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Fatma Aydemir

Penguin

For thirty years, Huseyin has worked in Germany, taking every extra shift and carefully saving, even as he provides for his wife and four children. Finally, he has set aside enough to buy an apartment back in Istanbul a new centre for his loved ones and a place for him to retire. But just as this future is in reach, Huseyin's tired heart gives up. His family rush to him, travel...

Justin Torres

St Martin's Press

Winner of the National Book AwardWinner of the California Book AwardWinner of Tournament of BooksOut in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along,...

Alan Hollinghurst

Panmacmillan

Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man's acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from one of the finest writers of our age.Dave Win is thirte...

Alan Hollinghurst

Pan

Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man's acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from one of the finest writers of our age. Dave Win is thir...

Claire Keegan

Faber & Faber

A stunning new edition of Claire Keegan's multi-award-winning, bestselling novel Small Things Like These. SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY A SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' '100 Best Books of the 21st Century' WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE AND THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES ...

Claire Keegan

Faber & Faber

A stunning new hardback edition of Claire Keegan's classic and beloved novella Foster. AN IRISH TIMES TOP 100 BEST IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYWINNER OF THE DAVY BYRNES IRISH WRITING AWARD 'A real jewel.' Irish Independent 'A small miracle.' Sunday Times 'A thing of finely honed beauty.' Guardian 'As good as Chekhov.' David Mitchell It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A ...

Dahlia De La Cerda

Scribe

A debut linked story collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny fiction from Mexico. Life's a bitch. That's why you gotta rattle her cage, even if she's foaming at the mouth. In the linked stories of Reservoir Bitches, thirteen Mexican women prod the bitch that is Life as they fight, sew, skirt, cheat, cry, and lie their way through their tangled circumstances. From t...

Sally Rooney

Faber & Faber

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, fromthe global phenomenon Sally Rooney. ...

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Picador

Elizabeth Strout

Penguin

It's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives nearby in a house next to the sea. Together, Lucy and Bob talk about their lives, their hopes and re...

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Panmacmillan

The fifth book in the spectacular Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, with a fresh bunch of customers in a special Tokyo cafe hoping to go back in time. ...

Garth Greenwell

Macmillan

'A marvelous novel: exceptionally vivid, real, and true' - Colm TóibínA medical crisis brings one man close to death - and to love, art, and beauty - in a profound and luminous novel by award-winning author Garth Greenwell.A poet's life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into th...

Joël Dicker

Quercus

THE PHENOMENAL BREAKTHROUGH NOVEL FROM THE MASTER OF THE PLOT TWIST. MORE THAN 7 MILLION COPIES SOLD "A top-class literary thriller" The Times "The cleverest, creepiest book you'll read this year" Daily Telegraph August 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence. That summer, struggling author Harry Quebert fell in love with ...

Chuck Palahniuk

Penguin

From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a hilarious horror satire "equal parts saccharine caricature and startling raunch" (Kirkus Reviews) about a family of professional killers responsible for the most atrocious events in history and the young brothers that are destined to take over.Meet Otto and Cecil. Two brothers who grew up privileged in the Welsh countryside. The...

Syou Ishida

Doubleday

On the top floor of an old building at the end of a cobbled alley in Kyoto lies the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul. Only a select few - those who feel genuine emotional pain - can find it. The mysterious centre offers a unique treatment for its troubled patients: it prescribes cats as medication. Get ready to fall in love: Bee, an eight-year-old female, mixed breed helps a disheart...

Richard Powers

Penguin

Matt Coyne

Headline

Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming. Frank and Red are a mess. Frank is a grumpy old curmudgeon. A recluse whose only company is the 'ghost' of his dead wife, Marcie. He is estranged from his friends, his son, and the ever-changing world beyond his front gate. And then Red moves in next door. Red is six. A boy struggling to adjust to the separation of...

Elif Shafak

Ladybird

The breathtaking new novel from the Booker-shortlisted, bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World - available for pre-order now ***** This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives - all connected by a single drop of water. In the ruins of Nineveh, that ancient city of Mesopotamia, ther...

Colson Whitehead

Abacus

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory. 'Glorious' New York Times Book Review 'The compelling energy of a crime thriller and the sharp wit of social satire' Guardian 'Whitehead's crime series is one of the most enjoyable streaks in recent fiction' Telegraph 'This novel has it all' Mail on Sund...

Cormac Mccarthy

Panmacmillan

Set in rural Tennessee between the world wars, The Orchard Keeper is the unique, darkly biblical debut novel from the legendary author of Blood Meridian and The Road, Cormac McCarthy. 'McCarthy has the best kind of Southern style' - New York Times John Wesley Rattner is a young boy when his father is murdered. Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger, strangled him to death. ...

August Thompson

Panmacmillan

It took three car crashes to kill Jake. Theron David Alden was there for the first two: the summer they meet in rural New Hampshire, when he's fifteen and Jake's seventeen; then seven years later in New York City, those too-short, nearly sleepless days and nights that change both their lives and end up being all they'll ever have together, the dream and the end of the dream and...

Hwang Bo-Reum

Bloomsbury

WATERSTONES BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2023 PICK WOMAN & HOME NOVEMBER BOOK OF THE MONTH iPaper TOP FICTION PICK'An absolutely charming novel that all bookworms will adore' Red'A balm for the soul and a glorious love letter to books and reading' iPaperThere was only one thing on her mind.'I must start a bookshop.' Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a...

Akwaeke Emezi

Faber & Faber

Monika Kim

Octopus Books

'I was enticed from the first line' OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE, author of My Sister, the Serial Killer This feminist howl-of-a-debut is going to crawl right under your skin 'An outstanding debut' NEW YORK TIMES SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS NEW YORK TIMES BEST HORROR BOOK OF THE YEAR SPOTIFY 'BREAKOUT' AUTHOR OF THE YEAR Ji-won's life is in disarray. Her father's af...

Kristin Hannah

Panmacmillan

Another Life is a powerful, heart-wrenching and ultimately uplifting story of the life-changing impact of the connections we form, from one of the world's bestselling authors. 'One of the greatest storytellers of our time' Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing Angie DeSaria has spent years of her life trying to have a child. Now, her marriage has crumbled under the s...

Gerardo Samano Cordova

Dead Ink

Cormac Mccarthy

Panmacmillan

A dark, nihilistic tale, Cormac McCarthy's second novel Outer Dark sees brother and sister wander separately through a countryside scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers. 'A profound parable that ultimately speaks to any society in any time' - Time In an unspecified place in Appalachia, a woman named Rinthy gives birth to her brother's child. The brother, Culla, ...

Julia Armfield

Harper

'Brilliantly audacious' GUARDIAN 'Stunning' DAZED 'Her prose sparkles' ELIZA CLARK 'Hauntingly good' iNEWS 'A must read' GLAMOUR 'One of my favourite novels' JEFF VANDERMEER From the bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a haunting, heart wrenching novel of three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world. There's no way to bury a body in earth w...

Claire Daverley

Penguin

THE LOVE STORY THAT WILL KEEP YOU AWAKE AT NIGHT ''If you love really gentle, beautiful and very cleverly written love stories, then this is the book for you' FEARNE COTTON 'Moving and beautifully told... gave me One Day vibes' LIBBY PAGE 'A beautifully observed, tender, grown up love story' JOJO MOYES 'Basically impossible to put down' BOBBY PALMER 'Deeply romantic' LAURA BAR...

Shirley Jackson

Ladybird

Eighteen-year-old Merricat may, or may not be, a mass murdererSix years ago everyone in the Blackwood family was poisoned by sugar laced with arsenic - everyone, that is, apart from Merricat and her elder sister Constance. They live in peaceful, ordered isolation, away from prying eyes in the nearby village, until one day boorish cousin Charles arrives with designs on their fat...