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A MUST-READ NOVEL OF 2025 IN THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, GQ, ELLE, WATERSTONES AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, AMONG OTHERS'An instant classic.' ELLE'Brave, wry, cool, and thrilling.' ANDREW O'HAGAN'Original, vital, and unputdownable.'...

'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...

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...

How far must you run to truly escape your past?Annie thinks she has found the answer when she leaves her home on the west coast of Ireland and boards a...

** WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 **** SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **BOOK OF THE YEAR: Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, Stylist, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Guardian, The Times, Observer,...

Sunday Times top thriller read of the year 2016The rich are different. But fate is blind.Down-on-his-luck artist Scott Burroughs would usually take the ferry back to New York from Martha's...

A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, FINANCIAL TIMES, BBC, TIME, VOGUE, MARIE CLAIRE, ESQUIRE and ROLLING STONE BOOK TO READ IN 2025'Slick, sharp, strange and singular . . . You'll gulp this novel...

POLISHED TO PERFECTION, THE HOTLY-ANTICIPATED DEBUT *The instant Sunday Times Top 5 bestseller* *The New York Times No.1 bestseller* *One of Buzzfeed's highly anticpated Booktok reads in 2022* 'Delightful'GUARDIAN'An escapist...

`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...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A writer the world needs to be reading right now' The Independent'An apposite and nuanced novel... Picoult writes about an emotive, controversial issue with unflinching precision.'...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE The best novel I've read in a long time' Roddy Doyle The lives of two women - the sole survivor of an airplane...

New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry brings us an exciting new thriller of espionage and murder set across Europe in the 1930s. The world is on the brink of...

'A Scarlet Letter for our times' MARGARET ATWOOD'An extraordinary and disquieting work of imagination, and as original as any novel I've read in recent memory' ROB DOYLEDuncan Peck has travelled...

Los Angeles, 1950. Over the course of a single day, two friends grapple with the moral and professional uncertainties of the escalating Communist witch-hunt in Hollywood. Director John Marsh races...

'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...

Nicholas Shakespeare's collected stories take us across oceans and continents into the intimate lives of his characters and the dilemmas and temptations they face. The opening novella, 'Oddfellows', tells the...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Three Women and Animal comes an electric masterclass in short fiction'Fearless . . . This summer's must-read literary thriller' EVENING STANDARD'Showcases Taddeo's dark...

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...

Before you follow the path into your family's history, beware of the secrets you may find... The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author. The past is about to...

The smash hit Sunday Times bestseller. Tuesday 8th September First day back at school. I am going to 100% nail being a school mummy this year. I can totally do...

THE NUMBER ONE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER 'Thoroughly enjoyable...sparkling with glamour, romance and suspense' Anna McPartlin, bestselling author of The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes 'If you need some escapism, this...

She doesn't exist. She can't exist. 'A uniquely gothic tale about grief, belonging and hiding in plain sight' Jess Kidd, author of Things in Jars 'Those who live in the...

__________________________The new novel from the bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness and The MomentBrendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's...

'A charming - and sharp - love story about what it means to fall for someone who is your polar opposite' Sunday Telegraph_______________________________________________________Lucy married just the sort of man you...

Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Water CureRECOMMENDED READING FOR 2020 by Stylist, Evening Standard, Esquire, Red, Daily Mail, Oprah Magazine, LitHub, and Emma Roberts's Belletrist Book Club'The cool intensity...

From the author of bestselling phenomenon Daughter comes a thrilling exploration of a marriage consumed by ambition and revenge . . .The perfect coupleMeeting Albie gave Beth a fresh start...

An Observer Best Debut of the Year 'Hilarious and profound' Dolly Alderton, author of Everything I Know About Love 'Wildly funny and almost alarmingly relatable' Marian Keyes, author of Again,...

Gaelle de Barbet is sixteen years old in 1940 when the German army occupies France. In a matter of months, her father and brother are killed, her mother descends into...

Second in a two book deal.

'An enchanting contribution to the popular new trend of 'up lit', like Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine' Irish Times 'I found myself totally transported into William's poignant and...

The man with the nuclear briefcase has gone rogue - Mission Impossible meets the Hunt for Red October "I don't think I have read such a philosophical, knowledge-studded and realistic...

Stories are like Russian dolls; open them up, and in each one you'll find another story. Conjured from a wickedly imaginative pen, here is a new collection of short stories...

Shortlisted for the Kate O'Brien Award 2020Shortlisted for the John McGahern Annual Book Prize 2019Shortlisted for the Dalkey Literary Awards Emerging Writer category 2020Longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story...

Three women, each destined to play the role of a poet's wife: Catherine Blake, the wife of William Blake - a poet, painter and engraver who struggles for recognition in...

A first novel of great charm and assurance, beautifully told and utterly gripping. - The TimesA heart-breaking tale of loss, missed chances and enduring love. - Good HousekeepingForgive me, Dorothea,...

***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...

'We have a case to solve, remember, Mr. Writer?'Zofia's son, Janek, has vanished without a trace. Leaving behind her native Warsaw, she arrives in London, determined to uncover the truth...

Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2017'A man's eye is accommodative, like his heart.'Samuel Browne's wife has left him suddenly after three years of marriage. She invites him to 'go...

A manual, complete with illustrations, that looks at the Elvish race and the way they fight war. With a history of the race, an assessment on how they, as immortals,...

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,...

'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'...

'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 tenants of a Manhattan apartment building have begun to gather on the rooftop each evening and tell stories in this exciting new twist on the novel.With each passing night,...

A Sunday Times fiction book of the yearA Times Book of the YearA Daily Mail Historical Book of the Year'An extraordinary, quite brilliant book' - C. J. Sansom'Original and gripping'...

Jilly Cooper returns to horses in a fabulously entertaining romp through the world of jump racing. Etta Bancroft - sweet, kind, still beautiful - adores racing and harbours a crush...

* SHORTLISTED FOR THE PORTICO PRIZE 2022 *A deeply affecting and unconventional love story, shot through with anger, black humour and grief. One ordinary morning, Laurie's husband Mark vanishes, leaving...