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Miranda Darling

'Darkly funny, astute, timely' Sofie Laguna, author of The Eye of the Sheep 'Powerful, restless, irresistible' Laura Jean McKay, author of The Animals in That Country A black comedy, set in suburbia, about one woman's struggle to be free. When Winona Dalloway begins her day -- in the peaceful early hours before her children, that 'tiny tornado of little hands and feet', wake up...

Liv Little

Elsie is a sexy, funny, and fiercely independent woman in South London. But, at just 28, she is also tired. Though she spends her days writing tender poetry in her journal, her nights are spent working long hours for minimum wage at a neighbourhood gay bar. As Elsie tries to reconnect with her best friend Juliet, her fragile world spirals out of control. Can Elsie steady hersel...

Elaine Feeney

** LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 ** Meet Jamie and his community on the west coast of Ireland in the most uplifting and tender book of the year 'A gorgeous gift of a novel'Douglas Stuart, no.1 bestselling author of Shuggie Bain 'Heart-rending and delightful'Louise Kennedy, no.1 bestselling author of Trespasses Jamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees,...

Elizabeth Graver

A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring displacement, endurance, and family as home.A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family's displacement across four countries, Kantika—"song" in Ladino—follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. Wh...

Hiromi Kawakami

A tale of modern Japan and old-fashioned romance. 'Enchanting, moving and funny in equal measure, this compelling love story is expertly crafted against a backdrop of modern Japanese culture' Stylist Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, r...

Colm Tóibín

'Beautiful . . . a thriller, a love story and much more' Roddy Doyle 'A remarkable achievement . . . [a] sheer pleasure to read' The Sunday Times Richard Garay lives alone with his mother in Buenos Aires, hiding his sexuality from her and the world. Stifled by a job he despises, he finds himself willing to take considerable risks. Set in Argentina in a time of great change, T...

Roberto Bolaño

On New Year's Eve, 1975, two hunted men leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest- to track down the vanished poet Cesarea Tinajero. But, twenty years later, they are still on the run. The Savage Detectives is their remarkable journey through our darkening universe. Told, shared and mythologised by a generation of lovers, rebels and readers, their testimonies a...

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. FIGHT FOR LOVE. WELCOME TO THE KILLING GROUND. 'America's new Hunger Games' SUNDAY TIMES 'So good. This one is from the heart' STEPHEN KING *SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD FOR SCIENCE FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR *LONGLISTED FOR THE TIKTOK BOOK AWARDS FOR INTERNATIONAL BOOK OF THE YEAR *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023 Ente...

Claire Kilroy

AS HEARD ON FRONT ROW, A SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN AND FT 'SUMMER READ''My favourite book I've read this year' PANDORA SYKES 'Intense, furious, moving and often extremely funny' DAVID NICHOLLS'Astonishing' Stephanie Merritt, Observer'Very, very funny' PAUL MURRAYIn one of the most acclaimed novels of the yea[Bokinfo]. ...

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...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

THE EXTRAORDINARY LOST NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA AND ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happily married and has no reason to escape the world she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels he...

Jenny Hval

"As intriguing and impressive a novelist as she is a musician, Hval is a master of quiet horror and wonder."—Chris Kraus, author of I Love DickA lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imageryJo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman wh...

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...

Danny Ramadan

WINNER OF THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR GAY FICTIONA devastating novel about queer love, broken relationships, the promises we're unable to keep and living with the ghosts of your pastHussam and Wassim are teenage boys living in Syria during America's 2003 invasion of Iraq. When a surprise discovery results in tragedy, their lives, and those of their families, are shattered. Wa...

Max Porter

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR NETFLIX FILM 'STEVE' STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY 'Max Porter is one of my favourite writers in the world.' GEORGE SAUNDERS 'Beautiful and haunting.' KEVIN BARRY 'The strangest, most beguiling and affecting of all his books.' IAN RANKIN 'A miracle of language.' IRISH TIMES This is the story of a few strange hours in the ...

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...

Jessica Knoll

'Cleverly constructed [. . .] psychologically astute and written with flair.' - The Sunday Times 'A compelling, almost hypnotic read' - Lisa Jewell, bestselling author of None of This is True 'Bright Young Women is Jessica Knoll at her best: an unflinching and evocative novel' - Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me January 1978. Tallahas...

Rebecca K. Reilly

***SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024*** THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Delightfully confident . . . a total pleasure' TIMES 'Warm, witty and utterly idiosyncratic' ALICE SLATER 'Hilarious, touching and hotly sublime' JULIA ARMFIELD 'Lovable and joyful' NEW YORK TIMES A BROTHER. A SISTER. A LOT OF EMOTION IN ONE APARTMENT. This is the story of Greta a...

Kate Morton

'Lush, rich, beautiful . . . Homecoming is Kate Morton at her very best' - Kristin Hannah Discover this breathtaking mystery of love, lies and a cold case come back to life, from the multi-million-copy bestseller, Kate Morton. Adelaide Hills, 1959. At the end of a scorching hot day, in the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are ca...

Eleanor Catton

Birnam Wood is on the move... A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand's South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, an undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. For...

David Nicholls

The multi-million copy bestselling novel that brilliantly captures the experiences of a generation.From beloved author David Nicholls.[Bokinfo]. ...

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A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Spain. Each story appears in Spanish alongside an expert English translation, providing unique cultural insight and literary...

Jessica Anthony

From 'one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page' (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightly wound, consuming tale about a 1950s American housewife, for fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen and Taffy Brodesser-Akner LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2024 A Barnes & Noble BEST BOOK of 2024 COSMOPOLITAN Novella of the Year 2024 'Clever, moving and unexpected. A ...

Jenni Daiches

'Jenni Daiches has astonishingly re-created a lost world... I wept and laughed and wished I had written it.'MIRIAM MARGOLYES 'An urgent exploration of the fragility and beauty of our shared humanity, here and elsewhere.'HANNAH HOLTSCHNEIDER, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH About the bookRosa Roshkin is five years old when her family are murdered in a pogrom and she is forced to leave b...

Andrew Miller

? Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2025 ? Winner of the Winston Graham Historical Prize 2025 A best book of the year for the Independent, Guardian, i Newspaper and Good Housekeeping 'Tender, elegant, soulful and perfect. A novel that hits your cells and can be felt there, without your brain really knowing what's happened to it. Superb' SAMANTHA HARVEY, ...

Freya North

As the new Millennium beckons, Eadie is turning 30 with a marriage in tatters. She must travel back to where she once lived for a funeral she can't quite comprehend. As she journeys from the North to the South, from the present to the past, Eadie contemplates all that was then - and all that is now. 'You really must read this book. A rare and phenomenal life affirming read' DIN...

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 ...

Maggie O'farrell

'She's like no one I've ever met... She's like fire and water all at once.'Warwickshire, 1582. Agnes Hathaway, a natural healer, meets the Latin tutor, William Shakespeare. Drawn together by powerful but hidden impulses, they create a life together and make a family.As William moves to London to discover his place in the world of theatre, Agnes stays at home to raise their thre...

Phyllis Paul

Who could have been so cruel as to do away with poor Vivian Lambert? And why oh why couldn't she just stay dead?In a rustic, idyllic English village, on a summer's day, in the midst of a carefree tennis party, a fragile, needy child, left too much on her own, vanishes from her family's front garden. Years pass and the mystery persists: an enduring torment for the teenage Christ...