If life were fair, Jam Gallahue would still be at home in New Jersey with her sweet British boyfriend, Reeve Maxfield. She'd be watching old comedy sketches with him. She'd be kissing him in the library stacks.

If Only She Knew is a story of Alina who is head over heels in love with Emad, a young and handsome boy who is also the football team captain of their school. Alina is a rebellious 18-year old breathtakingly beautiful girl who is...

If people were evil, and I wished to be good, then I had to make sure that I was the opposite of a person.When Ida, a Dutch climatologist, accepts an internship at a climate research institute in the Italian Alps, it means leaving her...

If the antidote to a year of solitude and trauma is art, then this novel is the answer. It is superb'and SUNDAY TIMES'A rare kind of literary celebrity'and VOGUE'A hypnotic disappearing act'and OBSERVERThe new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author:and a...

If there's one book you need to read this summer it'sand Finding Mr Perfectly Fine' Yousra ImranLast week I turned 29. Along with the usual homemade Victoria sponge, helium balloon and Selfridges gift vouchers, my Mum's birthday present to me was the threat that...

If this whole series existed right now, I'd tear through it to the exclusion of everything else in my life."and -Teen Librarian ToolboxThe Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a changing United States, their fortune made...

If you betray a Fellowship you are a dead man... Raven and the Wolfpack plough the sea-road in pursuit of the Saxon traitor, Ealdred, who has left the Fellowship for dead and fled to the Frankish Emperor Charlemagne and the promise of untold riches....

If you could change the past, would you?*As seen on ITV in The Zoe Ball Book Club*'Beautiful, well-written...I got goosebumps' Alex Jones'Portrayed 1977 so brilliantly...it would make an amazing movie' Zoe Ball-----------------------------------------------How far would you go to save the person you love?Luna is about...

'If you go back and look at your life there are certain scenes, acts, or maybe just incidents on which everything that follows seems to depend. If only you could narrate them, then you might be understood. I mean the part of yourself that...

If you had the power to change the past. . . where would you start?Cassie has never really fitted in. She remembers everything. Understands nothing. And consistently says the wrong thing.So when she gets dumped, fired AND her local cafe runs out of banana...

If you like Modern Family, you'll love this Maybe it was because I was about to turn the same age my mother was when I lost her. Maybe it was because my husband and I were running out of things to say to each...

'If you liked Bridget Jones's Diary, try this' BBC News 'So funny and sharp, yet tender and emotional too. I loved it!' Jill Mansell 'I adored The Last Romeo . . . funny, clever and warm' Adam Kay, author of This is Going to...

If you lovedand Before The Coffee Gets Coldand you will love this!''A perfect, feel-good story about finding joy in unexpected connections, ideal for those who love a cosy, heartwarming escape!''Bubble bath fiction'and The Herald'A delightful tale of community and connection'and My WeeklyWelcome to Tenderness!A...

If you lovedand The Midnight Library, readand How to Stop Timeand next!HOW MANY LIFETIMES DOES IT TAKE TO LEARN HOW TO LIVE?Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old history teacher, but he's been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan...

If you want to make it to the top, start your career with the right job first. T Muralidharan, the chairman of TMI group and one of India's top recruiters and career consultants, reveals this secret after studying the resumes of some of the...

If you're a fan of Jodie Picoult, you'll love the latest novel by Diane Chamberlain, bestselling author of The Midwife's Confession . . . North Carolina, 1960. Newlywed Jane Forrester, fresh out of university, is seeking what most other women have shunned: a career....

If you're coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winningand Foreign Affairs'and GuardianVinnie Miner is an American professor of children's literature on her way to London for six months of research. Settling into her aeroplane seat she finds...

IIn the ice-hockey romance that has taken TikTok by storm, a dedicated player struggles with the number one team rule: don't go near the captain's sister.and Garrett Andersen knows that playing professional hockey requires absolute dedication to the rules. There's just one rule he's...

Ikal is one of the ten students of the Muhamaddiyah School, the oldest and poorest school in the Indonesian tinmining island of Belitong. Like him, his classmates are from the most downtrodden families in the region. But the school has two weaponsits teacher Bu...

'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN Mildred Lathbury is one of those 'excellent women' who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations of life - birth, marriage, death, the successful...

I'm always learning about how my brain doesn't work right . . . But it doesn't feel broken to me.' Olivia Donatelli's dream of a 'normal' life was shattered when her son, Anthony, was diagnosed with autism at age three. He didn't speak, hated...

'I'm here to remember - all that I have been and all that I will never be again.'At the bar of a grand hotel in a small Irish town sits 84-year-old Maurice Hannigan. He's alone, as usual -though tonight is anything but. Pull up...

I'm in story heaven with this book.' Cecelia Ahern, author ofand P.S. I Love YouA charming tale of friendship, love and loneliness in contemporary JapanSentaro has failed. He has a criminal record,and drinks too much, and his dream of becoming aand writer is just...

I'm looking for that perfect blend of flavours; the taste that used to be you.' It's been 18 months since my husband was murdered and I've decided to finish writing The Flavours of Love, the cookbook he started before he died. Everyone thinks I'm...

I'm sorry? A fantasy romcom that is ACTUALLY funny and has a Black woman lead? And there's buckets of nachos? And a lesbian centaur? Give me a million books in the series, please.'and Goodreads reviewAll I wanted to do was live my life in...

Imagine you meet a man, spend seven glorious days together, and fall in love. And it's mutual: you've never been so certain of anything.So when he leaves for a long-booked holiday and promises to call from the airport, you have no cause to doubt...

Imagining the history of the twenty-first century through its artifacts, from silent messaging systems to artificial worlds on asteroids.In the year 2082, a curator looks back at the twenty-first century, offering a history of the era through a series of objects and artifacts. He...

Immaculately constructed, acidly observed and gripping from start to finish,and A Burningand is a brilliant debut.'and Theand Guardian Megha Majumdar'sand A Burningand is an uncanny debut, a fierce condemnation of modern India - the corruption, racism, misogyny, the feverish obsession with celebrity - this...

Impossible Monstersand is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the world. An astonishing book about an extraordinary subject'and PETER FRANKOPAN'As thrilling as it is sweeping'and TOM HOLLAND'This book dazzles in its...

Imprisoned in Freedom" is a small but earnest attempt to bring forth the silent pain, sufferings and deprivations that lurk around the streets blatantly visible, but somehow due to the fog that encapsulates the mind of a human, we tend to overlook it. Each...

Improvementand is a major work of literature.'and - Nick Hornby,and The BelieverReyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn't perfect, yet as she visits him throughout his three-month stint in prison, their bond grows tighter. Kiki, now settled in New York after a journey that...

In 1603, Paru a young concubine is on the run. A precious jewel, her only possession has been stolen. And now the mysterious assailants are after her life. Friendless and penniless, Paru decides to fight back. Her razor sharp wit and her sensuous charms...

In 1729 A.D., the city of Karachi was founded and named in honor of Mai Kolachi, “whose son is said to have slain a man-eating crocodile in the village after his elder brothers had already been killed by it. Nearly three centuries later, the...

In 1839, fifty-three African slaves staged a bloody mutiny on board the Amistad, a Spanish slave ship from Cuba. Their success was short-lived as the slaver was intercepted by the American Navy and towed to Connecticut where the slaves were held for deportation. But...

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experience came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the...

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the...

In 1929 young bride Mehar struggles with her family's expectations whilst seventy years later her great-grandson discovers what her story can teach him about his own path.'A gorgeous, gripping read' Kamila Shamsie'A multi-generational masterpiece'and Daily MailMehar, a young bride in rural Punjab, is trying...

In 1948 Najin and Calvin Cho, with their young daughter Miran, travel from South Korea to the United States in search of new opportunities. Wary of the challenges ahead, Najin and Calvin make the difficult decision to leave their other daughter, Inja, behind with...

In 1948, as violence erupts in Jerusalem, a young Arab woman, Hind Husseini, finds fifty-five abandoned children in the streets and faces the biggest challenge of her life. Hind establishes the Dar El-Tifel orphanage, dedicating her life to providing love, support and education to...

In 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine's night storm. In the early hours of the next morning, all 84 men aboard died. Helen O'Mara is one of those left behind when her husband, Cal, drowns....

In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life. Thirty-five years earlier, when Miri was fifteen and in love for the first time, three planes fell from the sky within...

In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul and Youssef. They are adopted as infants and live in a shared bedroom perched atop a mosque in Staten Island. The boys are a conspicuous trio: Dayo is of Nigerian origin,...

In 1992 Vernor Vinge amazed the science fiction world with this epic novel of star-spanning adventure. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, and has since become a landmark in the field. Now, with the long awaited sequel "The Children of the Sky...

In 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. His exams have not gone well. At home he is looking after his father, when surely it should be the other way round, and if he thinks about...

In 1998 Peter F. Hamilton, the master of space opera and top ten bestselling author, published his first collection of short stories in A Second Chance at Eden. Manhattan in Reverse is his return to short fiction. This includes 'Manhattan in Reverse,' an original...

In 2011, the screenwriter, lyricist and journalist Neelesh Misra started mentoring a handpicked group of writers called the Mandali. These were men and women of all ages, backgrounds and dispositions. The Mandali soon started writing radio stories in Hindi, for Misra's showand Yaadon Ka...

In 2014, France lost part of the control of its nuclear power plants to the United States. Frederic Pierucci, former senior executive of one of Alstom's power company subsidiaries, found himself at the heart of this state scandal. His story goes to the very...

In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood's most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from...

In a claustrophobic, concrete cell, two men face each other across a bare table. One is a wanted terrorist, the other a British intelligence officer. But this is no ordinary interrogation, and as they talk deep into the night and violent secrets are revealed,...

In a crumbling, seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet, seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother fusses over the off-season customers. When, one night, they are forced to eject a prostitute and a middle-aged man from his room, Mari finds...