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'A slow burn romance with multi-layered characters and sizzling chemistry, House Party left me absolutely breathless. Clear your schedule to read this in a single sitting' - Annabel Monaghan***A slow-burn...

PRE-ORDER THE MOST JOYFUL NOVEL OF THE YEAR NOW. DISCOVER A LAUGH-OUT-LOUD TALE OF REDEMPTION IN THIS INTERNATIONALLY-BESTSELLING FUR-NOMENONTHE PERFECT GIFT FOR FANS OF MATT HAIG, FREDRIK BACKMAN & TOSHIKAZU...

A GILMORE GIRLS MEETS SCHITT'S CREEK REDEMPTION ROMCOMHazel Hart was a successful romance novelist until a breakup drives her straight into writer's block. Having failed (and failed some more) to...

John Grisham is known worldwide as the master of the legal thriller, and one of our most popular novelists, but his lifelong passion for justice has also led him to...

A fond, fascinated look at women's friendship through the fiction, diaries, and letters of friends'A highly entertaining, often instructive anthology bursting with every kind of amicable - or inimical -...

Recognized as one of the best-loved classic children's stories of all time, Little Women is an utterly beguiling novel.Louisa May Alcott tells the story of the courageous and ingenious March...

From the bestselling author of Leave the World Behind - 'the book of an era' (Independent) - a biting tale for our new gilded age'A slow-burn tale of connivance and...

An unforgettable story of motherhood, obsession and ambition'Smart and gripping - I read it in one sitting. Tara is a glorious creation, crackling with life and aspiration and sensuality' Kamila...

In one tiny Caribbean restaurant, three friends try to build a future in a country that refuses to see them.Judith came to Britain believing that hard work and respectability would...

FRAMED FOR MURDER. FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE.Twenty-two years ago, Quincy Miller was framed for murder - now he wants justice.Accused of killing his divorce lawyer, he's serving life without parole. There...

BEST FRIENDS. DEADLY ENEMIES.Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco were once like brothers.But as they grew up in the lawless city of Biloxi, their lives took very different paths. Rudy enrolled...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize'Compelling' - The Independent'Beautiful' - The Sunday TelegraphGeorgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded with a man...

25 days, 25 chapters. This December, the countdown to Christmas will chill you to the bone.Hoping to bring his family closer together, Adam Gray arranges a vacation in a remote...

Exploring the fine line between dishonesty and reinvention, Saoirse is anevocative and compelling story of a woman perpetually in flight. A book for fansof Trespasses by Louise Kennedy and Barbara''s...

'An outstanding novel' Observer'A writer of blistering intellect' Los Angeles Times'Unexpected and richly imaginative' London Review of Books'A first novel of intricate merit ... A rich imagination glitters throughout' Mail...

'Accomplished ... mature and assured ... A major American novelist' New RepublicEddie Hobson, Sr., father of four, occasional history teacher, quiz master, black humourist, and master invalid, is facing a...

A bestseller in Korea, a biting, unsettling vampire murder mystery exploring queer love and the consequences of loneliness.When four isolated elderly people die back-to-back at the same hospital by jumping...

'AS COMPELLING AS ANY OF DU MAURIER'S OWN WORKS' SUNDAY TIMESShe wrote her stories in his shadow. Now Daphne's past is catching up with her...In a beautiful house in the...

From the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Lambda Literary, Crawford and Locus Award-winning author of All the Birds in the Sky comes a heartfelt and intimately drawn portrait of a young trans...

Graham Greene, known for his iconic novels, also wrote extraordinary short stories. Here some of the best have been arranged into pairs - to be read as a duel or...

Nothing thrived here, but something grew...Germany, 1945. Year Zero. The war is at an end. When Ireland's ambassador to the Third Reich finally leaves the war-torn country, Garda detective Stefan...

The heartbreaking Japanese classic telling the story of two orphans fighting for survival at the end of World War Two, published in English for the first timeIn the dying days...

'Funny and full of heart but also wise' - Polly ClarkIt's the early 1980s, and a household of lesbian feminists establish a women-only commune in an ancient Californian redwood forest.It...

FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE 'I envy those about to discover Miracle at St. Anna for the first time'Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons...

FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE 'McBride at his brave and joyous best' New York Times Book Review 'A furious joy drives these glimpses...

Discover this paranormal 90s-set mystery in a spooky small town hiding dark secrets which stretch back centuries - a perfect Halloween read for Stranger Things fans.Freddie Gellar didn't mean to...

* LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 *An unforgettable debut novel about the journey of three women and one extremely endangered snail through contemporary Ukraine 'A fierce and funny road-trip...

The International Bestseller'Devastating' - Anne Enright, Booker Prize winning author of The Wren, The Wren'These stories are perfect for the times we dwell inside' - Colum McCann, author of ApeirogonThe...

BEAUTY IS PAIN . . . Exploring themes of ambition, authenticity and empowerment, this taut, politically charged feminist thriller delivers a scathing take-down of the wellness industry, perfect for fans...

The highly-anticipated finale in Susan Dennard's New York Times bestselling Witchlands series.Paths converge and prophecies unfold as Safi and Iseult - the legendary Cahr Awen - fight their way across...

Winner of the British Library Writer's AwardShortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas PrizeA Richard and Judy Book Club SelectionMr. Ernest Hemingway: genius, husband, philanderer. Across the decades he will become...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeWinner of the Goldsmiths Prize Winner of The Roehampton Poetry Prize Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction'Bold, brilliant . . . this...

A beautifully rendered work of autofiction from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.Taking its title from the strangely frozen picture by the surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, The...

'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...

A ruthless satire of academic life, The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury is a witty campus novel and one of the most influential books of the 1970s.Take a Valium. Have...

'Quite simply the best story of magic, love, sex, revenge and suspense to have come this way since Philip Pullman' - Independent on SundaySet in a mythical feudal land, a...

One final adventure for Ropa Moyo - orphan, mischief-maker and failed magician. Secrets of the First School is the mystery-filled finale to T. L. Huchu's enchanting Edinburgh Nights series.'I've had...

Discover the stunning second book in the Bristol Keats fantasy duology, filled with swoon-worthy romantasy, faeries and non-stop action, from New York Times bestselling author Mary E. Pearson. Everyone needs...

From internationally bestselling author Mary E. Pearson, The Courting of Bristol Keats is the first book in her debut adult fantasy series, filled with forbidden romance, deadly faerie curses and...

As the nineteenth century drew to a close, decadent authors boldly decided it was time for something new.Their work was radical, daring and controversial, and it captured a unique feeling...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne could live with almost anything, so long as they had something to live for. 'Exquisite and devastating. It won't fail to move you' - Shelley...

'Conrad is a delight' S.J. BennettJoin Lulu Lewis, a retired detective with a knack for uncovering secrets, and Conrad, her extraordinary talking cat, as they take on their latest case.Hoping...

The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves sees the return of Detective Jimmy Perez'Fantastic. Ann Cleeves is a stone cold genius' Marian KeyesWhen a violent storm descends upon Orkney, the body...

Dazzling stories of love, magic and betrayal . . .A sensational collection from internationally bestselling author Olivie Blake.Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, the spirit tethered...

Sparks fly and lovers dance in this gorgeous, yearning Cinderella retelling from bestselling author Freya Marske - a queer Gothic fairy tale novella perfect for fans of Naomi Novik and...

Sparks fly and lovers dance in this gorgeous, yearning Cinderella retelling from bestselling author Freya Marske - a queer Gothic fairy tale novella perfect for fans of Naomi Novik and...

Hold Your Own, Kae Tempest's first full-length poetry collection for Picador is an ambitious, multi-voiced work based around the mythical figure of Tiresias.This four-part work follows him through his transformations...

A Japanese Thursday Murder Club, taking healing fiction for a mystery-filled spin with this Japanese bestseller that has sold more than 200,000 copies in Japan.He's not your average Grandpa.As a...