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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...

John Fosse

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Ayesha Manazir

Jodi Picault

Nussaibah Younis

A laugh-out-loud, unforgettable novel about ISIS brides, by debut author Nussaibah Younis[Bokinfo]. ...

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

Emily Usher

'A glittering exploration of love's many faces - Wild Ground aches with hard-won hope and bruised tenderness' Colin Walsh, author of Kala'An intoxicating debut from a compelling new voice' Adelle Stripe, author of Black Teeth and a Brilliant SmileWhen Neef was twelve, her mother moved them out of Leeds and into her boyfriend's flat miles away. Resentful and unwelcome in their s...

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...

Sayaka Murata

From the author of the international bestseller Convenience Store Woman, a convention-defying and taboo-busting novel, and a radically reimagined vision of sex, family and society. ...

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...

Bret Easton Ellis

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,...

Sarah Perry

**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024** Immerse yourself in a story of love and astronomy across two centuries - from the #1 bestselling author of The Essex Serpent. 'Gorgeous...ethereal' GUARDIAN 'Truth, beauty and love...extraordinary' OBSERVER 'A book with cosmic reach' FINANCIAL TIMES 'You'll get lost in the pages' ELLE Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay have lived all thei...

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...

Nina Simon

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door. "I just loved how intriguing the mystery is but also the dynamics between a grandmother, a mother, and a teenage daughter." --Reese Witherspoon Think: Gilmore Girls, but with murder. High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud of: her keen intelligen...

Anita Desai

'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman Rushdie'Every new work from her is a gift' - Kamila Shamsie'Rosarita is transcendent . . . a testament to Desai's enduring genius as a writer' - The Guardian'Tantalising' - Financial TimesFrom three times Booker-shortlisted author Anita Desai, Rosarita is a beautiful, haunting novel that explores memory, grief, and a young woman's ...

Jade Song

Stories of the creature that she's always longed to become: a mermaid. Ren aches to be in the water. No matter how much blood she has to spill. In the vein of Our Wives Under the Sea and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a powerful, relevant tale of immigration, sapphic longing, and fierce, defiant becoming. 'This fantastically strange, explosive debut novel entrances even as it unse...

Benjamin Markovits

"What's left when your kids grow up and leave home? When Tom Layward's wife had an affair he resolved to leave her as soon as his youngest daughter turned eighteen. Twelve years later, while driving her to Pittsburgh to start university, he remembers his pact. He is also on the run from his own health issues, and the fact that he's been put on leave at work after students compl...

Marie-Helene Bertino

Meet Adina: a woman who has never felt at home on Earth *** A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR, JUST LANDED IN THE UK *** 'One of the best books I have read this year' KALIANE BRADLEY, Guardian 'As tender as it is witty and perceptive' SPECTATOR 'I do not know how my life would be if I hadn't read this book' *Reader review* Born at the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into s...

Claire North

'CLAIRE NORTH BRINGS A POWERFUL, FRESH AND UNFLINCHING VOICE TO ANCIENT MYTH' Jennifer Saint, author of Sunday Times bestseller Ariadne Following the critically acclaimed Ithaca and House of Odysseus comes the final novel in Claire North's Songs of Penelope trilogy - an exquisite, gripping tale that breathes life into ancient myth. This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, fame...

Doris Lessing

A group of squatters rebel against Mrs Thatcher and erupt into violence in this politicised novel from the author of 'The Golden Notebook'. In a London squat a band of bourgeois revolutionaries are united by a loathing of the waste and cruelty they see around them. These maladjusted malcontents try desperately to become involved in terrorist activities far beyond their level ...

Woody Allen

Asher Baum is quietly losing his mind. Can you blame him? 'Maybe what I really want is to make sense of all people's lives. Of everything, the whole shebang' A middle-aged Jewish journalist turned novelist and playwright, consumed with anxiety about everything under the sun, Baum's turgid philosophical books receive tepid reviews and his prestigious New York publisher has dropp...