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Marie-Helene Bertino

Puffin

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...

Satoshi Yagisawa

Manilla

PRE-ORDER THE NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER DAYS AT THE MORISAKI BOOKSHOPPraise for Satoshi Yagisawa - an author beloved by readers . . .'It gently healed my soul''Simply beautiful''A perfect warm blanket to warm every book lover's heart''A gem of a novel that will resonate with anyone who has ever found solace in the pages of a book'______________From the...

Claire North

Orbit

'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

Harper

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

Swift Press

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...

Santanu Bhattacharya

Penguin

Vivaan, a teenager in India's silicon plateau, has discovered love on his smartphone. Intoxicating, boundary-breaking love. His parents know he is gay, and their support is something Vivaan can count on, but they don't know what exactly their son gets up to in the online world. For his uncle, born thirty years earlier, things were very different. Mambro's life changed forever ...

Kevin Crossley-Holland

Penguin

Maggie O'farrell

Penguin

The intense and breathtakingly accomplished novel from the bestselling author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT *440,000 copies sold* 'Seductive in style, prickly, disturbing and delicious' Olivia Laing _____ Edinburgh in the 1930s. The Lennox family is having trouble with its youngest daughter. Esme is outspoken, unconventional, and repeatedly embarrasses them in polite ...

Colum Mccann

Bloomsbury

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX FEMINA AND THE PRIX MEDICIS SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSBORO BOOKS GLASS BELL AWARD WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRES ETRANGER WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, i PAPER, FIN...

Solà

Penguin

"Nestled among rugged mountains, in a remote part of Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, bandits, deserters, ghosts, beasts and demons, sits the old farmhouse called Mas Clavell. Inside, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed while family and caretakers drift in and out. All the women who have ever lived and died in that house are waiting for her to join them. They are ...

Hiromi Kawakami

Penguin

In the distant future, humans are on the verge of extinction and have settled in small tribes across the planet under the observation and care of the Mothers. Some children are made in factories, from cells of rabbits and dolphins; some live by getting nutrients from water and light, like plants. The survival of the race depends on the interbreeding of these and other alien bei...

Defne Suman

Penguin

September 1905. At the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the ancient city of Smyrna, Scheherazade is born to an opium-dazed mother.At the very same moment, an Indian spy sails into the golden-hued, sycamore-scented city with a secret mission from the British Empire. When he leaves, 17 years later, it will be to the smell of kerosene and smoke as the city, and its people, are engu...

Ayana Gray

Penguin

Yoko Ogawa

Puffin

Addie E. Citchens

Penguin

Antonio Iturbe

Puffin

Eric Puchner

Phoenix

"Cece is in love. She has arrived early at her in-laws' beautiful lake house in Salish, Montana, to finish planning her wedding to Charlie, a cardiac anaesthesiologist with a brilliant future. When Charlie asks Garrett, his best friend from college, to officiate, Cece can't imagine anyone less appropriate for the task. Garrett doesn't believe in love, much less marriage. But as...

Chloe Michelle Howarth

Cornerstone

Won-Pyung Sohn

Harper

A BTS fan favorite! A WALL STREET JOURNAL STORIES THAT CAN TAKE YOU ANYWHERE PICK * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S STAY HOME AND READ PICK * SALON'S BEST AND BOLDEST * BUSTLE'S MOST ANTICIPATED "A boldly original piece of fiction, plumbing the depths of the human condition with plenty of humor along the way."--Entertainment Weekly Now available in a convenient pocket-sized portable ...

Tomihiko Morimi

Harper

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE "Beautiful and satisfying."--Tor.com "A treat."--New York Times Book Review An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four parallel realities to explore the what-might've-been and the what-should-never-be in this Groundhog Day meets The Midnight Library-esque novel from one of Japan's most popular authors, now available in a conv...

Charmaine Wilkerson

Ladybird

Ebby Freeman's life has always been marked with tragedy. First, the death of her brother Baz, killed in an anonymous armed robbery when they were teenagers. Then her perfect fiance Henry deserting her on the day of their wedding, without an explanation. When Ebby arrives in a sleepy French village, she believes she's found an opportunity for healing and anonymity. Until Henry ...

Susan Steinberg

Penguin

A jagged, propulsive story of guilt and youth spinning off its axis in the wake of a drowning. ...

Maggie O'farrell

Penguin

The groundbreaking debut novel from the bestselling author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT: one of the most extraordinary love stories you'll ever read. *Over 480,000 copies sold* 'This devastatingly skilful love story will break your heart!' Alice Winn 'Gripping. Superbly moving' Ali Smith 'Such a visceral, heartrending read about grief and love' Claire Daverley A dist...

Katherine Mezzacappa

Stairwell Books

Juliet Izon

Phoenix

Thomas Harris

Vintage

Megha Majumdar

Simon & Schuster

Leif Randt

Granta

A new title in the Granta Magazine Editions series: a vivid, ironic and blisteringly contemporary account of millennial love in Frankfurt and Berlin.Allegro Pastel follows a cult author and a web designer as they live and love in contemporary Berlin.Tanja and Jerome are navigating a long-distance relationship in a world of constant communication and emotional hyper-reflection. ...

Harper

Matt Brolly

Penguin

From the bestselling author of the Detective Louise Blackwell series comes a story of two murders, twenty years apart. There's only one suspect. But what if he's innocent? Twenty years ago, in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas, Annie Randall took her dog for a walk. The dog returned. Annie did not. When her body was found, cruelly broken and posed like a runner, there was on...