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84 Charing Cross Road meets A Man Called Ove in this Radio 2 Book Club pick—a heartwarming, witty story about the life of an extraordinary woman, told through her letters. In her letters to family and friends, we come to know the life of Sybil Van Antwerp—stubborn, cantankerous, opinionated, always steadfast in her belief in the power of the written...

TAIPEI STORY is the electrifying new novel by bestselling literary phenomenon Rebecca F. Kuang, a profoundly moving coming-of-age story that explores first love, second language and final goodbyes – all set against the backdrop of one unforgettable summer in Taipei. Yale student Lily Chen arrives in Taipei hungry: for family, for culture, for connection. But her summer of discovery quickly...

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Sorrow and Bliss comes an achingly tender, poignant, funny and bittersweet story of love, loneliness and finding connection in the most unlikely of places. 'So smart, so funny, so moving - Mason has done it again, this time using behind the scenes of a literary festival to reveal the complexity of loneliness and how one woman...

Parenting teens is not for the faint of heart but Madeline, Jane and Celeste have been through worse. It's been a decade since the school trivia night that changed their lives forever and now they're living blissfully ordinary suburban lives. But when an anonymous grisly package arrives at the local high school, and a man in a green Volvo is...

A richly imagined, dark and dazzling cosy fantasy about learning to love ourselves by wondrous new Australian novelist, Christy Anne Jones. Dorothy Louise Walcott should have died when she was fourteen. Instead, she grew into a timid young woman, frugal, ill, over-educated, and dreaming ceaselessly of running away to learn magic. When she hears of a woman who might apprentice...

I’ve arrived in London without incident. There are few triumphs in my recent life, but I count this as one. My existence of the last three years has been nothing but incident. The year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighbourhood of St. Crispian's. But Emma’s plans for a charmed and studious life are sabotaged...

From Harry Whittaker, the co-author of the instant No 1 international bestseller Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt, comes an epic mystery set in the world of the Seven Sisters.Reader favourite antiquarian bookseller Orlando Forbes - first introduced in The Shadow Sister - returns in this dual timeline saga. When Orlando uncovers a hidden cache of manuscripts in an old Harrow rectory, his investigation...

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GLOBAL SENSATION LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY RETURNS . . .   Peck & Peck tells the irresistible story of a young man whose life turns upside down when he is hired by the most prestigious, secretive and dysfunctional poetry journal in the world: the renowned Peck & Peck. Batter Gray is worried about his future....

Look at her. How serene she is in her long white dress, eyes closed like a stone copy of herself. Perhaps she lives on air. We would like a little piece of her – a hank of hair, a pared fingernail slender as a new moon, a wisp of skin peeled from a sunburned shoulder…England, the near future.Dumped by her...

A twisting, richly atmospheric crime novel set within the gothic splendour of St Paul's Cathedral in Dunedin.When organist Sybil Marsden plunges from the cathedral's loft to the stone floor below, her death is ruled a tragic accident. Only Ivo Hart - a lowly police administrator more comfortable with filing systems than people - senses something amiss. Armed with a single,...

I was sitting at my desk reading, with a cup of tea, my windows flung open, when I heard The Tenant enter his garret, just on the other side of the wall from myself. The year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighbourhood of St. Crispian’s. But Emma’s plans for a charmed and studious life...

I wanted to go back to Mid-World, which was always the Territories by another name - Stephen King This is Stephen King and Peter Straub's epic and unforgettable finale to the Talisman Trilogy (including the novels The Talisman and Black House) and a wrapping up of the fate of the worlds in King's iconic, fiercely beloved Dark Tower epic. It...

#1 bestselling author John Green makes his much-anticipated return to fiction with a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story that brilliantly confronts the private cost of a public life. For rising young actors Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo, being cast in the buzzy biopic Andy Warhol Never Gets Old is the opportunity they’ve both been waiting for. They’re on the verge of breaking out,...

Two women, bound by blood and betrayal, must break silence across centuries—or be silenced forever, in the dazzling new novel by New York Times bestselling author Madeline Martin. In present day, Lilith Legare's life is unraveling. Since her mother's death, strange things have been happening—plants turn toward her touch, animals linger in her path, and the birthmark on her arm...

The landmark new novel from the Global Bestseller, Pulitzer Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver. You've taken Demon to your hearts, prepare for another 'emotionally raw, riotously entertaining' read as you meet Livia. Here's my question: How does a person step in front of a train and leave everything right there? Livia Bohusz misses her big brother, Cyrus. But since the day...

Min Jin Lee, the acclaimed author of the major global bestseller Pachinko, returns with a breathtaking contemporary epic that follows one family as they reckon with ambition and moderation, love and loyalty, personal dreams and familial duty. John and Helen Koh and their three children – Bo, DH, and Mido – are building new lives in Korea when they find their...

The astonishing, emotional epic from Michael Robotham: a mystery, a coming-of-age tale and a love story wrapped into one, set against the simmering tensions of a small Australian town. I look along the road and notice how many people are standing outside their houses or watching from doorways and windows. Staring. Studying. 'Do you think this town will ever forgive...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Islands of Abandonment, comes a new book about our relationship to the natural world. This book takes us into the wild – deep into dark forests, to the top of mountains and into the heart of deserts. It addresses our deep yearnings to be awed and inspired by landscapes that remain beyond our...

This summer, dive into Tom Lake – the breath-taking new novel from Ann Patchett. A Reese Witherspoon and BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick ‘A new Ann Patchett novel is always cause for celebration ... and Tom Lake is one of her best’ i ‘This comforting summer read has it all ... Young love, sibling rivalry and deep mother-daughter relationships’...

In his third life, Kinnosuke belonged to a famous author. Now, in his ninth, he wants nothing more to do with humans, who bring nothing but trouble and suffering. Drawn to the city in search of food, he comes across the Hokuto-do Bookshop, owned by a curious woman who has already given a home to four contented cats. Soon Kinnosuke...

One of the true classics of psychological suspense, about a writer and his No. 1 fan. Paul Sheldon used to write for a living. Now he's writing to stay alive. Misery Chastain is dead. Paul Sheldon has just killed her - with relief, with joy. Misery made him rich; she was the heroine of a string of bestsellers. And now...

'I wanted to go back to Mid-World, which was always the Territories by another name' - Stephen King This is Stephen King and Peter Straub's epic and unforgettable finale to the Talisman Trilogy (including the novels The Talisman and Black House) and a wrapping up of the fate of the worlds in King's iconic, fiercely beloved Dark Tower epic. It...

From the bestselling author of Turncoat comes a powerful new novel. As the pressure of fatherhood tightens its grip, sleepless nights and rising tensions begin to erode Hepa's sense of control. When the line between fear and reality begins to blur, can he be trusted with his own son? Hepa hasn't slept properly in four months. His newborn son, Wi,...

Cricket is just a shy kid who likes drawing when he first meets Olympia. She's older, more confident; she bullies him into some light vandalism and instantly he's in love. When they're together, they talk about their futures, how they're going to travel the world, the beauty and rapture of art. Then those futures start to arrive in unexpected ways,...

The final instalment of the sweeping, beloved The Lost Daughters series. A heartbreakingly beautiful, expansive and epic love story about lost loves, hidden lives and forgotten secrets Hope looked up at Gus, his fingers linked with hers as he smiled down at her. The wind whipped at her hair, cool against her skin, but all she cared about was the man standing...

An immersive, sweeping and unforgettable novel of one man's life in the aftermath of the American Civil War. I knew as I made my way home that there was no home. All the old things . . . were gone forever. Against this rapidly shifting landscape, Tennyson Bouguereau—freed man, devoted brother, nascent singer, conflicted soldier, and wanted man—journeys to find...

LitRPG fans: there’s a new player in town. In the first book in Ryan Rimmel’s fantastical The Mayor of Noobtown series, a young man dies only to find himself the hero in a strange new world. It could be worse. You could be stuck with a literal shoulder demon. For Jim, it’s very much worse. Because after dying and being...

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE 2025 Named A Best Book of 2025 by Vox, Elle, NPR, Bustle, Marie Claire, Chicago Review of Books, Chicago Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, Them, Xtra, and Autostraddle Matty Maggiacomo's March Book Club Pick "Writing a funny book is hard. Writing a convincing takedown of one of America's most popular prejudices...

The unmissable debut from the 2023/2024 #Merky Books New Writers' Prize winner. WINNER OF THE #MERKY BOOKS NEW WRITERS' PRIZE; A NEW NORTHERN MASTERPIECE. A SERVICE95 MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 Salam is a standard bearer for a new generation of literary novelists - GUARDIAN A future classic. Salam is about to become a completely essential voice in fiction -...

An epic and profound new novel from Sebastian Faulks, author of the Sunday Times bestseller Birdsong. 'Beautifully written and deceptively deep novel of moral choice set in the aftermath of the Second World War. The characters are as utterly convincing as the story' — Antony Beevor. Philip Deval, a soldier recently returned from the beaches of Normandy, arrives in Palestine...

‘A perfect novel … on the knife’s edge of hilarity and tenderness’ JONATHAN LETHEM From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers comes Dodge City, a thrilling novel about a young man on an amphetamine-fuelled cross-country road trip fleeing the Vietnam draft. 1967, California. Lee Clarke is a strait-laced twenty-three-year-old, happily in love and ambling along at college until an...

A second-chance romance following a young woman who wakes up in the hospital with no memory of the past six years, only to find that she apparently married the one man she can’t stand—her arrogant and infuriating former boarding school rival. Molly Graham’s day can’t possibly get any worse after she wakes up in a hospital bed with a head...

Revolution in the Heart is a collection of 15 brand new stories by a group of celebrated authors, all inspired by one of the iconic figures in all of science fiction and fantasy: the legendary and award-winning Ursula K. Le Guin. From the appearance of her first work of short fiction in 1962 to the publication of the last in...

This Collector's Edition features marbled oceanic edges and endpapers, gold foil, and a reading group guide. A New York Times Bestseller • A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick Soon to be a Netflix Film Remarkably Bright Creatures is an ultimately feel-good but deceptively sensitive debut. . . . Memorable and tender. —Washington Post After Tova Sullivan's husband...

'An Italian novel of imperfect love and urgent grief' NEW YORK TIMES 'A story of love and youth and pain that will have you clutching at your heart... One of the best novels I've ever read' ANDREW SEAN GREER 'A novel of dignified beauty' OBSERVER 'A masterly piece of writing, rich with insight and detail, and a curiously moving optimism'...

'If seeing someone cry while reading a book makes you want to pick it up immediately, let me save you the wait - this is that book.' 'This book deserves six stars... I feel like I'm going to throw up, but in a good way.' 'If you loved Boys of Tommen... but also a Mad Max post-apocalyptic type world, then...

If you and I are in the same ='entertainment venue' for this ='stand-up comedy special' and I am ='my body' and you are ='my audience' I run to you and shout your name into the dark, in the hope you are there. Yes, you='dear reader'='attentive listener'. This is a story about the end days of a tech company and its...

In a remote house on a hilltop, a lonely boy witnesses a traumatic event. He tries—and fails—to flee. Left alone with his increasingly deranged parent, he dreams of safety, of joining the other children in the town below, of escape. When at last a stranger knocks at his door, the boy senses that his days of isolation might be over....

Sometimes the key is letting go…

Curl up with a good cat… Amane Morikawa arrives at the bookshop she’s inherited from her grandfather in Onomichi, only to find a dusty space with empty bookshelves – and a group of characterful cats who’ve made it their home. Comforted by her new feline friends, Amane begins to connect with the people around her. A clockmaker who tends to...

A taut and powerful exploration of the complexities of female friendships and the fragile ties that hold us together. Perfect for fans of Alison Espach and Curtis Sittenfeld. Five friends, twenty years, one reunion trip. As undergrads, Gregg, Reba, Hillary, Bella, and Carson formed the kind of rare bond that university brochures promise – friendship that lasts a lifetime. Two...

Over a million copies sold! Discover the story that has captivated readers around the world... "Enjoyable and gripping" - Guardian "One of the best historical novels you are likely to read" - Christine Dwyer Hickey "A sprawling fresco and star-crossed love story" - New York Times "An inventive epic" - Elle "Timeless" - Daily Mail In an Italian monastery, an...

Fall in love with one of the most beloved romance stories ever written. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is a timeless novel about love, class, and the courage to challenge first impressions. The narrative centres on the reluctance of the sharp-witted Elizabeth Bennet to be forced into a ‘suitable’ marriage, and her equally strong dislike for the enigmatic Mr...

'It will never be like this again.' She looked up. He held her eye. 'You'll never love anyone the way you do when you're sixteen.' In her late thirties, Maggie Byrd lives a charmed life in London. She works with fossils and gems at the Natural History Museum, and shares a home with the two people she loves most: her...

‘Hannan's writing glitters and fizzes and leaves the reader with an afterglow.’ Kate Mildenhall When Leslie McDonald wins a trip to Las Vegas, an absurd holiday becomes a pilgrimage; one that leads her back to joy, back to herself, and to the astonishing realisation that her life still belongs to her. Leslie had felt for some time that life was...

A dark domestic fairytale by Hungary's most important twentieth-century writer. Nothing is more mysterious than another human soul. Magda is a writer, Emerence her housekeeper. Magda is new to their quiet Hungarian town, while Emerence, fierce and enigmatic, knows and is known by all. Though she enters Magda's home whenever she pleases, the door to Emerence's own strange abode remains...

A gorgeous new sun-soaked story about family, friendship and fresh starts from number one international bestselling author, Nicky Pellegrino. Ever since she was a little girl, Aria has dreamt of riding in the Palio de Siena. She grew up hearing stories of Romplicollo, the only female jockey to have ridden in the Palio, and she has wanted nothing more than...

When Clarice broke up with P.T., he refused to be dumped. He sent non-stop emails and made hundreds of phone calls from dozens of different numbers. He showed up outside her office. He staked out her apartment. He sent her flowers and poems and, perhaps most sinister of all, a link to a Dido music video. Equal parts bewildering (who...

A wise, tender, life-affirming return to the beloved town of Faha by the award-winning master of Irish literature This is the why of us. October in the parish of Faha, County Clare – the beginning of the season of spirits. Four nights a week, Bat Considine calls on his neighbour Mossie Crowe; a beloved widower known to all in the...

Soon to be a major film, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley and Josh Brolin. 'A love-letter to things of beauty' - GILLIAN FLYNN 'Magical and life-affirming' - GUARDIAN 'A perfectly pitched post-apocalyptic tale' - MARIE CLAIRE The Road - but with hope. Hig, bereaved and traumatised after global disaster, has three things to live for...

Every time I think Kristin Harmel's books can't get any better, they do Sally Hepworth Romantic, sweeping, and deeply emotional—this is Kristin Harmel at her absolute best Christina Lauren A transportive and much-needed trip to Paris . . . I stayed up all night finishing this one Jo Piazza Julia Glover has brought her twenty-three-year-old daughter, Piper, to Paris for...

‘What sets Valeria Luiselli’s new novel apart is its clarity, its immediacy, its vividness’ COLM TÓIBÍN ‘Inventive, brilliant, playful … dazzles on every page’ KATIE KITAMURA From the award-winning author of Lost Children Archive, Valeria Luiselli, comes a wondrous, tender and expansive new novel about family, memory and time. A mother and a daughter take off on a road trip...

A riveting and epic family drama set in WWII-era Norway, award-winning author Lars Mytting's The Night of the Scourge is the final novel in the internationally bestselling Sister Bells trilogy. Butangen, Norway, the years before WWII: Astrid Hekne has inherited the fighting spirit and hypersensitivity of her grandmother, who was a protector of the mythic Sister Bells that had once...

From the author of The Bright Years, the story of April and Leo, a couple on the brink of collapse. When their house goes up in flames, family secrets and thorny histories emerge as they are forced to decide what is worth salvaging. When April and Leo’s house burns in the middle of the night, they escape with their two...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings 1980s New York to vivid, unforgettable life. 1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by rampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained by Reagan-era predatory capitalism. Up in Harlem, successful...

When I opened my eyes, I was no longer myself. I had become the villainess of a zombie apocalypse, with a zombie’s teeth buried in me. And yet… I didn’t die. When I returned unscathed, everyone looked at me as if I’d risen from the grave. Just one bite, I thought. These were the people who had abandoned me. Surely,...

From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature - 'a maestro' (Guardian). A captivating story of the intertwined lives of three young people coming-of-age in postcolonial East Africa **Selected as a book to look out for in 2025 by the Guardian, Observer, Irish Times and BBC****A Time Book of the Year 2025**‘A poignant portrait of love, friendship and...

The new book by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Blurb coming soon...

He rangatahi ngākau whiwhita ki ngā waka tetere. He kairapuhara wahine Māori e mahitahi ana ki roto i te ao kikokiko me te ao atua. He kaihoahoa hūmārie ka tukirae atu ki tētehi manuwhiri i te rārangi harirū. Nā te kairīpoata rongonui a Atakohu Middleton tēnei kohikohinga tuatahitanga o ngā pakipoto ka tuhia katoatia ki te reo Māori. He rerekē...

USA TODAY BESTSELLER "Tate blends fact and fiction with elegance...A captivating, emotionally resonant portrait of a singular woman who refused to be diminished." — LIBRARY JOURNAL "Tate has a rare gift for storytelling that strikes straight to the heart." — SADEQA JOHNSON, New York Times bestselling author of Keeper of Lost Children From The Queen of Sugar Hill author ReShonda...

An eminent Crown Court Judge is forced to reckon her professional life and role as wife, mother, friend, and feminist when a devastating crisis hits home. Jessica is a recently appointed Judge in London, who grapples with balancing her demanding professional responsibilities with her roles as a mother, wife, friend, and feminist. She belongs to a new breed of judicial...

USA Today Bestseller "A sharp, funny mystery bursting with heart and small-town secrets. I adored every page of The Best Little Motel in Texas - pure escapist joy with a wicked edge."— Joanna Wallace, author of You'd Look Better as a Ghost "An overall, absolute delight." - Booklist, starred review A charming, edgy mystery about a young woman who unexpectedly...

From bestselling novelist Nadia Hashimi—a gripping, occasionally terrifying, yet ultimately hopeful novel focusing on the women of Afghanistan in the years since the Taliban regained power. In February 2020, the US began to withdraw troops from Afghanistan after nearly twenty years of occupation. A whole generation of Afghan women had been born during that time—women who had grown up in...

‘A great book and a marvellously crafted story’ Roddy Doyle Zoli Novotna is a poet by accident as much as desire. As Fascism spreads over Czechoslovakia, she and her grandfather flee an unspeakable loss to join a clan of fellow Romani harpists. As Zoli shapes the ancient songs to her times, she finds her gift embraced – by her own...

From author Sarah MacLean, a razor-sharp, wildly sexy novel about a wealthy New England family’s long-overdue reckoning... and the one week that threatens to tear them apart. "Deliciously impossible to put down." – Jodi Picoult "Addictive." - Ali Hazelwood "A gripping inheritance drama, wrapped around a swoony summer romance." – The New York Times Book Review A BEST BOOK OF...

Joan Liang's life is a series of surprising developments: she never thought she would leave Taiwan (and for all places, California), nor did she expect her first marriage to implode — especially as quickly and spectacularly as it did. She definitely did not expect to fall in love with an older, wealthy American and become his fourth wife and mother...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUREALIS AWARD FOR BEST HORROR NOVEL 2025 'Immersive, urgent, hair-raising . . . It demands to be read in one sitting' COURIER-MAIL 'An electrifying and well-crafted Gothic thriller' THE AUSTRALIAN The acclaimed bestseller from a stunning new Australian talent: The Farm ripples with the Gothic undertones of Rebecca and enthrals from the very first page. When Leila...

'Discovering the secret world of American boarding schools was endlessly entertaining. I absolutely loved this book and can't wait to read the sequel!' JILL MANSELL NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Secrets, rumours, and dangerous liaisons - at an elite New England boarding school, they come with the territory. Amidst the happy chaos of move-in day at Tiffin Academy, shocking...

'Domestic objects lead to intimate memories and troubled histories in this glorious, genre-bending book.' Guardian In this startling hybrid book—fiction, memoir, history, essay—Lara Pawson makes us see the world with fresh eyes and not look away. An unnamed woman contemplates the toaster she's inherited from a neighbour. A homely object, hardly worthy of a sonnet or still-life. And yet, thinking...

Marianne Dashwood can't understand her sister. How could the attractive, witty, and charming Elinor fall for the quiet, self-effacing, and rather dull Edward Ferrars? And, if the two are in love, why don't they shout it to the world? Meanwhile, Elinor worries that Marianne's heart-first approach to life will hurt her, especially when it comes to the dashing John Willoughby....

Summer 1983, Rimini. On the beaches and in the nightclubs of the Adriatic Riviera, dazzling with its neon lights and promised pleasures, seven lives intersect. A young journalist on his first important assignment, determined to unravel a web of political corruption. A woman searching for her runaway teenage sister - and a new life after the end of her marriage....

Find me here where the sea meets the land Where the rocks are black and so is the sand On the wild west coast of Aotearoa, twelve-year-old Ned lives with his mother in a bach above Te Henga's black sand beach. He is thoughtful and observant, the sort of boy who knows that too much in his life is unexplained....

This limited deluxe edition paperback will feature festive stenciled edges and glow-in-the-dark cover effects – available on the first printing only, so pre-order now! There’s no escaping the holiday spirit in this dark, forced-proximity, why choose, Christmas stalker romance, the sequel to Alta Hensley’s New York Times bestselling He Knows When You’re Awake! Stalkin’ around the Christmas tree… Hailey Parker...

In 1967, on the night of the first Apollo mission, a child named Izzy is orphaned when the doomsday cult she was born into clashes with the sheriff in the high desert of New Mexico. She's taken in by a struggling rancher who is trying to keep his mind from falling apart as NASA rocket tests encroach on his outer...

Miquel and his father are living an uneasy life together in his mother's house in the Pyrenees, the house she had been returning to on the day she died. A new bridge, connecting the two valleys, is almost complete, which will end the valley's isolation and create an easier route to smuggle contraband deep into the mountains. Where Miquel's father...

In 1960s Italy, a family secret rips a teenage girl's world apart, only for her to discover its true meaning decades later. 'Moss makes every moment count' - The Sunday Times 'A book of lasting pleasures' - Eleanor Catton 'Powerful and beautifully written' - The Guardian Just out of school and teetering on the brink of adulthood, Edith is sent...

Abu Dhabi, 2008. In a glittering desert city on the brink of financial crisis, three expats are marooned. When Lily, a young Australian botanical artist, suffers a devastating medical emergency, her marriage fractures, driving her into the orbit of a charismatic neighbour. Hugo is an older psychotherapist who has fled a trail of ugly rumours in Melbourne. Observing them both...

Miri was whole, once. She had a best friend, once. She knew who she was - or she thought she did. But now she is a million lonely molecules, flying through the air to a new life on the other side of the world. Rome is light and loud and cobblestones and gelaterias and ancient buildings next to modern ones....