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‘POWERFUL, INTELLIGENT AND VITAL – ONE OF THE YEAR’S MUST-READS’HANNAH NATHANSON, FEATURES DIRECTOR, ELLEFEATURING CONTRIBUTIONS FROM CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, JESSICA HORN, EBELE OKOBI, FUNMI FETTO AND FREDDIE HARREL.In the vein of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist, but wholly its own, Girl is a pr...

One night with a rockstar could upend Shera’s best-laid plans.This is the night Shera’s been waiting for: She’s finally getting a drink with the guy she’s pined after for months. But while she waits for him at a bar in Silver Lake, she’s approached by Max King, the darkly seductive, charis...

the sequel to the Sunday Times bestseller She Who Became the Sun.What would you give to win the world?Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is riding high after her victory – one that tore southern China from its Mongol masters. Now she burns with a new desire: to seize the throne and crown herself emp...

Review So beautiful, moving, captivating and thrilling. a brilliant sequel to The Wolf Den -- Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne Vivid, unsentimental and compelling ― The Times Vivid, gripping, and richly imagined, this is spellbinding storytelling -- Louise O'Neill A gripping sequel. Harper's recr...

We all have an ikigai.It's the Japanese word for 'a reason to live' or 'a reason to jump out of bed in the morning'.It's the place where your needs, desires, ambitions, and satisfaction meet. A place of balance. Small wonder that finding your ikigai is closely linked to living longer.Finding your ik...

The unflinching nineteenth-century autobiography that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of Black women—with an introduction by Tiya Miles, author of All That She Carried and National Book Award finalist“ A crowning achievement. Jacobs remodeled the forms of the black slave narra...

From the bestselling author of It Ends With Us, a passionate tale of music, love and betrayal…Sydney is living in an idyllic bubble - she lives with her best friend, has a great boyfriend, and the music coming from the balcony opposite hers is fast becoming the soundtrack to her life.But when Sydn...

The dazzling New York Times bestseller "Nathan Hill is a maestro" John Irving "Sparkling, sweeping debut novel that takes in a large swath of recent American history and pop culture. A grand entertainment" Kirkus Meet Samuel Andresen-Anderson - stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obses...

Bestselling author Laline Paull with an immersive and transformative new novel of an ocean world - its extraordinary creatures, mysteries, and mythologies - that is increasingly haunted by the cruelty and ignorance of the human race.Ea has always felt like an outsider. She suffers from a type of dea...

‘Whenever I think of coming to punish my father, it’s always in a strong wind, and that’s blowing now as I drive up the long, unsealed track to the house and sheds.’So begins one of Owen Marshall’s superbly subversive stories. He offers up a wide range of subjects, from untimely deaths to ...

From the twice Booker-nominated author of The Year of the Runaways and China Room, is a magnificent novel of love, community and politics, set at the edge of the Peak District, and with a deeply moving family mystery at its heartNayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town and on his daily run...

True stories of death and desperationOne survivor chooses loneliness.One chooses exile.One chooses oblivion.Some have violent tendencies, ruining lives indiscriminately.Some seal their own fate in slow motion; others do so in the blink of an eye.In , award-winning true-crime writer Steve Braunias re...

Cassy blew a collective kiss at them. 'See you in September,' she said. A throwaway line. Just words, uttered casually by a young woman in a hurry. And then she'd gone.It was supposed to be a short trip - a break in New Zealand before her best friend's wedding. But when Cassy waved goodbye to her pa...

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • A woman who’s used to going solo discovers that there’s one relationship she can’t run away from in this “hilarious, electric" (The New York Times) novel, a probing examination of the complexities of family, queerness, race, and communityLAMBDA LITERARY AWA...

‘A playful, powerful debut… A poignant reminder of how tight a hold mental illness can have’ ZAKIYA DALILA HARRIS‘Chukwu meticulously and brilliantly balances tough topics like depression with biting comedy, crafting a narrative about a young woman trying to survive and help others do the sa...

A REMOTE ISLANDAN ISOLATED COMMUNITYA KILLER PICKING THEM OFF ONE BY ONE.'You should be careful, Mr Zelic. Because the person who killed Peter Taylor will almost certainly kill again.' The detective's glassy eyes didn't blink. 'And you're already in their sights.'Deaf PI Caleb Zelic has always been ...

Tudor England. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is charged with securing his divorce. Into this atmosphere of distrust comes Thomas Cromwell - a man as ruthlessly ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages.

DREAM COUNT, the searing, exquisite new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is out now! A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.‘I would like to ask that we begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A faire...

When she was twenty-six and broke, Skye didn’t think twice before selling her eggs and happily pocketing the cash. Now approaching forty, Skye still moves through life entirely—and unrepentantly—on her own terms, living out of a suitcase and avoiding all manner of serious relationships. Maybe ...

Following Grudova's critically acclaimed collection The Doll's Alphabet, this surreal, discomforting debut novel charts the fates of a ragtag group of cinema workers who are spat out by corporate takeover. When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - one of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into...

The extraordinarily dramatic story of one of the world's most famous whistle-blowers and trans womenAn extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world's most famous whistle-blowers, activists and trans women.In 2010 Chelsea Manning, working as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army i...

Kit de Waal grew up in a household of opposites and extremes. Her haphazard mother rarely cooked, forbade Christmas and birthdays, worked as a cleaner, nurse and childminder sometimes all at once and believed the world would end in 1975. Meanwhile, her father stuffed barrels full of goodies for his ...

Mallory sees the woman for the first time at her college gym and is immediately transfixed. As a naturally reserved person who is now reeling from the loss of her mother, Mallory finds herself compelled by the woman's assurance, and longs to know her better. Despite the discovery that she is a profe...

Written in the key of Anna Hope's Expectation, this is an affecting novel about the difficult route to happiness, by the award-winning author of Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain.' The beginning of summer. Perhaps it crosses my mind even now while I wait for news of Amy that something is coming towa...