Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old And Wise

Widely acclaimed as Naguib Mahfouz's best novel,and Midaq Alleyand brings to life one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo in the 1940s. From Zaita the cripple-maker to Kirsha the hedonistic cafe owner, from Abbas the barber who mistakes greed for love to...

Wild Cards Viii: One-eyed Jacks: (book One Of The Rox Triad)

Wild Fictionsand brings together Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary writing on the subjects that have obsessed him over the last twenty-five years: literature and language; climate change and the environment; human lives, travel, and discoveries. The spaces that we inhabit, and the way in which we...

Wildly imaginative ... A brilliant combination of urban fantasy and Arthurian legend,and Midnight's Twinsand will appeal to fans of Gaiman'sand Neverwhereand or Schwab'sand A Darker Shade Of Magic.' Katharine Corr, author of A THRONE OF SWANS'A highly imaginative urban fantasy.'and Bex Hogan, author of...

Will make you laugh, cry, and call the people you love. Exceptional'and EMILY HENRY'Nostalgic, wise, funny, and filled with love'and GABRIELLE ZEVIN'Her most emotionally resonant work yet'VOGUE'Has the makings of a dreamy, witty, contemporary classic'and EVENING STANDARD'I just finished and I'm crying at its...

Will the dark secrets of a small mountain town finally be revealed?Ten years ago, Abigail Lovett fell into a job she loves, working at the Passage Inn, nestled in the resort town of Cutter's Pass, just off the Appalachian Trail.Now, the string of unsolved...

Will you, dear Shareholder, set Athena free? Athena Rao must reckon with the memory of her father, King Rao - literally. Through biotechnological innovation, he has given her his memories. His Dalit childhood on an Indian coconut plantation in the 1950s is as alive...

William Woolf is a letter detective at the Dead Letters Depot in East London, spending his days reuniting lost mail with its intended recipient.But when he discovers a series of letters addressed simply to 'My Great Love' everything changes . . . Written by...

Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He's merely Generic Asian man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but he is always relegated to a prop. Yet every day...

WINNER OF BOOK OF THE YEAR, NARRATIVE NON-FICTION BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2021Rediscover the natural world with the multi-award winning phenomenon and youngest ever major literary prize winner in UK history.'Miraculous memoir . . . profoundly moving'and Observer'Dara is an extraordinary voice and vision: brave,...

WINNER OF EDGE HILL READERS CHOICE PRIZE 2021'Taps into a deep and compelling strangeness with vigour and humour and heart... A disturbing and moving collection' Chris Power, author ofand MothersIn Paradise Block, mould grows as thick as fur along the walls, alarms ring out...

WINNER OF THE 1973 BOOKER PRIZE'We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us... but what if we are a mere after-glow of them?'Krishnapur, 1857: India is on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny. In this remote town...

WINNER OF THE 2010 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the 'netsuke', they...

Winner of the 2012 Philip K. Dick Award Theorem: Petrovitch has a lot of secrets. Proof: Secrets like how to make anti-gravity for one. For another, he's keeping a sentient computer program on a secret server farm - the same program that nearly destroyed...

Winner of the 2016 Romantic Novel of the Year Award in the Epic category,and The Secrets We Shareand is a heart-tugging treat of a novel from the No. 1 bestselling Irish author Emma Hannigan. Fans of Patricia Scanlan and Cathy Kelly will adore it.'A...

Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction. An eleven-year-old heroine tells her unforgettable story with honesty, perceptivity, humor, and unselfconscious heroism. "The honesty of thought and eye...

WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2022ANand OBSERVERand BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2022A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIMEA 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR:and THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES *...

Winner of the Australian Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction • Winner of the MUD Literary Prize • Shortlisted for the BookPeople Adult Fiction Book of the Year • Shortlisted for the Literary Fiction Book of the Year and The Matt Richell Award for...

WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARDWINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014NOMINATED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015How to be...

Winner of the Blogger's Book Prize, 2021and Shortlisted for the People's Book Prize, 2021Winner of Best Literary Fiction and Best Multicultural Fiction at American Book Fest International Book Awards, 2021'An epic account of Viet Nam's painful 20th-century history, both vast in scope and intimate...

Winner of the BOCAS Prize for Fiction 2023Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2023Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2023Shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize 2023Shortlisted for the Kitschies Golden Tentacle Award 2023'BELIEVE THE HYPE' Stella'A searing symphony of magic and loss, love...

Winner of the Booker Prize 2020Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction 2020A BBC Two Between the Covers 2021 Book Choice'We were bowled over by this first novel, which creates an amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' The judges...

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021One family. One promise. One chance to tell a new story.'A moving, brilliantly told family epic' Elizabeth DayTHEand SUNDAY TIMESand BESTSELLEROn a farm outside Pretoria, the Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest...

Winner of the Christopher Isherwood PrizeShortlisted for the Portico PrizeAand Guardian,and Spectator,and Sunday Times,and Financial Timesand andand Evening Standardand Book of the Year'Funny, passionate, heartbreaking.' Tracey Thorn'Life-enhancing.'and Scotsman'Unforgettable.' Cólm Toibín'Spectacular.' Books of the Year,and Spectator'An incredible book . . . about men and how...

Winner of the Comedy Women in Print Unpublished Prize! How do you solve your own murder when you're already dead? Purgatory (noun): 1. Where the dead are sent to atone before they go to heaven. 2. A place of suffering or torment. When Dave...

WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2021'Riveting, appalling, addictive' Megan NolanEngland, 1643. Puritanical fervour has gripped the nation. In Manningtree, depleted of men since the Civil War began, the women are left to their own devices and Rebecca West chafes against the drudgery of...

Winner of theand Dylan Thomas Prize 2021Longlisted for the Women's Prize For Fiction 2021 A book of pure fineness, exceptional.' - Diana Evans,and Guardian'A taut, sharp, funny book about being young now. It's brutal-and brilliant.' - Zadie SmithEdie is just trying to survive. She's...

Winner of the EBRD Literature Prize 2018. Istanbul is a city of a million cells, and every cell is an Istanbul unto itself.After a military coup, four prisoners - the doctor, Demirtay the student, Kamo the barber and Uncle Kuheylan - sit below the...

Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2013 Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 Winner of Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2012 "My father still lives back the road past the weir in the cottage I was reared in....

Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction Fairytale romances end with a wedding. The fairytales that don't get more complicated. In this book, celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife,...

WINNER OF THE JAPANESE DETECTIVE WRITERS CLUB PRIZE_____This prize-winning railway murder mystery from Japan is a crime classic perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Seicho Matsumoto._____Early one morning, a body is found lying next to the railway tracks just outside of Kuki Station...

Winner of the John Newbery MedalWinner of the Coretta Scott King Author AwardAn Indiebound BestsellerAand New York Timesand BestsellerUnder the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONTWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHORBOOK AT BEDTIME ON BBC RADIO 4AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK'Without a doubt the...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN FICTION 2021NEW YORK TIMESand BESTSELLERIt is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to...

Winner of the Stella Prize and the Best Fiction and Overall Book of the Year at the Independent Bookseller AwardsShortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary AwardLonglisted for the Miles Franklin Literary AwardShe hears her own thick voice deep inside her ears when she says,...

Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolome-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Literature Prize.A port city is in the grips of an ecological crisis. The river has filled with toxic algae, and a deadly red...

WINNER OF THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHRISTINA STEAD PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE STELLA PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE VOSS LITERARY PRIZE 2016 LONGLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD 2016 LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY...

Winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction PrizeWinner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2022A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardA Waterstones Book of the Year for 2022Winner of the Barnes and Noble Discover PrizeAn Oprah Daily Book of the Year, 2022...

Winnie Foster is in the woods, thinking of running away from home, when she sees a boy drinking from a spring. Winnie wants a drink too, but before she can take a sip, she is kidnapped by the boy, Jesse Tuck, and his family....

Wiola lives in a close-knit agricultural community. Wiola has a black cat called Blackie. Wiola's father was a deserter but now he is a taxidermist. Wiola's mother tells her that killing spiders brings on storms. Wiola must never enter the seamstress's 'secret' room. Wiola...

Wise and playful and tender and beautiful' Bobby Palmer'So brilliant, so original and lovely and funny, that it reminds you of the point of reading' Rebecca WaitPerfect for fans ofand Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fineand andand Remarkably Bright Creatures, this is a charming, witty...

With "The Glass Kitchen," Linda Francis Lee has served up a novel that is about the courageit takes to follow your heart and be yourself.A true recipe for life.Portia Cuthcart never intended to leave Texas. Her dream was to run the Glass Kitchen restaurant...

With a big birthday just around the corner, an important new project at work, and a boyfriend she suspects might be about to ask her a significant question, Anna should feel like she has it all together. But somehow, she just doesn't seem to...

With a devilish toddler and baby number two on the way, Rachel's big dream is to one day go to the toilet on her own. So, she's surprised to discover that her husband has found the time to have an exciting affair while she's...

With a failed marriage behind her, La -- short for Lavender -- moves to the Suffolk countryside on the eve of the Second World War to nurse her broken heart. Lonely and at a loss, a friend encourages her to bring the villagers and...

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM MAGGIE O'FARRELL Janet lies murdered beneath the castle stairs, oddly attired in her mother's black lace wedding dress, lamented only by her pet jackdaw... In this, her first novel, Elspeth Barker evokes the unrelenting chill of Calvinism and the...

With a nightmare unfolding around them, Sam and Nina decipher the stunning truth. Now they're at the mercy of a brilliant madman who plays for keeps. . . .

With a stunning new cover look, King'sand chilling classic of a small new England town about to be engulfed in terror.Turn off the television - in fact, why don't you turn off all the lights except for the one over your favourite chair? -...

With an Introduction by A.A. Milne and Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad, have brought delight to many through...