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'You walk and the harvest moon casts the clearest of shadows. You are nervous. With a moon like that, it is not a night for escaping. It is a night made better for hunting runaway girls.'Himalayas: Unknown Year'Ten thousand strands of trouble,' is what Bird's father says, watching as...

THE INSTANT TOP 5 IRISH BESTSELLER 'Wild, singular...gripped me from the start' DOUGLAS STUART 'Passionate, wild, hugely atmospheric' DAVID NICHOLLS 'Intelligent, probing' MAGGIE O'FARRELL 'A gorgeous, mysterious read' AISLING BEA 'I adored it' LOUISE KENNEDY<...

'Chilling, enchanting and thought-provoking' IAN RANKIN'Moving and brilliant' DAILY MAIL'Blazes with anger and sorrow' MARIAN KEYES Have you ever felt invisible? Bernie Moon has given her life to other people: her husband, her son, her friends (who are...

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from international bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies, Trent Dalton. WINNER 2024 ABIA BOOK LITERARY FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR 2023 DYMOCKS...

A heart-catching, riveting and extremely engaging family drama for readers who love Joanna Trollope and Jodi Picoult.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION THE BOOK EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT 'Just read it. It's unforgettable' India Knight, The Sunday Times 'It is impossible to read this novel and not be moved. It is...

If you knew when you were going to die, what would you do differently? It all begins on a flight from Hobart to Sydney. The flight will be smooth. It will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off the plane. But almost all of them will be changed forever.Because on this ordinary...

The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car dealership is going under, and while his wife is frantically selling off her jewellery on eBay, he's busy building an apocalypse-proof bunker in the woods. Meanwhile their teenage daughter is veering off the rails, in thrall to a toxic...

"I loved this novel. All the female characters are complex and fascinating, and full of anger and hope. I found it an addictive read."--actor Gillian Anderson A poignant debut novel about the lives of women in a claustrophobic coast town and the search for independence in a society that...

A beautifully told story of growing up and finding yourself, even when the past won't let you go.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Telegraph, Washington Post, The New Yorker. LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE. "Like A.S. Byatt's Possession, Enlightenment is a baroque, genre-bending novel of ideas, ghosts and hidden histories. A richly layered epic....a heartfelt paean to the consolations of...

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unexpected visitor -- a tale of family, obsession, and a mysterious creature in the woods, by the celebrated, bestselling author of Disappearing Earth. They were sisters and they would last past...

Heartache and hardship in London's East End, from the bestselling author of The Orphans of Halfpenny Street Kathy Cole, is a determined young woman. She refuses to stay at home with her bitter, drunken father and is instead determined to do her bit for the men in the Great...

A novel of enormous wit and profound emotional resonance from one of the world's finest writers. Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighbouring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives...

'A masterful story for the ages . . . a book to hold close in the whip of hot wind, to commiserate with, to sing with. To read and weep.' TARA JUNE WINCH, GUARDIAN 'A hold-your-breath adventure set in an utterly plausible, sun-hammered future, JUICE will stab your...

The acclaimed author of Before You Knew My Name returns with another taut suspense thriller overlaid with a moving exploration of the ways in which violent crime ricochets through the lives of those left behind.

Birnam Wood is on the move ...A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in the South Island of New Zealand, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. This land offers an opportunity to Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will...

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new teacher, and longs to be her pet. However, when a thief begins to target the school, Justine's sense that something isn't quite right grows ever stronger. With each twist of the plot, this gripping...

In Aue eight-year-old Arama was taken by his brother, Taukiri, to live with Kat and Stu at the farm in Kaikoura, setting in train the tragedy that unfolded. Arama's aunty Kat was at the centre of events, but silenced by abuse her voice was absent from the story. In Kataraina, Kat and her whanau take...

How do you fight an invisible enemy? An unputdownable and timely new novel from the Ngaio Marsh-winning author of Remember Me.

** AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER & WINNER OF THE OCKHAM NZ BOOK AWARDS** 'The most exciting novel I've read in ages... I gulped it down, so readable, so EXCELLENT about people. Read it' Marian Keyes 'This novel is perfection' Glamour

It's 1818 on the East Coast of Te Ika-a-Maui, Aotearoa. Hine-aute, granddaughter of the legendary warrior Kaitanga, is fleeing through the bush; a precious yet gruesome memento contained in her fishing net. What follows is the gripping tale of a people on the cusp of profound change that is destined...

It's time. Mary, an ex cop, and her husband, retired librarian Pete, have decided to move into a retirement village. They aren't falling apart, but they're watching each other - Pete with his chcychardia and bad hip, Mary with her ankle and knee. Selling their beloved house should be a clean break,...

Every relationship has one beginning. This one has two endings. Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he can't work out why she stopped. Now he is. . . 1. Without a home 2. Waiting for his stand-up career to take off 3. Wondering...

Italy, 1946. "Estee, I bought this ring years ago and have kept it safe ever since. You're the only woman I've ever loved." She reached for Felix's hand and gently closed it over the box. "No," she whispered. "I want you to propose only when you're truly free." Estee always believed that...

'Her latest novel is her best yet . . . a wonderful read about growing older and grabbing hold of life' Weekend Australian'Heartwarming, tender and oh-so-funny' ALI LOWE'Charming, funny and wise exploration of the pleasures and perils of retirement. If you want a laugh-out-loud...

It's the chance of a lifetime . . .Skye has just discovered that her long-time love is cheating on her, so the last thing she's thinking about is a wedding! But when her husband Tim tells her that he's won an all-expenses paid wedding in idyllic Montenello, she can't help...

Don't miss the new novel from the Kindle bestselling author of The Little Venice Bookshop! *** ☀️A Greek island holiday. A fake-dating pact. A chance at true love?☀️ After losing her job as a book scout, hopeless romantic Evie<...

A Globe and Mail and Toronto Star Bestseller An epic, sweeping historical novel, The Last Summer is the first book in Karen Swan's Wild Isle series, set on the remote Scottish island of St Kilda. Summer on St Kilda - a wild, remote...

A spellbinding historical novel following The Last Summer, from Globe and Mail and Toronto Star bestseller Karen Swan. A reluctant bride. A forbidden romance. An island full of secrets. It's the summer of 1929 and Mhairi MacKinnon is in desperate...

The third epic and spellbinding historical romance in The Wild Isle series from Globe and Mail and Toronto Star bestseller Karen Swan. Young Flora MacQueen has always dreamed of more than a hard life on the small Scottish island of St Kilda. And when she...

A 2024 literary highlight in the Sunday Times, BBC, Grazia, Dazed, Sunday Express, GQ, i-D, Stylist, Bookseller and Literary Friction'Outrageously brilliant' ELEANOR CATTON'Make room on your bookshelves for a new...

**ONE OF GOODREADS' TOP 6 MOST-READ DEBUTS OF 2024** **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING DEBUT AND ONE OF THE BBC'S BEST DEBUTS OF 2024 ** **A WOMAN & HOME 'Book of the Year'** 'Joyful, exuberant, and crackling with adventure.' STUART TURTON

Now filmed as Arrival starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner.With his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably diverse stories, all told in his trademark precise and evocative prose.From a soaring...

A startlingly beautiful story of a family's survival, and an unforgettable dystopian vision of a familiar world in flames Shortlisted for the Climate Fiction Prize 2024A Spectator Book of the Year 2024 'Impossible to put down' Daily...

Some echo of her dark power courses through my veins...waiting to be released.As Night slays Day, and Day slays Night, so also shall another Black Witch rise...her powers vast beyond imagining. A Great Winged One will soon arise and cast his fearsome shadow upon the land. And just...

A book of the year for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Vulture, Esquire, Goodreads, Elle, NPR, Vox, New York Post, Lit Hub, Cosmo, People, Paste, Vanity Fair, Polygon, BookBub, BookRiot and more! 'This Year's Must-Read Novel . . . Grossman's...

FROM THE ASHES OF AN EMPIRE, A HERO WILL RISE... THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A dazzlingly epic and richly complex world of dragons, magic, and rebellion' Amélie Wen Zhao, New York Times bestselling author of Song of Silver, Flame Like Night 'Dragons...

This #1 New York Times bestseller is a "bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story" that brilliantly reimagines the life of Circe, formidable sorceress of The Odyssey (Alexandra Alter, TheNew York Times). In the house of Helios,...

After his father dies, Benny Oh finds he can hear objects talking- teapots, marbles and sharpened pencils, babbling in anger or distress. His mother, struggling to support their household alone, starts collecting things to give her comfort. Overwhelmed by the clamour of all the stuff, Benny seeks...

1806. Astrid Poole is murdered on her wedding day. Her last words - a promise to her husband never to leave him... After finding her fiancé in a compromising position with her cousin, Sonya MacTavish needs an escape. When a lawyer turns up on her doorstep out of the blue with...

In the vein of The Time Traveler's Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab's genre-defying tour de force. A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget. France, 1714: in a...

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MARTIAN * Soon to be a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, with a screenplay by Drew Goddard From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must...

Her diamond engagement ring glitters as she tells me he's the one. But I'm sure there's hesitation in her voice and the way she winces when her fiancé pulls her close makes my stomach drop. Could he be as dangerous as I feared? I thought handsome,...

HER PERFECT TWIN. YOUR NEW OBSESSION. 'Sarah Bonner's debut novel made my jaw drop. There are so many twists in this story, I never knew what was coming next. You won't want to miss this one!' Samantha Downing, author of My Lovely Wife 'A...

'Magnetic. I couldn't put it down.' STEPHEN KING'Immersive, gripping and wish a twist you won't see coming' ELLERY LLOYD'The very definition of a page-turner' CLARE MACKINTOSH'Truly compelling. Emiko Jean . . . will soon be a household name' DAILY MAIL...

Going Zero, a high-concept thriller from Oscar-nominated screenwriter Anthony McCarten. Erase yourself. The hunt has begun. Perfect for fans of I Am Pilgrim and The Circle.TWO HOURS TO VANISHTen people have been carefully selected to Beta test a ground-breaking piece of spyware. Pioneered by tech...

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Welcome to the family," Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be...

" New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris captivated psychological thriller readers everywhere with Behind Closed Doors. Now she invites you into another home full of heart-pounding secrets, in The Guest. Some secrets...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA Today Bestseller Lisa Scottoline, the #1 bestselling author of What Happened to the Bennetts, presents another pulse-pounding domestic thriller about family, justice, and the lies that tear us apart. TJ...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The thrilling sequel to the million-copy-bestselling Reese's Book Club pick The Last Mrs. Parrish!   "Delicious and shocking."--Jeneva Rose "A brilliant page-turner."--Lisa Gardner "One hell of a...

🔥 TAKE YOUR PLACE AT THE TABLE FOR THE THRILLER OF THE YEAR🔥 __________________________________________________________ Midsummer, the Dorset coast In the shadows of an ancient wood, guests gather for the opening weekend of The Manor: a...

'The Spy Coast is The Thursday Murder Club on steroids' SAGA Magazine 'I loved it. A hugely entertaining read!' ANN CLEEVES NOW A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER! Maggie Bird is many things. A chicken farmer. A good...

' A bloody good read.' LIZ NUGENT ''A gripping, ambitious, big-skied novel about women who refuse to surrender to the tide.' ERIN KELLY THE CHILLING AND ADDICTIVE NEW THRILLER FROM THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR. ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * GMA BOOK CLUB PICK * AN NPR BOOK OF THE YEAR * From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha...

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 WINNER OF THE 2024 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE * SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 * SHORTLISTED FOR THE STREGA EUROPEAN PRIZE * SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER . Six years after their cousin vanished from their home while they were sleeping, two sisters set out to learn the truth behind what happened-even if it puts their own lives in danger-in this haunting thriller from the internationally bestselling author of What's Done in...

" An exhilarating psychological crime thriller that will have you racing to the finish! HIS FIRST WIFE DIED. NOW THERE'S A VACANCY... When Emma meets Matthew, a kind, handsome widower, he seems to be just what she needs....

From the multi-million-copy bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage comes a chilling family thriller about the (sometimes literal) skeletons in the closet. Beth's life hasn't worked out the way she planned. After her father walked out on their family with a note...

The past can't be locked away forever... _________________________________________________________________ *Perfect for fans of Kate Morton, Eve Chase & Lucinda Riley* Sweeping from the French Riviera to the wind-blown Cornish cliffs, lose yourself in...

'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' - Roddy Doyle James is a profound and ferociously funny novel from one of our greatest living writers, Percival Everett. The Sunday Times Bestseller Winner of the...

A prisoner of war's daring escape from a speeding train . . . a Greek resistance heroine's fateful decision to harbour the fugitive . . . and a young dressmaker's curiosity spark a chain of events that has consequences none of them could ever have imagined.

An instant Sunday Times bestseller and soon to be a major motion picture! 'Astonishing. Compelling. Powerful' - Delia Owens, bestselling author of Where the Crawdads Sing 'Stuns with sacrifice. Uplifts with heroism' - Bonnie Garmus,...

Must-read historical fiction for fans of Marie Benedict and Tracey Enerson Wood, based on the real life of Britain's first woman veterinary surgeon. Aleen Cust has big dreams. And no one-not her family, society, or the law-will stop her. Born in Ireland in 1868 to an...

Inspiring historical fiction based on the real life of Bertha Benz, whose husband built the first prototype automobile, which eventually evolved into the Mercedes-Benz marque. "Unfortunately, only a girl again." From a young age, Cäcilie Bertha Ringer is fascinated by her father's...

The new novel from the bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Oprah Book Club-picked, Barack Obama favourite James McBride. In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a...

From the bestselling author of The Bone Tree comes a lively and playful bilingual collection of stories about growing up in Pātea. Interlinked and full of recurring characters, these stories are about growing up in small-town Aotearoa - sneaking away during cross country,...

'Despite the inordinate limits placed on women, See allows their strengths to dominate their stories' Washington Post 'Poignant . . . quietly affecting' Time 'Emotional and illuminating' BookPage In 15th century...

THE TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives - all connected by a single drop of water. ***** In the ruins of Nineveh, that ancient city of Mesopotamia,...

A story of enduring love and friendship, and bold wild women who refuse the dictates of their times. London 1833: The cast-out child of an aristocratic mother, Hannah 'Birdie' Bird is a laundry maid with a hidden past and a suspicion that the wealthy family she...

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's 2022 First Novel Prize! "Belinda Huijuan Tang's debut novel is a beautifully drawn, sensitively rendered portrait of a man desperately searching for his father--and for reconnection to the past and people he once knew and loved. Both rich in...

A gripping tale of compassion, imposture, trickery and surprising alliances set against the backdrop of The Bloody Assizes, from the bestselling author of The Last Hours and The Swift and the Harrier.

Discover the life-affirming debut novel from acclaimed poet Kaveh Akbar: a love letter to the world and our search for meaning - in faith, art, ourselves and those we care for. 'Dazzling' Ann Patchett 'Profoundly moving' Elif Shafak 'Gorgeous'...

The 13th chilling and adrenaline-packed Robert Hunter thriller and Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller. 'Gruesome but utterly riveting - and all the more so for being at least partly true' Daily Mail 'Dark, chilling and full of...

Raven Black is the first book in Ann Cleeves' bestselling Shetland series, also a BBC One and Netflix drama starring Douglas Henshall as Jimmy Perez.Now reissued with a new cover look.A remote community, touched by evil - would you know who to trust?It is a cold January morning and...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A genuinely thought-provoking piece of fiction' THE TIMES 'Extraordinary' WILLIAM BOYD 'Profoundly moving . . . a wonderful and life-affirming love story' JAMES HOLLAND 'His greatest novel yet<...

From the critically acclaimed author of Every Last Fear and The Night Shift, a gripping thriller about one young man's search for the truth after an inexplicable crime leaves his world torn apart. The crushing blow to the head. Hands yanking him from the...

***THE NUMBER 3 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** HAPPY PLACE BOOK CLUB FOR APRIL A BEST DEBUT OF 2024 BY BBC, RED, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 'Such a fresh and interesting voice. You'll cry and you won't be able to stop reading' ...

'Aided by some punchy translation and flashes of bathetic humour, Black Wolf is larky fun and knows it' - The Times The page-turning, heart-pumping sequel to Red Queen, Juan Gómez-Jurado's Black Wolf moves from Madrid to the Costa del Sol in pursuit of...

*Pre-order Clown Town, the ninth novel in Mick Herron's Slough House series, now* *Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden* 'The most exciting development in spy fiction since...

The New York Times No.1 bestselling YA crime thriller that everyone is talking about. Now a major BBC series! 'A taut, compulsively readable, elegantly plotted thriller', Guardian The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The...

The New York Times bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and literary novel about a woman upending her life

Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. As the gang springs into action they encounter art forgers, online fraudsters and drug dealers, as well...

A thirteen-year-old girl with a dark obsession is on the hunt for a serial killer in this mesmerising British crime debut.

"When we opened Sherlock Tomes people warned us that we'd made a terrible mistake. People warned us that e-readers were taking over. People warned us that we'd never compete with Amazon. The one thing they didn't warn us about was the murders..." Introducing...the Bookshop...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an epic love story that "hits like a sledgehammer . . . an absolutely must-read novel" (Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl). Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as...