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Sally Rooney

Sally Rooney

Agustin Fernandez Mallo

A landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, Agustin Fernandez Mallo's Nocilla Trilogy-Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Lab, and Nocilla Experience-presents multiple narratives of people and places that reflect America and the world in the digital age of the twenty-first century. In the middle of the Nevada desert stands a solitary poplar tree covered in hundreds of pairs of shoes. Far...

Elena Ferrante

When Leda's daughters leave home to be with their father, she decides to take a trip to a small coastal town in Italy, but soon after she arrives memories from her unsettled past come back to haunt her. ...

Chloe Michelle Howarth

** Shortlisted for the 2023 Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction ** ** An Evening Standard 'One to Watch in 2023 ** ** An Independent 'Best Romantic Summer Reads' ** ** A Book of the Month pick for Diva, Irish Examiner, Novellic & Sainsbury's Magazine ** ** A Most Anticipated pick for PinkNews & Queer on the Street ** It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore...

Madeleine Gray

A BEST BOOK OF 2024 IN STYLIST, DAILY MAIL, THE I, IRISH TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND RED 'One of the best books you will read all year' ELIZABETH DAY 'Incredibly funny. Every sentence sparkles' CAITLIN MORAN 'Imagine the intensity of Annie Ernaux's Simple Passion written with the lightness of Bridget Jones's Diary and the irreverence of Fleabag' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'One of the most...

Madeleine Gray

Mona Awad

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother's unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her mother's fateand find a connection that is more than skin deep? For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her sk...

Miye Lee

The first book of Miye Lee's whimsical and moving duology, translated from the Korean language by Sandy Joosun Lee.[Bokinfo]. ...

Justin Torres

Juan Gay lies dying in a room in The Palace: a monumental, fading institution in the desert. There, a young man cares for him - someone whom Juan met only once, but who has haunted the edges of his life ever since. As the end approaches, the two trade stories - resurrecting lost loves, mothers and fathers - and their lives are woven, ineluctably, into a broader story of sexuali...

Yukio Mishima

Mishima's literary powers are on full display in his penultimate novel, a meditation on reincarnation and Buddhist philosophy. Honda, a brilliant lawyer and man of reason, is called to Bangkok on legal business. He is granted an audience with a young Thai princess known as 'Moonlight', an encounter that radically alters the course of his life. Convinced she is a reincarnated s...

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...

Kristin Hannah

Hanako Footman

An exquisite debut novel weaving together the voices of three young women in Japan and the UK as the threads of their lives twist and entangle in unexpected ways. ...

Roy Lotz

Alison Espach

It's a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she's actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn't here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she's dreamed of coming fo...

Kristin Hannah

An instant Sunday Times bestseller and soon to be a major motion picture! 'Utterly absorbing . . . A triumph' - Taylor Jenkins Reid, bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six 'Stuns with sacrifice. Uplifts with heroism' - Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry 'Powerful and compelling. Never has a novel of war metamorphosed so profoundly into a story of ...

John Fosse

Ayesha Manazir

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

'The major publication milestone of 2025' OBSERVER A publishing event ten years in the making--a searing, exquisite new novel by the best-selling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists--the story of four women and their loves, longings and desires. 'The return of a literary titan' TELEGRAPH CHOSEN AS A SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, FINANCIAL...

Gerald Murnane

Anthony Shapland

From a new voice in Welsh literature, an atmospheric and poignant story of a relationship between two small-town Valleys men during the late 1980s. ...

Colum Mccann

Rachel Kushner

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A fearless and heartbreaking novel about love, friendship and incarceration, from the author of the internationally acclaimed The Flamethrowers. 'Astounding... this year's must-read' ANNE ENRIGHT Romy Hall is starting two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility. Her crime? The killin...

Howard Jacobson

Love can change your life. Can it survive marriage and middle age? 'Wonderfully wise, moving and heartfelt' WILLIAM BOYD 'A tender love story' DAILY TELEGRAPH *LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2025* Lily falls in love with Sam the minute she sets eyes on him. It takes Sam a day or two longer. Curious, because Lily has never quite believed in love, while Sam thought ...

Ali Smith

'Miraculous . . . tender, hilarious and ultimately uplifting. A ray of hope' Paul Murray, Irish Times Once upon a time, not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red paint round the outside of their house . . . So begins the freewheeling and urgent new novel from Ali Smith - the story of two young people and a horse called Gliff, on the run from hist...

Leigh Bardugo

AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A richly imagined, intricate tale of magic and intrigue' DEBORAH HARKNESS, #1 bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches 'Riveting... Leigh Bardugo's characters are so three dimensional you want to reach through the page' DIANA GABALDON, #1 bestselling author of Outlander 'A wonderful, transporting ride through history... a deeply romant...

Charlotte Mendelson

A beautifully observed novel by literary star Charlotte Mendelson about the joys of passionate love and those left in its wake when passion curdles, told with Charlotte's signature wit and wisdom. When Zoe Stamper, specialist in Ancient Greek Tragedy, meets fellow academic Dr Penny Cartwright at a faculty music recital, she seems impossibly glamorous to Zoe, who is, after all,...

Banu Mushtaq

Oyinkan Braithwaite

When his girlfriend throws him out during the pandemic, Bambi has to go to his Uncle's house in lock-down Lagos. He arrives during a blackout, and is surprised to find his Aunty Bidemi sitting in a candlelit room with another woman. They both claim to be the mother of the baby boy, fast asleep in his crib. At night Bambi is kept awake by the baby's cries, and during the days he...