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Matilda Quartey is fourteen years old when sophisticated black Gold Coast lawyer, Robert Bannerman, sets eyes on her and resolves to take her as his second wife. For Julie, his...

*A brand new companion to the Last Kingdom series, Uhtred's Feast, is available to pre-order now* The 12th book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions. An...

The gripping new Cato and Macro adventure in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Eagles of the Empire series, not to be missed by readers of Conn Iggulden and Bernard Cornwell. It is...

Rachel has always loved being at the centre of her large family. She has fiercely devoted herself to her three sons all their lives,and continues to do so even now...

Tim Winton is undisputedly one of the finest storytellers working in the English language. Now he gives us seventeen exquisite, overlapping stories of second thoughts and mid-life regret - extraordinary...

In true McInerney style, this new collection of stories examines post 9/11 America in all its dark and morally complex glory. His characters include a young woman holed up 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...

"Gripping - and profound... Kate Sawyer has a great gift for capturing the tiny details that tell us everything about a person or dynamic." -- Marian Keyes"From its brilliant, ambitious...

Why did people, who lived so briefly in this universe, contain so much time?Lina and her ailing father have taken refuge at an enclave called the Sea, a staging post...

In a London slowly recovering from the ravages of World War II, two very different women join forces to launch a business venture in the heart of Mayfair - The...

The thrilling third instalment in the epic LIONHEART series from Sunday Times Bestselling author, Ben Kane.WarleaderAutumn 1192. With Jerusalem still in the Saracens' hands, and a peace treaty agreed with...

'Those looking for the next Lessons in Chemistry - a story of ferociously bright, feisty women holding their own in a man's world - may have found it ... this...

'A masterful love story' Nicola Dinan'Very special ' Laura Kay'Wildly entertaining, lovingly written' Jess Kidd'Rib-achingly funny' Curtis Garner'Delicious' Lily Lindon'A firecracker of a book' Emma Morgan'Achingly funny and utterly heartrending'...

'Ella Baxter's debut novel is drenched in sex and death . . . there's also much love . . . An intense, viscerally affecting book, with the quotient of tenderness...

There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their...

'Magnificent and stunning' Jeff VanderMeer, author of Hummingbird Salamander 'An immense achievement. Masterful and merciless' Olivia Sudjic, author of Asylum Road 'Expertly conjures California noir filtered through the ambient and...

THE DAZZLING LOST CLASSIC*A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2025**A Cosmopolitan Best Book for April 2025**A New York Times Book Review Most-Anticipated Book of the Spring**A Time Best Book...

'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...

Ezra and Sheena Pepin live in Blenheim Orchard in North Oxford with their three children: fourteen-year-old Blaise, entering the storm-world of adolescence, Hector, eleven and precociously clever, and sweet Louie,...

Longlisted for the 2026 PEN / Hemingway Award for Debut NovelWinner of the 2025 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize.A New York Times Book of the Year. A TIME's 100 Must-Read...

*LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018**SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE AND THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2018*'I was gripped... remarkable' Robert Macfarlane, Guardian Books of the Year'A novel so of...

WINNER OF THE WRITERS' GUILD FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2020ELLE ONES TO WATCH 2019'Terribly moving. A clear-sighted, poignant rumination on loneliness, love, the melancholy of age and of youth' China Mieville...

Comforting, charming and hilarious, Yours Cheerfully is the tonic we've all been waiting for, from AJ Pearce, the beloved author of Dear Mrs Bird.'Loved. Every. Word.' - Bonnie Garmus, author...

We may think we are happy, whether it's married with children, living in a big house out in the suburbs with an adoring husband and two beautiful children, or being...

Following his spectacular debut, The Death of Vishnu, Manil Suri returns with a mesmerizing story of modern India, richly layered with themes from Hindu mythology. The Age of Shiva is...

'This wove a spell on me' - Marian Keyes 'F***ing brilliant' - Daisy May Cooper ___________Meet Gosia.She's a sensitive soul with a filthy mind and problems with intimacy.Between shifts in...

'A superb satirical novelist' WASHINGTON POST In a provocative novel addressing contemporary immigration by the sharply observant Lionel Shriver, a New York family takes in a Honduran migrant - who...

'Rebecca meets Brideshead Revisited meets Saltburn' STYLIST'A subtle, claustrophobic, seduction of a novel' CLAIRE FULLER'Evocative, gripping and, at times, verging on horror' IRISH TIMES'Hypnotic and immersive ... Utterly addictive' COLIN...

A best book of the year for the Guardian, Economist and Daily ExpressAn Observer debut of the year'Exceptionally touching . . . A terrific reminder that what binds us to...

In Zambia, American lawyer Zoe Fleming and policeman Joseph Kabuta have uncovered a crime that has no rhyme or reason: a young girl, attacked and left for dead. Zoe and...

There was another war, some 150 years ago, which was unpopular at home -- the death rate shocking, the military strategy confused -- and the first on which the media...

'The eat-the-rich farce we need, from one of our funniest writers' Lit Hub 'Sly, propulsive and painfully hilarious family drama' Caro Claire Burke, author of YESTERYEAR'Chicken-soup for the late capitalist...

'It's comfort reading at its most soothing' Independent 'Funny, heartfelt and very readable' Good Housekeeping In this reimagined modern classic, prepare to meet a young woman who thinks she knows...