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Be careful what you wish for... Iza's love life is a disaster. All she wants is to meet a nice guy to settle down with, but it seems they're hard...

LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN PRIZEOn the elite New England campus of Webster College, a student protest is underway. Initially supported by Webster's first female president, the former activist Naomi Roth,...

Florence, 1943. Two sisters, Isabella and Caterina Cammaccio, find themselves surrounded by terror and death; and with Italy trapped under the heel of a brutal Nazi occupation, bands of Partisans...

It begins as a simple dream.An idealistic environmental scientist moves his wife and young son off the grid, to a stretch of river bottom farmland in the Mississippi hills, hoping...

Shortlisted for the Hearst Big Books Award, 2019'Oh my goodness this book... [A] beautiful book about a marriage & life long friendship, told movingly & slightly mysterious. Highly recommend.' Cecilia...

The death of a beautiful woman ...an arrogant man who claimed to be her suitor but was probably her murderer ...a cop accused of planting evidence ...and a town steeped...

A heartbreaking new novel of grief, family and the enduring power of love from the author of We Must Be Brave When I open my eyes I see a small...

From the winner of the Oscar for the Best Screenplay for The Imitation Game in 2015 comes a superb historical legal thriller based on the famous 'War of the Currents'...

A celebration of love in all its frailty, confusion and excess. Set on board the QE2, and in New York and Liverpool, Gut Symmetries explores parallel lives, loves and universes.

Jill Mansell's fabulous new novel AND NOW YOU'RE BACK is coming in January 2021. Pre-order now to be one of the first to read it!Snap up your perfect autumn read...

Nestling on India's southern coast lies the town of Kittur. Ranging through the city's streets and schoolyards, bedrooms and businesses, its inner workings and its outer limits, through the myriad...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Quietly brilliant ... among the best fiction of our time.' Daily Telegraph'The finest novel Dunmore has written.' Observer'Superb and poignant.' GuardianIt is 1792 and Europe is seized...

Egypt is the setting for this collection, but the stories are universal - whether it's the girl whose mother no longer recognises her, a young man who uses the changing...

Didn't anyone tell you that divas don't knit? Knit-one Jo Mackenzie needs a new start and jumps at the chance to take over her grandmother's wool shop in a small...

For Picador's 40th anniversary we asked 40 writers to respond to the idea of 40 in whatever way they liked. The results are spectacular: thoughtful, funny, poignant, as brilliantly diverse...

Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but finds it...

By turns hilarious and poignant, The Dakota Winters is a family drama, a page-turning social novel, and a tale of a critical moment in the history of New York City...

Information specialist Vanessa 'Michael' Munroe has a global reputation for getting things done, often dangerous and violent things. But her reputation has brought her dangerous enemies.On a busy Dallas street,...

'The best fictional treatment of the possibilities and horrors of artificial intelligence that I've read' Guardian In 1997 Laura Bow invented Organon, a rudimentary artificial intelligence. Now she and her...

FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE MARS ROOMSHORTLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2014LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONReno mounts her motorcycle and sets a collision...

How do you carry on, when you lose someone you love? Big Billy Brennan's family is reeling from loss, his marriage is a partnership in name alone, and eating is...

Two sisters. A lifetime of secrets. One terrible reckoning. The astonishing new thriller from the bestselling author of Try Not to Breathe. Get ready to be #hookedbyholly!Robin and Sarah weren't...

'This has bestseller written all over it. Fast-paced, funny, shocking, unputdownable. I loved it' PAULA HAWKINS, author of The Girl on the Train'I just raced through Wahala. Nikki May writes...

**WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2019**Discover the brilliant new short story collection from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of All That Man IsTwelve people on the move around...

From the beloved author of Tweet Cute comes Emma Lord's You Have a Match, a hilarious and heartfelt novel of romance, sisterhood, and friendship.When Abby signs up for a DNA...

Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, he is a compulsive liar and a melancholy weakling. When...

The Dark Side is a powerful and unsettling novel of motherhood, loss, and the innocence of childhood from the world's favourite storyteller, Danielle Steel.Zoe Morgan was just ten years old...

It's Manhattan, on the coldest night of the year and six best friends are rushing to celebrate a festive evening...Jessie, the hostess, is late for her own party. Sue Carol,...

Love came late to Meri, but in a rush: she met Nathan at thirty-six, he moved in a month later, and they married a month after that. Now they are...

Four millennial bright young things charge into the real world, with all the unfounded confidence of twenty-two:M., our narrator, is one of the few young women at her prestigious, high-octane...

The Sunshine Girls is a moving story of love, loss and family by the bestselling author of Falling, Jane Green.It was never easy, being one of Ronni Sunshine's daughters. Publicly,...

Ancient Evenings, a dazzlingly rich, deeply evocative novel, recreates the long-lost civilisation of Ancient Egypt. Mailer breathes life into the figures of that era; the eighteenth dynasty Pharaoh Rameses and...

When Shirin bumps into Kian at a house party in Brixton, she is taken aback by the feelings that resurface.They last saw one another ten years ago as sixteen-year-olds at...

'Gasp in wonder' Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf 'Electrifying' Irenosen Okojie, author of Nudibranch 'Gasp-inducing' AnOther 'Joyous, defiant' Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of Open Water 'Visionary' Guardian...

Funny, feisty and all-too-true, A Not Quite Perfect Family by Claire Sandy is for anyone who loves their family so much they'd just like a weekend away from them.Fern Carlile...