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Andrew Swanston read law at Cambridge, but was inspired to write by his lifelong interest in early modern history. His Thomas Hill novels – The King’s Spy, The King’s Exile and The King’s Return – are set against the backdrops of the English Civil War, Cromwell’s Commonwealth and the early Restoration respectively. He is also the author of Waterloo: The Bravest Man and Beautiful Star and Other Stories. His first historical thriller set during the reign of Elizabeth I – Incendium (published in paperback as The Incendium Plot) – introduced readers to the academic, lawyer and intelligencer Dr Christopher Radcliff, whose adventures continue in Chaos. Andrew Swanston lives in Surrey.

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A G Hopkins

A. J. BAIME is the New York Times best-selling author of The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War and Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans. Both books are in development for major motion pictures. Baime is a longtime regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, and his articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Popular Science, and Men’s Journal. He lives in Granite Bay, California. Visit him at facebook.com/ajbaime and trumanbook.com.

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Anthony James Pollard is a British medieval historian, specialising in the fifteenth century and in particular the Wars of the Roses. A leading authority in the field, he is profesor emeritus of Teesside University. His books include North-Eastern England during the Wars of the Roses, Richard III and the Princes in theTower, Imagining Robin Hood: the Late Medieval Stories in Historical Context and Warwick the kingmaker: Politics, Power and Fame.

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A J Rochester

A K Benjamin is a clinical neuropsychologist and the author of Let Me Not Be Mad: A Story of Unravelling Minds.

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A. L. Berridge read English at Oxford, and taught for ten years before moving into television, where her production credits range from period drama and thrillers to long-running soaps. She has written two previous novels, Top Ten besteller Honour and the Sword and In the Name of the King. Into the Valley of Death is her third novel.

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Alison Gaylin's first job was as a reporter for a celebrity tabloid, which sparked a lifelong interest in writing about people committing despicable acts. More than a decade later, she wrote and published her Edgar-nominated first novel, HIDE YOUR EYES. 
 
She's since published nine more books, including the USA Today and international bestselling Brenna Spector suspense series, which has been nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and Thriller awards and won the Shamus award. 
 
She lives in upstate New York with her husband, daughter, cat and dog.

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A.S. Webb is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Daughter of Chaos, the first instalment of The Dark Pantheon Trilogy. She is inspired by stories rooted in history and mythology, that push the boundaries of imagination and urge us to reflect on what it means to be human.

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A. A. Dhand is the author of six previous novels, and has been shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger Award. His DI Harry Virdee novels are currently being adapted for TV by the BBC. He was raised in Bradford and spent his youth observing the city from behind the counter of a small convenience store. After qualifying as a pharmacist, he worked in London and travelled extensively before returning to Bradford to start his own business and begin writing. The history, diversity and darkness of the city have inspired all his novels. For more information about A. A. Dhand and his books, follow him on X @aadhand, and on Instagram @aa_dhand.

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A. B. Poranek grew up sharing her time between Ontario, Canada and rural Poland, and eventually completed a veterinary degree at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. A lover of mythology and history, she enjoys exploring both in her writing. Her debut novel, Where the Dark Stands Still, an instant New York Times bestseller, is an ode to Poland's folktales, while A Treachery of Swans transports readers to a world inspired by 17th century France.

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Professor A. C. Grayling is Principal of the New College of the Humanities at Northeastern University, London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He has written and edited over thirty books on philosophy, history, science and current affairs. For several years he wrote columns for the Guardian newspaper and The Times and was the chairman of the 2014 Man Booker Prize.

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A.D. Miller is the author of Snowdrops, The Earl of Petticoat Lane and The Faithful Couple. Snowdrops was a bestseller and was shortlisted for many prizes including the Man Booker and the CWA Gold Dagger. It was translated into 25 languages. As Moscow Correspondent of The Economist A.D. Miller has travelled across the former Soviet Union and covered the Orange Revolution in Ukraine; he is now the magazine’s Culture Editor based in London. 
 
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A. Igoni Barrett was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in 1979 and lives in Lagos. He is a winner of the 2005 BBC World Service short story competition, the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. His short story collection, Love is Power, or Something Like That, was published in 2013. In 2014 he was named on the Africa39 list of sub-Saharan African writers under 40. Blackass is his first novel.

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The short life of A.J.A. Symons (1900-41) was described by his biographer as an intricate and largely harmless confidence trick. His many interests included the collection of musical boxes and rare books as well as the study and practice of forgery; they left him time to edit an anthology of Edwardian verse and compose studies of H.M. Stanley and other notable figures. He is remembered for The Quest for Corvo, one of the most remarkable biographies ever written, and for co-founding the Wine and Food Society.

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Peter Grainger

When Caroline Thorpe succeeded in casting doubt on the verdict of the inquest into her brother’s death, she could not have anticipated what would follow. 
 
Freddie was Earl Thorpe of Burnham, and as the Kings Lake detectives, headed by DCI Cara Freeman, soon begin to realise, influential people have gone to considerable lengths to cover up a potential scandal surrounding the young man’s death. 
 
Their investigation will take them from Norfolk into the capital, and from idealistic young campaigners to people at the heart of government. The stakes have never been higher for the detectives from Kings Lake Central.

Some Sort of Justice

Melissa Harrison

April brings spring surging with it, giving rise, among many in the village, to a comforting illusion that all is somehow still right with the world, and that nothing will ever change. 
 
In the ancient Welm Valley, something is shifting: the river is behaving oddly, while the arrival of spring, with its familiar rhythms, is shadowed by an undercurrent of unease. 
 
A woman falls while out walking and hopes to be found before nightfall; a doctor realises, too late, that he has long underestimated his wife; across the village, people are plagued by the same vast and unsettling dream. And alone in a converted priory, overlooking watermeadows unchanged for centuries, Clare Grey receives news which will force her to reconsider her family’s past and the fresh weight of her solitary existence.

The Given World

Philippa Perry

***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR*** 
 
**OVER THREE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE** 
 
'Fantastic book: wickedly witty, with delightful, quirky characters and a cracking plot' JAQUELINE WILSON 
'An assured and hugely enjoyable murder mystery debut. It's brilliant!' RICHARD COLES 
'A joy. Cosy crime with a side order of psychological insight' JENNIE GODFREY 
 
Her 3 o’clock just became a murder case... 
 
When a body is found near Beachy Head, the police chalk it up to suicide — a tragic but not uncommon end in these parts. 
 
But local psychotherapist Patricia Phillips isn’t convinced. 
 
The victim? Her three o’clock patient, Henry Clayton. 
 
The cause of death is supposedly self-inflicted. Yet Pat can’t shake the belief that someone wanted Henry Clayton dead. She spends her working life listening to histories and secrets, and she has a nose for when a story doesn’t quite ring true. 
 
Drawn from the therapy room to the crime scene, Pat begins to notice what others appear to overlook. 
 
At her side is her best friend Prichard — a home-brewer of fearsome, stomach-turning concoctions, an excellent cook, and a man who seems to get along with everyone. Which makes him useful for infiltrating village life. 
 
As Pat and Prichard look beneath the village’s thin veneer of normality — one that barely conceals its appetites — they discover a killer hiding in plain sight. 
 
Shrink Solves Murder is a warm, witty, and perceptive crime caper from the nation’s favourite therapist.

Shrink Solves Murder

Amin Ahmad

'Absolutely terrific. It kept me gripped . . . SUCCESSION meets THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS' AJAY CHOWDHURY, author of THE WAITER 
 
'Gripping, propulsive and deliciously twisty' ANGIE KIM, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of HAPPINESS FALLS 
 
'Sleek, propulsive, and packed with twisted family dynamics' KARIN TANABE, author of A WOMAN OF INTELLIGENCE 
 
Good-natured but naïve, Mumbai party boy Ali Azeem is drifting through life. Then he meets the Khan sisters: pretty, marriage-material Maryam and sexy, unpredictable, off-the-rails Farhan. They are the daughters of Abbas Khan, the formidable immigrant patriarch of a glittering property empire, who has succeeded in making New York City his playground. 
 
Ali finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into the Khan family’s seductive world of private jets and towering skyscrapers. He begins to uncover rumours of affairs, accusations of corruption – and a troubling connection to the serial killer who once stalked the streets of Manhattan. As he closes in on the truth and learns the cost of the Khans' unattainable wealth and power, Ali must decide: is it a price worth paying? 
 
 
A caper, social satire, and propulsive thriller rolled into one, A Killer in the Family is a wild ride through the streets of Mumbai and New York City. Told in an electric, unforgettable voice, it probes the dark underbelly of the American Dream – leading its reader through a dizzying maze of lies, corruption and murder.

A Killer in the Family

Rachel Khong

'Incandescent and explosive and compassionate all at once' BRYAN WASHINGTON 
 
'Rachel Khong is one of our best observers of the human condition' RITA BULLWINKEL 
 
'Beautiful, effortless' AIMEE BENDER 
 
From the author of the New York Times bestselling REAL AMERICANS comes a playful, richly inquisitive collection exploring the connections and disruptions which define us. 
 
Throughout MY DEAR YOU, normal people go through extraordinary transformations. A government injects its people with a drug that makes them see everyone else as members of their own race and gender. A factory worker develops an unlikely friendship with the artificially intelligent sex doll she is tasked with training. God decides that humanity is a lost cause and gives each person 24 hours to decide in which animal form they will spend the rest of their days. 
 
Along the way, characters are confronted with supernatural and otherworldly interventions, as well as the earthly, human concerns that shape our daily lives: capitalism and race, intimacy, memory, and mortality. 
 
Playful and tender, dark and witty, each of these stories is infused with a profound sense of compassion. They express a powerful curiosity about the human experience, and the inescapable choices that meet us all: to have or not have children; to pursue connections with others in spite of life’s impermanence; how to live – and live well. 
 
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Praise for Rachel Khong 
 
'Mesmerizing' BRIT BENNETT 
'Gorgeous, heartfelt, soaring, philosophical and deft' ANDREW SEAN GREER 
'Traverses time with verve and feeling' RAVEN LEILANI 
'A page turner' HA JIN

My Dear You

Johanna Swanberg

THE INSTANT SWEDISH CULT CLASSIC 
 
‘Clever, funny and tender’ FREDRIK BACKMAN, bestselling author of My Friends and A Man Called Ove 
 
'A warm and funny tale about betrayal, loneliness and sorrow, but above all the desire to belong' LISA RIDZÉN, bestselling author of When the Cranes Fly South 
 
There’s no health guru in Sweden better than Cassi. Couple’s therapy? Puppy yoga? Full moon rituals? She’s got everyone in the remote village of Bäcken covered. The locals don’t really know who Cassi is or how she managed to turn a derelict cottage into a successful self help retreat, but one thing is clear: they’re all willing to pay good money for her services. 
 
There’s only one problem: Cassi is a fraud. A great one at that, who has concealed her true self – a jobless, depressed alcoholic – and gotten rich in the process. But can a life based on a lie really last? And will her new friends accept her for who she really is when her secrets eventually come to the surface? 
 
My Year As A Fraud is a heart-warming, hilarious and healing translated debut novel about hitting rock bottom and finding your way back from an unmissable new voice in Swedish fiction. 
 
Reader reviews 
 
***** 'This brilliantly translated debut is a warm, witty, and surprisingly tender novel that expertly blends feel-good charm with darker themes of loneliness and self-deception.' 
 
***** 'A heart-warming story about hitting rock bottom, finding unexpected community, and the bittersweet possibility of new beginnings. A compelling read for those who appreciate both humour and emotional depth.' 
 
***** 'This book gave me all the feels! It goes to show that everyone is going through something.'

My Year As A Fraud

Harper Lee

'Someone rare has written this very fine novel, a writer with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humor' TRUMAN CAPOTE 
 
One of the greatest American novels ever written, now available in a special clothbound edition to mark the centenary of Harper Lee’s birth. 
 
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'A lawyer’s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee’s classic novel – a black man charged with a serious crime.Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s.The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man’s struggle for justice.But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

To Kill A Mockingbird

60th Anniversary Edition

Enhanced Edition

50th Anniversary Edition

Jenni Fagan

THE BOLD NEW NOVEL FROM THE PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PANOPTICON, LUCKENBOOTH AND OOTLIN 
 
'1984 for the afterlife' Irvine Welsh 
'Outstanding' Lemn Sissay 
'Awe-inspiring' Kirstin Innes 
'Bold and brilliant' Jess Kidd 
'Wholly wondrous' Niall Griffiths 
 
Edi is facing a disciplinary since her 'incident' at work. Forty-seven years in Admin processing the newly dead is not how she foresaw eternity. 
 
In Arrivals, the newly dead must take the stages in order: first, extract delusion; second, answer HR's questionnaire truthfully. Yet who among them can truly face who they are? Who may never pass at all? As leaderboard numbers begin to rise at unprecedented rates, rumours begin to fly. Humans are about to become a banned race. The earth is going to be repossessed. 
 
As chaos descends, Edi hopes this might finally be the moment she has waited for, so she might see her son again who she was forced to leave on Earth when she died. Edi wants to be the one waiting for him, even if HR protocols forbid it. Looking out at the millions of newly dead arriving, Edi has one question - what might any of us truly be willing to do for those we love at the doors of eternity? 
 
Against a spectacular backdrop of stars, constellations and comets, a mass extinction event begins to unfurl watched by the entire universe as Processing, the largest soul terminus in existence, decides it is now time to take matters wholly back into its own hands. With reflections on love, defiance and light, The Delusions is a story of profound human connection, on an unprecedented scale. 
 
Praise for Jenni Fagan 
 
'Fagan's writing is poetic, high-octane, arresting' Sunday Times 
'She writes unlike any other author of her generation' The Scotsman 
'One of our most exceptional writers' Adelle Stripe

The Delusions

Alex Kadis

A FIZZINGLY ORIGINAL COMING-OF-AGE STORY FOR FANS OF HOW TO KILL YOUR FAMILY 
 
'Riotously funny, nostalgic and immensely touching.' PANDORA SYKES 
 
'Broke my heart one minute and had me really laughing the next.' XOCHITL GONZALEZ, author of OLGA DIES DREAMING 
 
'Hands down the funniest, most original novel I’ve read in ages.' GRANT GINDER, author of THE PEOPLE WE HATE AT THE WEDDING 
 
'Audacious and hilarious.' RUMAAN ALAM, author of LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND 
 
For Constance ‘Connie’ Costa, life is just beginning. She dreams of leaving behind her dull, dreary life in ‘70s East London, shaking off her deeply embarrassing Greek-Cypriot community of interfering Aunties and pretend ‘cousins’, and running away with her best mate Vas (fellow misfit; NHS specs; soul of a poet). She is determined to take her rightful place alongside her hero, David Bowie, onstage at Wembley Stadium. 
 
Only one thing stands in her way: her father, The Fat Murderer. No longer content with being an absolute imbecile and general abomination of nature, he has dialled up his campaign to ruin Connie’s life ever since the untimely death of her mother. 
 
If she ever wants to claim the destiny that is rightfully hers, Connie has only one option left: to kill him. 
 
Fizzingly original, disarmingly tender and laugh-out-loud funny, BIG NOBODY is a coming-of-age story about first love, first grief, and the long, painful journey to feeling like a somebody. 
 
READERS LOVE CONNIE COSTA . . . 
 
'Poignant, authentic and darkly funny' ***** 
 
'Fabulous - I was rooting for Connie the whole way' ***** 
 
'Smart, funny, quirky' *****

Big Nobody

Lauren Groff

THE LATEST SHORT STORY COLLECTION FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MATRIX 
 
'Brawler captures a towering talent.' 
FINANCIAL TIMES 
 
'Groff conjures a whole world in each brilliant story.' 
CLAIRE FULLER 
 
'You'll walk away feeling more connected to other people and with more compassion for yourself.' 
HARPER'S BAZAAR 
 
'Groff reminds us of the myriad human galaxies around us, spinning off brightly into the dark.' 
MELISSA HARRISON 
 
Ranging from the 1950s to the present day and moving across age, class, and region - from New England to Florida to California - these nine stories reflect and expand upon a single shared theme: the ceaseless battle between the dark and light in all of us. 
 
Among those caught in this match are a young woman suddenly responsible for her disabled sibling; a hot-tempered high school swimmer in need of an adult; a mother blinded by the loss of her family; and a banking scion endowed with a different kind of inheritance. Motivated by love, impeded by human fallibility, they try to do the right thing for as long as they can. 
 
Precise, surprising and provocative, anchored by profound insight into human nature, Brawler reveals the repeated fracture points between love and fear, compassion and violence, reason and instinct, altruism and survival. It is a timeless, stunning achievement from one of the very best short story writers working today. 
 
Praise for Lauren Groff 
 
'Her writing has a timeless quality' The Times on The Vaster Wilds 
'Groff's writing is muscular and precise, her themes wildly resonant' Sunday Times on Matrix 
'An audacious piece of storytelling, full of passion, wisdom and magic' Sarah Waters on Matrix 
'It's as brightly lit as an illuminated manuscript' Naomi Alderman on Matrix 
'One of its stories is a bracing read; together they form a masterpiece' Stylist on Florida 
'She's a writer whose turn of phrase can stop you in your tracks' Financial Times on Florida 
'Easily the year's best story collection' Vogue on Florida

Brawler

Jennie Godfrey

***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** 
 
'A wonderful slow-burn story about friendship, community, and secrets within families.' GUARDIAN 
'Gentle, wryly humorous ... a breezily entertaining read.' THE TIMES 
'Uplifting and compassionately told' i PAPER 
'From the very first page I was in awe. I LOVED it.' MARIAN KEYES 
‘A beautiful story about secrets, lies and community.’ GRAHAM NORTON 
 
 
From the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The List of Suspicious Things ... 
 
It's the summer of 1985 and the residents of Delmont Close are preparing a neighbourhood barbecue to watch the biggest music event in history: Live Aid. A day like no other that will end having reached millions and changing the lives of all who attend. 
 
House-proud Lydia Gordon, whose idols are Princess Di and Delia Smith, is determined to put on a show that will impress everyone - with her posh garden and state-of-the-art television, and her sweet husband and two children, Hanna and David. 
 
But as the guests flood into number nine, so do all of the secrets that have been kept in the close. 
 
Rita, a new neighbour from Australia, is hoping for a fresh start but harbours a shocking event in her past; Steve, a young Falklands veteran, battles his own demons; and Mr Wilson is surely too good-looking to ever be trusted. 
 
But as the hours count down to the last performance of the night, it's Lydia who faces the heart-breaking truth that her immaculate home and flawless family might not be so perfect after all. 
 
And if each of their neighbours is guilty of hiding something, so are the Gordons at number nine ... 
 
Praise for The List of Suspicious Things 
 
'Gripping and moving' GUARDIAN 
'To read it is to feel that little bit better about life' ELIZABETH DAY 
'A beautiful mystery with heart' ROB RINDER 
'A heart-warming book' EMMA HEALEY 
'A wonderful story' FEARNE COTTON

The Barbecue at No.9

Patrick Charnley

After a near-death experience and life-changing injury, twenty-year-old Jago Trevarno goes to stay with his uncle on his small coastal farm a few miles from St Ives in Cornwall. 
 
Their existence is a simple one, their lives measured by the span of the days, the rhythms of the seasons and the animals they care for. 
 
But lurking in the shadows is local villain, Bill Sligo, who has designs on Jacob's farm and in particular on a field near the cliffs housing a derelict mineshaft. 
 
Wanting to repay his uncle’s kindness, Jago determines to find out what Bill Sligo is up to. 
 
Jago is still vulnerable though, and in pursuing Sligo he delves into a murky world that he is ill-equipped to deal with. How far will Bill Sligo go to get what he wants? Jago doesn’t know it yet, but once again he is in grave danger. 
 
Filled with shafts of light and darkness as well as the beauty and harshness of the Cornish landscape, Jago's journey is one of hope, renewal and resilience as he comes to terms with this, his second life.

This, My Second Life

***A gorgeous deluxe special edition of Harper Lee's The Land of Sweet Forever nestled within a slipcase. This edition features high production values, a bespoke book cover design and an exclusive piece of extra content from Harper Lee's nephew, Dr. Edwin Lee Conner, providing a glimpse into life with his aunt and the ways in which her novels intersect with this new book of never-been-seen short stories and collected works.*** 
 The New York Times bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a posthumous collection of newly discovered writing, offering a fresh perspective on the remarkable literary mind behind To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman. 
 
Featuring an introduction by Casey Cep, Harper Lee's appointed biographer.‘Written with all of Lee's character and descriptive brilliance.' The Times'A new window into one of America's literary icons.' i PaperHarper Lee remains a landmark figure in the American canon – thanks to Scout, Jem, Atticus, and the other indelible characters in her Pulitzer-winning debut, To Kill a Mockingbird; as well as for the darker, late-’50s version of small-town Alabama that emerged in Go Set a Watchman, her only other novel, published in 2015 after its rediscovery.The Land of Sweet Forever combines Lee’s never-before-seen short stories and published nonfiction in a volume offering an unprecedented look at the development of her inimitable voice. Covering territory from the Alabama schoolyards of Lee’s youth to the luncheonettes and movie houses of midcentury Manhattan, The Land of Sweet Forever invites still-vital conversations about politics, equality, travel, love, fiction, art, the American South, and what it means to lead an engaged and creative life.This collection comes with an introduction by Casey Cep, Harper Lee’s appointed biographer, which provides illuminating background for our reading of these stories and connects them both to Lee’s life and to her two novels.Combining Lee's early short fiction and later nonfiction, The Land of Sweet Forever offers an unprecedented look at the development of her inimitable voice.Praise for The Land of Sweet Forever and Harper Lee:'Thrilling ... helps explain how the little girl from South Alabama Avenue turned herself into a bestselling author.' Guardian'Cast[s] a new light on the literary giant.' Sunday Times'Unmistakably Lee' The Telegraph

The Land of Sweet Forever

P.G. Wodehouse

Frank Skinner

Roddy Doyle

Alan Titchmarsh

Dominic Sandbrook

Deborah Frances-White

Andrew Hunter Murray

Scarlett Curtis

Jasper Fforde

John Finnemore

Ian Moore

William Rayfet Hunter

Fergus Craig

'FULL OF FIZZ AND VARIETY' Sunday Times 
 
'JOLLY GOOD FUN' i Paper 
 
'WHIP-SMART' Daily Mail 
 
'FUN AND FROLICS FOR THE FESTIVE SEASON' Saga Magazine 
 
FEATURING HUGE NAMES FROM LITERATURE, COMEDY AND BEYOND - INCLUDING RODDY DOYLE, FRANK SKINNER AND ALAN TITCHMARSH - THIS ANTHOLOGY OF STORIES REIMAGINES JEEVES AND WOOSTER THROUGH FRESH EYES. 
 
The irrepressible duo first appeared on the page in 1915, coming to feature in more than 35 short stories and eleven novels over the course of Wodehouse’s lifetime. 
 
Each story in this new collection offers a delightful and original reimagining of the incomparable Bertie Wooster and his gentleman’s gentleman – seeing them journey to the horse races in Paris, solve puzzles at a wartime Bletchley Park, and even transported forward in time to the year 2025. 
<ul><li>Frank Skinner</li><li>Roddy Doyle</li><li>Alan Titchmarsh</li><li>Dominic Sandbrook</li><li>Deborah Frances-White</li><li>Andrew Hunter Murray</li><li>Scarlett Curtis</li><li>Jasper Fforde</li><li>John Finnemore</li><li>Ian Moore</li><li>William Rayfet Hunter</li><li>Fergus Craig</li></ul> 
JEEVES AGAIN is a joyful celebration of Wodehouse as a much-beloved British literary icon – as well as a timely and entertaining reminder of the lasting impact of his characters on a whole new generation of readers and writers. 
 
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HEAR FROM THE WRITERS . . . 
 
'A Wodehouse book is a journey into joy.' RODDY DOYLE, Booker Prize-winning author of PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA 
 
'Anybody who has even a vague interest in good writing should read Wodehouse.' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, author and co-host of THE REST IS HISTORY 
 
'I simply adore Wodehouse.' ALAN TITCHMARSH MBE, broadcaster and writer 
 
'To stumble into the world of Wodehouse is like sinking into a warm bath.' SCARLETT CURTIS, Sunday Times bestselling author of FEMINISTS DON'T WEAR PINK (AND OTHER LIES) 
 
'What Wodehouse is still today, just as much as ever, is funny.' JOHN FINNEMORE, creator of CABIN PRESSURE

Jeeves Again

Twelve New Stories

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2024 
 
‘Sparkling’ NEW YORK TIMES 
‘Magnetic’ IRA GLASS 
‘Fierce’ TIME 
 
'In García Márquez, people in love experienced bouts of vomiting, psychosomatic fevers and real catatonia. I wanted to make boys sick, too. This is how I wanted to be loved.' 
 
When Catalina, a witty, vulnerable and beautiful Ecuadorian student, arrives at Harvard, she feels like one of the chosen. She is a miracle child who has escaped death in Latin America to be raised by undocumented grandparents and now studies at the most prestigious university in the world. She knows she has to play the part, but she also wants to have a good time in the process. And so begins her era of opulent parties, secret societies, desirable internships, flings with rich men and plenty of vodka sodas. 
 
But in her final year, undocumented immigrants become the target of political turmoil and Catalina’s life back in New York begins to unravel. As the clock ticks on the precarious future of her family, what will she sacrifice to save the people she loves the most? 
 
Catalina is a daring, glamorous and sharply observed campus novel about coming into your own and the endless possibilities of freedom, love and power. 
 
'She is a worthy student of Gabriel García Márquez' The Atlantic 
'[A] fresh and unflinching take on the campus novel' PEOPLE 
'Destined to be a contemporary American classic' FRANCISCO GOLDMAN, author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Monkey Boy

Catalina

Emma Nanami Strenner

For fans of The Vanishing Half and Little Fires Everywhere, a sweeping and heartfelt debut about finding your roots across borders and beyond blood-ties 
 
'A magical read ... that will break your heart then put it back together again' Stylist Book of the Month 
 
'I am bereft to have finished it! From the suburbs of Philadelphia to the streets of Saigon, I was completely immersed in the lives of these very special characters. I loved it.' EMILY ITAMI, author of Fault Lines 
 
'A beautifully told story of family, identity, loss and belonging' JENNIE GODFREY, No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The List of Suspicious Things 
 
'Poignant and powerful, this is a novel that lingers long after the final page' JEAN KWOK, author of Girl in Translation 
 
'Beautifully written and accomplished' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS, author of Fundamentally 
 
'Authentic and full of life' JESSICA STANLEY, author of Consider Yourself Kissed 
 
May 1998: Mimi Traung and her baby daughter Ngan wait restlessly at the gates of Philadelphia airport. There is still a day’s travelling left before they would land back home on Vietnamese soil. While they prepare to board, the unimaginable happens. 
 
Seventeen years later, two best friends are discussing their summer plans before college over a piece of mooncake. Both have trips ahead in search of their roots: Sabrina is preparing to travel to China to meet her mother’s family. Kit leaves for Tokyo, convinced that her biological mother is Japanese. Their parents watch on from the quiet suburbs of Chestnut Hill, nervous of what their daughters might find. 
 
Meanwhile, Mimi returns to Philadelphia in search of her lost child, tracing memories from that fateful day waiting at the gates. Each of these women are looking to find their place in the world. Eventually Mimi, Kit and Sabrina come face to face, and have to confront the people they truly are, dismantling their own assumptions about belonging and the importance of blood ties. 
 
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING 
'An unflinching exploration of Asian-American identity, discrimination, adoption, and classism.' 
'An emotional whirlwind ... A magnificent coming-of-age novel' 
'At times heartbreaking and other times joyfully life-affirming ... This is a novel that spans decades and continents, yet remains deeply intimate and moving' 
'The type of book you can't put down' 
'A rights of passage tale with a twist'

My Other Heart

Charming, witty and profound, this stylish 50th anniversary hardback edition of A LIFE IN LETTERS is the perfect addition to any Wodehouse-lover's bookcase. 
 
'The letters, gossipy in the kindliest, most amused/bemused manner, bear true witness to the wide-ranging influences on Wodehouse's' best-known novels and best-loved characters.' THE TIMES 
 
'It’s hard to imagine a better beach companion' PROSPECT 
 
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The definitive edition of P.G. Wodehouse's collected letters, edited with commentary by Oxford academic Sophie Ratcliffe. 
 
One of the funniest and most admired writers of the twentieth century, P. G. Wodehouse always shied away from the idea of a biography. A quiet, retiring man, he expressed himself through the written word. His letters - collected and expertly edited here - provide an illuminating biographical accompaniment to legendary comic creations such as Jeeves, Bertie Wooster, Psmith and the Empress of Blandings. 
 
Drawing on previously unpublished sources, these letters give an unrivalled insight into Wodehouse, covering his schooldays at Dulwich College, the family's financial reverses which saw his hopes of university dashed, life in New York working in musical comedy with Jerome Kern and George and Ira Gershwin, the years of fame as a novelist, and the unhappy episode in 1940 where he was interned by the Germans and later erroneously accused of broadcasting pro-Nazi propaganda.

A Life in Letters

**With an introduction by Alan Titchmarsh** 
 
'The funniest writer ever to put words to paper' HUGH LAURIE 
 
'Sunlit perfection' STEPHEN FRY 
 
'Paper has rarely been put to better use' CAITLIN MORAN 
 
*** 
 
A collection of wit and wisdom from the world of Wodehouse 
 
Featuring the most iconic quotes from P.G. Wodehouse’s best-loved duo, Jeeves and Wooster, ACCORDING TO JEEVES is the perfect treat for fans old and new! 
 
This collection showcases Jeeves' enlightening views on everything from romance (‘the female of the species is more deadly than the male, sir’) to the best way to avoid an unwanted conversation (‘a trip abroad might prove enjoyable’). The unfaltering valet even offers up his approach to breaking and entering (‘the recognized method in vogue in the burgling industry’). 
 
From family life to travel, sports to fashion, and even philosophy – the ingenious Jeeves has always got the answer. And now readers can benefit from his boundless wit and wisdom in one neat package. 
 
ACCORDING TO JEEVES is the ultimate stocking filler, and a little slice of joy to satisfy even the most learned Wodehouse fan. 
 
***** 
 
'Ingenious. Worth reading again and again' SPECTATOR 
 
'Incomparable and timeless genius' KATE MOSSE

According to Jeeves

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CATHY RENTZENBRINK 
 
'For as long as I'm immersed in a P.G. Wodehouse book, it's possible to keep the real world at bay and live in a far, far nicer, funnier one' MARIAN KEYES 
 
'Sunlit perfection' STEPHEN FRY 
 
'Wodehouse is as loved as ever, and his vivid prose style and unique comic invention are major contributions to English fiction' GUARDIAN 
 
A joyous romp through a year of Wodehouse's most treasured stories, month by month. The ultimate gift for anyone who needs cheering throughout the year. All of his treasured characters are here, Jeeves, Smith and, of course, the Empress of Blandings herself. 
 
'Paper has rarely been put to better use' CAITLIN MORAN 
 
'Ingenious. Worth reading again and again' SPECTATOR 
 
'Incomparable and timeless genius' KATE MOSSE 
 
'The funniest writer ever to put words to paper' HUGH LAURIE

Jolly Festive, Jeeves

Seasonal Stories from the World of Wodehouse

Celebrating 120 years of P. G. Wodehouse with his very first novel. 
 
'What a mad thing to go and do. Jolly sporting, though.' 
 
Suspicion abounds at St Austin's School when two silver trophies, or 'pots', are stolen from the cricket pavilion. Jim Thomson, a talented sportsman who due to an unfortunate series of coincidences could be thought to be the burglar, resolves to clear his name. Featuring a man from Scotland Yard, chases through the woods and an exasperated headmaster, Wodehouse's first novel is a paean to his beloved, idyllic late Victorian schooldays, punctuated by bouts of gentlemanly sport and comic escapades. All the hallmarks of what makes Wodehouse the greatest comic writer of all are in evidence here, in a spiffing read for Wodehouse aficionados and the uninitiated alike.

The Pothunters

120th Anniversary edition

Shizuko Natsuki

Untitled Backlist Shizuko Natsuki

Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit

Murder at Lake Ashinoko

Sebastian Faulks

Philip Deval, a soldier recently returned from the beaches of Normandy, arrives in Palestine on a peace-keeping mission in the final days of the British Mandate. The Sea of Galilee glitters in the distance as war-weary troops marvel at the novelty of oranges and sun – a paradise that belies a fierce new conflict about to erupt. 
 
Some years later, Philip begins work teaching at a school in the English countryside and meets the enigmatic music mistress, Frances Darwood. Over long evenings spent listening to records in her music room, they grow close. But Philip is a changed man, and must confront the secrets and scars of all he has lived through – which threaten, even now, to upend his future. 
 
Farewell to Eden is a sweeping and profound novel about faith in all its forms, and a rich portrait of an embattled post-war Britain. It asks the question: how, after great suffering, do we retain our humanity, learn to love again, and believe in the promise of a better life?

Farewell to Eden

Robert Harris

Julius Caesar is dead, and the lives of two teenaged boys are about to be changed forever. One is Caesar’s 17-year-old nephew, Octavius, whom he has made his heir. 
 
The other is Octavius’s closest friend, Agrippa. 
 
To claim Octavius’s inheritance, they must fight the giant figures of the Roman Empire – and, against all odds, they win. Octavius becomes the Emperor Augustus. For twenty years, they rule the world together. 
 
Now Agrippa is fifty. Ailing and alone, betrayed by his wife’s infidelity, he takes refuge in his house on the Bay of Naples and begins to write his memoirs. Yet to stir up the past can be dangerous. From his earliest meetings with Julius Caesar, through the epic conflict with Mark Antony and Cleopatra, the great naval battle of Actium and the endless wars to expand the empire, he describes how one man has dominated his life: the cunning, ruthless, unknowable Octavius. 
 
When it comes to power, does friendship exist at all?

Agrippa

Chris Bohjalian

'THE AMATEUR is a joyous novel with an unforgettable narrator who will break your heart. It is sharply funny, beautifully told and so moving on the way life can upend itself in a single moment. I adored it’ CLARE LESLIE HALL, author of BROKEN COUNTRY 
 
1978. In the sleepy New York suburb of Tallmadge, eighteen-year-old Mira Winston is beguiling, talented, and full of youthful recklessness. She spends her summer perfecting her swing at her parents’ country club – and continuing her long-running affair with her father’s golf buddy, a married man twice her age.Then, one August afternoon, a freak accident occurs, and Mira’s classmate Kenny is killed. In the days and years that follow, the events of that day become inextricably tied to the choices she has made – with devastating, unpredictable consequences for her family, her neighbours and friends, and Mira herself.She is forced to ask: what happens when one small moment – the swing of a golf club, a stolen kiss, a hastily written note – changes the course of an entire life?Mesmerizing and darkly funny, The Amateur unravels against a backdrop of white-picket-fenced streets, university dorm rooms, smoke-filled restaurants, and elegant country clubs. Turning a sharp eye to the American middle class, it is a hypnotic tale of power, morality, and the weight of blame.

The Amateur

Louise Wallace

Thea lives under a mountain – one that's ready to blow. 
A vet at a mid-sized rural practice, she has been called back during maternity leave and is coping – just – with the juggle of meetings, mealtimes, farm visits, her boss's search for legal loopholes and the constant care of her much-loved children, Eli and Lucy. 
 
But something is shifting in Thea – something is burning. Or is it that she is becoming aware, for the first time, of the bright, hot core at her centre? 
 
An urgent rallying cry to women everywhere, ASH is a story about reckoning with one's rage and finding marvels in the midst of chaos.

James Ellroy

Turn to the first page. Disavow what you think you know about the so-called Red Scare. This is commie malfeasance and ‘60s L.A. as you’ve never read it before. 
 
It’s late October 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis has just concluded. The Russkies blinked and pulled their ICBMs out of Cuba. Attorney General Robert Kennedy fears reprisals from commies. He orders a red probe and puts the LAPD on the job. 
 
Freddy Otash is injudiciously named the lead investigating officer. He’s a stone-cold criminal with police sanction and a harrowing dope habit. He homes in on a red-front trade union. There’s a murder on Halloween night. It may link to ex-VP and current gubernatorial candidate Richard Nixon and two commie snuffs from eight years back. Freddy’s overworked and overamped. He’s running the probe, and Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman—Tricky Dick Nixon’s head goons—have hired him to keep Nixon away from the smear-minded press. 
 
L.A. is coming unglued. Ex-cop/lawyer Tom Bradley is running for a city council seat and pushing the Rumford Fair Housing Act. Playboy kingpin Hugh Hefner is along for the ride, out to exploit racial tension and peddle untold copies of his dirty rag. 
 
RED SHEET is James Ellroy’s most crazed kamikaze run and a daring, subversive work of fiction.

Red Sheet

Amy Abdelnoor

'Cleverly conceived and brilliantly engaging . . . a powerful novel. Read this' PRISCILLA MORRIS 
'Ambitious and complex but handled with impressive ease' ROSE TREMAIN 
'A brave book ... It rings with truth' ELIZABETH LAIRD 
'Piercing, personal, necessary' COLUM MCCANN 
It is the year 2000 when Dinah, a Jewish teenager from London, arrives in Israel with her family. Still reeling from the death of her beloved dad, the idea of having to start all over again daunts her. Dinah isn’t quite sure what to make of this seemingly pristine place: her new life seems soulless and suffocating.Another teenager, Safa, watches Dinah settle in. A fourteen-year-old Palestinian who was shot and killed decades ago in the Six Day War, Safa is caught in a limbo which she calls the ‘In-Between’. She is unable to fully pass on without knowing what happened to her younger sister, Nur, who is still alive somewhere. Thirty-three years after her death, the possibility of finding her is suddenly within reach – but she needs Dinah to help her. 
 
Alternating between past and present, and between Safa and Dinah, Ever Land is a gripping and powerful story that sheds light on the ongoing occupation of Palestine. It is a tale of belonging and identity, of devastation and displacement and – ultimately – of the enduring universality of humanity and love.

Ever Land

Ito Ogawa

THE BELOVED, HEARTWARMING JAPANESE BESTSELLER, PUBLISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ENGLISH. 
 
NOMINATED FOR THE PRESTIGIOUS JAPAN BOOKSELLERS' AWARD . ADAPTED INTO A MAJOR TV SERIES . 440,000 COPIES SOLD IN JAPAN 
 
Praise for the original 
 
'For stationery lovers and lovers of Kamakura, this book is an irresistible treasure trove ... you can smell the scent of the ink emanating from the page.' 
KAORI NAKAHARA, SANKEI SHIMBUN 
 
'A sparkling tale ... woven together by characters who are charming, characters to love.' 
MICHIKO WATANABE, HANAKO MAGAZINE 
 
You always told me that writing is life itself. 
 
After many years abroad, Hatoko reluctantly returns to Kamakura to take over the stationery store left to her by her late grandmother. As the custodian of the store, she also inherits the profession of public scribe, a role Hatoko trained for as a child under the guidance of her strict grandmother. 
 
As the locals seek out Hatoko's help, she takes on all manner of requests: writing letters of greeting, condolence, farewell, love, and more on behalf of those who come to her. A local community forms around Hatoko and the store, and, when the secrets of her late grandmother begin to unravel, Hatoko learns that the role of the scribe requires much more than putting ink to paper. 
 
Set to the rhythm of the four seasons and the Japanese rituals and festivities that come with them, Tsubaki Stationery Store is a charming story about the importance of community and the reconciliatory power of the written word.

Tsubaki Stationery Store

The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. Discover the 1Q84 Trilogy by Haruki Murakami.

1Q84

365 Days of Art

A BBC Christmas

A Black Book Thriller

A Box Full of Murders

A Cal Leandros Novel

A Christmas Mystery

The intelligent and capable police commissioner Guido Brunetti confronts crime in and around his home town of Venice.

A Commissario Brunetti Mystery

A DC Smith / Kings Lake Investigation Series

A Daisy Story

Chronicling the lives of over three hundred characters, unrivalled for its scope and humour, this is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England.

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