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Saraid De Silva

1951, Singapore. Ten-year-old Josephina kills her abuser. This event becomes the defining moment in the lives of Josephina, her daughter Sithara, and her granddaughter Annie. The effects cascade through generations as Annie sets out across the world to discover what happened to fracture her family. Set in Sri Lanka, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia and London, Amma is a novel ...

Cormac Mccarthy

In this semi-autobiographical work, a man abandons his life of privilege to live among eccentrics, criminals and the impoverished of Knoxville. Suttree is a humorous, compelling tapestry of life on the edge from Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road and Blood Meridian. 'Suttree contains a humour that is Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair' - Times...

Curtis Sittenfeld

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Reese's Book Club Pick A TV script writer thinks she's done with romance, until an unlikely love interest upends all her assumptions: a humorous, sharp and tender novel from the bestselling author of Eligible, American Wife and Prep. 'A hilarious, sweet, smart read that you're going to love!' REESE WITHERSPOON 'A rollercoaster ...

Claire North

'CLAIRE NORTH BRINGS A POWERFUL, FRESH AND UNFLINCHING VOICE TO ANCIENT MYTH' Jennifer Saint, author of Sunday Times bestseller Ariadne From the author of the critically acclaimed Ithaca - A Sunday Times Historical Fiction Book of the Year - comes an exquisite and gripping new tale that breathes life into ancient myth. This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Ody...

Rosie Hewlett

From an unmissable new voice comes the powerful and epic story of mythology's darkest heroineShunned. Persecuted. Tormented.Medea longs for a different life. Since childhood, she has been separated from her sister, shunned by her mother, and persecuted and tormented by her brother and father. All because of a unique and dangerous gift: witchcraft. Fierce. Powerful. Sorceress.Bu...

Alice Winn

GMA BUZZ PICK • INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER AND AWARD WINNER • A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I • "Will live in your mind long after you've closed the final pages." —Maggie O'Farrell, best-selling author of Hamnet and The Marriage PortraitA Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, NPR"In Memoriam is the s...

Isabella Hammad

**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024** **LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2024** Reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine. 'A vital storyteller' ALI SMITH After years away from her family's homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit he...

Emily Henry

'At turns hilarious and wise, another knockout from the champ' Taylor Jenkins Reid, DAISY JONES AND THE SIX 'One of my favourite authors' Colleen Hoover, IT ENDS WITH US 'Smart, sunny, sexy and also a gorgeous story of female friendship' Beth O'Leary, THE FLATSHARE ----- Two exes. One pact. Could this holiday change everything? Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - they g...

Anne De Marcken

The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. And even if she has forgotten her name and much of what connects her to her humanity, she remembers with an implacable and nearly unbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was k...

Freida Mcfadden

A gripping, twisty thriller from Freida McFadden, the New York Times author of The Housemaid and The Coworker! The guiltiest people aren't always the ones behind bars... As a new nurse practitioner at a maximum-security prison, Brooke Sullivan is taught three crucial rules: Treat all prisoners with respect. Never reveal any personal information. Never EVER become too friendl...

Asako Yuzuki

'Compelling, delightfully weird, often uncomfortable' PANDORA SYKES 'Unputdownable, breathtakingly original' ERIN KELLY 'I have been glued to Asako Yuzuki's new novel Butter' NIGEL SLATER 'A full-fat, Michelin-starred treat' THE TIMES The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true sto...

Charlene Elsby

A philosophy professor tests the limits of the soul and body by performing dehumanizing experiments on unwilling subjects, after the department is closed due to budget cuts. Violent Faculties follows a philosophy professor influenced by Sade and Bataille. She is ejected by university administrators aiming to impose business strategies in the interest of profit over knowledge. S...

Agustin Fernandez Mallo

In the wake of the Great Blackout, faced with the near-extinction of humanity, a pair of lovers speak to each other. They parse, with precision, with familiarity, the endless aspects of their love. Out of their dialogues, piece by piece, a composite image of love takes form, one that moves outwards beyond the realm of relationships and into metaphysics, geology, linguistics, AI...

Elle Cosimano

? THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? 'Finlay Donovan is irresistible!' JANET EVANOVICH 'I adore everything about it . . . the perfect blend of mystery and romcom' ALI HAZELWOOD Finlay Donovan is ready to bite the bullet. She's done with her accidental life of crime. But first, there's the small matter of her debt to the Russian mob. Her task should be simple: locate a ...

Tiffany Mcdaniel

'STRIKING, ETHEREAL AND TRANSCENDENT' NEW YORK TIMES 'THIS BOOK WILL LEAVE YOU BREATHLESS' BRYN GREENWOOD No heart is safe on the savage side. Arcade and Daffodil are twin sisters born one minute apart. With their fiery red hair and thirst for escape, they form an imaginative world of their own, nurtured by their grandmother's stories. But no matter how hard they try, Arc an...

Costanza Casati

Mother. Monarch. Murderer. Magnificent . . . meet Clytemnestra, the ancient world's most wronged woman . . . 'Vivid with fury, passion and strength, this is a fabulous myth retelling' JENNIFER SAINT 'A blaze of a novel, fiery and furious - and alight with murderous revenge' DAILY MAIL __________ She is born to a king but marries a tyrant. She watches helplessly as he sacri...

Tom Crewe

'It was as if this man in front of him were an invisible door and he was paused on the threshold' Discover Tom Crewe's magnificent debut novel about desire and the search for freedom in Victorian England . . . * 'Beautifully crafted' Sunday Times * 'Powerful' Telegraph * 'Virtuoso' Guardian * 'Brims with intelligence and insight' New York Times * 'Vivid and erotically charged' ...

Gerald Murnane

"Inland is a work which gathers in emotional power as it moves across the grasslands of its narrator's imagination--from Szolnok County on the great plains of Hungary where a man writes in the library of his manor house, to the Institute of Prairie Studies in Tripp County, South Dakota, where the editor of the journal Hinterland receives his writing, to the narrator's own nativ...

William Boyd

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...

Oisín Mckenna

'I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN' SHON FAYE 'A MASTERPIECE. THIS SEARING TALE OF LOVE, SEX AND CLASS WILL RESONATE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME' OWEN JONES 'I WAS DEEPLY MOVED BY ITS BEAUTY AND HUMANITY' COCO MELLORS 'Electric and intimate' Guardian 'Impossibly, ineffably beautiful' Russell T Davies 'Intoxicating' Irish Times London, June 2019. Maggie is 30, pregnant and broke. Faced with mo...

Tessa Hadley

Evelyn had the surprising thought that bodies were sometimes wiser than the people inside them. She'd have liked to impress somebody with this idea, but couldn't explain it. On a winter Saturday night in post-war Bristol, sisters Moira and Evelyn, on the cusp of adulthood, go to an art students' party in a dockside pub; there they meet two men, Paul and Sinden, whose air of wo...

Solvej Balle

A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024 The first year of November eighteenth is coming to a close, and Tara Selter has returned to her hotel room in Paris, the place where it all began. As if perched at the edge of a precipice, she readies herself to leap into November nineteenth. Book II of Solvej Balle's astounding seven-part series On the Calculation of Volume beautifully ex...

Andrew Miller

December 1962, the West Country. In the darkness of an old asylum, a young man unscrews the lid from a bottle of sleeping pills. In the nearby village, two couples begin their day. Local doctor, Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage. Across the field, in a farmhouse impossible to heat, funny, trou...

Jen Beagin

This offbeat novel combines the heart and wit of Sorrow and Bliss with the joy and touch of surrealism in Schitts Creek. It is the funniest book you will read in 2024 ...

Bushra Rehman

A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice * An NPR Best Book of the Year * A Padma Lakshmi Book Club PickFor fans of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer love in a Muslim-American community"Stunningly beautiful." —The New York Times Book Review"An unforgettable voice that moves you from the sta...

Kristin Hannah

The Great Alone is a daring, beautiful, stay-up-all-night story about love and loss from the number one bestselling author of The Four Winds, The Nightingale and publishing February 2024, The Women. 'A master storyteller' - Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing 'A rich, compelling novel of love, sacrifice and survival, as epic as the Alaskan landscape it so vividly d...

John Boyne

'One of the most assured novelists of his generation' Observer 'A master storyteller' Daily Express 'One of the greatest craftsmen in contemporary literature' Colum McCann ___________ From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne comes a masterfully reflective story about one woman coming to terms with the demons of her past and finding a new path forward. The first thing V...

A. S. Byatt

A luminous selection of short stories from the Booker prize-winning A. S. Byatt, celebrating over thirty years of writing With an introduction by David Mitchell Byatt takes her readers to a place that is rich in ideas, vivid in colour and wholly unforgettable. Mirrors shatter at the hairdressers when a middle-aged client explodes in rage. Snow dusts the warm body of a princes...

Monica Heisey

The No. 2 SUNDAY TIMES Bestseller An Observer Best Debut of the Year 'Intoxicating ... heralds a really good author to watch' THE TIMES 'Hilarious and profound' DOLLY ALDERTON 'Wildly funny and almost alarmingly relatable' MARIAN KEYES 'Monica Heisey is a genius' NINA STIBBE One of the most hotly anticipated, hilarious and addictive debut novels of 2023, from Schitt's Creek and...

Jodi Picoult / Jennifer Finney Boylan

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* 'Emotional and enlightening' WOMAN & HOME 'The twist halfway through is a jaw-to-the-floor moment' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 'A perfect choice for your book clubs' PRIMA Olivia fled her abusive marriage to return to her hometown and take over the family beekeeping business when her son Asher was six. Now, impossibly, her baby is six feet tall and in his ...