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Pippa Lee is the devoted wife of a brilliant man thirty years her senior, the proud mother of grown up twins, and an adored friend and neighbour. But where once...

Will their new-found freedom come at a price?It's 1970 and Debbie Hargreaves is heading to college in Leeds, where she'll be sharing with three girls she's never met before. Although...

'The god of small stories ... A set of polished gems from a master craftsman' Sunday Times'An American master' Daily TelegraphA woman and man, parted a quarter of a century,...

"A beautiful, savage, tender, searing work of art. Sentence after perfect sentence it grips and does not let go." (Donal Ryan). "A violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision...

Kate never intended the get-over guy to fall in love with her ...No, Keith was just the lovely fella who was definitely not her type, but would help her feel...

What do you do when a girlfriend's 60th birthday party is the same day as your boyfriend's 30th?Is it wrong to lie about your age when online dating?Is it morally...

Two perfect strangers in San Francisco. Gracie and Weston have their futures mapped out.Gracie's future is glossy, glam and loved-up. Flawless like her influencer lifestyle. Weston's is all tattoo parlors,...

Twenty years ago Helen Franklin did something she cannot forgive herself for, and she has spent every day since barricading herself against its memory. But the sheltered life she has...

Rediscover the ultimate comfort read in the classic story of friendship, loyalty and secrets set in the deep south of America in the 1930s.The day Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison...

A wonderful, warm novel from a major new American voice. Henry Skrimshander, newly arrived at college, shy and out of his depth, has a talent for baseball that borders on...

Nathan Staples is consumed by loathing and love in roughly equal measures. Frustrated by his life and the way he lives it, he is sustained only by his passionate devotion...

Beguiled by promises of wealth, fourteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her native Ceylon for Malaysia and marriage to a man many years her senior. But Ayah has lied to her and her...

Sweeping from the gentler confines of late 1940s small town America to the tough side of the New York media circus in the '70s, Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!...

'History . . . is seldom able to convey the essence of being human' Frank McAllister has become wealthy in England, where he has lived for thirty years. He has...

'History . . . is seldom able to convey the essence of being human' Frank McAllister has become wealthy in England, where he has lived for thirty years. He has...

On the day that A. M. Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Her birth parents were a twenty-two year old woman and an older married...

'The rain was still falling, but the dark had parted...' F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Luke falls. He has epilepsy. And, as it turns out, he has much bigger...

Like all Hollywood screenwriters, David Armitage wants to be rich and famous. But for the past eleven years, he's tasted nothing but failure. Living on the outskirts of Los Angeles...

Prudencia Prim is a young woman of intelligence and achievement, with a deep knowledge of literature and several letters after her name. But when she accepts the post of private...

Welcome to St Ambrose Primary School. A world of friendships, fights and feuding. And that's just the mothers. It's the start of another school year at St Ambrose. But while...

In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then...

An ancient crime, with a curse that remains . . . In the darkest hours of the night at the Museum of Volterra, young archaeologist Fabrizio Castellani is immersed in...

What are the odds that the stranger sitting next to you on a plane is destined to change your life? Especially when they appear to be your opposite in every...

THE FIRST BOOK IN THE HEART-STOPPING WINNER'S TRILOGY: an irresistible story of forbidden romance and class warfare'Every line in The Winner's Curse is beautifully written. The story is masterfully plotted....

'Unsparing and tender' Colm Toibin, author of Brooklyn 'A brilliant novel from our most brilliant of writers' Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon 'A quietly stunning achievement' Ocean Vuong, author of...

Welcome to the party, pull up a chair, take your ease, and join Tom, king of the Cattle Market bank branch, for a bite to eat and a glass or...

Hooking Up ranges all over the modern world; in it Tom Wolfe updates us on the sexual manners and mores of teenagers (he is not adverse to doing a survey...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING TITLE THE ORPHAN'S TALE OUT NOW "How have I been lucky enough to come here, to be alive, when so many others are not? I should...

It is summer and the Canadian Rockies are on fire. Fleeing the fallout of a failed relationship, Alan West returns to his grandfather's home in the Kootenay Valley. Cecil West,...

Alabama, 1931. A posse stops a freight train and arrests nine black youths. Their crime: fighting with white boys. Then two white girls emerge from another freight car, and within...

Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to get pregnant, and just when she's about to get her heart's desire, tragedy destroys her world. In the aftermath of loss and...

June's first husband was killed in a car crash. Against all the odds, her daughter was uninjured and, in another miracle, June found love again with the policeman who rescued...

Two thousand years ago four travellers enter the Judean desert to fast and pray for their lost souls. In the blistering heat and barren rocks they encounter the evil merchant...

All the love she ever gave. Every secret she never told.Catherine was the love of Sean's life. But now she is gone. All that's left is a box full of...

'A remarkable debut novel' Sunday Times'The best historical thriller I've read in twenty years' A.J. Finn'A thrilling, unnerving, clever and beautiful story. Reading it is like giving a little gift...

Described as 'a masterpiece' by critics, this remarkable book tells the story of war through the lives and deaths of a single family. Absolutely unforgettable new writing. If you loved...

A breathtakingly original debut about identity and humanity for anyone who loves Station Eleven and The BeesKit has been projecting into other species for seven years.Longer than anyone else at...

Spring 1868, and the population of Boston is being terrorised by technological attacks: first a magnetic storm causes ships in the harbour to collide in flames, then in another bizarre...

After her doctor father's death in the Great War, Abigail Banks, a photographer, returns to her childhood home of Eastmere. There, Abby is reunited with her childhood friend Sophie and...

'This book dances with sunlight and colour, faded patinas and shifting standards, with humour and knowledge making easy companions' Mail on Sunday The monastery of San Giovanni has few treasures...