FICTION PAPERBACK

A group of friends, a few bottles of wine and a good book. What could be better? The women who form the Reading Group are as varied as the books...

In the Sunday Times bestseller Gates of Fire, Steven Pressfield tells the breathtaking story of the legendary Spartans: the men and women who helped shaped our history and have themselves...

Picked as a most anticipated book of 2025 by Goodreads, Vogue, LitHub and TIME ------------------------------------------------------- 'Heralds the arrival of a powerful new literary voice' VOGUE 'Pacy, immaculately modulated' OBSERVER 'Had...

The only person harder to match than her clients . . . is the matchmaker herself.The Matcha Maker Cafe is a sweet, small-town slow-burn romance set in a charming matcha...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026****SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**A GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT and NEW STATESMAN Book of the Year'Slick, sharp, strange and singular . . . You'll...

'A must read' Clare Mackintosh 'Unique, funny and romantic, this love story has it all' Heat 'WOW! WOW! WOW! Powerful and life affirming, So much more than five stars' 'Sublime....

Casting Off is the fourth novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling Cazalet Chronicles.The aftermath of war, and the slow dawning of a new era of freedom and opportunity, shape the...

As the old world begins to fade from view and a new dawn emerges, All Change marks the fifth and final volume in Elizabeth Jane Howard's beloved and bestselling Cazalet...

Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Cole and Linda Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos - all are summer guests of Gerald and Sara Murphy. Visionary, misunderstood, and from vastly...

44 Charles Street presents some of the real issues of today's ever changing world, where life is not quite as simple as it was many years ago. We all take...

'A taut, sharp, funny book about being young now. It's brutal - and brilliant.' - Zadie SmithLonglisted for the Women's Prize For FictionWinner of the Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlisted for...

'A proper lovely romance, and a fabulous spirit-lifter' Ruth Jones 'Heart-warming and believable. This is Miranda Dickinson at her very best' Sarah Morgan 'The Start of Something is a wonderfully...

The hit romance about the havoc an old flame can create, from the bestselling author of I Found You and Then She Was GoneThis blast from the past will knock...

'A truly astonishing thing' George Monbiot'Magisterial ' Guardian'Visionary' Observer'Vital, fierce and free' Financial TimesA Book of the Year in the Financial Times, Observer, BBC, Daily Mail, Guardian, Observer, New Statesman,...

FRANCE 1670. Carlo Demirco's mastery of the extraordinary new art of creating ice creams has brought him wealth, women, and a position at the court of Louis XIV.Then Carlo is...

The streets of London are paved with gold . . . allegedly.They may be twin sisters, but Lizzie and Penny Berry are complete opposites - Penny is blonde, thin and...

When Patrick Grant meets Ella, he seizes the opportunity of a new life with her. He imagines the future with his beautiful second wife by his side: the years ahead...

Praise for Erica James'A wonderfully humorous novel following the dysfunctional Baxter family' Woman's Own'Completely absorbing' Sarah Morgan'A brilliant and gripping family drama ... full of heart' My Weekly'A captivating read'...

When Vicki Stowe arrives in Nantucket for the summer with her two young sons, her best friend Melanie and her sister Brenda, she is hoping for peace, rest and comfort....

Rachel Norris wants to forge a new life and career. And she wants to forget her past.When Rachel qualifies as nurse, she does so because she wants to help others...

When Liddy's doctor tells her she is six months pregnant she is stunned. For Liddy is a few days off her fiftieth birthday, and hasn't had sex with her husband...

FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Ellen Trawton is running away from it all - quite literally. She is due to get married to a man she doesn't love, her...

From the highly-acclaimed author of SMALL PLEASURES - winner of the 2022 British Book Awards Page-TurnerWithout even noticing, Esther Fairchild has become locked into routine.Living with her adored brother, Christian,...

'Extraordinary . . . clever, strange and beautifully written' THE TIMES'Prompts thoughts of both THE CRUCIBLE and THE VIRGIN SUICIDES . . . Purvis is an exquisitely accomplished wordsmith.' DAILY...

Wolf Hall meets Demon Copperhead in a sharply ambitious, brilliantly imagined and hugely entertaining story of intrigue, deceit, revenge and ambition**NAMED AS BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR BY...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2026FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE DARK ROOM AND A BOY IN WINTER'This fine novel investigates the fate of displaced...

From the international bestselling author of the Hugo and Nebula award-winning The Windup Girl, comes an electrifying thriller set in a world on the edge of collapse. WATER IS POWER...

Betrayal comes in many forms . . . At the height of the Cold War, words are weapons and secrecy reigns. These are challenging times to be a writer and...

The second book in the brand new Backshaw Moss series from million-copy bestseller Anna JacobsLancashire, 1930s. When her mother dies, leaving her an old sewing box and a clue to...

STRANGE NEWS OUT OF ESSEXLondon 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not...

In "Half a Life" we are introduced to the compelling figure of Willie Chandran. Springing from the unhappy union of a low-caste mother and a father constantly at odds with...

London, 1939.Eighteen-year-old Mari is defiant, strong-willed and selfish. She has craved independence her entire life and now, with the World on the brink of war, Mari has finally escaped the...

Jane Green, author of the best-sellers Second Chance and Straight Talking, examines friendships and their limits in her highly entertaining novel Bookends.On the shelf, but still best friends . ....

Maya and Rebecca Ward are both accomplished physicians, but that's where the sisters' similarities end. As teens, they witnessed their parents' murder, but it was Rebecca who saved Maya from...

A hilarious fake marriage of convenience gets a spicy small town twist, Seven Brides forSeven Brothers-style, in the next addition to bestselling author Amy Daws’s Mountain MenMatchmaker series.Of the famed...

Survival of the Thickest meets The Nanny in this spicy, hilarious boss/nanny rom com fromTikTok sensation Amy DawsOnly a bad nanny knows what it’s like to kiss the boss.CEO and...

Bestselling author Amy Daws''s signature romance gets a hooky twist in this forbidden,brother''s best friend romcom, where an ice fishing shack one night stand with a lumberjackturns into a hot-and-heavy...

Two enemies who despise each other find that life has a wicked sense of humor after achance encounter in a sex club and a one-bed mistake on a group vacation...

Childless Maeve Corrigan, though rich and successful, is dying of cancer. She wants to leave her business empire to one of the offspring of her two estranged brothers, Des and...

A TWISTED TALE OF DARK ROMANCE FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE GLOBAL ROMANTASY SENSATION QUICKSILVER.What happens in the dark never stays in the dark.As one of Seattle's most dangerous, feared...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2012. Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambrige and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals, Yun Ling Teoh, herself the scarred lone...