A darkly funny, life-affirming debut novel following five women from three generations of a once illustrious Iranian family as they grapple with revolutions personal and political.'I enjoyed it enormously'and MARIAN KEYES'Glorious … Darkly funny, richly satisfying'and SARAH WINMAN'Funny and profound … A gloriously engrossing...

By normal, you mean like you? A slag with a saviour complex?'Nadia is an academic who's been disowned by her puritanical mother and dumped by her lover, Rosy. She decides to make a getaway, accepting a UN job in Iraq. Tasked with rehabilitating ISIS...

Kaleidoscopic, full of style and soul'and Raven Leilani'A no-bullshit must-read debut'and Kaveh AkbarIn Berlin's underground, where techno rattles buildings still scarred with the violence of the last century, nineteen-year-old Nila finds her tribe. In their company she can escape the parallel city that made...

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...

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...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHORSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2025'Stunning, deeply felt and profoundly intelligent'and GuardianIt's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending...

An impassioned examination of the existential threats to the world's ocean and cautious optimism for the abundant life within it.LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025No matter where we live, 'we are all ocean people,' Helen Scales observes in her bracing yet hopeful...