For generations, an apocryphal cabal has controlled Gotham from the shadows, wielding fear and violence through its undead assassins, the Talons. Its leaders meet in secrecy, hiding their identities behind masks. Once, they sought to kill Bruce Wayne who, as Batman, dealt them their...

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 as the Picador list. Pieces include the temporal (what I was doing 40 years...

For readers of Jenny Offill and Curtis Sittenfeld, this is a funny, provocative, pin-sharp novel that redefines modern motherhood Freedom comes in many forms... At home full-time with her two-year-old son, an artist finds she is struggling. She is lonely and exhausted. She had...

For Shannon Bodine, losing her mother has been doubly heartbreaking: hours before she died, her mother confessed that Shannon's father was not the man she believed, but a married man in Ireland. Across the ocean, Brianna and Maggie Concannon have been eagerly awaiting news...

For some, a weakness. For her, a weapon...I can barely walk.I won't ever run.But I will win this war.I never asked to be a part of an intergalactic war, but when I step between a gunman and the enigmatic but irresistible boy Roar, getting...

For someone who didn't intend to wreck the solar system's fragile balance of power, Jim Holden did a pretty good job of it. While Earth and Mars have stopped shooting each other, the core alliance is shattered. The outer planets and the Belt are...

For the sake of women everywhere, Ms Shibata is going to pull off the mother of all deceptions...'Incredibly thought-provoking... you'll love Yagi's writing'and STYLISTMs Shibata refuses to clear away the coffee at work one day, because she's pregnant and can't bear the smell. The...

Forced by the death of her parents to seek her fortune in London, Fanny Hill is duped into prostitution by an old procuress. In Mrs Brown's bawdy-house the naïve young woman begins her sexual initiation - progressing from innocence to curiosity and desire -...

Former enslaved person Mary Prince's powerful rallying cry for emancipation and extraordinary testament to survivalThe History of Mary Princeand (1831) was the first narrative of a black woman to be published in Britain. It describes Prince's sufferings as a slave in Bermuda, Turks Island...

Four destinies collide in a unique fantasy world of war and wonders, where empire is won with enchanted steel and magical animal companions fight alongside their masters in battle. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Tordotcom • Kirkus...

Four of Charles Dickens's most enduring and popular works in one volume.Oliver Twist. Pip. The ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. The characters of Charles Dickens live on in our imaginations long after we've read his renowned works of social commentary and vivid...

Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Luke, the adventurous future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile...

Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart ofand Paradise.Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the...

Framed as a letter from the Roman Emperor Hadrian to his successor, Marcus Aurelius, Marguerite Yourcenar'sand Memoirs of Hadrianand is translated from the French by Grace Frick with an introduction by Paul Bailey in Penguin Modern Classics.In her magnificent novel, Marguerite Yourcenor recreates the...

Frank, funny and poignant, and Single Bald Female and by Laura Price is a completely unforgettable story of love and friendship.'A wonderful debut . . . moving and beautiful' - Emma Gannon'Life-affirming and uplifting' - and Fabulous and magazine'Witty yet devastating' - and ES...

Frantz Fanon's seminal work on the trauma of colonization, The Wretched of the Earth made him the leading anti-colonialist thinker of the twentieth centuryTranslated from the French by Constance Farrington, with an introduction by Jean-Paul SartreWritten at the height of the Algerian war for...

Franz Kafka met Felice Bauer in August 1912, at the home of his friend Max Brod. Energetic, down-to-earth, and life-affirming, the twenty-five-year-old secretary was everything Kafka was not, and he was instantly smitten. Because he was living in Prague and she in Berlin, his...

Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writerKafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose into...

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Fresh, timeless ... a lively work of art'and Observer'Buchi Emecheta was the foremother of black British women's writing . . . powerful fictions written from and about our lives' Bernardine Evaristo'Most dreams, as all dreamers know quite well, do have setbacks. Adah's dream was...

From #1and New York Timesand bestselling author Jodi Picoult comes a compelling and “multilayered tale of small-town intrigue (Glamour) about a prep schoolteacher accused of rape by a group of young girls, the woman who stands by him, and the repercussions of the case...

From #1 Sunday Times and multi-million copy bestselling author, Chris Carter, comes the most compelling and ruthless Robert Hunter thriller yet.

From ancient Greece and Rome (Sappho, Marcellus Empiricus) to the current Covid 19 crisis (Eavan Boland's 'Quarantine'), poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human body and mind.and Poems of Healingand is a small treasury of their words, illuminating...

From bestselling poet Samantha King Holmes andand New York Timesand bestselling author r.h. Sin comes a collection of poetry, prose, and photography that proves love is infinite and ever changing.This is a seven-year tapestry of love, adventure, enlightenment, and progression. A collection of moments...

From fresh new voice Aliya Ali-Afzal, Would I Lie to You?is a page-turning, warm and funny debut about what happens when you have your dream life - and are about to lose it. 'A refreshing new voice in commercial fiction' Cosmopolitan At the school...

From Jesmyn Ward-the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow-comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War.“ Let us descend,'...

From Neil Smith, author of the award-winning, internationally acclaimed story collection Bang Crunch, comes a dark but whimsical debut novel about starting over in the afterlife in the vein of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones. When Oliver 'Boo' Dalrymple wakes up in heaven, the...

From Penguin'sand The Originalsand collection,and The Outsidersand is an outstanding story of teenage rebellion, written when the author was only 17.__________Teenagers in a small Oklahoma town have split into two gangs, divided by money, tastes and attitude. The Socs' idea of having a good...

From renowned historian Niall Ferguson, a searching and provocative examination of the widespread institutional rot that threatens our collective future What causes rich countries to lose their way? Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, increasing inequality, aging populations,...

From Sunday Times bestselling author and the nation's best loved TV presenter Carol Kirkwood comes a glittering escape to the French Riviera. A great summer read'and Prima A stunning holiday read with passion and heart, perfect…!'and Anton Du Beke--------By the sapphire blue waters of...

Fromand Sunday Timesand bestselling author Karen Swan,and Midnight in the Snowand is the story of a forbidden attraction that will reveal long-buried secrets, set amongst the snow-covered mountains of the Austrian Alps.'Deliciously glamorous, irresistibly romantic' -and Hello!Award-winning director Clover Phillips is riding high when...

From temper tantrums and telling tales to bickering and boasting, these bratty boys and ghastly girls are up to no good! Read on if you dare...Ranging from the light-hearted to the deliciously dark, these cautionary tales will delight young readers as much today when...

From the acclaimed translators ofand War and Peaceand andand Anna Karenina, a stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece, the first since the 1958 original.Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves...

From the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between many truths. An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is...

From the author ofand Ayesha At Lastand comes a sparkling new rom-com for fans ofand You've Got Mail.Hana Khan's family-run halal restaurant is on its last legs. So when a flashy competitor gets ready to open nearby, bringing their inevitable closure even closer, she...

FROM THE AUTHOR OFand CATCH-22, SOON TO BE A TV SERIES ON CHANNEL 4Joseph Heller'sand otherand masterpiece - a darkly comic, sometimes tragic satire that does for the American Dream whatand Catch-22and did for the madness of war'Joseph Heller's finest achievement' Jonathan CoeBob Slocum...

From the author of international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982''Cho's complex, humane, and by its end utterly transfixing novel shows that it is in community that we find resilience.' i newspaper'Like Bong Joon-ho's Academy Award-winning film Parasite and the popular Netflix series Squid Games,...

From the author ofand New York Timesand bestseller,and A Flicker in the Dark, comes a gripping and atmospheric new thriller about one woman's search for the truthFrom the author ofand New York Timesand bestseller,and A Flicker in the Dark, comes a gripping and atmospheric...

From the author of One of Us Is Lying comes a brand new pulse-pounding thriller. Three former friends ditch school for old time's sake - with horrible and deadly consequences. Ivy, Mateo, and Cal used to be close - best friends back in middle...

From the author of the 100,000 copy-selling rom-com,and Love to Hate You! No one makes you laugh like Jo Watson!'If you want a book that is TRULY "laugh out loud" start here'and Goodreadsand reviewerPreorder Jo's hilarious and heartfelt new rom-com,and Just The Way I...

From the author of the 100,000 copy-selling rom-com,and Love to Hate You! No one makes you laugh like Jo Watson!'If you want a book to make you feel better, to make you laugh and smile, go read this'and NetGalley reviewerPreorder Jo's hilarious and heartfelt...

From the author ofand The Jigsaw Manand comes the next book in Nadine Matheson's DI Henley series Nadine Matheson writes sentences like roses, lovely and bristling with thorns . . . Matheson's voice is exciting, urgent… and, now more than ever, vital'and A.J. Finn*...

FROM THE AUTHOR OFand THE MEMORY POLICE'A conspicuously gifted writer…To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with a nightmare, and her stories continue to haunt. She possesses an effortless, glassy, eerie brilliance'and GuardianMurderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent...

From the author of the modern classicand A Little Life, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia.'To Paradiseand is a transcendent, visionary novel of stunning scope...

From the author ofand The Power, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017IT BEGINS AND ENDS WITH A SACRIFICE...It was a time of brutal tyranny and occupation. Young men and women took to the streets to protest. Dictators put them down with...

From the author of the thrilling science-fiction epicand Children of Time, winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award.and Shards of Earthand is the first high-octane, far-future space adventure inand Adrian Tchaikovsky'and Final Architecture trilogy.'One of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative...

From the author: “The book you are holding is different from what you might have expected. I have lived with the regret of not being able to have connected with my father during the time he was with us. And so I thought of...

From the award-winning author ofand Becoming Dickensand andand The Story of Aliceand comes a major new biography of Charles Dickens, tracing the year that would transform his life and times.The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when industrial miracles...

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From the bestselling author of "Room" here comes a delicious tale of secrets, betrayal and forbidden love. After a separation of many years, Emily 'Fido' Faithfull bumps into her old friend Helen Codrington on the streets of Victorian London. Much has changed: Helen is...