*** THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ***'Destined to be a classic' Nouriel Roubini'Brilliant, powerful and hopeful' Philippa Perry'Explosive, timely and urgent'and Daily TelegraphEven before a global pandemic introduced us to terms like social distancing, loneliness was already becoming the defining condition of the twenty-first century.But it's...

Love and marriage, children and family, death and grief. Life touches everyone the same, but living under lockdown? It changes us alone.A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move....

***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What they discovered, however, would change the way we think about ourselves.In the late nineteenth century, when...

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***An Instant New York Times Bestseller*** From Conan O'Brien's longtime assistant and cohost of his podcast, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, a completely hilarious and irreverent how-to guide for becoming a terrible, yet unfireable employee, spilling her trade secrets for minimizing effort while maximizing...

***Elizabeth Day's new noveland Magpieand is publishing this September and is available to pre-order now.***From theand Sunday Timesand bestselling author ofand How to Fail Elizabeth Day has revolutionised the way we see failure'and Stylist A beautiful timely and humane book' Alain de Botton Most...

***LONGLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION DEBUT CROWN 2022******'Superb storytelling. [...] Readers everywhere are in for a treat!' - Tracy Chevalier******'Multi-layered, compelling and intriguing,and The Silver Wolfand draws us into the murky underbelly of Europe's Thirty Years' War.' - Minette Walters******'[A] marvellous [...] intelligently...

***New York Timesand bestseller!***'A masterpiece . . . There cannot be a more relevant novel for our moment, certainly not one with such beauty of description, depth of feeling, and, as always, humour.'-Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofand LessIt's March 2020 and a...

***NEW YORK TIMESand BESTSELLER***Is there such a thing as an affair-proof marriage? Is it possible to love more than one person at once? Why do people cheat? Can an affair ever help a marriage?Infidelity is the ultimate betrayal. But does it have to be?...

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***THE No.1 BESTSELLING SENSATION!***'Activate your '"do not disturb" because you will NOT be able to stop reading until you turn the last page' Tammy CohenThree women. Three secrets.Claudia's life imploded ten years ago when she was convicted of the murder of her child. Now...

***The sparkling new Christmas novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author Heidi Swain!*** Freya Fuller is estranged from her parents and has been following her childhood dream of becoming a gardener ever since. When an opportunity to design a winter garden opens up at...

***The sparkling new Christmas novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author Heidi Swain!*** 'The most delicious slice of festive fiction: a true comfort read and the perfect Christmas treat to alleviate all the stress!' VERONICA HENRY 'Full of Heidi's trademark gentle charm. Lock the...

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***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR*** Escape to the seaside with the brand new novel from Heidi Swain, the Sunday Times bestselling author of feel-good women's fiction! 'A summer delight!' SARAH MORGAN Tess Tyler needs a break. Weighed down by her high-pressure job and her...

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**A Book of the Year inand The Timesand andand Theand Sunday Timesand **Trees are essential, for nature and for us. Yet we are cutting and burning them at such a rate that we are fast approaching a tipping point.But there is still hope. If...

**A gritty and emotional family drama, from the Sunday Times bestseller. Perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries and Katie Flynn.**You can never leave a bad man behind…Mavis Pugh has had a hard life. Despised and abused throughout her teenage years, she turned to the...

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**A and NEW YORK TIMES and BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**From the author of the prescient and Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human PandemicBreathless and is the story of the scientific quest to decipher, control and fight Covid-19.Breathless and traces SARS-CoV-2's fierce journey...

**A spellbinding historical novel**The Sunday Times Bestseller O'Brien is now approaching Philippa Gregory status' - Reader's Digest A dangerous word, perhaps, for a woman. Power.'From her first clandestine marriage, Joan of Kent's reputation is one of beauty, rumour and scandal.Her royal blood makes her...

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**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'S WOMEN'S HOUR**Roughand is a revolutionary non-fiction work exploring the narratives of sexual violence that we don't talk about.A bad sexual experience.A grey area.Not rape but... A violationand .These are the terms we use to describe the experiences we...

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**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**An extraordinary depiction of the life of an immigrant, as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to EnglandDear Catherine,and he began.and Here I...

**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**Vehement, comic and shrewd, Abdulrazak Gurnah's first novel is an unwavering contemplation of East African coastal lifePoverty and depravity wreak havoc on Hassan Omar's family. Amid great hardship he decides to escape.The arrival of Independence...

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*HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR THE 2021 CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD**and She's a murderer.and Everyone knows she killed Stuart Rees - why else would his dead body be found in her shed?So now Tabitha is in prison, awaiting trial.and Coming back to the remote coastal village...

**In development for the screen with Neal Street Productions**'THE MOST ORIGINAL CRIME NOVEL YOU'LL READ THIS YEAR' CLARE MACKINTOSH'THIS HAS TO BE A STRONG CONTENDER FOR CRIME DEBUT OF THE YEAR' T. M. LOGANIn the UK, someone is reported missing every 90 seconds.Just gone....

**Instantand Sunday Timesand bestseller**Ten timeless truths on leadership, purpose and potential - from the unique culture of the All Blacks, and the mind of a living legend.You might think success at the highest level insulates you from self-doubt.But nothing could be further from the...

A fine, lyrical novel, impressive in its complex interweaving of the grand and the intimate, of the personal and political' ObserverLandry and Prentiss are two brothers born into slavery, finally freed as the American Civil War draws to its bitter close. Cast into the...

**Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021**** From the author ofand Golden Hilland **'My god he can write.'and Richard Osman'Glorious.'and Evening Standard'Exhilarating.'and TLS'Brilliant.'and Observer'Dazzling.'and The Times'Extraordinary.'and Financial Times'Superb.'and GuardianNovember 1944. A German rocket strikes London and five young children are atomised in an instant.Here are...

**Longlisted Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing**'A tragic portrait of a disappearing world, created with passion and literary grace' SALMAN RUSHDIE'Janine di Giovanni is a humane and persistent witness' HISHAM MATAR'Profoundly moving' MARK TULLY_______________________The Vanishingand reveals the plight and possible extinction of Christian communities...

Theand Sunday Timesand bestseller and Richard andamp; Judy Book Club author ofand Sleepand returns with her most gripping book yet.STRANGERS: NOW A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER Fast-paced and satisfying'and DAILY MAIL I was glued from start to finish!' SHARI LAPENAUrsula, Gareth and Alice...

**NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING HARRY STYLES**This love is all-consumingIt is in 1950s' Brighton that Marion first catches sight of the handsome and enigmatic Tom. He teaches her to swim in the shadow of the pier and Marion is smitten - determined her love...

**NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE AVAILABLE ON DVD**Spanning forty years, two women's stories of love, loss and betrayal are intertwined in this award-winning novel by Jojo Moyes, internationally bestselling author ofand Me Before You,and After Youand and the new bestsellerand The Giver of Stars.****When...

SOMETIMES THE ONE WHO LOVES YOU IS THE ONE WHO HURTS YOU THE MOST.Lily hasn't always had it easy, but that's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She's come a long way from the small town in Maine where...

**NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES** We Need to Talk About Kevin meets The Secret History. The air is hazy and grey with gunpowder smoke. Everyone has been shot but me. I haven't got so much as a bruise.... Is Maja a normal eighteen-year-old, the...

**Now adapted as the Netflix documentary - Big Vape tells the story of how a cigarette start-up became a multibillion-dollar company until an epidemic causes its success to go up in smoke**'Big Vapeand is a dazzling story that crackles with the energy of a...

**Originally published asand More Pantsand and newly reissued as a Puffin paperback, this is a laugh-out-loud, rhyming celebration of PANTS - come and join the party!**You can never have enough pants, as this exuberant celebration of lots and lots more pants proves! Giles Andreae's...

**Selected for BBC 2and Between the Coversand Book Club 2023**'Tense. Moving. Morally complex. Zina Pavlou is wholly unforgettable.'and Rachel Rhys'Hugely powerful...and Easily one of the best books you'll read this year.' Emma ChristieTHEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME.London, 1954.and Zina Pavlou, a...

**Shortlisted for Crime Fiction Book of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards 2021** 'All Her Fault played on my worst fears and kept upping the stakes . . . I didn't predict any of the twists and turns.' Sarah Pearse, bestselling...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021****SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE****FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PLUTARCH AWARD**D. H. Lawrence is no longer censored, but he is still on trial - and we are still unsure what the verdict should be.Delving into the memoirs...

**SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**From renowned, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic, Michiko Kakutani, comes an inspiring and gorgeously illustrated selection of the life-changing books that none of us should miss'Why do we love books so much?'For legendary literary critic Michiko Kakutani, books...

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**THE CHILLING NEW THRILLER FROM THEand SUNDAY TIMESand BESTSELLING AUTHOR - PRE-ORDER NOW**'C.J. Tudor is getting better and bolder with every novel, and the bar was pretty high to start with. THE GATHERING is an incredibly exciting novel, tightly plotted and brilliantly tense, with...

**THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO IS BACK!****The sixth in theand Millenniumand series - more than 100 million copies sold worldwide**"Expertly told, the plot crackles with life" DAILY MAIL"Salander is centre stage . . . A pacy read" SUNDAY EXPRESS"Exciting and disturbing" LITERARY REVIEW"Salander...