emigrating alone from Paris to New York after World War II, a young girl Gazala befriends two spirited sisters, Anne and Alma. When Gazala's beloved brother Samir joins her in Manhattan, this inseparable foursome becomes the beating heart of an untraditional, multigenerational family. The decades are marked by erupting passions within everyday life. Gazala and Samir make a h...

Ling Ling Huang

Phoenix

A portrait of companionship - achingly tender and twisted - that captures the tenuous line between love and possession. What if you could enter the mind of the person you love the most? Mathilde is a dizzyingly talented, tortured artist whose star is on the rise - and Enka, struggling to create art that feels original, is immediately drawn to her. The two strike up a clo...

Oyinkan Braithwaite

Penguin

THE SECOND NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF THE GLOBAL MEGA-SELLER, MY SISTER, THE SERIAL KILLER ...

Ellie Midwood

Secondsky Books

"In Auschwitz, every day is a fight for survival. Here, Alma is inmate 50381, the number tattooed on her in blue ink. But in her previous life, she was an esteemed violinist, her performances leaving audiences spellbound. When Alma is appointed as the conductor for the camp orchestra, performing for high-ranking Nazis, she refuses: "They can kill me, but they won't make me play...

China Mieville

Panmacmillan

Winner of the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, a World Fantasy award, and a BSFA Award. Blending weird fiction with the police procedural, The City & The City is an existential thriller like no other. 'There is no one else writing stuff like this.' - Dazed When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary decaying city of Beszel, ...

Bruce Holsinger

Penguin

A suspenseful family drama about moral responsibility in the age of artificial intelligence. ...

Sayaka Murata

Penguin

INCLUDED IN THE BEST OF GRANTA SERIES: the Japanese literary sensation about an unconventional woman who finds happiness in a Tokyo convenience store. ...

Gish Jen

Penguin

Growing up in 1920s Shanghai, Gish Jen's mother was told every day it was 'no good for a girl be too smart' -a silencing message she attempts to escape yet brings with her to New York. In this riveting portrayal of a Chinese woman desiring emancipation but also control, Gish Jen gives us a heartbreaking mother-daughter relationship, saved by writing.[Bokinfo]. ...

Ingvild Rishoi

Penguin

Beautifully told with humour and tenderness, this is a Christmas tale of sisterhood, financial hardship andthe power of dreams.[Bokinfo]. ...

Richard Powers

Penguin

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE THE POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY AND BEWILDERMENT 'Ascends to the plane of true, indisputable greatness' OBSERVER 'An ambitious, rapturous epic' GUARDIAN 'Magisterial, moving and thought-provoking ... a beautiful love letter to our oceans' NEW SCIE...

Yasmin Zaher

Footnote Press Ltd

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unravelling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags, and strives to gain control over her body and mind. ...

José Daniel Alvior

Penguin

'Tantalising' Leo Vardiashvili, author of Hard by a Great Forest'Profound' Iqbal Hussain, author of Northern BoyTwo strangers meet in Manhattan and spend a perfect night together. In Tokyo, they have seven days to see if that one night might mean something more.Landon's living alone in Tokyo as a British 'expat', Louie's visiting while he anxiously waits for approval on his US ...

Zahra Barri

Penguin

"Original, compelling, witty and historically illuminating - hilarious and essential reading." -- Helen Lederer, comedian, actress and founder of Comedy Women in Print Paris, 1940. The course of Fatiha Bin-Khalid's life is changed forever when she befriends the Muslim feminist Doria Shafik. But after returning to Egypt and dedicating years to the fight for women's rights, she s...

Joyce Carol Oates

Harper

Here is an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women's asylum in the 19th century, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world. `Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going' GILLIAN FLYNN'Delightfully disturbing' iNEWS'A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare' FINANCIAL TIMESFrom one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extr...

Maggie O'farrell

Penguin

The Sunday Times no. 3 bestselling novel from author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT *Over 330,000 copies sold* Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 'A complex, riveting novel of love and hope that grips at the heart' The Sunday Times _____ A reclusive former film star living in the wilds of Ireland, Claudette Wells thinks nothing of firing a gun if strangers get too ...

Maggie O'farrell

Penguin

The Sunday Times top 10 bestselling summer read from author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT *Over 380,000 copies sold* Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award 'Addictive. Told with real humanity, warmth, and infectious love' Observer _____ It's July 1976 and London is in the grip of a heatwave. It hasn't rained for months, the gardens are filled with aphids, water co...

Lidija Hilje

Daunt Books

Ivona has returned to her childhood home to care for her father. While there, she reconnects with the man she divorced over ten years ago and finds herself welcomed into his family life by him and his wife. But when a new man enters Ivona's life, the trio's carefully curated dynamic is disrupted, forcing a reckoning for all involved. 'Slanting Towards the Sea' explores what it ...

Susanna Clarke

Bloomsbury

Winner of the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction A SUNDAY TIMES & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL, 'one of our greatest living authors' NEW YORK MAGAZINE __________________________________ Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and carefu...

Sally Rooney

Faber & Faber

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if hed like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still youngbut life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude...

Elif Shafak

Ladybird

Discover the forty rules of love ... Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of ...

Madeline Miller

Bloomsbury

"In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe has neither the look nor the voice of divinity, and is scorned and rejected by her kin. Increasingly isolated, she turns to mortals for companionship, leading her to discover a power forbidden to the gods: witchcraft. When love drives Circe to cast a dark spell, wrathful Zeus bani...