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Gary Thorn is struggling with a big decision. Should he stay in London, wallowing in the safety of his legal job in Peckham and eating pies with his next door...

FROM THE GLOBALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING 'A triumph... a brilliant idea carried out with confidence and brio and a deep love of an extraordinary city....

My Sister, the Serial Killer meets Boy Parts, this literary feminist howl-of-a-debut is going to crawl right under your skin...Ji-won's life is in disarray. Her father's affair has ripped her...

1843. On a remote Scottish island, Ivar, the sole occupant, leads a life of quiet isolation until the day he finds a man unconscious on the beach below the cliffs....

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge - for readers of Patricia Highsmith, Sarah Waters and Ian...

**THE TIMES BESTSELLER***A NEW STATESMAN, OBSERVER, IRISH TIMES, i AND STYLIST BOOK OF 2021*'Please believe the hype ... a seriously exciting writer' Sunday Times'The millennial author everyone should be watching...

As Peter Carlyle waves his wife, children and brother-in-law off on a sailing holiday, all they have in mind is lying back and relaxing. But as a violent storm breaks...

'Cinema Love is not just an extraordinary debut but a future classic' Jessamine Chan, author of The School for Good Mothers'A tender and enrapturing feat of storytelling' Vanessa Chan, author...

THE MILLION COPY #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO KILL YOUR FAMILY IS BACK WITH THE NEW BOOK OF THE MOMENT As featured in Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Sunday Times Style, You...

December 1962, the West Country. In the darkness of an old asylum, a young man unscrews the lid from a bottle of sleeping pills. In the nearby village, two couples...

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston's delicious romantic comedy The Pairing.Theo and Kit have been a lot of things: childhood best friends,...

'Easily the best thing I have read all year' KILEY REID, AUTHOR OF SUCH A FUN AGE'Intense, incisive, I loved this and have still not quite shaken off the unease'...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021As heard on BBC Radio 4's Front RowFebruary 2021 Book of the Month for Roxane Gay's Book Club'Irresistible ... Detransition, Baby is the...

An Amazon Best Book of April 2021Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021 by Oprah Magazine, The Week, The Millions, and Electric Lit.July 2021 Book of the Month...

'A magic portrayal of modern life in the peripheries' Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun'Full of insight, empathy and wry laughter' M John Harrison, author of Nova SwingOut walking Ada...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 'Expect vibrant, vivid and eye-opening descriptions of Middle Eastern life propelled by a tender storyline, all in Shafak's haunting, beautiful and considered prose' Vanity...

When X - an iconoclastic artist, writer and polarizing shape-shifter - dies suddenly, her widow, wild with grief, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though...

**THE SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER****WINNER OF THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD 2020** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2020**Brilliant, heart-breaking, tender, and highly...

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Alexandr and Christine and Zachary and Lydia have been close friends since they first met in their twenties. Thirty years later Alex and Christine are spending a...

`The dream team delivers big time ... Clinton's insider secrets and Patterson's storytelling genius make this the political thriller of the decade.' - Lee Child________________________________The President is Missing. The world...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE'MAGNIFICENT.' Guardian 'A MASTERPIECE.' New York Times 'MARVELLOUS.' Sara Collins 'BRILLIANT.' Madeleine Thien 'HYPNOTIC.' Daily Telegraph 'SEARING.' Sefi Atta 'A MAVERICK VOICE.' A Igoni Barrett...

***A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick 2023*** 'A radically feel-good story about the murder of no-good husbands by a cast of unsinkable women' - New York Times'Tender, unpredictable, brimming...

Two mothers. Two daughters. Two sides to the story.When Sara leaves her high-flying London life to move to Dublin, her only concern is her nine-year-old daughter, Lexie. For Lexie's sake...

Set against the backdrop of devastating California wildfires, Trial by Fire is a powerful novel about the courage it takes to open your heart again, from the billion-copy bestseller Danielle...

Triangle is a breathtaking, suspenseful story about a woman determined to stay true to her principles, from billion-copy bestselling author Danielle Steel.As she approaches the milestone birthday of forty, delicate...

Winter in South Dakota. Blowing snow, icy roads, a tired driver. A bus skids and crashes and is stranded in a gathering storm. There's a small town twenty miles away,...

Amos Decker, David Baldacci's unique special agent with the gift of a remarkable memory, returns in The Fallen.Small towns which have seen better times are not unusual. But the mysterious...

'Absolution is one of the finest contemporary novels I've read. It is a moral masterpiece.'ANN PATCHETT'Her writing has a luminous kind of clarity, a grace and scope that fills me...

The appearance of a young storyteller with a unique voice is cause for celebration. This memorable debut from Booker prize winner Martel, originally published in 1993, was hailed for its...

Life is always better backstage, isn't it?'Who better than Caitlin Moran to bring fame down to earth with a bump' - Helen Fielding, bestselling author of Bridget Jones's DiaryThe Sunday...

Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2020, this is fiction that pushes the boundaries of the novel form.Shaw had a breakdown, but he's getting himself back together. He has a single...

Books of the Year TOP TEN PICK - Publishers Weekly'Like Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch... A stunning novel of ideas that becomes a page-turning thriller... ' Stylist'A fast-paced, ambitious, hallucinatory mystery'...

A story of love and loss in wartime from master storyteller Susan Hill.Returning to his World War One battalion in France after a period of medical leave in England, John...

'WOW. Western Lane is glorious. You'll want to read it over and over again.' - Aravind Adiga, author of The White TigerA taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023A powerful, compressed masterwork for fans of Shirley Jackson and Claire-Louise BennettA woman moves...

A highlight for 2024 for the Sunday Times, Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, i, Observer, Grazia, GQ, Irish Times, Sunday Independent, Prima, Good Housekeeping'Magnificent' MARIAN KEYES'A beautiful book' TRACY CHEVALIER'Genius ....

Don't miss the first book in the sensational new series from the number one bestselling author Santa Montefiore!'Remarkable and compelling' JULIAN FELLOWES'Fantastic, moving and beautifully written' TRACY REES'Enjoyable and engaging,...

Named a book of the year 2022 by the Sunday Times, The Times, Guardian, Irish Times, New Statesman, BBC and Waterstones'One of the best science fiction short stories to be...

'A masterful writer' - RAYMOND CARVEROver the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive and singular view of American...

***WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014***Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who...

Luke, Connor, Thea and Violet spend their first holiday together alone in their father's house in the south of France. The boys don't really know him, and they don't really...

***Irish debut writers to look out for in 2024*** IRISH TIMESYou were everything I ever wanted.Johnny was my first. I was seventeen and I was only brave enough to talk...

The Final Testament of Christopher Marlowe is a swashbuckling adventure story of a man who dares to defy God and state and who discovers that there are worse fates than...

Set in seventeenth-century France against a backdrop of witch trials, regicide and religious frenzy, this is the story of Juliette, one-time actress and rope-dancer. Forced by circumstance to seek refuge...

A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is the new novel from international sensation Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You and The Giver...