Aand Guardianand Book of the Autumn 2023**'Michaels's writing continues to stand head and shoulders above most other fiction'and OBSERVER'Through luminous moments of chance, change, and even grace, Michaels shows us our humanity' MARGARET ATWOOD'Michaels is exceptionally open to beauty'and GUARDIANThe triumphant new novel from...

Aand GUARDIANand BOOK OF THE YEAR'A thrilling, razor-sharp critique of US foreign policy .and Red Birdsand is an incisive, unsparing critique of war and of America's role in the destruction of the Middle East. It combines modern and ancient farcical traditions in thrilling way'and...

Aand GUARDIANand BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE SAIF GHOBASH BANIPAL PRIZEA FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS IN TRANSLATED LITERATUREA FINALIST FOR THE PREMIO GREGOR VON REZZORI AWARDDeath Is Hard Workand is a tale of three people embarking on an absurd quest -...

A gunshot rings out in a London cafe and the lives of five strangers will never be the same again. The only thing that's certain is that nothing is as it seems.

A handsome, freckled data analyst.A messy, optimistic Christmas tree farm owner.A small town with the best hazelnut lattes on the east coast.'B.K Borison is the most exciting new voice in romance' -and Hannah Grace, author ofand Icebreaker'This is the easiest I've ever fallen in...

A haunting and vivid novel which excavates an Australia rarely seen in literature.New Year's Eve, 1990, small-town Australia. The mysterious death of the family dog pushes Jack, a Vietnam veteran suffering from severe PTSD, into one of his periodic vanishing acts. His eccentric brother...

A haunting tale of war, love and loss from the author ofand Birdsongand andand A Week in DecemberTheand Sunday Timesand bestsellerOn a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks - an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst...

A heart-lifting, heartbreaking story by Michael Morpurgo, the second-biggest children's author in the UK.In the Imperial War Museum is a wooden Dachshund, carved by a German prisoner of war for the children of the British family with which he stayed after the fighting ended....

A heart-warming new rural romance set in the Victorian High Country by the bestselling author ofand Brumby's Run.Armed with nothing but some loose change and her beloved dog Duke, Mallee girl Pippa Black has finally found the courage she needs to escape a dangerous...

The stunning novel set during World War One from Michael Morpurgo, the nation's favourite storyteller and multi-million copy bestseller.May, 1915.Alfie and his fisherman father find a girl on an uninhabited island in the Scillies - injured, thirsty, lost… and with absolutely no memory of...

A high-strung pastry chef's professional goals are interrupted by an unexpected career transition and the introduction of her wildly attractive nonbinary kitchen manager in this deliciously fresh and witty queer rom-com.Simone Larkspur is a perfectionist pastry expert with a dream job at The Discerning...

A hilarious and heart-warming tale of second chance love, perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella, Kristen Bailey and Jill Mansell.Is he just a summer fling? Or the one she's been waiting for?…How Lauren thought her summer holiday would go:and Priceless mother-son memories of swimming...

A hilarious and modern Cinderella story that feels like eating warm chocolate cake' - Talia Hibbert, author ofand Get a Life, Chloe BrownFinding love was not the only goal . . .When grumpy ex-footballer Alfie Harding gets badgered into selling his memoirs, he knows...

A hilariously fresh and romantic send-up toand You've Got Mailand about a gamer girl with a secret identity and the online bestie she's never met IRL until she unwittingly transfers to his school, from the bestselling author ofand Dial A for Aunties,and The Obsession,...

A hopeful and moving coming-of-age story set on the island of Lindisfarne,and by David Almond, author of the bestselling Skellig and A Song for Ella Grey: now with fantastic illustrations by the award-winning David Litchfield.Louise has travelled with her father to the island of...

A horrifying story rapidly unfolded. Ariel Castro, a local school bus driver, had separately lured Berry and two other young women, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, to his home, where he trapped them and kept them chained. In the decade that followed, the three...

We are offering a high discount due to slightly damage.From the internationally bestselling author ofThe Islandcomes a dazzling new novel of family betrayals, forbidden love, and historical turmoil.Sonia knows nothing of Granada's shocking past, but ordering a simple cup of coffee in a quiet...

A Japanese mystery bestseller, revolving around a series of unsettling floorplans, in which the reader is the detective - from the Youtube sensation Uketsu A mysterious windowless room on a house's floorplan hints at a hideous secret A young girl suspects that her cousin's...

A journey to the past.A map for the future.After hitchhiking from Brazil to nearly halfway around the world, Paulo stumbles across Karla, a young Dutch woman and like-minded soul, in Amsterdam's famous Dam Square.Together they decide to take the fabled hippie trail across Europe...

A joyful, freewheeling, funny and profound new collection from 'one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today' (Lionel Shriver)For one woman, a cross-country train ride becomes a parallel journey into the dark psyche of American manhood. An old...

A kind boyfriend, loving parents and good grades. She has everything ahead of her.Cora's life is a nightmareA psychopath for a husband, a violent father and a terrible secret. There's no way out.But one night, their worlds collideLocked in an isolated house together, they...

'A landmark book....A massively reported deep dive into the unparalleled corporate industrial giant Koch Industries....This impressively researched and well-rendered book also serves as a biography of Charles Koch, with Leonard providing an evenhanded treatment of the tycoon. Leonard's work is on par with Steve...

A landmark in feminist literature, THE WOMEN'S ROOM is a biting social commentary of a world gone silently haywire. Written in the 1970s but with profound resonance today, this is a modern allegory that offers piercing insight into the social norms accepted blindly and...

A laugh out loud witchy romcom for fans of Lana Harper and Erin Sterling !Spice: ????️????️????️Things you should know about Poppy:1. She's a witch2. She has magical hair like Rapunzel fromand Tangled3. She lives with Iris, the head of her coven, in a beautiful,...

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020Aand Spectatorand Book of the Year A literary rendering of theand Top Boyand generation… I cannot conjure another work which captures this culture in such depth - or with such brutal honesty - as only lived experience can tell...

A lost voice of old Japan reclaims her rightful place inhistory in this breathtaking work of imagination and scholarship from award-winning and internationally acclaimedauthor Katherine Govier. In the evocative taleof 19th century Tokyo, The Printmaker'sDaughter delivers an enthrallingtale of one of the world's great...

A LOVE LOST. A LIFE CUT SHORT. 'From the moment I set eyes on him I adored him. The connection between us was so strong it went beyond everything else. His job, my job, his lifestyle, my lifestyle. All that fell away.' And then...

A love story between an Indian photographer and a French artist, Letters from an Indian Summer is suffused with a strong sense of serendipity and spiritually liberal doses of the things Arjun Bedi and Genevieve Casta hold dear in this world. The past, though,...

'A luminous chronicle of betrayal, sacrifice and creative ambition'The Observer'Lush and enjoyable. a glossy, fast-paced family drama'The Times'My idea of a perfect book'Jami Attenberg'By the book's close, readers will be clamouring for an extra curtain call'GuardianOnce a year, ballet-obsessed Carlisle Martin spends a few...

Where there was fire, ashes remain . . .Costa Rica, 1968.A deadly fire rips through the American Fruit Company's most lucrative banana plantation, destroying all evidence of a massive cover-up.That same night, Teresa Cepeda Valverde's mother is murdered, and her husband vanishes into the...

A magnificent novel, full of wit, warmth and tenderness' Andrew McMillan'Smart, serious and entertaining' Bernardine EvaristoHow do you begin to find yourself when you only know half of who you are?As Nnenna Maloney approaches womanhood she longs to connect with her Igbo-Nigerian culture. Her...

A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature Can Xue's stories observe no obvious conventions of plot or characterization. That is the only rule they follow. Instead, they tend to limn a disordered...

A major new translation of one of the most popular classics of all time, now in a gorgeous deluxe edition.Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader...

A man in his late twenties goes to a large Christmas party in Manhattan where a woman introduces herself with three words: 'I am Clara.' Over the following seven days, they meet every evening in the snowy city. Overwhelmed yet cautious, he treads softly...

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going.and He alternates between turning right and left, and finallyand he gets stuck at the end ofand a forest road. Soon it gets darkand and starts to snow, but instead of going back to find...

A masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected' - Professor John Sutherland, Chair of Judges, Man Booker Prize 2005The Seaand is John Banville's Man Booker prize-winning exploration of memory, childhood and loss.When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he...

A masterpiece of poignant brilliance . . . heartbreaking'and GuardianCharlie Gordon, a floor sweeper born with an unusually low IQ, has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that doctors hope will increase his intelligence - a procedure that has been...

A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience'and Washinton PostWhenand Another Countryand appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in...

A middle-aged bachelor heading the editorial at a newspaper in an imagined country in the Arabian Gulf, Abbas is beset by loneliness and the attendant regret - a life punctuated by ifs and maybes, and the dreariness of the dry and dusty shamal winds....

A miniature masterpiece from acclaimed writer Peter Stamm, in which he asks unsettling questions about destiny and desire'One of Europe's most exciting writers'- theand New York TimesChristoph, a middle-aged writer, has a story to share with Lena, a young actress. A long time ago,...

A Minute to Midnightand is the gripping follow up toand Long Road to Mercyand featuring Special Agent Atlee Pine from one of the world's most favourite thriller writers, David Baldacci.Without Mercy.At six years old, Atlee's twin sister, Mercy, was taken from the family home...

A missing child. A broken community. A horrifying secret.When a baby is kidnapped in broad daylight with no witnesses, an otherwise sleepy suburb is rocked to the core and ten-year-old Flora Lanyon is left terrified.Decades later, Flora takes a job as a live-in carer...

A missing sister, a secret island and ... a sprinkle of sorcery.The family curse has been lifted and the Widdershins sisters: Betty, Fliss and Charlie are free to leave the misty prison isle of Crowstone. But when a mysterious girl arrives at the Poacher's...

A modern classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning novel is an exploration of love, art and identity.This was the night train to Barcelona, some hours before the dawn. This was 1950, late September. I had left my husband. I had left my home.Katherine...

A modern cult classic, a major motion picture and a timeless bestseller, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a deeply affecting coming-of-age story.and and and and Charlie is not the biggest geek in high school, but he's by no means popular.and and and...

A modern day re-telling of Robin Hood . . . The Ravenhood series is set to be a viral read giving us all the steam. Buckle up.' -and Glamour'I did what thieves do. I stole you . . .'Cecilia Horner had expected this to...

A modern master of the historical novel, Jeff Shaara has painted brilliant depictions of the Civil War, the Revolutionary War, and World War I. Now he embarks upon his most ambitious epic, a trilogy about the military conflict that defined the twentieth century. The...

A modern retelling of nine great romances and folktales from Pakistan including famous and beloved ones such as Heer Ranjha, Sohni Mahiwal, Mirza Sahiban, Sassi Punhun, Habba Khatoon, and Umar Marvi as well as lesser known ones such as Kash Kash Jinn, Himal Nagrai,...

A motherless girl grows up in isolated luxury, hidden from the world by her wealthy father. She believes their life together is normal - but as time passes, she has a growing sense that something between them is very wrong.She cannot escape, so she...

A motley of short stories that give the reader a window into the human condition, with an intriguing, sometimes haunting interplay of reality and fiction. Although the setting is localised against the distinct cultural fabric of Pakistan society, the themes are universal. Vast yet...