A woman relinquishes her four-year-old son to tourists passing through town. Losing him, she loses the story of her future. A world away from her, the boy becomes a man without the story of his past. Decades on, the mother struggles on her deathbed...

A woman suffering from Alzheimer's disease is taken in by her daughter who records her decline. The daughter narrates, "Today she was holding a corner of her blouse (smock), clutching onto it. In the elevator, she stood facing the mirror. I am sure she...

A woman tries to come to terms with loss of a lost baby; two strangers, a young man and a young woman, both with a love for Fyodor Dostoyevsky s Crime and Punishment board the same aircraft; a woman ponders over giving a second...

A woman working in the house of a reclusive horror director stumbles upon terrifying secrets, from the author ofand Good Girls Don't Dieand andand Horseman.Single mom Harry Adams has always loved horror movies, so it's not really a coincidence she took the job cleaning...

A woman's life and love are compromised in this pulse-pounding thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood. Dr. Ellie Sullivan has witnessed the shooting of an FBI agent in pursuit of a ruthless modern-day Bonnie and Clyde. The only person to...

A wonderful addition to a fantastic series'and ELLY GRIFFITHSThere is more to solving a crime than following the clues.Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache's world of facts and feelings.When Armand Gamache receives a letter inviting him to an abandoned farmhouse outside of Three Pines, the...

A wonderful collection of stories, extracts and poems about cats and dogs from one of our most beloved writers for children, Jacqueline Wilson.and and and and and This special anthology features the very best stories about cats and dogs from the world of children's...

'A wonderful collection, brilliant and often moving ... Both mind-expanding and cosmic while utterly rooted in our urban reality'NEIL GAIMAN'One of the great fiction minds of his generation' ROLLING STONEIn his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work and features many...

A wonderful new collection of short stories about our favourite fluffy friends, from national treasure Enid Blyton Enjoy 25 charming tales about cats, dogs, budgies, rabbits and other adored family pets in this fantastic new bumper collection. Enid Blyton, author of The Famous Five,...

Shakespeare's play is death-haunted from the start, and its self-glorifying lovers exist in a dream of passion'and GuardianA battle-hardened soldier, Antony is one of the three leaders of the Roman world. But he is also a man in the grip of an all-consuming passion...

A wonderful story about a BORED little girl, deprived of screen time, who learns to have fun with her imagination. "I'm BORED!" wails a little girl after her screen time is cut short. "That's great!" her dad says with a grin. "Being bored comes...

A wonderful, warm novel from a major new American voice. Henry Skrimshander, newly arrived at college, shy and out of his depth, has a talent for baseball that borders on genius. But sometimes it seems that his only friend is big Mike Schwartz -...

A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry"Does anyone know more about poetry than John Carey? Almost certainly not."-The TimesA poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken. But poems...

A wonderfully romantic and searingly sexy love story to make your heart soar, perfect for fans ofand Curtis Sittenfeld'sand Eligible.'A refreshing love story'and - Marie Claire'A truly unique heroine'and -and HeatBernadette knows what she wants.Tim is perfect, and she's always had a feeling that...

A wonderfully romantic novel from the No. 1and Sunday Timesand bestselling author ofand Recipe for Love, A French Affairand andand The Perfect Match.Gina and Sally Makepiece have inherited a stall in the French House an antiques centre nestled in the heart of the English...

A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss-and attempting to reshape the narrative of her life-from PEN/Faulkner Award nominee Claire OshetskyMargaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth...

A wordless picture book for the very young - bursting with green! - which celebrates community, gardening and the power of plants to bring people together.Oscar's mum has to go away, just for a little while. So Oscar has come to stay with his...

A work of genius' Independent'Marvellously funny . . . What better entertainment is there than a serious book which makes you laugh?' Spectator'If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love,...

A World Book Day 2020 AuthorWINNER OF THE BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD 2019WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK PRIZE 2019SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2019Told with heart and humour, The Boy at the Back of the Class is a child's perspective on the refugee...

A WORLD IN DARKNESS.A BURNING SPARK.A BLAZE OF STARS.Bryce Quinlan is stranded in a strange new world. She's going to need all her wits about her to get home again and return to everything she loves. But that's no easy feat when she has...

A WORLD WITHOUT A SUPERMANSuperman was Earth's greatest hero until he sacrificed his life to stop the monster known only as Doomsday. Now the world and those who loved him must learn how to continue on without the Man of Steel. In this time...

A world-defying love is put to the ultimate test in theand New York Timesand andand USA Todayand bestselling sequel to Veronica Rossi's "masterpiece,"and Under the Never Skyand (Examiner.com ). In this second book in her spellbinding Under the Never Sky trilogy, bestselling author Veronica...

A worldwide bestseller and the first part of Achebe's African Trilogy,and Things Fall Apartand is the compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of changeOkonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West...

A worldwide bestseller and the first part of Achebe's African Trilogy,and Things Fall Apartand is the compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of changeOkonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West...

A writer arrives in Bombay on a book-related visit and finds himself in search of the city he grew up in and barely knows, a city shaken to its core not long ago by the 2008 terrorist strikes-even as he takes for granted his...

A writer is savagely slain while on a publicity tour-a literary provocateur who craved headlines, but whose last book may have gone too far. His revelations about secret language buried in the U.S. Constitution-and hints about an explosive missing letter of Thomas Jefferson's-may be...

A writer of huge compassion and acute observation, and also of dazzling style . . . Her work is more relevant than ever' DIANA EVANSAn incredible collection of writing - both essays and short stories - spanning the long career of Dorothy West. Includes...

A writer of prodigious gifts'and GuardianFull of jagged, complex emotion and powerful, incisive writing, the stories inand Don't Cryand are a testament to Mary Gaitskill's incomparable excavation of character.'An Old Virgin' describes a nurse's obsession with her forty-three-year-old patient's virginity; 'Folk Song' dissects the...

A writer of virtuostic talents who can seemingly do anything'and New York Times'Wallace is a superb comedian of culture . . . his exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight' James Wood,and Guardian'He induces the kind of laughter which, when read in bed with...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZEA wry, provocative and very funny debut novel about identity, authenticity and the self in the age of the internet I loved it' Zadie Smith Brilliant, very funny' Guardian Prepare to feel very seen' I-DOn the eve of...

A YA romance told over the course of one day, from the perspective of high school best friends Natalia and Ethan. Following a summer spent avoiding one another and hiding their true feelings, they are brought together at their school's Senior Sunrise beach camp...

A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European city, however, she helps an elderly couple into a...

A young and inexperienced sea captain finds that his first command leaves him with a ship stranded in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever. As he wrestles with his conscience and with the increasing sense of isolation that he experiences, the captain...

A young boy named Arlo escapes his abusive guardians on Earth, through an intergalactic portal to the steam-powered planet of Pother. While there he discovers that his long-lost father inadvertently helped a powerful corporation from Earth, in their efforts to deplete the planet's resources....

A young boy stumbles across a Punch and Judy show at the pier and enters a world of extraordinary magic. With disturbing mysteries and half-truths uncontrollably unravelling, this boy is forced to deal with his family's secrets of violence, betrayal and guilt in this...

A young boy's trip to the barber shop is a joyful celebration of confidence and self-esteem.and The barber shop is where magic happens! Boys go in as lumps of clay and, with princely robes draped around their shoulders, a dab of cool shaving cream...

A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother. Simultaneous eBook.

A young girl with a tragic past and a rhinoceros facing life in captivity form an unlikely and magical bond after a fateful storm and a shipwreck bring them together. A moving tale about love, connection and the healing power of friendship for readers...

A young journalist embroiled in an international art scandal centred around a Nazi-looted masterpiece, forcing the ultimate showdown between passion and possession, lovers and liars, history and truth. After talking her way into a job, rising young journalist Jules Roth is given an unusual...

A young kleptomaniac infuses thrill into her suffocating life by using her abaya to steal lipsticks and flash men. An office worker feels empowered through sex, shunning her inhibitions but not her hijab … until she realizes that the real veil is drawn across...

A young magazine writer in Mumbai must prove her matchmaking skills-and contend with growing feelings for her close family friend-in this debut desi romance.“A delightful friends-to-lovers romance that will curb your sweet tooth and leave you feeling warm and happy! -New York Timesand bestselling...

A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror appears out of nowhere and a nightwatchman is unnerved as...

A young man and his young family set out on a perilous voyage across a devastated planet to uncover the origin of the events that set the world on its course to disaster … The prescient, deeply shocking prequel to the bestselling, critically acclaimed...

A young man arrives in a small town, hoping to leave his past behind him, but everything changes when he takes a job in a peculiar old shop, and meets a lonely single mother ... A chillingly hypnotic gothic thriller and a mesmerizing study...

A young man named Hiiragi has recently learned that he has a half-brother. Seeking him out, he not only finds the brother he never knew, but discovers he is a mysterious individual covered in bandages who runs an exclusive rare animal pet shop. But...

A young man, broken down in the fog, witnesses a murder he is asked to conceal… A full-length novel adapted by Charles Osborne from Agatha Christie's acclaimed play.When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog in South Wales and makes...

A young mother, in denial after the loss of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desire, guilt, and grief in this darkly comic, highly anticipated debut novel from Kimberly King Parsons, author of Black Light (longlisted for the National Book Award).'Feral' Jenny Offill,...

A young Pakistani woman is the victim of an unthinkable act of vengeance, when she defies convention for love, facing seemingly insurmountable challenges and danger as she attempts to rebuild her life.and Stunning, shocking, compulsive reading … A breathtaking masterpiece'and Hazel Priorand Pacy, gripping...

A young Vietnamese woman is invited to travel from Ho Chi Minh City to speak at an International Youth Conference in East Berlin. On her arrival, as she is preparing to present her paper in Russian on 'Vietnam as a Victim of American Imperialism',...

A young woman begins a new life as a dragon master for a handsome earl in this tale of high fantasy romance. Melissa is a maid-in-training at the royal castle, where her greatest joy is caring for the majestic steeds of the royal Dragon...