Shortlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction, Angie Cruz'sand Dominicanaand is a vital portrait of the immigrant experience and the timeless coming-of-age story of a young woman finding her voice in the worldFifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZEThe best novel I've read in a long time' Roddy DoyleThe lives of two women - the sole survivor of an airplane crash and the troubled park ranger who leads the rescue mission to find her - intersect...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEAand GUARDIANand FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR'A monstrous and brilliant book' Philip Pullman'Wholly mesmerising and revelatory... Completely fascinating' William BoydSometimes discovery brings destructionWhen We Cease to Understand the Worldand shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BOWKER VOLCANO PRIZEANand OBSERVERand BEST DEBUT OF THE YEAR'One of the best debuts this year'and Guardian'An intoxicating portrait of modern India ... Terrific'and Daily Mail'Hugely engaging, written with verve, intelligence and compassion'and...

Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction'Extraordinarily affecting' Alex Preston,and Observer'This is a novel whose engine is flesh and blood, not cold ideas . . . Grant brings the 1950s - that odd, downbeat, fertile decade between war and sexual liberation - into...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2025LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2025An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge - for readers of Patricia Highsmith, Sarah Waters...

The TikTok sensation Addicted Series continues withand Long Way Down, now in a print edition with special bonus material!With a seven-year age difference, Ryke Meadows and Daisy Calloway have faced an uphill battle in the eyes of the world and their families. Known as...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DIVERSE BOOK AWARDS 'Tender, challenging and as warm as it was razor-sharp' Beth O'Leary 'If you've read Joanna Cannon I think you'll love this' Simon Savidge 'A sublimely witty and touching story' Jonathan Coe The standout new novel by acclaimed author...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG FICTION AWARD 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE 2022 LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2022 'Diamond-sharp, timely and urgent' Observer, Best Debuts of...

Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize andamp; the Orwell Prize for FictionAand Sunday Timesand Fictionand Book of the Year'aand serious accomplishment'and Sunday Times'vivid and expansive' Sophie Mackintosh'aand lyrical celebration'and TLS'aand glorious, poetic feat' Bolu BabalolaThis is a novel about two women - Melissa and Catarina.Catarina...

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greatest writers.'Beautiful... Haunting' Sunday Times'A dreamlike story of dystopia' Jia TolentinoHat, ribbon, bird rose.To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021Aand GUARDIANand andand THE TIMESand BOOK OF THE YEAR'This slight book is an extraordinarily powerful exploration of what happens to the souls of men sent to kill and be killed' --and The Times, Historical Fiction Books of the...

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2022From the bestselling author ofand Breasts and Eggsand and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes a sharp and illuminating noveland about a fourteen-year-old boy subjected to relentless bullying.Inand Heaven, a fourteen-year-old boy is tormented for having a lazy...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013From Subhash's earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTIONA masterful, exuberant novel from the acclaimed author ofand How to be bothand and the ongoingand Seasonaland quartet'Ali Smith has got style, ideas and punch. Read her' Jeanette Winterson'As infectious as a pop...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDSet in modern-day America and France, Renaissance Italy and Boxer Rebellion China, these stories embrace whole lifetimes, much in the manner of Alice Munro and William Trevor. Joan Silber skilfully and subtly ties one story to the next, as...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE'A canny, challenging, and never less than engrossing read.' Lisa MacInerney'A vivid and memorable book about art, land and language, love and sev, youth and age. Big ideas tread lightly through Audrey Magee's strong prose.' Sarah Moss'So brilliant in its...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022'Luminous.'and Observer'I utterly ADORED it.'and MARIAN KEYES'Powerful'and Sunday TimesHe handed the easel to the boatman, reaching down the pier wall towards the sea.Mr Lloyd has decided to travel to the island by boat without engine...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROMANTIC NOVELISTS' ASSOCIATION HISTORICAL ROMANTIC NOVEL AWARDA gripping and poignant love story set in a remote village in the Scottish Highlands at the end of the Second World War.'the only fault I can find with this book is that I've already...

Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize from the internationally admired new face of fiction author, Padma Viswanathan, comes a compelling new work. It is set among families of those who lost their loved ones in the 1985 Air India bombing, recording the unforeseen aftershocks...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024The Timesand Novel of the YearAnd aand Guardian,and FT,and Economist,and Irish Times,and Daily Telegraph,and New Statesman,and Irish Independentand andand Independentand Book of the Year'One of the finest novels published this year.'and Sunday Times'I could not put it...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025THEand SUNDAY TIMESand BESTSELLERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA BBC TWOand BETWEEN THE COVERSand PICKA BEST SUMMER READING PICK FORand THE TIMES, THEand DAILY MAIL, THEand FTand AND THEand GUARDIANA 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR BBC R4...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG FICTION READERS AWARD This is so good. We are not ready nor worthy'Ocean Vuong, author ofand On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Gorgeous, funny and deadly serious'Max Porter, author ofand LannyA BOOK...

Shyam Selvadurai pieces together the best of Sri Lankan poetry and fiction in this anthology. From the Sinhala and Tamil writers of the 1950s to diasporic writers of today, from stories of love and longing to those of brutality and death, this masterfully constructed...

Siddharth Agarwal a.k.a. Sid has it all a fifteen-year-long marriage, a bunch of devoted friends, and the chance to be the companys youngest-ever VP, all at the age of thirty-six But, behind the scenes, his life is slowly falling apart, what with his marriage...

Sierra Simone Priest Trilogy Collection 3 Books Set (Priest, Sinner, Saint):Priest:He's a priest, and here is his confession. There are many rules a priest can't break. A priest cannot marry. A priest cannot abandon his flock. A priest cannot forsake his God. Tyler Bell...

Sigmund Freud's theories on the unconscious revolutionised the way we approach human behaviour. This accessible and entertaining guide introduces Freud's key ideas, including:• Freud's early life• Psychoanalysis• The unconscious• Interpreting dreams• The Oedipus complex• Case historiesAlan Porter also explores Freud's life as a scientist,...

Simon and Suzie are two pleasure seekers defined by their flamboyant tattoos. Peter Tressider is a politician on the fast track to the top. DS Aector McAvoy is a policeman with scars to his body and career. Each is marked in their own way....

Simon Snowlock and Prince Josua's band of allies gather at the Stone of Farewell. King Elias is drawn ever deeper into the dark sorceries of Ineluki, the Storm King. The badly depleted League of the Scroll searches for age-old knowledge with which to aid...

Simone's mother was murdered when she was thirteen. When her father was convicted, everything changed. Overnight, Simone went from living in a wealthy white neighborhood to scraping by.Ten years later, Simone has given up on her dreams and lives a quiet life, writing book...

Simultaneously tragic and uplifting. And I have to say at times funny. Charlotte Levin is SUCH a clever writer . . . A magnificent read.' - Ruth Jones, author ofand Love UntoldA gripping, darkly comic tale of searing loss, coercive control and the consequences...

Since Merlin's father left them in the lurch shortly after his diagnosis, Lucy has made Merlin the centre of her world. Struggling with the joys and tribulations of raising her eccentrically adorable yet challenging child, (if only Merlin came with operating instructions) Lucy doesn't...

Since the 1990 publication of her first collection,and Four Bare Legs in a Bed,and Helen Simpson has been hailed as one of the best short story writers at work in the world today. These wonderfully funny and penetrating stories take on the full stretch,...

Single mother Hattie has plenty of reasons to be happy with her life. Her antiques business is flourishing, her teenage son is settled at boarding school and she's enjoying a fling with a younger, very sexy man. But all that changes one fine day...

Single-mother Poppy Patterson moved across the country when she was sixteen and pregnant to find a new normal. After years of hard work, she's built a life she loves. It may include a job at a nightclub, weekend soccer games and more stretch marks...

Sir Kenelm Digby was one of the most remarkable Englishmen who ever lived: a trusted advisor to the King, but the sworn enemy of the all-powerful Duke of Buckingham; a pioneering philosopher and scientist, but committed to the occult arts of alchemy and astrology;...

Sisters Rose and Gameela Gubran could not have been more different. Rose, an Egyptologist, married an American journalist and immigrated to New York City, where she works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gameela, a devout Muslim since her teenage years, stayed in Cairo....

Six friends have been trapped by one dark secret.It was supposed to be our last weekend away as friends, before marriage and respectability beckoned. But what happened that Saturday changed everything.In the middle of the night, someone died. The six of us promised each...

Slaka! Land of lake and forest, of beetroot and tractor. Slaka! Land whose borders are sometimes here, often further north, and sometimes not at all! Dr Petworth is on a cultural exchange to the small (and fictional) Eastern European country of Slaka. Pallid and...

'Smart, emotional, intriguing and compelling - I loved it!' JILL MANSELL Manhattan lawyer Dannie Kohan has been in possession of her meticulously crafted 5-year plan since she understood the concept. On the day that she nails the most important job interview of her career...

SO CHARMING, SO SWEET AND SO LOVELY'and MARIAN KEYESLeena is too young to feel stuck.Eileen is too old to start over.It's time for The Switch...After blowing a big presentation at work, Leena takes a two-month sabbatical and escapes to her grandmother Eileen's house for...

So how do I greet the New Millennium? In despair. I'm a single parent, I live with my mother . . . I have a bald spot the size of a jaffa cake on the back of my head . . . I can't...

Some began this way of life from childhood, others were civil servants, shopkeepers, real estate agents, thieves. They left their families and jobs to become renunciants, sadhus. They refuse to work and vow not to accept any wages. They pursue the path of liberation....

Some stories are universal. They play out across human history. And time is the river which will flow through them.It starts with a family, a family which will mutate. For now, it is a father, mother and two sons. One with his father's violence...

Someoneand is certain to kill Joel Backman.The question is: who?In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a full pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years in a federal prison.Unknown to...

SOMEONE KILLED YOUR DAUGHTER.SOMEONE YOU KNOW...***and SUNDAY TIMESand CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH, from the bestselling author of FOUND***'The unravelling of a family are brilliantly portrayed in this painfully realistic novel'and SUNDAY TIMES'Brilliant, compelling, heart-wrenching writing' PETER JAMESYour daughter isn't answering your calls.She's not...

Sometimes - perhaps only for an instant - we fail to recognise a companion; for a moment their identity ceases to exist, and thus we come to doubt our own. The effect is at its most acute in a couple where our existence is...

Sometimes a crisis can bring people together . . .Meredith White was one of Hollywood's most recognizable faces. But a personal tragedy cut her career short and alienated her from her family. For the last fifteen years, Meredith has shut herself away from the...

Sometimes fame can be fatal... Personal vendettas. Hidden treasure. A monkey named Carl. Stephanie Plum is as fearless as ever in the fourteenth hilarious novel in Janet Evanovich's bestselling Stephanie Plum series. Fearless Fourteen is not to be missed by fans of Harlan Coben...

Sometimes love is closer than you think . . .and Fall head over heels with this charming and heart-fluttering romantic comedy'Sweet, swoony and full of heart'and Lynn Painter,and New York Timesand bestselling author ofand MR WRONG NUMBER'The perfect celebration of falling in love on...