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Must a child's past define their future?'Stark and beautiful . . . I haven't read anything this good in a long time' - Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage...

'The chance to join "the Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin"' New York Times'Raw, elliptical, devilishly funny tales' ObserverRanging from Texas, to Chile, to New Mexico and New York, in...

"A riveting history of South Africa and a penetrating portrait of a courageous woman." -- The New YorkerA must read fiction of South Africa from the winner of the Nobel...

A CLASSIC FAMILY SAGA FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR DILLY COURTEast London, 1880Lily Larkin is the youngest and least important member of her family. When tragedy strikes, she is left at home...

From the writer who brought you ADVENTURES IN CAPITALISM and starring the Boots Please-Use-a-Basket Girl, Mr Kipling, Michel Foucault and a Fluffy Pink Bunny Rabbit comes a brand new production,...

Here We F**king Go (HWFG) is the much-anticipated follow up to Chris McQueer s hilarious, award-winning debut short story collection Hings. In HWFG... Your fave Sammy gets a job and...

Olivia Bevelstroke, the only daughter of the Earl of Rudland, is beautiful and has a sizeable dowry. Yet at the age of twenty-one she is still unmarried, causing people to...

Shocked by a five-month arson spree that left a Virginia county reeling, reporter Monica Hesse drove to Accomack to cover the trial of Charlie Smith who pled guilty to 67...

Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, Trumpet by Jackie Kay is a starkly beautiful modern classic about the lengths to which people will go for love. It is a moving...

When he lands in Harare North, our unnamed protagonist carries nothing but a cardboard suitcase full of memories and a longing to be reunited with his childhood friend, Shingi.He ends...

An ingenious, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star keeps risingThe protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics...

Preorder Mhairi's new novel COVER STORY - coming soon! An achingly funny story about how to be your own hero when life pulls the rug out from under your feet......

'As unexpectedly beguiling as it is affecting.' Daily MailSince his award-winning debut collection of stories, Last Days of the Dog-Men, Brad Watson's work has been as melancholy, witty, strange, and...

Which of these stories is true and which is semi-true I have, of course, not the slightest intention of telling you, but I hope this will not detract from your...

On the morning after he has celebrated his 60th birthday party at a celebrity-filled party, Ned Marriott is in bed with his partner, Emma, when there's a knock on the...

Jen B's been surviving at the nightmarishly brutal MLK High School just like everybody else: by following the rules. She avoids the Principal. She doesn't complain. She's loyal to her...

Three friends running a vintage wedding business. Romances waiting just around the corner. A life adventure awaits. . . from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for...

Bridget Jones, the world's favourite singleton, is back with a bump in the irresistible Sunday Times bestseller - now a major film.'Gloriously funny' DAILY EXPRESS8.45 P.M. Realise there have been...

'Wonderfully entertaining . . . Maeve is on cracking form' - Jilly CooperIn A Country Garden is a heartwarming, hilarious tale of growing old not-so-gracefully, from the bestselling author of...

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and winner of the 2006 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, The History of Love by bestselling author Nicole Krauss explores the lasting...

Since it won the 2002 Booker Prize, Life of Pi has gone on to sell nearly 2 million copies, it is the biggest selling winner of all time, and is...

The remarkable debut novel from critically acclaimed writer Huma Qureshi: an engrossing story of art and sisterhood, family, marriage and betrayal'Poignant and impressionistic . . . highly readable and relatable'...

***Out now: Fiona McFarlane's latest book HIGHWAY THIRTEEN***SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 'Brilliant, fresh and compulsively readable' ANN PATCHETT 'A blazing mystery . . . tremendous' GUARDIAN 'Masterful storytelling'...

WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE FINGERPRINT AWARDS 2024!*Picked as one of the best historical novels of 2023 by The Times!*'A creepy, chilling story - another...

What will life bring now The Great War is over? The Great War is over and Kate is ready to welcome back Eliot with open arms. But her husband is...

Where there's community, there's courage...Jess Delaney has always longed for independence. But when the Blitz reaches Manchester, she is locked in the cellar by her feckless mother, Lizzie. As bombs...

Soon to be a film, written by Matthew Lopez (Olivier Award winner for The Inheritance), produced by Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name)'Movie stars in Italy, a longtime affair,...

Set during the Second World War in Liverpool, this is a wonderful Maureen Lee tale - written specially for the World Book Day Quick Reads promotion.On 3 September 1939, Amy...

In nineteenth century Paris, the young bohemian Charles Baudelaire roams the streets. Dressed impeccably - thanks to an inheritance that is quickly vanishing - and lost in the decadences of...

"Excellent! Dark and light and brilliant." - Miles CameronSomewhere in England, in a small town called Strange Ground by the Skea, Ebbie Wren is the last librarian and he's about...

Frances had read of a man who painted with only the colour yellow. He lived in the north of Norway. In the beautiful, barren landscape of the Far North, under...

Up-and-coming floral designer Cara Kryzik is about to score the wedding of a lifetime- one that will solidify her career as the go-to-girl for Savannah society nuptials. The only problem...

As one of the nation's favourite romantic novelists, Jack Carter knows romance only too well. But what he really wants now, after his traumatic divorce, is romance in his personal...

When Colombian Arias Cuevas is caught trying to smuggle drugs through Venice airport, his fear isn't fuelled by the idea of prison. He's much more frightened of his aunt -...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'The most successful novelist on Planet Earth' - Washington Post Blake Cocharan knew exactly who he wanted to recreate the restaurant of his prestigious Philadelphia flagship...

James Falconer returns in the third House of Falconer historical novel from multi-million copy bestseller Barbara Taylor Bradford. The Somme, 1916. James Falconer, once a barrow boy on a London...

His interest in her was purely professional ...Or so he told himself. Nash Kirkland had sought out the alluring Morgana Donovan to help him research his latest screenplay, though the...

For the inhabitants of the damp little Irish town of Ballinacroagh, the repertoire of gastronomic delights has never extended farther than the limp meals of the local inn's carvery. But...