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An Irish Independent book of the summer ‘Rebecca meets Brideshead Revisited meets Saltburn’ STYLIST ‘A subtle, claustrophobic, seduction of a novel’ CLAIRE FULLER ‘Evocative, gripping and, at times, verging on horror’ IRISH TIMES ‘Hypnotic and immersive ... Utterly addictive’ COLIN WALSH ‘A hugely talented writer’ SARAH WATERS ‘Sexy, evocative and unsettling in all the best ways’ JENNIE GODFREY ‘The book...

Immerse yourself in the dark and psychological depths of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Follow the tormented Raskolnikov as he grapples with guilt, morality, and the consequences of his actions in this gripping masterpiece of Russian literature. A gripping psychological thriller! Fyodor Dostoyevsky's compelling exploration of guilt, redemption, and the human psyche Gripping portrayal of a troubled protagonist caught...

A stunning collection of Black American horror short stories curated by the prolific author-editor-scholar team of Maurice Broaddus and Dr. Chesya Burke. Edited by award-winning writer, community organiser and educator Maurice Broaddus and scholar, professor and award-winning author Dr. Chesya Burke, with an introduction by Dr. Burke, Black Horror: Canonical Voices from Then to Now is a landmark anthology offering...

A stunning collection of African-Australian short stories from the multi-award-winning author Eugen Bacon. Black Dingo is a cross-genre miscellany that embraces multi-award-winning author Eugen Bacon's hybridity as an African Australian who is 'betwixt', 'a sum of parts'. She is a mother, a daughter, a sister, a woman, a writer, an author, an editor, a scholar, and a friend. She is...

A sweeping story of one woman's grit across war, exile, and rebirth, this novel tracks an entire people through the century that remade them. It's a spotlight on the cost of survival—and the scale of what endures. From a crowded Sabbath table in Bialystok to the gas chambers of Auschwitz and the fires of resistance, one family fights to stay...

The triumphant conclusion to the Villains trilogy from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil. The ExtraOrdinary of Merit City, a secret group of individuals gifted with a power connected to their manner of near-death experience, have been keeping a low profile, avoiding the ever-watchful eye...

The unforgettable story of Edmond Dantes is a masterpiece of literature that has remained popular with readers for nearly two centuries. From best-selling author Alexandre Dumas—who also wrote The Three Musketeers—comes the epic tale of Edmond Dantes, wrongly imprisoned for fourteen years, kept from the woman he loved, and unjustly denied the life they had planned. His revenge on the...

A spellbinding tour de force from the author of The Invisible Bridge - a novel about varieties of infidelity, the provenance of a literary masterpiece, and the power of storytelling to shape identity and destiny. Luna, Phoenix, Queen is a miracle of a book' Katie Kitamura, author of Audition ‘Luna, Phoenix, Queen breaks all the rules and makes its own....

Acclaimed author of The Anthropologists, Aysegül Savaş’s acute and tender first collection explores the distances we keep, and those we try to close, in the age of connectivity. A researcher abroad in Rome eagerly awaits a visit from her long-distance lover, only to find he is not the same man she remembers. An expat meets a childhood friend on a...

“Shea’s page-turning prose and loveable, curious, and kind protagonist keep the heart at the center of this tragically gorgeous novel.” — Booklist, STARRED REVIEW For fans of Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These and Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes this unforgettable and fiercely compassionate novel. Immediately upon his release from a 25-year prison sentence, former...

The hit LitRPG fantasy series, AWAKEN ONLINE, is now in hardcover for the very first time and widely distributed with, CATHARSIS (Awaken Online, Book 1)! Loner. Outcast. Villain. Jason logs into Awaken Online fed-up with reality. He's in desperate need of an escape, and this game is his ticket to finally feeling the type of power and freedom that are...

You're only old once. Time for a new adventure... Sunday Times bestselling author Deborah Moggach revisits her best-loved setting in the follow-up novel to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. 'THANK GOD for Deborah Moggach' Independent'The Moggach miracle continues' The Times A generation after we first visited it, the 'Best Exotic' Marigold Hotel, where Western pensioners retire to soak up the sun...

They move from party to party, engagement to engagement, scheme to scheme—never stopping long enough to notice that nothing is holding. Money evaporates, relationships dissolve, plans collapse. Still, the music plays. Vile Bodies is comedy at speed, but its subject is exhaustion: a generation living as if permanence were optional, and discovering that it is not. Beneath the glitter, something...

A woman is told to rest. To obey. To stop thinking. What follows is one of the most unsettling descents in modern fiction. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s classic, the domestic interior becomes a site of quiet horror, where care turns to control and reason gives way to obsession. Short, precise, and impossible to forget, The Yellow Wallpaper is a story...

A priceless object. A handful of people willing to lie, betray, and kill for it. And at the centre, a man who knows exactly what everyone is doing—and how far he is willing to go himself. The Maltese Falcon strips the detective story to its core: not the solving of a crime, but the negotiation of a world where nothing...

In December 1941, Japanese troops landed on the northern coast of Borneo and began a brutal three-year, eight-month occupation. Set in a forgotten theatre of World War II, The Crossing of the Boars is a gripping magical-realist tale of a multiethnic village fighting for survival. Opening years after the war, with the Village of the Boars enveloped in wildfire smoke...

A young woman disappears into a world where the law does not reach. Abduction, violence, and trial, all unfold with terrible clarity and no relief. Nobody intervenes, no one answers, nothing is repaired. Sanctuary exposes a system that continues to function even as it ceases to protect. Institutions hold their shape but their force is gone. Power acts freely. Consequence...

A glance, a tram, a man chewing gum—and suddenly nothing holds. In this luminous story, Clarice Lispector captures the instant when the ordinary breaks open and the self no longer feels secure. What emerges is not drama but revelation: a world at once more alive and more unbearable.

It begins with a drink thrown in a moment of anger—public, irreversible, and instantly understood. From that point on, everything closes in. Business relationships sour, social standing slips, money tightens, and the small evasions that once held life together stop working. What follows unfolds over just a few days, with a precision that makes every misstep feel both accidental and...

BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. One ordinary morning, in an unexceptional town, every mobile phone lights up with the same emergency alert. In this compelling, darkly funny and moving debut novel, each of Vincent Yu's utterly relatable, flawed characters is given a choice: in the face of mutually assured destruction, do we reach for...

‘He manawarū, he tāuteute hoki tēnei pukapuka e āta whakaahua ana i te wā koroniara o Aotearoa, i te wā Wikitoria hoki o Ingarangi, mā roto i te tirohanga a tētahi rangatira nō Ngāti Wai. E mīharo rawa atu ana te mahi a Paula Morris ki te whakamārama i te ao o tōna tupuna, o Paratene Te Manu, me te...

PRE-ORDER NOW – FROM THE PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF TRESPASSES 'Moving, compassionate, a touching love story' - DAVID NICHOLLS 'I gulped this down - convinced, fascinated and moved by every page' - EMMA DONOGHUE 'A beautiful novel about loss and being lost' - NICK HORNBY 'A moving and immersive novel about first love, addiction and regret' - MIN JIN LEE Róisín...

A darkly funny, heart-wrenching satire that tears through the guts of the war news industry. Vulture is a dark satire with real claws. ― The Independent A novel of honesty, humour and sadness told with great verve. ― Fergal Keane, author of The Madness Imagine Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag as a war correspondent and you'd get Sara, the cynical and raunchy...

From the bestselling author of The Bookshop Ladies, Faith Hogan, comes a wonderfully gripping and poignant story of two sisters and their family hotel on peaceful Pin Hill Island, once a thriving family business now struggling to survive. All Blythe Carney ever wanted was to become a hotelier and run her family’s business, the Hope Square Hotel. But fate, and...

From the bestselling author of The Bookshop Ladies, Faith Hogan, comes a wonderfully gripping and poignant story of two sisters and their family hotel on peaceful Pin Hill Island, once a thriving family business now struggling to survive. All Blythe Carney ever wanted was to become a hotelier and run her family’s business, the Hope Square Hotel. But fate, and...

The Single Neighbour is a cleverly observed and deeply authentic novel about a marriage in turmoil, and the power the past can have over our present. It's both arresting and engaging, with convincing characters and layers of intrigue as noted by Holly Miller. Tristan and Izzy are on the brink of marital breakdown. Sex has become less than perfunctory and...

An archaeologist travels to a distant planet to spend time among a mysterious community: a people who live in temperature-controlled domes, worship a deity called Dog, and repeat an elliptical phrase from which they draw their name: mulai, the tree comes. The descendants of a long-forgotten space mission, the Mulai have abandoned the social norms that once bound them to...

UNSETTLING ~ WRY ~ TENDER An unusual and unforgettable take on what it means to be an outsider, an outcast, a misfit. Five thousand years after having escaped Crete, the Minotaur finds himself deep in the American South, living in a trailer park and working as a line cook at Grub's Ribs. He leads a lonely life observing the haphazard...

I was writing to her, so that she would know me not as this old person whose joints creaked when he rose from a chair, but as the real Pericles: the man who dreamt, deceived, envied, loved… Pericles Drakos has lived in the exquisite Circle Building for all of his seventy-five years. From its lofty windows, he has seen his...

As dawn breaks, a woman prepares to make a perfect breakfast for her husband and son, while a subtle note of disquiet grows louder. A Japanese soldier resolutely obeys a command as precise as it is inexplicable. Two girls discover themselves through electrically charged games, which they will recall in letters for the rest of their lives. Enigmatic yet sharply...

Having just moved into a fine, six-roomed residence, “the Laurels”, the Pooters are ready to begin a new life. Charles, the paterfamilias, a lowly clerk in a City of London firm, begins to keep a diary. Over the next fifteen months, this diary will provide a record of the small trials and tribulations, as well as the preoccupations, aspirations and...

The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose—there's no one like Edna O'Brien. Anne Enright Surprising and beautiful and courageous . . . A beacon. Megan Nolan We want to live. Drink gin. Squeeze into the front of big cars and drive up outside big hotels. We want to go places. Caithleen is a romantic: she dreams of finding a handsome man who...

Why did people, who lived so briefly in this universe, contain so much time? Lina and her ailing father have taken refuge at an enclave called the Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions, among them three volumes from The Great Lives of Voyagers encyclopaedia series. In this mysterious and shape-shifting building, pasts and futures collide....

A story of love, liars and secrets . . . Shady, sexy, suspicious - perfect summer holiday reading' The Times, 2026 Must-Read round-up Shay was no longer in the cult, but still, it made her wedding guests nervous that she was bringing them to an island . . . On a remote island off the coast of Virginia, family and...

Paris, late 90s: at the centre of the city's queer techno scene, musician Louise lives in a haze of parties, drugs and hooking up. A group of women orbits her magnetic DJ ex-girlfriend Alex; as they bar hop, go to each other's sets and climb into each other's beds, Louise struggles to make rent and work on her own electronic...

FEVERISH ~ PROVOCATIVE ~ INTIMATE A neon-lit portrait of danger and desire, unravelling and reinvention. Jesse is a twenty-nine-year-old adrift in San Francisco's demi-monde of sexually ambiguous, drug-taking outsiders, desperately trying to sustain a connection with her bisexual boyfriend. She becomes caretaker and confidante to Madame Pig, a grotesque, besotted recluse, and meets Madison - Pig's daughter or lover or...

For fans of Sally Rooney and Megan Nolan comes a remarkable new Irish debut about growing up and moving backwards. What do you do when you've ruined your own life? You go home to your mother, if you're lucky enough still to have one. Saoirse Maher wouldn't recommend it. Leaving home wasn't supposed to be temporary. But after her five-year...

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. Even...

FROM THE GLOBAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR "[Kingsolver] reminds us that a novel can be wildly entertaining and still have a social conscience" NEW YORK TIMES, '100 Best Books of the 21st Century' (on Demon Copperhead) 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...

'Wistful, funny and sweet and just a small bit murder-y' Marian Keyes, Sunday Times bestselling author 'The perfect sun lounger read' Sarra Manning, Sunday Times bestselling author 'Their new standalone is funny and smart, raising big questions about friendship … I loved how this kept me guessing the whole way through - I predict another big hit' Red 'Packed with...

'Wistful, funny and sweet and just a small bit murder-y' Marian Keyes, Sunday Times bestselling author 'The perfect sun lounger read' Sarra Manning, Sunday Times bestselling author 'Their new standalone is funny and smart, raising big questions about friendship … I loved how this kept me guessing the whole way through - I predict another big hit' Red 'Packed with...

AN IRISH TIMES DEBUT AUTHOR TO LOOK OUT FOR 2025A VULTURE BEST BOOK OF 2025 A woman finds herself navigating a co-dependent relationship with a ghost. A waitress gives birth to an egg during her breakfast shift. A doctor puts his patient on a cleanse to 'purify' her mind, body and soul. Through playful but provocative prose, Rose Keating's stories...

[A] whimsical tale of transformation... magic is essential, and Okri can spin it. Guardian Full of rich hallucinatory imagery and enjoyably vibrant symbolism Irish Times Hearts will be healed and hearts broken, but no one will leave this festival as they arrived… Viv has turned heartbreak into spectacle: a one-night-only masked festival at a French château, marking the anniversary of...

These four Stefan Zweig stories, translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell, are among his most celebrated and compelling work. The titular tale is a devastating depiction of unrequited love, which inspired a classic Hollywood film, directed by Max Ophüls and starring Joane Fontaine. Elsewhere in the collection, a young man mistakes the girl he loves for her sister, two erstwhile...

This boxset includes the bestseller Days at the Morisaki Bookshop and its sequel More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop. A young woman, lost and heartbroken. Her eccentric, optimist uncle. His wife, with a mysterious secret. Here, in this ramshackle bookshop in the Jimbocho area of Tokyo, these three people will heal their hearts, find connection and overcome loneliness. Hidden away,...

'A story of love, liars and secrets . . . Shady, sexy, suspicious - perfect summer holiday reading' The Times, 2026 Must-Read round-up Shay was no longer in the cult, but still, it made her wedding guests nervous that she was bringing them to an island . . . Just a few months after leaving the mysterious and dangerous cult...

If all that follows reads like a love story, that's what it was... Hey Man is the story of Ian and Tommy, whose rich and tender friendship stretches across three fateful decades. Their story begins in 1989, when seventeen-year-old Dubliner Ian finds himself lodging with thirty-year-old actor Tommy in London. A summer of long nights and early mornings leaves an...

RAW ∼ REBELLIOUS ∼ VULGAR Bukowski's take on the bildungsroman, an anti-coming-of-age story and his finest novel. Lifelong misfit Henry Chinaski grows up downtrodden, stumbling through a world he has only ever known as hostile. Fights, failed romances and humiliations abound; Chinaski toughens up as he grows up, finding solace in books and in the bottle. Savagely funny and profoundly...

In this remarkable novel, Mahesh Rao gives voice to the forgotten and the ignored, and my lord, what a voice it is. Half Light is steeped to a sublime perfection, an astonishing literary achievement. Rabih Alameddine, author of The Wrong End of the Telescope High in the mountains of Darjeeling, a landslide traps the guests and staff of a crumbling...

Two men, decades apart, are ensnared in the deadly search for a fabled treasure in the conclusion to Lavie Tidhar's epic and audacious Maror Trilogy. 1882, Jerusalem The foreigner. A man with no name, twin guns at his hips, a wide-brimmed hat on his head. A European exile in the backwaters of Ottoman Palestine, the foreigner is a bounty hunter...

'Poignant, thought-provoking and very funny' JOANNA CANNON'Darkly comic and deeply felt' GRACE FLAHIVE Full of wit, heart and charm, Ghost Month asks a timeless question: do we only value life when we are reminded that it will end? Perhaps you've already noticed little things, strange details. A shadow not attached to anything. A face in a window which might be...

"A dazzlingly prescient parable of ambition, greed, and wealth rattling even the firmest foundations. Like the fractured Italy leaping from its pages full of life and sound and smell, Florenzer churns at the quicksilver pace of creation itself." ― Isa Arsén, author of Shoot the Moon Leonardo da Vinci, twelve years old and a bastard, leaves the Tuscan countryside to...

Amid the heady rebellion of London's Young British Artists, Rabble Stone, a photographer, meets the artist, a painter, after renting a room in her Brixton home. Soon Rabble is in thrall to this new world: to the run-down glamour of the Victorian house; to the exhilarating and debauched gallery openings, and to those in the artist's orbit, beautiful and lost....

One of our very best authors ... Very funny, very moving novel — The New World Charming portrait of friendship and loneliness — Daily Mail Deeply comforting — Guardian Funny, inventive and beautifully heart-breaking — Irish Times Eric and Carl live in Dorset in a small white cottage under the shadow of a big cliff. Eric sells old records and...

As the ageing Gustav von Aschenbach, a famous author who has recently been ennobled in recognition of his literary achievements, arrives in Venice for a holiday and checks into his Lido hotel, he is struck by the arresting good looks of Tadzio, an aristocratic Polish youth of around fourteen who is sojourning there with his family. Gradually, what starts as...

Since losing his job, Ned's sole responsibility has been to look after his six-year-old son while his wife works. When he one day finds his old tennis racquet buried in the garage, he also unearths a part of his former self. On a whim, and without his wife's knowledge, Ned rejoins his former tennis club - and finds life outside...

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY COLIN WALSH, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF KALA 'A compelling narrative, a beautifully structured piece of writing, and a thought-provoking novel of ideas' - Sarah Waters His new name is Jack. To his new friends, he is a good guy with occasional flashes of unexpected violence. To his new girlfriend, he is strangely inexperienced and unreachable. To...

Blistering ~ Macabre ~ Irreverent Legendary chef Anthony Bourdain's crude culinary noir classic. When up-and-coming chef Tommy Pagana settles for a less than glamorous stint at his uncle's failing restaurant in Little Italy, he unwittingly finds himself a partner in big-time crime. Between the chef's smack habit and a murder in the kitchen, Tommy finds that nothing he learned at...

A powerful, unsettling, universal novel about love and identity. "As far back as I remember, I was never taught to love. Truth be told, things haven't really progressed since." So begins the nameless protagonist's journal. An anthropologist from Senegal, thirty-three years of age (half of which spent in France), he doesn't know how to love, or who to be. Various...

June cleans houses. Ray is a janitor at the public tennis courts in Dun Laoghaire. After lives spent picking up the pieces, he's not romantic material, and she's not even friend material. When it comes to learning how to be with other people at the age of 70 plus, they are unlikely companions, even more unlikely friends. Ray looks a...

Exquisitely written and utterly compelling - SUSAN BARKER The soul of a stylish mystery and the pace of an old-fashioned thriller - MOHAMMED HANIF Elegant, edgy and cinematic - EMMA CLAIRE SWEENEY Anna has never met anyone like the enigmatic Loll: a British hostess at the Moonglow bar, in the Japanese city of Osaka. While Anna teaches bored students by...

All Us Saints is a gorgeous puzzle-box of a book, with the pieces carved from dread, sex, and secrets. Katherine Packert Burke has inventively inverted the psycho-killer, revealing something new and, once again, shocking.” – Torrey Peters, author of Stag Dance and Detransition Baby From the author of the "vibrantly, brilliantly alive" (James Frankie Thomas) Still Life, a haunted family...

Deliciously evocative, bitingly inventive, written with humour and heart – Elizabeth Day Kostya is working as a dishwasher when he discovers something extraordinary. The strange tastes that have flooded his mouth without warning since his father's death – aftertastes – are being sent by spirits seeking closure. Through his cooking, Kostya can help them find it. Maura is a psychic...

Let Christmas live in your heart all year long with this luxe edition of A Christmas Carol and Other Stories by Charles Dickens. Merry Christmas to all! This timeless collection has warmed hearts for generations, and now you can pass it down to the next in this heirloom-quality volume. On Christmas Eve, cold-hearted, greedy Ebenezer Scrooge is confronted with his...

Ed is a weeper: a card-carrying member of an eccentric union who is hired to cry at funerals, wakes, and burials. It's an odd job, but his services are sorely needed these days, as the town, the region, the country, have weathered so much death and disaster that the so-called normals have gone numb. Still, years of mourning can wear...

To the Hermitage tells two tales: a contemporary story of our narrator, a novelist, who has been invited to Stockholm and then to Russia to take part in what is enigmatically referred to as the Diderot Project, and one set two hundred years earlier in which Bradbury brilliantly recreates Diderot's journey to Russia to entertain and enlighten the mind of...

A thrilling blend of adventure and spy novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps has been continuously in print since first publication in 1915 and has been adapted for stage and screen multiple times, including Alfred Hitchcock's famous film adaptation. ‘Ordinary fellow’ Richard Hannay returns home one night and is horrified to find a dead body. He recognises the murdered man as his...

From the bestselling, award-winning master of uncanny fiction comes a defining work, twenty years in the making - a deeply moving, decade- and continent-spanning epic of grief, global tumult, and grim conspiracy. Maur's life has been shaped by an unbearable loss. But in the aftermath of what is an apparently ordinary tragedy, deeper, stranger questions arise... Their answers may lie...

The beloved French bestseller by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent, The Reader on the 6.27, shows how books truly are the answer to all life's problems. Parisian book pulping plant worker Guylain struggles to get the most out of his days, growing tired of the monotony of his life. His only joy comes from the spontaneity of his performances aboard the 6.27 metro,...

Sometimes ordinary people can make an extraordinary difference . . . Meet Gracie. At mid-life, she's fed up with her unhappy marriage and humdrum career, so when a new housing estate threatens to sever the last connection to her late father, the oak tree he planted as a child, she decides to take a stand—only, Gracie has never stood up...

From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Women and The Nightingale, Summer Island is a poignant, warm and tender novel about a mother and daughter: the complex ties that bind them, the past that separates them, and the healing that comes with forgiveness. Years ago, Nora Bridge walked out on her marriage and left her daughters behind. She has since...

An Esquire Best Book of the Summer (2025) 'Beautiful, thought-provoking and meaningful' - Nussaibah Younis, Women's Prize 2025 shortlisted author of Fundamentally 'A bold, intriguing act of imagination' - Aube Rey Lescure, Women's Prize shortlisted author of River East, River West 'We may look the same, but I am not you . . . We share nothing but a reflection...

Entertaining historical fiction with Jane Austen vibes - Good Housekeeping Inspired by the true story of Countess Bessborough, Rules of the Heart is the sweeping novel from the bestselling author of The Other Bennet Sister, Janice Hadlow. When I love at all, it is with my whole soul - my heart must be torn to pieces before it can forget......

Centuries from now, an orphan adrift in an American city grows up to become a pincher. Stealing electricity from the grid to power the vibrant downtown music scene she adores is a risky occupation, and the city she moves through can be dangerous. She is right to be wary. But soon, she is drawn into a paranoid maze where her...

A gripping page-turner you'll want to stay up all night to finish. - Amy Tintera, New York Times bestselling author of Listen for the Lie After a true crime podcast reopens her cousin's murder case, a woman must confront her past at a glamorous European castle-turned-hotel where she follows a trail of toxic family secrets and deadly lies in this...

Horror, crime, and coming-of-age genres collide wildly in Sarah Wang's inventive and brilliant debut novel - Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick and The Four Spent the Day Together When Linli Feng returns home to LA after three years' absence she is aghast at what she finds. Her mother, Fanny, is unrecognisable. In her endless quest to achieve the...

Stuart Treece, a forty-year-old professor and head of English, now rather set in his ways (Hannibal Lecter is not on his syllabus), is made to feel somewhat alien by his encounters with a younger generation whose values are decidedly at odds with his own. In this witty tragi-comedy, the hero's attempts to come to terms with his new situation are...

A hard diamond of a novel... I have not stopped thinking of it since - Coco Mellors Every sentence keeps you hanging in the air, waiting for the next punch to the gut - Miranda Cowley Heller Packs a huge emotional punch. I couldn't put it down - Daily Mail A living thing... A huge achievement - Financial Times Perfect...

In Vanity Fair, two young women—sharp-witted Becky Sharp and gentle Amelia Sedley—navigate love, war, and society's hypocrisies in a world where charm and cunning often outweigh virtue. Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, Thackeray's masterpiece exposes the moral emptiness of Victorian England with biting humour and unforgettable characters. First published in 1847, this enduring classic remains one of...

Anne Elliot is persuaded to reject the love of her life, Captain Wentworth, when her good friend Lady Russell hints that there is a better match to be found. Now eight years later, Anne's family has been forced to retrench and move to Bath. But while visiting her married sister, Anne meets Captain Wentworth again, who is now a wealthy...