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Clare Leslie Hall

u200b*****AMAZON'S BOOK OF THE YEARu200bu200bu200b***** INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER REESE WITHERSPOON'S BOOK CLUB PICK FEARNE COTTON'S HAPPY PLACE BOOK CLUB PICK 'An unforgettable story of love, loss, and the choices that shape our lives . . . but it's also a masterfully crafted mystery that will keep you guessing until the very last page. Seriously, tha...

Nikita Gill

'A vivid and imaginatively wrought divine world that is monstrous, magical and beautiful' JENNIFER SAINT, bestselling author of Hera and Ariadne 'Wholly original, incandescent... This poem is pure magic' ELODIE HARPER, bestselling author of The Wolf Den trilogy 'A powerful reflection on magic, power, family and the consequences of war. I absolutely loved it' COSTANZA CASATI, ...

Jessica Stanley

Discover the joyful, funny love story everyone is falling for - perfect for fans of BRIDGET JONES, ONE DAY, and NORMAL PEOPLE. A NATALIE PORTMAN'S BOOK CLUB PICK 'A MUST-READ . . . LIKE ONE DAY AND NORMAL PEOPLE' THE TIMES 'FUNNY, SMART AND MEMORABLE . . . A DELIGHTFUL NOVEL' NEW YORK TIMES 'AS WARM AS A DAVID NICHOLLS NOVEL' STYLIST 'A BRILLIANT BOOK THAT HITS ALL THE RIGHT N...

Becky Barnicoat

'By turns bloody, sweet, bleak and joyful... It is also very, very funny' NEW STATESMAN This is a graphic memoir (like a graphic novel, but true - and also a bit graphic). It's about the delirium, chaos and strangeness of becoming a parent for the first time. It's for every one who has ever wondered if it's ok to cry when the baby cries - and also laugh, snort, lie on the fl...

Sofia Robleda

In sixteenth-century Mexico, a fearless young woman strives to uncover the secrets her mother kept as the last Aztec empress in a sweeping historical epic by the author of Daughter of Fire. Tenochtitlan, 1551. Thirty years after the Spanish Conquest destroyed everything she loved, the last Aztec empress has passed and left behind a pristine yet tenuous legacy for her children. ...

Alice Evelyn Yang

A dark, magical realist debut family saga that moves through the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, the Cultural Revolution, and the present day to explore the effects of intergenerational trauma, the legacy of colonialism, and the inescapability of fate. Qianze has not seen her father in eleven years, since he walked out of her life the night of her fourteenth birthday and disa...

Frances Crawford

Don't miss the debut crime thriller of 2026 - perfect for fans of The List of Suspicious Things. A murder mystery unlike any other... 'Clever, honest, heart-rending.' VAL MCDERMID 'Richly authentic, funny, moving and insightful.' JANICE HALLETT 'I haven't read anything quite as unique as this since Trainspotting.' LIN ANDERSON 'A Bad, Bad Place will stay with me for a long, lo...

Gabriel Tallent

''All this is, is the thing we've always known: we have nothing and nobody except each other. But that, we have in spades. Now, let's go climb rocks." 'Tender, immersive, and thrilling' GABRIELLE ZEVIN, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow 'One of the best novels I've ever read about friendship between a young man and a young woman ... Exciting and tension filled' S...

Curtis Sittenfeld

YOUR NEXT READ FROM THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR of ROMANTIC COMEDY, PREP and AMERICAN WIFE _____________ A New York Times Editor's choice 'Messy and delicious' New York Times 'Sittenfeld is in a league of her own' Guardian 'One of my favourite authors' KATE ATKINSON, author of Death at the Sign of the Rook 'Anything Sittenfeld writes, we'll read' People 'She un...

Madeline Cash

'A voice like no other' Lena Dunham 'Hilarious' Megan Nolan 'Fiendishly readable' Financial Times == Think your family is dysfunctional? Meet the Flynns. For the three Flynn daughters, it's been disastrous since their parents opened up their marriage. Abigail, the eldest, is dating an ex-soldier several years her senior nicknamed 'War Crimes Wes'. Louise, the middle child, ...

Madeline Cash

'A voice like no other' Lena Dunham 'Hilarious' Megan Nolan 'Fiendishly readable' Financial Times == Think your family is dysfunctional? Meet the Flynns. For the three Flynn daughters, it's been disastrous since their parents opened up their marriage. Abigail, the eldest, is dating an ex-soldier several years her senior nicknamed 'War Crimes Wes'. Louise, the middle child, ...

Sanam Mahloudji

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE 2025 'Enormously entertaining' THE TIMES 'As funny as it is moving' GUARDIAN 'Unputdownable' HARPER'S BAZAAR 'Funny, sharp and insightful ... a triumph' LAUREN LAVERNE 'A joy of a debut' DAVID MITCHELL 'Magnificent BERNARDINE EVARISTO Five women. Three generations. A mounta...

Rachel Joyce

Family is everything, even when it falls apart. There is a heatwave across Europe. Goose and his three sisters gather at the family's house by Lake Orta in Piedmont, Italy. Their father, a famous artist, has recently remarried a much younger woman and decamped to Italy to finish his masterpiece. Now he is dead and there is no sign of a painting. Alhough the siblings have alwa...

Fredrik Backman

The beautiful new novel that will make you laugh and cry, from the global bestselling author of Anxious People and A Man Called Ove. 'A stunning, sweeping, extraordinary story of connection, love, and the unbreakable bonds that guide and shape us. Full of humour and heart, My Friends is simply wonderful' Chris Whitaker * AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ...

Joseph. Lyttleton

Quintin Reyes is searching for his brother, but Carlos is just one of the millions who have gone missing in recent months. Following "the Awakening," which stripped humanity of faith in all of its gods, people are abandoning their families and careers to embrace pleasure and debauchery-or to end their lives. Is Carlos one of those lost souls? Or is there more behind his disappe...

Rebecca Fallon

Susan Bliss is torn between two lives. Her husband Alcott has decided only one will be remembered. 'A magnificent debut' CLARE LESLIE HALL 'Bruisingly gorgeous' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE 'A truly sublime novel' HANNAH BEER 'Delivers heartache, euphoria and the unfathomable puzzle of family' SIERRA GREER It's the 1990s. Susan Bliss is trying to make it all work. In L.A., she's a...

Claire Lynch

**WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARDS DEBUT FICTION AWARD 2025** 'I'll be thinking about it for ever' Barbara Kingsolver 'A gorgeously written story...a must-read' Jennie Godfrey 'Powerful and beautifully written... Lynch is a huge new talent in fiction' Good Housekeeping, Book of the Month 'I was caught up from the first page and completely taken aback by this story. I loved it' C...

Emily Austin

Emily Austin, the bestselling "queen of darkly quirky, endearingly flawed heroines" (Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus), returns with a luminous new novel following a librarian who comes back to work after a mental breakdown only to confront book-banning crusaders in an empowering story of grief, love, and the power of libraries. Darcy's life turned out better than she could...

Julian Barnes

We live in time - it holds us and molds us - but I never felt I understood it very well. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, Tony Webster and Adrian Finn swore to stay friends for life. Now in middle age, a lawyer's letter proves that Tony's memory may be imperfect. The story of one man coming to terms with the mutable past,...

Mia Ballard

Sometimes, the only way to heal is to rage . . . to go absolutely FERAL. 'The craziest thing I've ever read' ? ? ? ? ? 'Made me sick to my stomach yet stay up late finishing it' ? ? ? ? ? 'Nightbitch wishes it was Shy Girl' ? ? ? ? ? 'Absolutely feral' ? ? ? ? ? 'An unforgettable read' ? ? ? ? ? 'A punch in the throat' ? ? ? ? ? 'Mia Ballard writes like she's pee...

Mona Awad

THE TIKTOK SENSATION, NOW REISSUED AS A BEAUTIFUL SPECIAL EDITION FEATURING BUNNY SPRAYED EDGES Meet BUNNY: the darkly funny, spellbinding trip of a novel that EVERYONE is talking about 'No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled. O Bunny you are sooo genius!' MARGARET ATWOOD 'We call them Bunnies because that is what they call each other. Seriously. Bunny.' ...

Eliza Dumais

"The characters are just as vivid as the setting . . . an addictive contemporary that will delight hopeless romantics and armchair travelers alike." —Publishers Weekly, starred review "For readers who want their love stories effervescent but also substantive, Grape Juice offers a glass worth savoring to the last drop." —The Masters Review A gorgeous, seductive fiction debut fr...

Jungeun Yun

The NEXT irresistibly uplifting read for fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD set in a magical laundry The #1 International word-of-mouth bestseller Heartwarming and inspirational, MARIGOLD MIND LAUNDRY will remind you there is always a reason to feel positive 'A life-changing novel' ***** reader review 'A book that makes me reflect on my life' ***** 'Even better when you rea...

Hwang Bo-Reum

From the internationally bestselling author of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop comes a warm and reflective collection of essays about reading, language and life. Why do we read? What is it that we hope to take away from the intimate, personal experience of reading for pleasure? Rarely do we ask these profound, expansive questions of ourselves and of our relationship to th...

Jaquira Díaz

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL AWARD * From the Whiting Award-winning author Jaquira Díaz, an epic novel of a mother and daughter wrestling with the aftermath of a murder, set against the backdrop of a tightknit, working-class barrio in Puerto Rico. When Maricarmen meets Rey el Cantante, beloved small-time Robin Hood and local musician on the rise, she begin...

Hilda Lewis

Joan Flower is long dead when she first appears to Samuel Fleming, a priest plagued by doubts about her and her daughters' execution for witchcraft. Did he do all he could to rescue them from damnation? From beyond the grave, Joan reveals to him the spine-chilling tale of her seduction by Satan, her temptation of her own daughters to the Devil's coven, her murderous sacrifices,...

Lily King

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Touching, thoughtful, a deeply affecting love story about time and regret' DAVID NICHOLLS'Steeped in yearning, melancholy and the reckoning with mortality that must come to us all . . . King's writing still pierces you' The Times'Exploring how first love shapes a lifetime, here is a novel of piercing clarity' Independent'Beautifully written ...

Lily King

The New York Times Bestseller 'A novel with the broad embrace of a 1990s Richard Curtis film' - The Sunday Times 'Witty and affecting, Writers & Lovers explores where grit can get you, even when everything appears to be falling apart' - i newspaper 'Captivating' - Madeline Miller, author of Circe 'Funny and immensely clever' - Tessa Hadley, author of Free Love Casey is lost. ...

Isabel Cañas

In 1765, plague sweeps through Zacatecas. Alba flees with her wealthy merchant parents and fiancé, Carlos, to his family's isolated mine for refuge. But safety proves fleeting as other dangers soon bare their teeth: Alba begins suffering from strange hallucinations, sleepwalking, and violent convulsions. She senses something cold lurking beneath her skin. Something angry. Somet...

Qntm / Qntm

'Astonishing' M. R. Carey, author of Infinity Gate 'Utterly unique, constantly surprising, genuinely unsettling... may very well take its place among the best sci-fi novels of the century so far.' Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter 'Incredibly compelling' 5* reader review 'I cannot recommend this book enough' 5* reader review ---------- An antim...