Contemporary fiction titles are those which focus on the present or near past. Stories rooted in the current cultural, social, and political landscape which feature characters we can all recognise.
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Hodder & Stoughton Under the Dome
Book SynopsisNow with a stunning new cover look, King''s ''propulsively intriguing . . . staggeringly addictive'' (USA Today) No. 1 bestseller, that inspired the hit television series, centres on a small town suddenly cut off from the rest of the world.Time isn''t just running short. It''s running out.On a beautiful autumn day, a small New England town is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into the dome and rain down flaming wreckage. A gardener''s hand is severed as it descends. Cars explode on impact. Families are separated and panic mounts.No one can fathom what the barrier is, where it came from, or when - and if - it will go away.Now, a few intrepid citizens, led by an Iraq War veteran turned short-order cook, face down a ruthless politician dead set on seizing the reins of power in the town. But their main adversary is the dome itself . . .Trade Review'King's most purely entertaining novel in years . . . utterly compelling.' * John Connolly *'Staggeringly addictive.' * USA Today *'Tight and energetic from start to finish.' * New York Times *'The pedal is indeed to the metal.' * Guardian *'You're sorry when it ends.' * Daily Express *
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Canongate Books The Book of Form and Emptiness: Winner of the
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022When a book and a reader are meant for each other, both of them know it . . .After the tragic death of his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house and sound variously pleasant, angry or sad. Then his mother develops a hoarding problem, and the voices grow more clamorous. So Benny seeks refuge in the silence of a large public library. There he meets a mesmerising street artist with a smug pet ferret; a homeless philosopher-poet; and his very own Book, who narrates Benny's life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter. Blending unforgettable characters with jazz, climate change and our attachment to material possessions, this is classic Ruth Ozeki - bold, humane and heartbreaking.Trade ReviewThis compassionate novel of life, love and loss glows in the dark. Its strange, beautiful pages turn themselves. If you've lost your way with fiction over the last year or two, let The Book of Form and Emptiness light your way home -- DAVID MITCHELLThe Book of Form and Emptiness is a big, polyphonic, often comic, magical-realist collage of a novel that attempts to interrogate the most pressing issues of the age . . . at its heart is a compelling story of human connection and the redemptive power of art . . . Ozeki is a talented storyteller * * Guardian * *Heart-breaking and heart-healing - a book to not only keep us absorbed but also to help us think and love and live and listen. No one writes quite like Ruth Ozeki and The Book of Form and Emptiness is a triumph -- MATT HAIGThere's powerful magic here . . . Ozeki is unusually patient with her characters, even the rebarbative ones, and she is able to record the subtle peculiarities of other classes of beings that more overeager writers would probably miss . . . Ozeki gives us a metaphor for our very own American consumption disorder, our love-hate relationship with the stuff we produce and can't let go of * * New York Times Book Review * *This is both an extremely vivid picture of a small family enduring unimaginable loss, and a very powerful meditation on the way books can contain the chaos of the world and give it meaning and order. Annabelle and Benny Oh try to stay afloat in a sea of things, news, substances, technological soullessness and psychiatric quagmires, and the way they learn to live and breathe and even swim through it all feels like the struggle we all face. The Book of Form and Emptiness builds on the themes of A Tale for the Time Being, and ratifies Ozeki as one of our era's most compassionate and original minds -- DAVE EGGERSOnce again, Ozeki has created a masterpiece. Her generous heart, remarkable imagination and brilliant mind light up every page -- KAREN JOY FOWLERStorytelling rarely comes more capacious than Ruth Ozeki's latest novel . . . Ozeki interconnects zen philosophy, the environmental crisis, a critique of our mass consumer lifestyle and a playful post-modern sensibility - one of the characters is a talking book - within a novel that, for all its wide-ranging intellectual restlessness, remains grounded in its characters' emotional reality * * Daily Mail * *The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki was so special. When I first read it, I was blown away. There are so many fantastic characters and the fact that it's narrated by a book made it extra special. I just loved every single word of it! And it's quite a big book, so I was really impressed that I didn't get bored . . . I completely immersed myself in it and I enjoyed every word -- DOROTHY KOOMSONMoving . . . Ozeki has considerable storytelling energies * * Financial Times * *Philosophically serious and formally playful . . . deeply affecting and uplifting * * Guardian * *
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HarperCollins Publishers Isabellas Not Dead
Book SynopsisFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author, for anyone who's ever been ghosted and wondered why 'Beth is a really clever, funny writer' Nina Stibbe
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Penguin Books Ltd The Vanishing Point
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Transworld Publishers Ltd House Of Leaves
Book SynopsisMark Z. Danielewski, son of a film director who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival, grew up in Utah, is in his mid-thirties and was educated at Harvard, where he was taught by Harold Bloom. He attended the most prestigious film school in America at the University of Southern California and has written a number of screenplays. His sister, Poe, is a cult rock star in the States.Trade ReviewOver the last 20 years, House of Leaves has continued to reward readers prepared to navigate its labyrinth, with a community of fans ready to support them if they every get lost in the dark * Guardian *A great novel. A phenomenal debut. Thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distresingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent - it renders most other fiction meaningless. One can imagine Pynchon and Ballard and Stephen King and David Foster Wallace bowing at Mark's feet, choking with astonishment, surprise, laughter and awe. I feel privileged to be among its first readers. Will I ever recover? -- Bret Easton EllisGenre-defying . . . a novel in which something is always lurking just out of sight . . . at once a genuinely scary chiller, a satire on the business of criticism and a meditation on the way we read. * Observer *This demonically brilliant book is impossible to ignore, put down or persuasively conclude reading. In fact, when you purchase your copy you may reach a certain page and find me there, reduced in size like Vincent Price in The Fly, still trapped in the web of its malicious, beautiful pages. * Jonathan Lethem *Superbly inventive . . . a rare debut: genuinely exciting. * Guardian *There is a core of dark power in House of Leaves and a sense of return to the great dark matter of American literature: the haunted houses of Hawthorne, Poe and Lovecraft . . . one of the few fictions genuinely to approach the nightmarish. * Independent *Remarkable . . . genuinely clever and learned, often funny, brilliantly constructed and surprisingly touching . . . a debut of scintillating intelligence and scope. * Mail on Sunday *
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Little, Brown Book Group Lethal White
Book Synopsis***The 7th novel in the Strike series, THE RUNNING GRAVE, is coming in September 2023. Pre-order now and be the first to read it***''Hugely absorbing. . . the best Strike novel yet'' SUNDAY MIRROR''Highly inventive storytelling'' GUARDIAN''Outrageously entertaining'' FINANCIAL TIMES ''Come for the twists and turns and stay for the beautifully drawn central relationship'' INDEPENDENT''Blistering piece of crime writing'' SUNDAY TIMES''Fans will love it'' HEAT-----*** The latest book in the thrilling Strike series, TROUBLED BLOOD, is out now! ***When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike''s office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic.Trying to get to the bottom of Billy''s story, Strike and Robin Ellacott - once his assistant, now a partner in the agency - set off on a twisting trail that leads them through the backstreets of London, into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament, and to a beautiful but sinister manor house deep in the countryside.And during this labyrinthine investigation, Strike''s own life is far from straightforward: his newfound fame as a private eye means he can no longer operate behind the scenes as he once did. Plus, his relationship with his former assistant is more fraught than it ever has been - Robin is now invaluable to Strike in the business, but their personal relationship is much, much more tricky than that . . .Epic and enthralling, Lethal White is the gripping fourth instalment in the ongoing story of Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott. -----PRAISE FOR THE STRIKE SERIES: ''One of the most unique and compelling detectives I''ve come across in years'' MARK BILLINGHAM''The work of a master storyteller'' DAILY TELEGRAPH''Unputdownable. . . Irresistible'' SUNDAY TIMES''Will keep you up all night'' OBSERVER''A thoroughly enjoyable classic'' PETER JAMES, SUNDAY EXPRESSTrade ReviewBlistering piece of crime writing * Sunday Times *Highly inventive storytelling * Guardian *Come for the twists and turns and stay for the beautifully drawn central relationship * Independent *Thoroughly enjoyable * Mail on Sunday *Ambitious, sophisticated and stylish * Times *confirms [Galbraith's] exceptional ability as a storyteller * Daily Mail *[an] obsessive reading experience * Observer *Hugely absorbing. . . the best Strike novel yet * Sunday Mirror *Strike remains a compelling hero * The Daily Telegraph *The best one yet * India Knight for The Sunday Times Magazine *Captivating storytelling * Herald *Dark but gripping * Glamour *Fans will love it * Grazia *Another thrilling ride * Heat *Twist-packed treat * Best *Bursting with vivid characters and unnerving plot twists ... captivating storytelling * Press Association *Such a clever read * Woman’s Way *Outrageously entertaining * Financial Times *A blistering piece of crime writing * Sunday Times *
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Penguin Books Ltd Mothers and Sons
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Random House We Pretty Pieces of Flesh
Book SynopsisColwill Brown was born and raised in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. She holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where she received a James A. Michener Center Fellowship, and an MA in English Literature from Boston College. Her work has appeared in Granta, Prairie Schooner and elsewhere. For fifteen years, she's lived with ME/CFS, a debilitating neurological disease triggered by a virus that, due to systemic medical neglect, currently has no treatment. A proud Donny lass, she claims to have played bass guitar in (nearly) every rock venue on South Yorkshire's toilet circuit.
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Bonnier Books Ltd The Weekend
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Canongate Books The Ten Year Affair
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Fairlight Books Blurred Faces
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And Other Stories Boulder: Shortlisted for the 2023 International
Book SynopsisWorking as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname 'Boulder'. When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together, Samsa decides that she wants to have a child. She is already forty and can't bear to let the opportunity pass her by. Boulder is less enthused, but doesn't know how to say no - and so finds herself dragged along on a journey that feels as thankless as it is alien. With motherhood changing Samsa into a stranger, Boulder must decide where her priorities lie, and whether her yearning for freedom can truly trump her yearning for love. Once again, Eva Baltasar demonstrates her pre-eminence as a chronicler of queer voices navigating a hostile world - and in prose as brittle and beautiful as an ancient saga.Trade Review'Boulder is a sensuous, sexy, intense book. Baltasar condenses the sensations and experiences of a dozen more ordinary novels into just over one hundred pages of exhilarating prose. An incisive story of queer love and motherhood that slices open the dilemmas of exchanging independence for intimacy.' International Booker Prize judging panel ---- 'Through such intricate writing, in Julia Sanches's voraciously readable translation, the author deftly manages to elevate the idea of a relationship to a force of nature, with the character of Boulder representing the struggle to reconcile a desire to be alone with a desire for company.' Times Literary Supplement ---- 'Amid sexual trysts and growing tensions, Boulder searches for the mysterious sweet spot between her wants: freedom and connection. Baltasar has an innate talent for stretching the complexities of queer lives and predicaments into undulating adventure and tension.' The Face ---- 'In barely 100 pages, Catalan author and acclaimed poet Eva Baltasar has crafted a gem of a novella: sharp-edged, uncompromising and utterly compelling ... Boulder is for everyone: a hard-hitting, incisive triumph.' New Internationalist ---- 'Eva Baltasar's Boulder deftly demonstrates fiction's ability to elide the passage of time. . . . a thoroughly compelling work.' Words Without Borders Watchlist ---- '[T]he language of desire never stops vibrating off the page; Baltasar pans the mundane for gold, and offers those nuggets - these morsels of intimacy - in a way that grips and sates.' New York Times Book Review ---- '[T]his slim, visceral novel power gains power from its subversive blurring of maternal intuition and its queering of parenthood.' Publisher's Weekly ---- The book is a modern love story - global, queer, existential in its moral hierarchies - but it is also a rumination on those two most ancient of words: lover and mother. A novel that lionizes the desire to be alone even as it recognises the beauty and grace found within a family.' Kirkus Starred Review ---- 'Exquisite, dark and unconventional, Eva Baltasar turns intimacy into a wild adventure.' Fernanda Melchor ---- 'Boulder's action spans more than eight years, but the reader never feels the passage of that time . . . Everything here has an air of immediacy, yet at the same time one has the feeling that there are abysses yawning between every short sentence, ellipses that expand and beg to be filled in by the reader's own imagination. Boulder is a work of incandescent, volcanic brevity and density.' Nuvol ----'Opposed to all family ties, and jealous of her partner's child, our narrator refuses to resign herself to her new role of secondary character in her own story, and lashes out by drinking and engaging in clandestine sex with other women, much as would a character in a Charles Bukowski story (an author with whom Baltasar shares more than one stylistic affinity). With Boulder, Eva Baltasar goes beyond Permafrost, to the point that, as with Gillian Flynn's antiheroines, or the anti-superheroine Jessica Jones, the new femininity evokes the old masculinity.' El Periodico ----'Eva Baltasar amazed me last year [with Permafrost], and my conversion has been now been completed.' Libros y Literatura ----'In her second novel, Baltasar continues to work on her approach to the body, seen as the very substance of storytelling. Around bodies, considered both as sexual objects and as the medium through which our feelings must be expressed, she is building anew a language by which human beings may, in our era, be able to approach one another.' Zenda libros ---'Baltasar returns with the same expressiveness and lyricism as in Permafrost, but with a new complexity in her characters, addressing such vital issues such as motherhood and our increasing inability to communicate with one another - an epidemic in our era.' Valencia Plaza ---- 'Again it manages to be incredibly powerful and pack so much punch into such a slim volume. Absolutely wonderful.' David Coates, Blackwells Manchester ---- 'If you like lyrical slice-of-life prose and a melancholic look at relationships, I cannot recommend Boulder enough!' Red Newsom, Blackwells Manchester ---- 'So, Boulder is going straight to the pile of my favourite books of 2022 ' Giulia Lenti, Foyles CXR ---- 'God, I love Eva Baltasar's writing. Boulder is another masterpiece from one of Europe's most radical queer writers. I continue to be a Julia Sanches stan.' Gary Perry, Foyles CXR ---- 'This is a tender, unflinchingly honest examination of a woman's desires as she grapples with the challenges and obligations of partnership and motherhood, juxtaposed against her longing for personal freedom. It's clear that Baltasar is first and foremost a poet - every sentence is fluid and beautifully crafted (and impressively translated by Julia Sanches), to create a gorgeously sensuous and evocative reading experience.' Nichole Gadras, Mr Bs
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Simon & Schuster Ltd Rouge
Book SynopsisFrom the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her mother’s fate and find a connection that is more than skin deep?A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 in The Guardian, i newspaper, The New York Times, Time, Globe and Mail, Bustle, The Millions, LitHub, TOR, Good Housekeeping, Our Culture Mag, and more! 'You think, “She’s not going to go there…yes, she is.' Margaret Atwood 'The trancelike, rhapsodic language and deepening atmosphere of unreality make for a narrative that oozes with unease.' The Guardian &lsq
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DC Comics Kingdom Come DC Compact Comics Edition
Book SynopsisGraphic novels to read anywhere: DC Compact Comics collect DC s bestselling, most iconic stories in a new size!
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Pan Macmillan Ruin
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the 2016 David Gemmell Legend Award for Best Novel.The third in The Faithful and the Fallen series, Ruin by John Gwynne continues the gripping battle of good vs evil.The Banished Lands are engulfed in war and chaos. The cunning Queen Rhin has conquered the west and High King Nathair has the cauldron, most powerful of the seven treasures. At his back stands the scheming Calidus and a warband of the Kadoshim, dread demons of the Otherworld. They plan to bring Asroth and his host of the Fallen into the world of flesh, but to do so they need the seven treasures. Nathair has been deceived but now he knows the truth. He has choices to make; choices that will determine the fate of the Banished Lands. Elsewhere the flame of resistance is growing - Queen Edana finds allies in the swamps of Ardan. Maquin is loose in Tenebral, hunted by Lykos and his corsairs. Here he will witness the birth of a rebellion in Nathair's own realm. Trade ReviewMythical, magical, intense, brutal, poignant . . . utterly brilliant. * Fantasy Book Review *The battles are brutal and bloody, just as they should be (especially when you chuck giants, bears, draigs and huge wolf like beasts into the mix). All through the book it builds, the smaller battles leading towards bigger and bigger ones and leading to a climax that will knock you for six . . .don’t expect to come out of it with your heart in one piece. * Ebookwyrm *Triumphant . . . A masterful thrill ride of a book. * Dominish Fantasy Reviews *Dark, thrilling and bloody. But Ruin’s strongest point is, for me, its characters. The author takes character relationships crafted throughout the first two novels – between friends, family, loved ones and, especially, animals – and brings them beautifully to the fore without overstating them, whilst also forging new ones along the way. * Half Strung Harp Reviews *This was an incredible follow-up . . . Ruin is probably the strongest novel in the series so far. Gwynne did an incredible job leading things to their logical conclusions for massive payoffs, while shuffling things up just enough to make me both dread and anticipate the finale. * Reading Lamp Reviews *
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Penguin Books Ltd Hunchback
Book SynopsisLONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka Isawa has severe spine curvature and uses an electric wheelchair and ventilator. Within the limits of her care home, her life is lived online: she studies, she tweets indignantly, she posts outrageous stories on an erotica website. One day, a new male carer reveals he has read it all the sex, the provocation, the dirt. Her response? An indecent proposalWritten by the first disabled author to win Japan's most prestigious literary award and acclaimed instantly as one of the most important Japanese novels of the twenty-first century, Hunchback is an extraordinary, thrilling glimpse into the desire and darkness of a woman placed at humanity's edge.''A must-read debut. Funny and frank, this book lingers in the mind long after you turn the final page'' BBC Books of 2025Hunchback is one of the boldest and most unusual books to emerge from a mainstream publisher in years. It''s a brilliant, riveting book that lets us tune into the voices we have long kept suppressed. Sunday TimesUproariously funny, unflinching, and merciless' Mariana Enriquez, author of The Dangers of Smoking in BedFilled with unforgettable insight' Sakaya Murata, author of Convenience Store Woman
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Penguin Books Ltd The Proof of My Innocence
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Little, Brown Book Group The Year Of The Flood The Maddaddam Trilogy
Book SynopsisBy the author of The Handmaid''s Tale and Alias GraceThe sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood - a man-made plague - has ended the world.But two young women have survived: Ren, a young dancer trapped where she worked, in an upmarket sex club (the cleanest dirty girls in town); and Toby, who watches and waits from her rooftop garden. Is anyone else out there?Trade ReviewPrescient and inventive * Tracy-Ann Oberman *Prescient and inventive * Tracy-Ann Oberman *
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Penguin Books Ltd Regeneration
Book SynopsisThe modern classic of contemporary war fiction from Women''s Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls, Regeneration is a powerfully moving portrait of the deep legacy of human trauma in the First World War. RECOMMENDED BY RICHARD OSMANCraiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, and army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. Rivers''s job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Yet the closer he gets to mending his patients'' minds the harder becomes every decision to send them back to the horrors of the front. Pat Barker''s Regeneration is the classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men.''Brilliant, intense and subtle'' Peter Kemp, Sunday Times''One of the strongest and most interesting novelists of her generation'' Guardian''Unforgettable'' Sunday TelegraphThe Regeneration trilogy:RegenerationThe Eye in the DoorThe Ghost RoadTrade ReviewA brilliant novel. Intense and subtle -- Peter Kemp Sunday Times
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HarperCollins Publishers Paper Heart
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Penguin Books Ltd Labyrinths Penguin Modern Classics
Book SynopsisJorge Luis Borges''s Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America''s most influential and imaginative writers. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby, with an introduction by James E. Irby and a preface by André Maurois.Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated ''Library of Babel'', whose infinite shelves contain every book that could ever exist, ''Funes the Memorious'' the tale of a man fated never to forget a single detail of his life, and ''Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote'', in which a French poet makes it his life''s work to create an identical copy of Don Quixote. In later life, dogged by increasing blindness, Borges used essays and brief tantalising parables to explore the enigma of time
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Simon & Schuster Ltd Shanghai
Book Synopsis‘Step forward Kanon, the American Robert Harris, a man who finds untold stories from our recent past and brings them alive’ TIM SHIPMAN, SUNDAY TIMES Daniel Lohr, sensing that the Nazis are closing in on the Jews, leaves his dying father in Berlin and boards a ship to Shanghai. His passage is dependent upon him delivering a package to his shady uncle, his father’s brother, upon arrival. Daniel has no idea what the package contains. On board is Leah, also fleeing the Nazis. She and Daniel conduct a passionate but brief shipboard affair, but are separated as soon as the ship docks in Shanghai. Will he ever see her again? Daniel is immediately plunged into his uncle’s seductive and corrupt world, and becomes involved in the launch of a new nightclub, the biggest, best and most glitzy in town. When violence breaks out and lives are at risk, he finds himself drawn irrevocably into the terrifying underworld that is wartime
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Mix Tape: The most nostalgic and uplifting
Book Synopsis'This grown-up love story is gorgeously written and romantic without being sentimental' Good Housekeeping'This tender tale of second chances... is a nostalgic delight' Sunday MirrorYou never forget the one that got away. Daniel was the first boy to make Alison a mix tape.But that was years ago and Ali hasn't thought about him in a very long time. Even if she had, she might not have called him 'the one that got away'; after all, she'd been the one to run.Then Dan's name pops up on her phone, with a link to a song from their shared past.For two blissful minutes, Alison is no longer an adult in Adelaide with temperamental daughters; she is sixteen in Sheffield, dancing in her skin-tight jeans. She cannot help but respond in kind.And so begins a new mix tape.Ali and Dan exchange songs - some new, some old - across oceans and time zones, across a lifetime of different experiences, until one of them breaks the rules and sends a message that will change everything...__________Readers have fallen in love with Mix Tape!'I laughed, I cried, I listened to the music. I wanted to know the characters in real life.' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'This book is beautiful. The writing is so emotive and evocative.' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'I LOVED this book - the music in it brought back so many memories from my teenage years.' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'Mix Tape is is my idea of story heaven. I loved it. Really loved it. I'm telling everyone I know about it.' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'What a wonderful book! Tenderly written and with characters that are so different but all make their own mark.' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐Trade ReviewGorgeous novel. . . guaranteed to make you think of your first love – and perhaps what might have been. * Nina Pottell, Prima *A lovely novel, delicately drawn, with characters that really linger in the mind and memory. * Laura Barnett, author of The Versions of Us *A deftly written romantic novel. * Red *Touching, peppily nostalgic love story. * Sainsbury’s Magazine *Funny, moving, relatable and with a great playlist, this is one mix tape well worth investing in. * Heat *Fantastic, moving, beautiful. * Daily Mail *Nostalgic and poignant, prepare for all the feels. * Fabulous *A nostalgic tale of devastating but enduring love. * Daily Mirror *Beautifully written and a joy to read. * Daily Express *Carefully formed, well-rounded and likeable, by the final pages I cared about Alison and Daniel as if they were my friends. * Sunday Express *A wonderfully musical story about modern relationships and lost loves. * OK! Magazine *A beautiful story. * Bella Magazine *A masterpiece. The best book I’ve read for a long, long, time. * Craig Cash *
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HarperCollins Publishers A Novel Love Story
Book Synopsis?Sounds Like Love, the new magical rom-com from Ashley Poston is available now!?LOVE IS STRANGER THAN FICTION ??????''Ashley Poston has done it again enchanting'' B.K. BORISON''If I ever need to get lost in a cosy romance, A Novel Love Story will be the go-to'' ?????''This one just hit different beautiful'' ???????Have you ever found yourself lost in a good book literally???Eileen Merriweather loves a good love story. The fictional kind, anyway. After all, imaginary men don't break your heart.That's why she's so excited for her annual book club retreat instead, when her car breaks down en route, Eileen finds herself in Eloraton. A town where every meet is cute, the rain always comes in the afternoon, and the bookshop is always curated with impeccable taste.It feels too good to be true because Eloraton is the setting of her favourite romance series. And Eileen is sure she must be here to bring the town its storybook ending.But there's one character she can't place. The grumpy bookshop owner with mint-green eyes, and an irritatingly sexy mouth. He does not want Eileen to finish this story, but how else can she find her happily-ever-after?***?Sounds Like Love, the BRAND NEW magical rom-com from Ashley Poston is available to pre-order now!?***Readers have been spellbound by Ashley Poston:''That. Was. Outstanding.'' ????''I LOVED this book. A beautiful, poignant story breathtaking, hopeful, and dreamy'' ALI HAZELWOOD''I am SPEECHLESS'' ?????''An absolute and unexpected delight'' CHRISTINA LAUREN''My favorite Ashley Poston book'' ?????''A gorgeous love story from one of the finest romance writers out there'' CARLEY FORTUNE''A love letter to romance readers'' ?????Perfect for fans of:???Grumpy x sunshine??Actual book boyfriend??Small-town romance??Enemies-to-lovers??Books about books?A touch of magic
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Simon & Schuster Ltd Vamps Dark Horizon
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Headline Publishing Group Her Husbands Mistake
Book SynopsisTHE NO. 1 BESTSELLERSHEILA''S FANTASTIC NEW NOVEL ''THE WOMEN WHO RAN AWAY'' IS OUT NOW - AND YOU CAN PRE-ORDER THE PAPERBACK NOW!The page-turning new novel about a marriage, a secret, and a wife''s choice, from the bestselling author of The Missing Wife and The Hideaway''Brilliantly written and with plot twists popping out like Prosecco corks, this is a devour-over-a-weekend gem'' Woman and Home''One of my favourite authors'' Marian KeyesDave''s made a BIG mistake. What''s Roxy going to do about it? The riveting new novel from No. 1 bestselling author Sheila O''Flanagan. Perfect for readers of Marian Keyes and Amanda Prowse. Roxy''s marriage has always been rock solid.After twenty years, and with two carefree kids, she and Dave are still the perfect couple.Until the day she comes home unexpectedly, and finds Dave in bed with their attra
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Headline Publishing Group It Ends At Midnight
Book SynopsisTHREE FRIENDS. TWO BODIES. AND A PARTY TO DIE FOR...***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SENSATION***''Outstanding. Dark, atmospheric, utterly believable ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'' REAL READER REVIEW''What a phenomenal work, I read it in a day. ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'' REAL READER REVIEW''I could not put down the book ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'' REAL READER REVIEW***THE ADDICTIVE NEW THRILLER FROM KINDLE #1 BESTSELLER HARRIET TYCE***''A blisteringly brilliant read. Harriet Tyce is at the very top of the thriller game.'' Sarah Pinborough''Intriguing characters, deceptive twists and a punch-to-the-gut finale. Harriet Tyce always delivers.'' John Marrs''I devoured this gripping novel in a couple of sittings, and raced to the shocking end.'' Alex Michaelides''This is another delicious treaTrade ReviewA blisteringly brilliant read. Harriet Tyce is at the very top of the thriller game. * Sarah Pinborough *It Ends at Midnight has it all - mystery, murder, courtroom drama, revenge and sex, in an explosive mix. I devoured this gripping novel in a couple of sittings, and raced to the shocking end. * Alex Michaelides *It Ends At Midnight takes us into the deepest, most toxic recesses of human behaviour. With the author's signature blend of courtroom suspense and relationships in mortal crisis, this is another delicious treat from Tyce. * Louise Candlish *Intriguing characters, deceptive twists and a punch-to-the-gut finale. Harriet Tyce always delivers. * John Marrs *Another compelling read from the utterly brilliant Harriet Tyce. * Lisa Jewell *Smartly structured and plotted and even darker than Blood Orange. * Sarah Vaughan *A cinematic gut-punch of a book that will linger in your memory long after you've finished it. * Mark Edwards *Harriet Tyce cements her position as Queen of unreliable narrators in It Ends At Midnight. A must-read high stakes-thriller. * Fiona Cummins *Harriet Tyce is so good at writing flawed characters pushed to their absolute limits. This is another top-notch thriller from her: as compelling as it is compulsive. * Kate Riordan *Harriet has a true skill for peeling back her characters' layers and exposing every dark, twisted thought. Gripping and truly unpredictable. * Jack Jordan *What a dark, delicious read - with an ending that made me literally gasp. * Charlotte Duckworth *Fantastic, intricately plotted, skillfully woven and beautifully tricky. * Helen Fields *Murky, twisty, and twisted - a roiling cauldron of courtroom dramas and toxic friendships, damaged relationships and vengeful spectres of bloody, long-buried secrets. * Ellery Lloyd *A true page-turner! * Amanda Reynolds *Intense, clever, important and deeply chilling, It Ends At Midnight proves that Harriet Tyce is a writer at the top of her game. * Phoebe Morgan *So compelling it should come with a warning. It Ends At Midnight is the type of book the term "page-turner" was invented for. * B. P. Walter *Pure drip-fed tension leading to a gob-smackingly good reveal - I devoured this and yet didn't want it to end. * Susi Holliday *Toxic friendships, deadly secrets and a chilling finale. This thriller is one wild ride. * Nikki Smith *A clever, twisty psychological thriller * Fanny Blake *Expertly plotted and executed, it's a deliciously dark and twisty thriller about toxic friendships, secrets and betrayal. It kept me guessing until the last page. * Sarah J. Harris *I could not put it down! It Ends At Midnight is a roller coaster of a ride. I loved it! * Rachael Blok *It's a spectacular display that you won't want to miss. It Ends At Midnight will have you reading into the small hours. * Trevor Wood *This is a clever mystery, well plotted and absorbing. * NB Magazine *Finely constructed. Characterisation and narrative drive conjoin impeccably in Tyce's tense tale. * Barry Forshaw, Financial Times *Full of twists and turns. An unpredictable, unforgettable read. * Woman's Weekly *A perfect whodunit, full of tension * Closer *Excellent. High on tension and twists. * My Weekly *It Ends At Midnight is a searing and suspenseful psychological thriller full of tension, toxic friendship and uncomfortable truths. * Culturefly *It Ends At Midnight sees Harriet Tyce on top form once more. A masterpiece of plotting. * Living Magazine *An explosive story with deadly secrets and an ending that will take your breath away. * Candis *
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Hachette Books Ireland The Perfect Sister: A compelling page-turner that
Book SynopsisOnce inseparable, years of resentment and jealousy have driven Alice and Holly apart. But, though they barely speak these days, Alice knows her sister is hiding something.When she hears that a discovery at a soon-to-be-demolished apartment building has led police to re-open an 'accidental death' case, Alice thinks nothing of it. She's distracted by a recent chance encounter with a charismatic man named Damien, and the possibility of romance when she had given up all hope. Until someone knocks at her door, with questions about Holly.Alice doesn't believe her sister is capable of involvement in anything so sinister. But when she tries to contact Holly, she can't be reached...Forced to dig through the past in order to uncover the truth, Alice starts to uncover years of Holly's secrets - and to doubt her innocence. As the evidence mounts up, Alice has a choice to make: does she want to help her sister clear her name, even if the price is her own future with Damien?
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3TimesRebel Press The Wild One
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SPCK Publishing Christmas at Hope Hall
Book SynopsisThe march towards the end of the year sees Hope Hall once again buzzing with activity.The lead up to the Harvest Festival sees a stray dog causing a nuisance, and tensions rise between two old schoolmates. The drama only increases as Christmas approaches, and the panto rehearsals featuring the jocular “Can’t Sing Singers” get into full swing. But the hustle and bustle of the drama in the community stems from the deeper personal stories. Loneliness, loss, and hurt impact the lives of many of the local residents. But where there is community, there is friendship, companionship, love, and most of all, hope. Christmas at Hope Hall is the final book in a delightful trilogy centred on a Victorian church hall, the like of which can be found at the heart of so many towns across England. This wonderful finale to the series (which includes the sound of wedding bells!) is full of friends and neighbours with stories that will have you giggling one minute, and dabbing your eyes the next.
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Pushkin Press The Silence and the Roar
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Canongate Books Ltd. This Bright Life
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Little, Brown Book Group Santaland Diaries
Book SynopsisA collection of surprising, disarming and ''extremely funny'' essays from the internationally bestselling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day (Sunday Times) Santaland Diaries collects six of David Sedaris''s most profound Christmas stories into one slender volume perfect for use as a last-minute coaster or ice-scraper. This drinking man''s companion can be enjoyed by the warmth of a raging fire, the glow of a brilliantly decorated tree, or even in the back seat of a police car. It should be read with your eyes, felt with your heart, and heard only when spoken to. It should, in short, behave much like a book. And oh, what a book it is!''Sedaris writes with a gentle but unfailing acuity and a keen eye for the ridiculous ... extremely funny'' -Sunday TimesTrade ReviewAcidly camp, bitchily kitsch and slickly satirical packages of out-there humour...very funny. * Sunday Times *This is a man who could capture your heart and lift your spirits while reading out the ingredients of a rice cake. * Observer *His best, funniest, most satisfying book. * Time Out *Sedaris writes with a gentle but unfailing acuity and a keen eye for the ridiculous ... extremely funny. * Sunday Times *
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Pushkin Press The Wizard of the Kremlin
Book SynopsisTHE TIMES BESTSELLER'A riveting peek into how power actually works in Russia' David McCloskey, author of Moscow X 'A great novel, casting light on the creatures that crawl and slither behind the Kremlin's walls. Read it' John Sweeney, author of Killer in the KremlinSoon to be a major motion picture They call him the Wizard of the Kremlin. Working at the heart of Russian power, spin doctor Vadim Baranov has used his background in reality TV to turn the entire country into an avant-garde political stage. Here truth and lies, news and propaganda have become indistinguishable. But Vadim is growing increasingly entangled in the dark secret workings of the regime he has helped build, and now he is desperate to get out... Sweeping from the fall of the Soviet Union to the invasion of Ukraine, this breathless story of politics and power has become an international sensation.
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Pushkin Press The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Book SynopsisThe funny and moving publishing sensation about an unassuming apartment building in Paris Renée is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building. To the snobbish residents she is all they expect from a caretaker - hard working, dowdy and unsophisticated. But Renée has a secret. Beneath this façade she is a self-taught intellectual, devoted to arthouse Japanese cinema and has a cat named after Tolstoy. Meanwhile, several floors up, twelve-year-old Paloma has also learned to conceal her gifts. The precocious and lonely daughter of pampered parents, Paloma is convinced that life is meaningless and plans to commit suicide on her next birthday. But the arrival of a new charismatic resident will bring dramatic change to number 7, Rue de Grenelle, altering the course of both their lives forever.
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Little, Brown Book Group Old Filth
Book SynopsisA genuine masterpiece - funny, brilliant and wise.
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Vintage Publishing Collected Stories
Book SynopsisJohn Cheever's Collected Stories explores the delicate psychological frameworks of 20th century suburbia.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HANIF KUREISHIThis outstanding collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Cheever shows the power and range of one of the finest short story writers of the last century. Stories of love and of squalor, they include masterpieces such as ''The Swimmer'' and ''Goodbye, My Brother'' and date from the time of his honourable discharge from the Army at the end of the Second World War.Trade ReviewI’ve read nothing better this year than The Stories of John Cheever. -- Peter McKay * Daily Mail, Book of the Year *Cheever's accomplishment in his exacting art is proportionally large, as solid as it is brilliant, and likely to endure * New York Review of Books *Currently I'm reading John Cheever's Collected Stories. My God, he was good -- David Mitchell'The Swimmer' is a masterpiece of mystery, language and sorrow -- Michael ChabonI reread Cheever's 'The Swimmer' late the other night. It had the effect that reading Cheever always has: it made me want to get up and start the futile task of trying to write something as measured yet mysteriously, heart-judderingly unexpected for myself -- Gordon Burns * Sunday Times *
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Transworld Publishers Ltd The Book of Negroes
Book SynopsisLawrence Hill was born in Ontario, Canada of a black father and a white mother. He is the author of a memoir, Black Berry, Sweet Juice, a work of non-fiction, The Deserter's Tale, and two other novels. His third novel, The Book of Negroes (published in the US as Somebody Knows My Name) was a no.1 bestseller in Canada, and won the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book.Trade ReviewHill's novel is a beautiful, compelling artifice, spun from unspeakably savage facts.... a fiction that faces the terrible truth about slavery * The Times *A colossal achievement... heartrending yet inspiring * Independent on Sunday *The ebb and flow of Aminata's fortunes is gripping stuff, with the horrors inflicted upon her and her people brought to life almost matter-of-factly - and all the more enraging for that * Daily Mail *Richly meticulous recreation of late 18th century slave life... in its grand historical sweep, The Book of Negroes succeeds admirably in giving voice to a captive people who were for so long kept mute -- Stephen Amidon * The Sunday Times *Wears its thorough research lightly... fitting that this ambitious revision of slave narratives should have won the overall Commonwealth Writers' Prize in the year that the American electorate demolished one of its most persistent categories of exclusion * Independent *
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Shrines of Gaiety: The Sunday Times Bestseller,
Book Synopsis'Atkinson on her finest form. A marvel of plate-spinning narrative knowhow, a peak performance of consummate control.' OBSERVER'This is the perfect novel for uncertain times.' THE TIMES'I can think of few writers other than Dickens who can match it' SUNDAY TIMES'Brilliant' RICHARD OSMAN'Kate Atkinson is simply one of the best writers working today, anywhere in the world' GILLIAN FLYNN____1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time.At the heart of this glittering world is notorious Nellie Coker, ruthless but also ambitious to advance her six children, including the enigmatic eldest, Niven whose character has been forged in the crucible of the Somme. But success breeds enemies, and Nellie's empire faces threats from without and within. For beneath the dazzle of Soho's gaiety, there is a dark underbelly, a world in which it is all too easy to become lost.With her unique Dickensian flair, Kate Atkinson brings together a glittering cast of characters in a truly mesmeric novel that captures the uncertainty and mutability of life; of a world in which nothing is quite as it seems._____'Seduction, betrayal, and larger-than-life characters that will have you hooked until the last page' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'This book is one to savour, for the energy, for the wit, for the tenderness of characterisation that make Atkinson enduringly popular' GUARDIAN'As vividly filthy, populous, dangerous as anything described by Dickens, but writing is closer to Thackeray's...Atkinson is a novelist of unrivalled immediacy, authority, and skill.' FINANCIAL TIMESTrade ReviewBrilliant. * Richard Osman *A heady brew of crime, romance and satire set amid the sordid glitz of London nightlife in the 1920s . . . Shrines of Gaiety sees Atkinson on her finest form . . . A marvel of plate-spinning narrative knowhow . . . a peak performance of consummate control. -- Anthony Cummins * OBSERVER *Sharp, witty and fiendishly plotted ... you don't so much as read it as surrender to it * FINANCIAL TIMES, 'Best books of 2022' *Seduction, betrayal and larger-than-life characters that will have you hooked until the last page. * THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *Kate Atkinson is on deliciously acerbic form in Shrines of Gaiety ... exposing the underbelly of London nightlife in the roaring 20s * GUARDIAN, 'Books of the Year' *
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Penguin Books Ltd In Search of Lost Time Volume 1
Book SynopsisOne of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language, Marcel Proust''s In Search of Lost Time Vol. 1: The Way by Swann''s is published in a new translation from the French by Lydia Davis in Penguin Classics.The Way by Swann''s is one of the great novels of childhood, depicting the impressions of a sensitive boy of his family and neighbours, brought dazzlingly back to life by the famous taste of a madeleine. It contains the separate short novel, A Love of Swann''s, a study of sexual jealousy that forms a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure of In Search of Lost Time. This book established Proust as one of the greatest voices of the modern age - satirical, sceptical, confiding and endlessly varied in his responses to the human condition.Since the original pre-war translation Remembrance of Things Past by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, there has been no completely new rendering of Proust''s French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. As the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end, it is this Penguin Classics edition of In Search of Lost Time that makes Proust accessible to a new generation.Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is generally viewed as the greatest French novelist and perhaps the greatest European novelist of the 20th century. He lived much of his later life as a reclusive semi-invalid in a sound-proofed flat in Paris, giving himself over entirely to writing his masterpiece In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu).If you enjoyed In Search Of Lost Time, you might like James Joyce''s Ulysses, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.''The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph, and will bring this inexhaustible artwork to new audiences throughout the English-speaking world''Sunday Telegraph
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Mort
Book Synopsis'Cracking dialogue, compelling illogic and unchained whimsy' Sunday TimesThe Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is .Trade ReviewPratchett is a comic genius * Daily Express *Pratchett's humour takes logic past the point of absurdity and round again, but it is his unexpected insights into human morality that make the Discworld series stand out * Times Educational Supplement *Cracking dialogue, compelling illogic and unchained whimsy... Pratchett has a subject and a style that is very much his own * The Sunday Times *He is screamingly funny. He is wise. He has style * Sunday Telegraph *
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Penguin Books Ltd This Time Tomorrow
Book SynopsisTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER''Will make you laugh, cry, and call the people you love. Exceptional'' EMILY HENRY''Nostalgic, wise, funny, and filled with love'' GABRIELLE ZEVIN''Her most emotionally resonant work yet'' VOGUE''Has the makings of a dreamy, witty, contemporary classic'' EVENING STANDARD''I just finished and I''m crying at its message and its honestly and its utter beauty'' JODI PICOULT''A tender, witty David Nicholls-esque tale of familial love'' i________About to turn forty, Alice feels stuck: She works at the school she attended. Her boyfriend isn''t the man of her dreams. And her beloved father Leonard is dying.But after one too many drinks, she wakes up in her childhood home to find forty-year-old Leonard celebrating her sixteenth birthday.Now Alice gets to relive this one day in 1Trade ReviewStraub has made a mastery of witty, warm novels that spin modern tales with literary flair. Her fourth might be her best. A clever, nostalgic, romantic tale. Part-Russian Doll, part-David Nicholls, it has the makings of a dreamy, witty, contemporary classic * Evening Standard *Poignant * New York Times *Her most emotionally resonant work yet ... a complex tale that doesn't feel the slightest bit complicated * Vogue *An excellent time-travelling novel about adolescence and second chances from the always brilliant Emma Straub * Metro *A tender tale of time travel. Straub strips back the layers to reveal what's important. It makes you want to stop what you're doing and call your loved ones immediately * Stylist, 'Book of the Week' *I just finished This Time Tomorrow and I'm crying at its message and its honestly and its utter beauty. And now I have to go call my mom -- Jodi PicoultShines with humour and warmth * Washington Post *One of the most moving and intelligent time travel novels I have ever read. Nostalgic, wise, funny, and filled with love -- Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and TomorrowThis Time Tomorrow is a beautifully made, elegant music box of a novel that sets in motion its clever clockwork of delight-then breaks your heart with its bittersweet, lingering song -- Michael ChabonDeliciously warm and nostalgic -- Gillian McAllister, bestselling author of Wrong Place Wrong TimeIf I could time travel, I'd go back just far enough to start Emma Straub's beautiful novel This Time Tomorrow again for the first time. The pages brim with tenderness and an appreciation for what we had and who we were. I could not have loved it more -- Ann PatchettA tender, witty David Nicholls-esque tale of familial love * i *This autobiographical novel is delightfully nostalgic but the beauty of it rests in its tenderness and wisdom - a reminder of what's important and what we should cherish in life * Culturefly *A witty, warm novel about love and letting go, This Time Tomorrow is a rare gem. Emma Straub is such an elegant storyteller - I couldn't put it down -- Phoebe Luckhurst, author of The Lock InEmma Straub's This Time Tomorrow is that rare one-in-a-million novel that not only pulls you wholly into itself, but leaves a lasting mark when it finally releases you. Never has Straub's writing been more incisive, clever, and emotionally generous-which is really saying something. The kind of book that will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you call the people you love. Exceptional -- Emily Henry, author of You, Me on VacationCan't recommend this deeply moving and pleasurable book more -- Taffy Brodesser-Akner, bestselling author of Fleischman is in TroubleThis time-travelling take on a hypothetical return to 1996 and the protagonist's 16th birthday will be enough to remind you to cherish what you have * ELLE *Time travel is a popular trope in fiction, and Straub deploys it brilliantly in her effervescent new novel. .... Straub is an expert chronicler of social mores and the inner lives of her (mostly) bourgeois characters, and here she delivers a surefire bestseller * Oprah Daily *A teasing time-slip novel, imbued with all Straub's trademark humour and humanity * Saga Magazine *The always delightful, deeply beloved Emma Straub returns with a novel that seems like her take on 13-going-on-30.... It's Straub, so you know it's going to be funny, touching, and filled with family drama * Glamour *A wonderful book . . . about how we need to cherish those we have lost * Hello! *Magical, heart-warming and insightful . . . Warm, wryly funny and melancholic, This Time Tomorrow asks the big questions of life while revelling in 90s nostalgia and the allure of New York City in the fall * Daily Express *Full of deftly managed plot twists, it's both fun and poignant * Mail on Sunday *A heartfelt father-daughter story that breathes fresh life into the concept of time travel * Living North *Not every book teaches you something, but Emma Straub's insightful novel does. Witty observations and beautiful writing * Woman & Home *Delightfully nostalgic but the beauty of it rests in its tenderness and wisdom - a reminder of what's important and what we should cherish in life * Culturefly *With her celebrated humour, insight, and heart, beloved New York Times bestseller Emma Straub offers her own twist on traditional time travel tropes, and a different kind of love story * Biblio *This New York-set story about time travel will break your heart * Red *This grown-up take on Freaky Friday balances humour and poignancy so well * Good Housekeeping *Enlivened by Straub's typically acerbic prose and quirky characters, not to mention a good dose of 90s nostalgia * Jewish Chronicle, 'Fiction of the Year' *A wonderfully bittersweet story willed with humour, compassion and poignancy * Candis *Has a lot of heart, some satisfying plot twists and a bittersweet, open ended finale * BookPage Starred Review *Clever, complex and really rather lovely * Best *Alice is a joy of a character . . . Straub brings the bittersweet passing of youth to adulthood to life in vivid detail, with a story steeped in 1990s nostalgia. It's a book to devour * Jewish Chronicle *Emotionally resonant. Captivating * Sunday Post *Delightful * Boston Globe *Heartfelt * SFX *Praise for Emma Straub * - *'A gorgeous and witty storyteller' Funny, poignant and beautifully observedStraub writes beautifully and amusingly . . . hard to beat for sheer charm and gentle wit * Daily Mail *Smart and entertaining * Stylist *Hugely talented . . . intelligent holiday readingWarm and big-hearted . . . leaves you smiling for daysStraub writes with such verve and sympathetic understanding of her characters . . . Reading this novel has all the pleasures of reading one of Anne Tyler's compelling family portraits * New York Times *It's the beautifully drawn, vibrant characters that make this smart, compelling novel so irresistibleA funny and insightful look at love and relationships * Good Housekeeping *A smart, cool sensibility * Elle *Lovely, satisfying * EW.com *Smart and fresh, offering new insights into the lives of people all around us * Brooklyn Magazine *Thoughtful and hilarious * Real Simple *It would be easy to compare Straub to other masters of the genre like Meg Wolitzer or Jennifer Egan, but she's already a master in her own right * The Millions *Emma Straub is such a funny and brilliant writer and this time-travelling tale is a charming exploration of what it would be like to find yourself younger and surrounded by the people you love when they're still at the height of their power * Stylist *Wise and often hilarious * Buzzfeed *Readers will devour this witty and warmly satisfying novel * Publishers Weekly *A precise and observant writer whose supple prose carries the story along without a snag. Straub's characters are a quirky and interesting bunch . . . it's a pleasure spending time with them * Starred Review, Kirkus *Devilishly observed * Starred Review, Booklist *Sprinkled with humour and insight * Starred Review, Library Journal *Straub is consistently excellent * Book Riot *
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Penguin Books Ltd The Bodyguard Affair
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Orion Publishing Co Other Peoples Fun
Book SynopsisThe new novel from Harriet Lane, author of Waterstones Book Club pick, HER and ALYS, ALWAYS
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Saltblood
Book Synopsis**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE **''A gripping tale of one woman''s extraordinary adventures ... Saltblood is a triumph of the imagination''ELODIE HARPER, author of ''The Wolf Den'' trilogy''A ravishing picaresque told with fireworks, finesse and gusto'' PAUL LYNCH, author of Prophet Song''A well crafted, salty, old-fashioned adventure about identity and freedom'' The TimesIn a rented room outside Plymouth in 1685, a daughter is born as her half-brother is dying. Her mother makes a decision: Mary will become Mark, and Ma will continue to collect his inheritance money.Mary's dual existence as Mark will lead to a role as a footman in a grand house, serving a French mistress; to the navy, learning who to trust and how to navigate by the stars; and to the army and the battlegrounds of Flanders, finding love among the bloodshed and the mud. But none of this will stop Mary yearning for the sea.Drawn back to the water, Mary must reinvent herself yet again, for a woman aboard a ship is a dangerous thing. This time Mary will become something more dangerous than a woman.She will become a pirate.Breathing life into the Golden Age of Piracy, Saltblood is a wild adventure, a treasure trove, weaving an intoxicating tale of gender and survival, passion and loss, journeys and transformation, through the story of Mary Read, one of history's most remarkable figures.''Saltblood is exquisite. The writing is sumptuous and lyrical, the story fascinating''LOUISE O''NEILL, author of Asking for It and Idol''A wonderful tale and so exquisitely told ... Master and Commander meets Thelma & Louise''JAMES OSWALD, author of the Inspector McLean' series''A thrilling, gender-shaking roar of a tale every reader will enjoy''NEIL BLACKMORE, author of Radical Love
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Random House Enlightenment
Book SynopsisSarah Perry is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Enlightenment, Melmoth, The Essex Serpent and After Me Comes the Flood, and the non-fiction Essex Girls. She is a winner of the Waterstones Book of the Year Award and the British Book of the Year Award. Enlightenment was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 and her other work has been nominated for major literary prizes including the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Folio Prize and the Costa Novel Award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Fitzcarraldo Editions The Disappearing Act
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