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'One of America's great writers.' RODDY DOYLE'Vlautin's characters are a vast chorus of broken hearts, reaching for grace.' COLIN WALSH'No one writes with such empathy and insight as Willy Vlautin.'...

'A great read. A box of delights which is also a thrilling satirical torture chamber.' Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession 'An absolute riot . . . totally compulsive.' Observer 'A...

'THE FUNNIEST BOOK YOU'LL EVER READ ABOUT GRIEF' MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD 'SHIMMERS WITH WIT EVEN AS IT EXPLORES DEEP LOSS' RACHEL KHONG When Julia's first-love-turned-best-friend Gabe, a successful indie musician, dies...

'A quietly devastating masterpiece . . . I can't remember the last time a book has gripped and moved me in this way. I rarely cry, but I howled. This...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form...

‘Sorry to wake you in the middle of the night, but we have a lady here who’s notvery well. She says she’s called Marigold, Queen of the Sky?’Dolphin Westward spent...

A portrait of the artist as a young woman in a Berlin that can't escape its history: an electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year...

The past is never done with: always the song continues Harlow Donne has devoted his life to the Classical world. When a chance comes up to study an obscure collection...

The joyful and life-affirming new novel from the BAFTA-winning co-writer of Gavin and Stacey and the Sunday Times bestselling and Richard and Judy Book Club author of Love Untold.'Ruth Jones...

The long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller PS, I Love You! It's been seven years since Holly Kennedy's husband died - six since she read his final letter, urging Holly...

Henry Wilt is back! In a major publishing event, one of Britain's finest living writers returns with his greatest creation. Brilliantly written and bitingly funny, Tom Sharpe's indefatigable hero is...

A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK BBC CULTURE 'BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2026'A VOGUE BEST DEBUT 2026'Compelling and heart wrenching, a remarkable debut' Claire MessudA stunning and...

Inspired by true events... 'Moving and authentic' Dinah Jefferies'Vivid, heart-rending and so, so beautiful' Jenny Ashcroft'A beautiful, tender and fascinating story' Sinead Moriarty 'Deeply moving. Be prepared - have handkerchiefs...

From the bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Secret Keeper, Kate Morton brings us her trademark mix of secrets, lies, and intricately layered mysteries in her sixth...

The sequel to Colm Toibin's prize-winning, bestselling novel Brooklyn.A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello's door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes. Eilis and...

'THE BOOK OF THE SUMMER' Sunday Times'A tour de force' Sarah Winman, author of Still LifeThis is the story of an old English manor house by the sea, with crumbling...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INAUGURAL ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 'Intense, beautifully crafted . . . Her talent is electric. Get ready for a shock' Guardian FIVE WOMEN. ONE QUESTION: What...

Tom has always known exactly the person he is going to be. A successful footballer. A man others look up to. Now, though, the bright future he imagined for himself...

'A charming, laugh-out-loud read' - SUNDAY INDEPENDENTSHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2021Three couples. One therapist's couch ...Alice and Niall used to be lovers, best friends and parents, in that...

Based on real events in Epping Forest on the edge of London around 1840, "The Quickening Maze" centres on the first incarceration of the great nature poet John Clare. After...

Flatmates, friends or family? It's complicated...Hazel and Alfie have just moved in together as flatmates. They've also just slept together, which was either a catastrophic mistake, or the best decision...

*PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY OF THIS STUNNING AND DEVASTATING LOVE STORY TODAY*She could be the girl dancing on tables one night, and the next she'd be hiding in the shadows.Just when...

SECRETS, DESIRE, BLOOD... It all comes out in the wash'A twisty tale of love gone wrong' Joshilyn Jackson, Mother May I'Lethal, entertaining with characters you'll love to hate' Darby Kane,...

**PRE-ORDER NOW - THE DAZZLING NEW NOVEL FROM MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR**'Her best one yet. Jodi Picoult has combined her trademark research with an astonishing and heart-rending story, embedded in...

The twelve stories in Indelible Acts are variations on a theme of longing - the unassuagable human need for contact, for completion, for that most fugitive gift of all: reciprocal...

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...

'Every family is a ghost story ...' As a child, Charley Benetto was told by his father, 'You can be a mama's boy or a daddy's boy, but you can't...

'Brown Girls flows like a late night FM-radio dedication to the crew, the block, and the mission. This book's a gift' Paul Beatty, author of The Sellout 'An ode to...

Margery Benson's life ended the day her father walked out of his study and never came back. Forty years later, abandoning a dull job, she advertises for an assistant. The...

The second book in Philippa's stunning new series, The Cousins War, brings to life the story of Margaret Beaufort, a shadowy and mysterious character in the first book of the...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Stunningly good. Beautiful, smart, raw, sad, poetic and humane... It's the best thing I've read for ages', James Rebanks, author of THE SHEPHERD'S LIFEHow does a...

'Smart and funny... Wild Pets is an instant set text of the emerging canon of millennial fiction.'Guardian'A wickedly funny and emotionally complex novel.'Jenny Offill, author of Weather and Dept. of...

An ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best.In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is...

From the author of the Sunday Times no. 1 bestseller, The President is MissingA RACIALLY CHARGED MURDER SPLITS A TOWN IN TWORuby Bozarth, a newcomer to Rosedale, Mississippi, is also...

In this slim, attractive collection of short stories, Harry Crosbie colourfully describes life in Dublin in the 1960s. These funny and poignant pieces are told from the perspective of a...

'A stand-out triumph' - Sunday TimesThe spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of CLOUD ATLAS and THE BONE CLOCKS, 'one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or...

The horror of the Rainbow Opera riot is the talk of the country. Dreamhunter Grace Tiebold's reputation is in tatters and Laura is in hiding. But the nightmare has only...