Two best friends. One messy love story.After another horrendous first date, Lizzie is DONE with the apps. No more swiping. No more small talk.Instead, she’s hatching a plan so brilliantly chaotic that her two best gal pals can’t say no: the ex-swap. It’s genius,...

A sharp, funny and achingly tender story of obsession and loneliness from the award-winning, bestselling author of Sorrow and Bliss'So smart, so funny, so moving. I absolutely loved it' BONNIE GARMUS'Heartbreaking, hilarious, and deeply hopeful. Mason is a dazzling talent' ANN PATCHETT'Mason is brilliant...

The instant New York Times bestselling authors of The Paradise Problem and The Unhoneymooners return with an unforgettable new romance.One tragic accident.One troubled marriage erased from memory.One extraordinary do-over.Three years ago, Emery Finch did something completely out of character: she got married. To Luca...

The novel follows Oskar Matzerath, who decides on his third birthday that he will stop growing. He carries a tin drum and uses it to express his resistance to the adult world around him. Set largely against the backdrop of Nazi Germany and post-war...

Set in Oxford, Mississippi, in 1933, during the Great Depression, the novel follows 11-year-old Meg Lefleur, an orphan who has learned to survive without depending on anyone.Meg's life changes when she encounters Birdie, a young woman confronting the secrets and hypocrisy of her wealthy...

Full of warmth and joyful community, this is the uplifting story of one woman’s journey towards letting go of the past and creating memories worth holding on to . . .‘I adored this heartwarming tale’ – Kate Storey, author of The Memory Library'Full of...

'Absorbing, compelling and completely unputdownable, every Lulu Taylor novel grips you to the very end' – Lisa JewellA legacy built on a lie. And a search to uncover the truth . . .Kent, 2002Lottie Conway has spent her life in the shadow of a...

“My darling, it is you who is dreadful.”Reverie Adams has only one goal in life: to keep her head above water with her father’s sinister legacy weighing on her shoulders. But she’s no stranger to drowning—it’s her very first memory, after all, and if...

Twisted Pawn follows Tierney Callaghan and Achilles Ferrante in a dark, high-stakes romance involving betrayal, revenge, organised crime and forbidden attraction.Tierney knows that Achilles wants her dead. She betrayed him twice—first by breaking his heart and then by selling him out to the Feds....

Rules for the Summer is a standalone summer romantic comedy centred on Renley Gossage, a determined young woman trying to restore a struggling candy shop in the seaside town of Cape Meril. She is determined to succeed on her own, without financial help or...

He can resist any woman in the world...except for the one he shouldn't want.Famed goalkeeper Noah Wilson doesn't do relationships or complications. The only thing the grumpy single dad wants is to do his job and spend more time with his daughter.Unfortunately, his bachelor...

A TV star president is campaigning for a constitutionally dubious third term, normal Americans are falling into an unexplained weeping sickness and a wrestler claiming to be the reincarnated mystic Rasputin is making a spandex-clad entrance into politics.Meanwhile Clarence Thomas Jr. is a journalist...

A touching testament to the power of letter writing and connecting with strangers, for fans of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop and What You're Looking For is in the Library.Hyoyoung feels trapped in her small hometown after her dreams of becoming a filmmaker have...

In February 1981, as Spain emerged from Franco’s dictatorship and prepared for its first democratic vote for a new prime minister, Colonel Tejero and a band of right-wing soldiers burst into parliament and began firing shots. Only three men refused to take cover: Adolfo...

Café. Waiting. Love. is a coming-of-age romance set in a small, enigmatic café in Hsinchu, Taiwan, where people come to wait—for love, a second chance, or simply something to change.Si-Ying, a young woman working at the café, has a crush on Ze-Yu, a handsome...

Please Form Pairs is a darkly funny and intense Japanese survival drama that combines the social rivalry of Mean Girls with the deadly games of Squid Game. Mishin Mizushima doesn't fit into the brutally competitive world of her Tokyo school. While the most popular...

In a nameless city torn apart by civil war, a teenage sniper has only one goal: to fire the perfect shot. He sublimates himself into his weapon, learns to maintain impassivity, controls his breath, listens to his body and the beat of his heart....

A darkly funny, heart-wrenching satire that tears through the guts of the war news industry “Vulture is a dark satire with real claws.”―The Independent“A novel of honesty, humour and sadness told with great verve.”―Fergal Keane, author of The Madness“Imagine Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag as a war...

Swallows by Natsuo Kirino, translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, is a contemporary Japanese novel exploring surrogacy, class, gender, motherhood and bodily autonomy. Twenty-nine-year-old Riki has moved from the countryside to Tokyo but struggles to make ends meet in a dead-end job. When she is offered...

‘But we were having such a good time,’ I said. That was all there was, all I could say, whether or not it was enough. ‘Weren’t we? Weren’t we having such a good time?’A woman suffering an extreme allergic reaction to a yoga mat...

From Mariama Bâ, the acclaimed author of So Long a Letter, comes a powerful tale of love, identity, and cultural collision.When Ousmane Gueye, a gifted Senegalese student from a modest Muslim background, falls in love with Mireille, the privileged daughter of a French diplomat,...

'A novel you can read in one sitting that will stay with you forever' Karen Russell'Very funny, very sad, very sharp, and completely delightful' Elif Batuman'A classic American road adventure. Gary Shteyngart keeps getting better' Literary Review'Genius... A miracle' Washington Post'Pull up a beach...

The Elements of Dark Academia is an anthology of more than two dozen stories exploring the darker side of academic life. Edited by award-winning anthologist Jared Shurin, the collection traces Dark Academia from its Gothic roots to contemporary interpretations, bringing together mysterious, fantastical, romantic...

First collection from a prizewinning, new-generation American short story writer: exquisite, atmospheric, rural tales with an uncanny edge'Exquisite short stories. They disturb, delight and linger long after finishing' LOUISE KENNEDY'To read Emily Ruskovich is to unwrap a gift' PAULA HAWKINSA stunning collection of stories...

A BBC RADIO 2 BOOKCLUB PICK'A book of profundity, humanity and ravishing beauty - the only kind of book I want to read' - ANDREW SEAN GREER'Glorious and captivating, with Eggers' signature humour and precision, Contrapposto tells a big and big-hearted story that counter-positions...

'One of our most entertaining writers' Deborah LevyI was beginning to feel it would be best not to settle down in areas recognisably Parisian, because places recognisably themselves tend to be fictitious.A writer is invited to Paris and finds himself living in an area...

Summer, 1923. Six-year-old Catherine Carolan grows restless on her parents' farm. It's already clear that her intellect will soon outgrow the two-room schoolhouse across the fields. But in post-Civil War Ireland, an education is not an easy thing for a girl to access, and...

Emigrating alone from Paris to New York after World War II, a young girl Gazala befriends two spirited sisters, Anne and Alma.When Gazala's beloved brother Samir joins her in Manhattan, this inseparable foursome becomes the beating heart of an untraditional, multigenerational family.The decades are...

'A compelling narrative, a beautifully structured piece of writing, and a thought-provoking novel of ideas' Sarah WatersHis new name is Jack. To his new friends, he is a good guy with occasional flashes of unexpected violence. To his new girlfriend, he is strangely inexperienced...

Imagine a world in which you could take back the stupid thing you just said, unspill the coffee, avoid the accident, roll life back thirty seconds and do it over again - this time the right way. In Etgar Keret's universe, all things are...

My mother had died, but still I heard her voice...Growing up in an affluent neighbourhood in 1930s Shanghai, Loo Shu-hsin is told that it is 'no good for a girl to be smart' - and yet when rumours of the revolution reach their enclave,...

Partita follows Livia Bohusz, an eleven-year-old girl whose life is forever changed after her older brother, Cyrus, dies by suicide. Growing up in the silence and grief that consume her family's farm, Livia finds comfort in music and discovers an exceptional talent for the...

Enemies to lovers never tasted so good Oakleigh has spent years perfecting the art of hating Finn Southwick―her best friend's infuriatingly gorgeous, maddeningly competitive brother. Their constant battles? Totally normal. That kiss eight months ago? Never happened. But when Finn tells his family they're...

A woman on trial. A marriage built on silence. A culture that demands endurance.Sali, a working mother of three, is on trial for the murder of her husband, Kasunga. Accused of shooting him after a fight in their bedroom, she pleads not guilty and...

Diana Leyland has a talent for climbing the social ladder—and for marrying wealthy men. Now widowed three times, she has found what could be her biggest prize yet: David Farrand, a wealthy man with a five-storey Hampstead home, elite London connections, and an enormous...

Switzy follows David, a retired executive on what he knows will be the final journey of his life. Traveling by private jet across Europe toward Zurich, accompanied by his loyal assistant, David struggles with a mind that is gradually unraveling. His notebook is filled...

In the middle of the countryside, a realtor is showing a disgraced professor around an idyllic house. She speaks not only about the home's many wonderful qualities but about its previous owner, the mystifying Helen, whose presence still seems to suffuse every fixture. Through...

In Luke Kennard's audacious new novel, a penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a job working for Dr Blend, a university professor who is conducting a psychological experiment. How will Dr Blend's students react to someone zipped into on oversized bag, sitting at the...

Unfortunately, some people are family...Malti Patel is absolutely fine. Concussed and bruised, maybe, but fine. Certainly fine enough to not need her daughter's soon-to-be-ex-husband, Nathan Whitlock, playing nurse in her home while she recuperates. And yet her doctor insists on in-home supervision for seven...

The Shadow of the Object is a literary novel by Chloe Aridjis that blends dreamlike storytelling with themes of memory, transformation, desire, and mortality.While visiting her family in Mexico, Flora is bitten by the family dog and hospitalized for multiple surgeries. There she meets...

TransAtlantic is a sweeping historical novel that weaves together the lives of real and fictional characters connected by journeys across the Atlantic Ocean. Spanning more than 150 years, it explores how individual lives ripple through history and across generations.The novel follows three major historical...

Return to the dark and captivating world of Sorrowsong University in Daybreak, the emotional second book in Autumn Woods’ romance series.Alex Corbeau-Green and Ophelia Winters were never meant to fall in love. Ophelia arrived at the elite Sorrowsong University with a mission to destroy...

A delightful enemies-to-friends-to-lovers romance about how love is sometimes only a click away.While her brothers are finding their soulmates and planning the rest of their lives, Manisha Patel is moving back in with her parents, dodging calls from her cheating Aquarius ex-boyfriend, and avoiding...

Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a...

BLISTERING ~ MACABRE ~ IRREVERENTLegendary chef Anthony Bourdain's crude culinary noir classic.When up-and-coming chef Tommy Pagana settles for a less than glamorous stint at his uncle's failing restaurant in Little Italy, he unwittingly finds himself a partner in big-time crime. Between the chef's smack...

Welcome to Tenderness. Our doors are always open.Need a pick-me-up? Visit the Tenderness convenience store in Mojiko, Kitakyushu.A sweet treat to lift your spirits.A quiet place to talk over a warm meal.A kind word when you need it most.The sound of the sea in...

Dating lessons from my football-playing best friend? Sign me up!At the glittery break-up party she throws for herself, Rachel Dumont envisions lifting a glass to celebrate being free and single again. What she actually does: Drink too much champagne and blurt out to her...

He’s a fish out of water, she’s fighting the current, but together will they Sink or Swim?Arriving back in the small Lake District town of Inglemere, Aria thinks she’s reclaiming her childhood home after her dad’s untimely death. Resentful of her self-involved stepmother, and...

Escape to Cornwall this summer with another heart-warming and feel-good novel from the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author!Readers LOVE Sarah Morgan‘Sarah Morgan never disappoints’ FIVE star reader review'This is a summer must read!' FIVE star reader review'Sarah never fails to deliver a great...

Making Waves: A Contemporary Art in Pakistan is a survey of the development of contemporary Pakistani art. The book examines how Pakistani artists have responded to changing social, political, cultural, and religious realities through modern artistic practices. Rather than focusing only on traditional painting,...