Alan Curtis

Alan Cutler

Alan Davies

Alan Dean Foster

Alan Duff

Alan Durant is the author of books for a wide age-range, from picture books such as Burger Boy, Angus Rides the Goods Train and Always and Forever to top-end teenage thrillers (Blood, Flesh and Bones). Having worked as a copywriter at Walker Books, he is now a full-time author. 
 
He's married, with three children and lives in Brighton. He does a lot of school visits throughout the UK and abroad and also runs writing workshops.

Alan Durant

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Alan Gilbey

Alan Gordon is the founder and director of the Pain Psychology Center in California, a leading treatment facility for chronic pain sufferers that sees over 1,500 patients from around the world every year. Debilitated by chronic pain throughout his body for several years and frustrated by the lack of effective treatment, Gordon developed the ground-breaking Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) – a highly effective system of psychological techniques that rewire the brain’s neural circuits to turn off “stuck” pain signals. He is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Southern California.

Alan Gordon

Alan Grant

Born in 1926 in New York City, Alan Greenspan worked as a Juilliard-trained professional musician before studying Economics at New York University, where he earned his PhD. From 1974 to 1977, he served as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Gerald Ford. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan appointed him Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, a position he held until his retirement in 2006. He is the author of the bestselling The Age of Turbulence and The Map and the Territory 2.0.

Alan Greenspan

Alan H Guth

Alan Hansen was one of Britain's most respected football players and is now one of the most outspoken and popular football pundits.

Alan Hansen

Alan Harris is a Welsh playwright who has written several plays for BBC radio including The Lighthouse and The Gold Farmer. His play A Good Night Out in the Valleys launched the new National Theatre Wales in 2010 and he has also been awarded a prestigious Creative Wales Award.

Alan Harris

Alan Hill

Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954. He is the author of one of the most highly praised first novels to appear in the 1980s, The Swimming-Pool Library, and was selected as one of the Best of Young British Novelists 1993. His second novel, The Folding Star, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize. His novel The Line of Beauty won the Booker Prize in 2004. His most recent novel, The Sparsholt Affair, was published in 2017.

Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hooper is a founder and Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Leadership Studies, 
University of Exeter, and is also a visiting Professor at Bristol Business 
School. He has been a CEO in the public sector and now consults widely on 
senior management development and the management of change.

Alan Hooper

Alan Isler was born in England in 1934, emigrating to the US at the age of 18. After serving in the US army he went on to study literature at Columbia University, and taught for much of his adult life. Isler was the author of several novels including Kraven Images, The Bacon Fancier, Clerical Errors, The Living Proof and The Prince of West End Avenue, which won the National Jewish Book Award in 1994. Isler died in 2010. 
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Alan J Wilson

Alan Jenkins

Alan Johnson was born in May 1950. He is a British Labour Party politician who served as Home Secretary from June 2009 to May 2010. Before that he filled a wide variety of cabinet positions in both the Blair and Brown governments, including Health Secretary and Education Secretary. Until 20 January 2011 he was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. Johnson was the Member of Parliament for Hull West and Hessle until his retirement from politics in 2017. 
 His first book, This Boy, won the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Orwell Prize in 2013. His second, Please Mister Postman, won the National Book Award for Autobiography of the Year in 2014. His third, The Long and Winding Road, was published in 2016 and won the Parliamentary Book Award for Best Memoir.

Alan Johnson

Alan Jones

Belfast-born twins Alan and Gary Keery love cereal. As creators of The Cereal Killer Café, the trendiest new eatery on Brick Lane, they have turned that love of the nation’s favourite comfort food into a thriving business. The opening of their first café saw extraordinary interest with press and broadcast coverage from all over the world. The café was voted best new restaurant by Hot Dinners in 2014. A second café is opening in summer 2015.

Alan Keery

Alan Langford

Alan Lerner

Alan MacDonald

Alan Macdonald

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Natasha Solomons

FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR 
 
'A beautifully written, literary tour-de-force' John Ironmonger, author of Not Forgetting the Whale 
'A wonderfully written story of art, but also of obsession, friendship and love - I absolutely adored this novel' Jillian Cantor 
 
The Mona Lisa has hung in the Louvre for over two-hundred years. She has watched alone in silence as millions of people have admired her behind the glass. 
 
Now, she is finally ready to tell her own story. 
 
Over five centuries, from da Vinci's bustling Florentine studio to the opulent French court, Mona will be desired, stolen, heartbroken, curious, furious, and above all, she will be heard. 
 
'Solomons' prose is lyrical and her detail immense. No longer can I look at the Mona Lisa without hearing her. But more, now I know her' PRESS ASSOCIATION

I, Mona Lisa

Pankaj Mishra

FROM THE AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF AGE OF ANGER COMES A GATSBY-ESQUE TALE OF WEALTH AND AMBITION 
 
'A book that demands to be read' MOHSIN HAMID 
 
'Terrific . . . deeply satisfying to read' KAMILA SHAMSIE 
 
Arun and his two classmates, Aseem and Virendra, are the success stories of their generation. As graduates of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, they have smashed social barriers and played-out Gatsby-style fantasies across the globe. 
 
Run and Hide is a lyrical and piercing story of morality, materialism and upheaval in an every-changing world. 
 
'Sharp, provocative and engaging . . . Run and Hide might be the most zeitgeisty novel you could read' SPECTATOR 
 
'One of the finest, bravest writers we have' JUNOT DIAZ 
 
'It'll entertain the hell out of you' MOHAMMED HANIF 
 
'A novel of loss and moral collapse worthy of Henry James' JOSHUA FERRIS

Run And Hide

Beth Cartwright

A spellbinding and haunting literary fable of loss, perfect for fans of The Binding and The Night Circus. 
 
'This beautiful and beguiling book tells a poignant and haunting story rich in slow-burning intrigue and tender emotion' Jennifer Saint, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ariadne. 
 
'A transporting, delicious fairytale about loss, beauty, and love.' Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Mercies. 
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How do you heal a broken house? 
First you unlock its secrets. 
 
Alone on an island, surrounded by flowers that shine as dusk begins to fall, sits an old, faded house. Rooms cannot be rented here and visits are only for those haunted by the memory of loss. 
 
When Liddy receives an invitation, she thinks there must be some mistake - she's never experienced loss. But with her curiosity stirred, and no other way to escape a life in which she feels trapped, she decides to accept. 
 
Once there, she meets Vivienne, a beautiful, austere woman whose glare leaves Liddy unsettled; Ben, the reserved gardener; and Raphael, the enigmatic Keymaker. If Liddy is to discover her true purpose in the house, she must find the root of their sorrow - but the house won't give up its secrets so easily . . . 
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'A haunting journey of self-discovery, bursting with metaphor, and with the feel of a classic fairytale. Prepare to get lost in this spellbinding world.' Ava Reid, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Wolf and the Woodsman. 
 
'Haunting, surreal, and intricate, Cartwright has deftly crafted a story about what we find when we believe we are lost.' Heather Walter, author of the Malice duology. 
 
'Enchanting, poetic prose that enriches a beautiful fairytale world.' A. E. Warren, author of the Tomorrow's Ancestors series.

The House of Sorrowing Stars

Gill Hornby

Early evening, 1804: Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent. 
 
Alone and desperately in need of an independent income, she is to become a governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. 
 
But her new role in this large household where she is neither a servant nor a member of the family is an awkward one, and Anne is keenly aware that one wrong move may result in her instant dismissal. 
 
Then dashing Henry Austen and his younger sister Jane come to stay. 
 
Both take an immediate interest in the pretty, clever governess, and Anne quickly becomes drawn into the above-stairs life of the Austen family. 
 
Soon, and despite her best efforts, she finds she is falling in love. 
 
But has her survival at Godmersham Park just become a good deal more precarious?

Godmersham Park

Jo Harkin

'Compelling' GUARDIAN 
'Incredibly well written . . . I really enjoyed it' MARIAN KEYES 
'One of the most sophisticated works of science fiction I've read recently' NEW YORK TIMES 
 
The promise at Nepenthe is simple: they will erase the memories you cannot live with. 
 
After the procedure, psychologist Noor will assess you for two things: your mental wellbeing, and the successful erasure of the memory. But there is no assessment if you choose to delete the memory of the Nepenthe procedure itself. If you do that, you're on your own. 
 
And what if one day, out of the blue, your memory is offered back to you - would you want to remember what you've chosen to forget? 
 
'Extraordinary' EMMA STONEX 
'Riveting' KAREN THOMPSON WALKER 
'Utterly captivating' LUCY CLARKE 
Thought-provoking. I loved it' MARCEL THEROUX

Tell Me an Ending

A New York Times sci-fi book of the year

Jan Carson

When several children from the same village start succumbing to a mysterious illness, the quest to discover the cause has devastating and extraordinary consequences. 
 
'Absolutely MAGNIFICENT: dark, witty, charming. I LOVED it.' MARIAN KEYES 
 
'Utterly absorbing' LISA MCINERNEY 
 
'Heart-rending, hilarious . . . it's a belter' LOUISE KENNEDY 
 
'Blistering...glorious...written from the guts and from the heart.' LUCY CALDWELL 
 
'An original and exciting work that's equal parts terrifying, hilarious and memorable.' SUNDAY TIMES 
 
It is late June in Ballylack. Hannah Adger anticipates eight long weeks' reprieve from school, but when her classmate Ross succumbs to a violent and mysterious illness, it marks the beginning of a summer like no other. 
 
As others fall ill, questions about what - or who - is responsible pitch the village into conflict and fearful disarray. Hannah is haunted by guilt as she remains healthy while her friends are struck down. Isolated and afraid, she prays for help. 
 
Elsewhere in the village, tempers simmer, panic escalates and long-buried secrets threaten to emerge. 
 
Bursting with Carson's trademark wit, profound empathy and soaring imagination, The Raptures explores how tragedy can unite a small community - and tear it apart. At its heart is the extraordinary resilience of one young girl. As the world crumbles around her, she must find the courage to be different in a place where conforming feels like the only option available. 
 
Darkly funny, highly inventive and deeply moving, The Raptures is an unmissable novel of 2022.

The Raptures

‘Original and exciting, terrifying and hilarious’ Sunday Times Ireland

James Patterson

Maggie Atwood and Becky McCabe - mother and daughter, both champion riders - vowed to never, ever, compete against one another. 
 
But a dramatic turn of events ahead of the Paris Olympics changes everything. 
 
Mother and daughter share a dream: to be the best in the world. Only one rider can fulfil that dream and make history.

The Horsewoman

Jessamine Chan

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 
AN OBAMA'S 2022 SUMMER READING PICK 
A BETWEEN THE COVERS NOVEMBER 2022 PICK 
 
'Will resonate with fans of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere' ELLE 
'Destined to be a feminist classic - kept me up at night' PANDORA SYKES 
'The Handmaid's Tale for the Squid Game generation' TELEGRAPH 
 
 
Frida Liu had fed and changed her toddler Harriet. She had a work deadline - an article to finish, a job hanging by a thread, a file she'd left in the office. She would go get it. Harriet would be fine. But then the neighbours heard her crying. 
 
Soon, the state will decide that Frida is not fit to care for her daughter. That she must be re-trained. That bad mothers everywhere will be re-educated. Will their mistakes cost them everything? 
 
The School for Good Mothers is an explosive and thrilling novel about love, perfectionism and parenthood. 
 
A riveting, thought-provoking read' DAILY MAIL 
'A remarkable, propulsive novel' VOGUE 
'A portrait of our fanatical culture of judgement against women, and mothers in particular' METRO

The School for Good Mothers

‘Will resonate with fans of Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere’ ELLE

Fredrik Backman

Grandpa and Noah are sitting on a bench in a square that gets smaller every day. The square is both strange and familiar, full of their lives' odds and ends. Here they share jokes, discuss their love of mathematics and Grandpa recalls falling in love with his wife, and how he dreads the day when he won't remember her. Sometimes Grandpa sits on the bench next to Ted, Noah's father, who prefers writing and playing guitar. They're very different, but bonded by their love of Noah. 
 
 Grandpa, Grandma, Ted, and Noah all meet in this space that is growing increasingly dimmer and more confusing. And here is where they will learn to say goodbye.

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

From the New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People

Sylvain Neuvel

The First Rule is the most important: 'Always run, never fight'. 
 
 For 3000 years Mia's family has shaped Earth's history to push humanity to the stars, making brutal, wrenching choices along the way. 
 
 And now, in 1968, Mia finds herself about to help launch the first people into space. But with her adversary approaching and the future of the planet at stake, obeying the First Rule is no longer an option. 
 
 For the first time since her line's first generation, Mia will have to stand her ground, risking not only her bloodline, but the future of the human race.

Until the Last of Me

Emily Edwards

Two best friends 
 
Elizabeth and Bryony are polar opposites but their unexpected friendship has always worked. They're the best of friends, and godmothers to each other's daughters - because they trust that the safety of their children is both of their top priority. 
 
One little secret 
 
Little do they know that they differ radically over one very important issue. And when Bryony, afraid of being judged, tells what is supposed to be a harmless white lie before a child's birthday party, the consequences are more catastrophic than either of them could ever have imagined. 
 
Every parent's worst nightmare . . .

The Herd

Rachel Hancox

Eighteen-year-old Emma has loving parents and a promising future ahead of her. 
 
So why, one morning, does she leave home without a trace? 
 
Her parents, Cath and Jim, are devastated. They have no idea why Emma left, where she is - or even whether she is still alive. 
 
Meanwhile, tantalisingly close to home, Emma is also struggling with her new existence - and with the trauma that shattered her life. 
 
For all of them, reconciliation seems an impossible dream. Does the way forward lie in facing up to the secrets of the past - secrets that have been hidden for years? 
 
Secrets that have the power to heal them, or to destroy their family forever ...

The Shadow Child

Diana Gabaldon

World War II nurse Claire Randall finds herself transported back to 1743 where she meets young Scottish soldier Jamie Fraser, and the two travel from Scotland to America taking part in some of the most momentous events of the time.

THE NINTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. 
 
The past may seem the safest place to be. But it’s the most dangerous time to be alive 
 
America is on the edge of a bloody conflict, a country torn by war. 
 
Jamie and Claire survived Scotland and the Civil war that threatened its destruction. They must do the same now to protect themselves and their family. 
 
Roger and Brianna have fled the dangers of 1980s Scotland and Rob Cameron to return to Fraser’s Ridge in 1779 America. But the North Carolina backcountry is not untouched by the Revolution and tensions are at an all-time high. 
 
Claire is concerned not only for her family but for Jamie and the dangers he faces. She will not lose him again. 
 
The Fraser’s must use their collective knowledge of the future to keep themselves safe in the past. 
 
What the Fraser’s don’t know is that deadly forces from the future are reaching back to find them…

Go Tell the Bees that I am Gone

(Outlander 9)

Mizuki Tsujimura

For fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD, fairy tale and magic are weaved together in sparse language that belies a flooring emotional punch. 
 
'Strange and beautiful. Imagine the offspring of The Wind-up Bird Chronicle with The Virgin Suicides' GUARDIAN 
'Genuinely affecting. A story of empathy, collaboration and sharing truths' FINANCIAL TIMES 
 
Translated by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami 
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Would you share your deepest secrets to save a friend? 
 
In a tranquil neighbourhood of Tokyo, seven teenagers wake to find their bedroom mirrors are shining. 
 
At a single touch, they are pulled from their lonely lives to a wondrous castle filled with winding stairways, watchful portraits and twinkling chandeliers. In this new sanctuary, they are confronted with a set of clues leading to a hidden room where one of them will be granted a wish. But there's a catch: if they don't leave the castle by five o'clock, they will be punished. 
 
As time passes, a devastating truth emerges: only those brave enough to share their stories will be saved. 
 
Tender, playful, gripping, LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR is a mesmerizing tale about the importance of reaching out, confronting anxiety and embracing human connection. 
 
 
Readers love LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR: 
 
***** 'This book has become one of my favourite Japanese reads of all time . . . A magical heartfelt read that will stay with you' 
***** 'Unexpected, beautiful and heart-breaking . . . this is a work of fiction which reaches into the heart of a modern problem and has valuable insight' 
***** 'Rich and vivid.This book is a symbol that 'there is always hope'

Lonely Castle in the Mirror

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR 
 
'If you buy one literary novel this year, make sure it's this' THE TIMES 
'The Romantics looks to Flaubert's Sentimental Education, to E.M. Forster, to Turgenev. But it is the product of a distinctive and sharp intelligence' HILARY MANTEL 
'Grips the reader as artfully and as compellingly as the first page of A Passage to India' THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS 
 
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION 
 
1989. In the holy city of Varanasi, 19-year-old Samar rents a room to avoid a small-town job and lose himself in reading about worlds outside of India. But when he is thrust into local a circle of privileged European and American expats, led by the charismatic Miss West, Samar will soon face his own silent desires and crumbling beliefs. 
 
'A work of art' Financial Times 
'A supernova' The Washington Post 
'A charming debut' The Independent

The Romantics

Paul Hoffman

Thomas Cale has been running from his enemies. Believing him to be the incarnation of God's rage, the world's most violent religious sect trained him to destroy His greatest mistake. Mankind itself. 
 
But Cale has other ideas. 
 
Cale is a paradox: arrogant and innocent, generous and pitiless. Feared and revered by those that created him, he has already used his terrifying talent for violence and destruction to bring down the most powerful civilisation in the world. 
 
But having fled to America, Thomas Cale has been caught. He has been given a choice. Murder the American president - the father of that fragile democracy and the the best hope for ending slavery - or be handed over for execution himself. 
 
The survival of rule by the people and the right of millions not to be owned by others rests on Cale's decision.

The White Devil

The gripping adventure for fans of The Man in the High Castle

William Boyd

Sixteen brilliant short stories from one of today's most original storytellers. Wide-ranging in style and subject matter, the collection moves from 19th century Russia to Second World War Los Angeles to modern-day Eastbourne. First published in Penguin in 2005 to great acclaim, now reissued with a striking new cover image.

Fascination

James Robertson

Hidden in the breath-taking mountains of wild Scotland, Glen Conach is the home of secrets and stories, of fables and folklore. Over hundreds of years, three lives are woven together. In ancient Britain, the hermit Saint Conach performs impossible miracles, which survive as legend in 'The Book of Glen Conach'. Generations later in the nineteenth century, the book is rediscovered by charlatan Charles Gibb, who hustles his way into the big house at the heart of the village. 
 
In the present-day, young Lachie whispers to Maja of ghosts he has seen in the glen. Reflecting back on her long life, Maja believes him, as she has some ghosts of her own. News of the Dead is a captivating examination of the distance between the stories we tell of ourselves and the way in which we are remembered.

News of the Dead

Hervé le Tellier

THE NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. WINNER OF THE 2020 PRIX GONCOURT. 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD. 
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD* 
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 CWA CRIME THRILLER IN TRANSLATION AWARD* 
 
'Just when you think you've worked it out . . . well, you probably haven't' DAILY MAIL 
'Mind-bending. Written with page-turning conviction' THE TIMES 
'A mind-bending, prize-winning speculative thriller' GUARDIAN 
'An intoxicating mix of the magical and life's big questions' FINANCIAL TIMES 
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No one knows how it happened. But it'll change their lives forever . . . 
 
During a terrifying storm, Air France flight 006 - inexplicably - duplicates. 
 
For every passenger, there are now two: a double with the same mind, body and memories. 
 
Only one thing sets them apart - while one plane lands in March, the other doesn't arrive until June. 
 
Nothing can explain this unprecedented event. But for each duplicated passenger, an impossible moment of reckoning awaits. 
 
If there are two of you, and just one life . . . who gets to live it? 
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New York Times: Best Thriller of the Year 
Publishers Weekly: Best Thriller of the Year 
Lit Hub: Favourite Book of the Year 
CrimeReads: Best International Crime Novel of the Year 
PopSugar: Best Mystery/Thriller of the Month 
 
LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 
 
Readers LOVE The Anomaly: 
 
'I absolutely loved this thrilling, addictive book' 5* Reader Review 
 
'This book spun my head. Fascinating, fantastic and thought provoking' 5* Reader Review 
 
'I absolutely love this book. It's a one-of-a-kind story, with perfect pacing. I would highly recommend' 5* Reader Review 
 
'An incredible read - intriguing and original. Keeps you fascinated until the very last page' 5* Reader Review 
 
'A brilliant read . . . So cleverly written' 5* Reader Review 
 
The Anomaly has sold over one million copies globally, Washington Post, 2021

The Anomaly

Hilary Boyd

Over the course of one summer Sarah Tempest meets and falls in love with the charming Bernard. The years of heartache and loneliness are finally behind her. 
 
She quickly moves into his beautiful home on the wind battered cliffs of Hastings. But, after a while, she begins to wonder if Bernard is all he seems. 
 
He's barely in touch with his children and with stifling reminders of his wife everywhere Sara looks, the walls begin to close in. 
 
Then comes Bernard's confession and Sara's newfound happiness starts to crumble around her . . .

The Hidden Truth

The gripping and suspenseful story of love, heartbreak and one devastating confession

Stephanie Wrobel

Welcome to Wisewood. We'll keep your secrets, if you keep ours. 
 
High-flier Natalie Collins always has a plan. Her younger sister Kit rarely does. 
 
Until she finds Wisewood. When Kit joins the self-help retreat on a secluded Maine island, Natalie has concerns. Why does it forbid contact with the outside world? Is it a cult? 
 
Then, after months of silence, she receives a message: 
 
Would you like to come tell your sister what you did - or should we? 
 
Who is digging into the Collins' past? Natalie will have to go to Wisewood to find out. 
 
But it turns out Wisewood is far easier to get into than to leave...

This Might Hurt

Under USSR rule, the subject matter and style of literary expression in Ukraine was strictly controlled and censored. But once Ukraine gained independence in 1991 its literary scene flourished, as the moving and delightful poems, essays and extracts collected here show. 
 
There are fifteen authors included in this book, both established and emerging, and in this anthology we see them grappling with history and the future, with big questions and small moments. 
 
From essays about Chernobyl to poetry about Robbie Williams, from fiction discussing Jimmy Hendrix live in Lviv to underground Ukrainian poetry of the Soviet era, WRITING FROM UKRAINE offers a unique window into a rich culture, a chance to experience a particularly Ukrainian sensibility and to celebrate Ukraine's nationhood, as told by its writers.

Writing from Ukraine

Fiction, Poetry and Essays since 1965

Jack Sheffield

The year is 1976 and Jack Sheffield never wants to leave his job. 
 
Jack has been the deputy head teacher at Newbridge Primary School for six years now, and he's happy exactly where he is - even if it sometimes feels like there are a few things missing from his life. After all, the kids keep him busy and there's always a game of rugby to play. 
 
But it's a time of change, and Jack's world is no exception. New and old faces appear in his life and a romance blossoms, bringing with it a buried secret and hidden threat. Soon, Jack must make a decision as to where his future is heading, and prepare to face whatever change is yet to come . . . 
 
A classic Jack Sheffield tale, ready to transport you back to a simpler time.

School Days

Stephen Bayley

With all the wit, knowledge and wisdom of one of the UK's foremost cultural commentators, Stephen Bayley takes the reader on a satirical roller-coaster ride through the world of art and design in the late 20th century. 
 
'Brilliantly drawn ..the pages are full of Wildean paradoxes' The Spectator 
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Someone once said you can find beauty anywhere. But all Eustace Dunne can see is ugliness. 
The buildings are grey, the people are tired and unimaginative, the food is inedible and life is drab, drab, drab. 
 
Growing up in an England ravaged by the Second World War, Eustace resolves to make things beautiful again. A mercurial stint in art school gives him a springboard into a world that is changing so fast you have to hold on tight to keep up. And in that world, ambition, timing and a modicum of talent can transform you into anything you want to be. 
 
Before long he's an artist, a designer, a restaurateur, an entrepreneur, a genius. But becoming a bastion of perfect taste can be a grubby business. Eustace's charm may have secured his influence on the homes and hearts of a nation, but there are still people out there who know where the bodies are buried...

The Art of Living

A satirical novel

Salley Vickers

Artist, Hassie Days, and her sister, Margot, buy a run down Jacobean house in Hope Wenlock on the Welsh Marches. While Margot continues her London life in high finance, Hassie is left alone to work the large, long-neglected garden. She is befriended by eccentric, sharp-tongued, Miss Foot, who recommends, Murat, an Albanian migrant, made to feel out of place among the locals, to help Hassie in the garden. 
 
As she works the garden in Murat's peaceful company, Hassie ruminates on her past life: the sibling rivalry that tainted her childhood and the love affair that left her with painful, unanswered questions. But as she begins to explore the history of the house and the mysterious nearby wood, old hurts begin to fade as she experiences the healing power of nature and discovers other worlds. 
 
In her haunting new novel, Salley Vickers, the bestselling author of The Librarian and The Cleaner of Chartres, writes with the profound psychological insight and sense of the numinous power of place that is the hallmark of all her novels.

The Gardener

Amor Towles

THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 
FROM THE AUTHOR OF RULES OF CIVILITY AND A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW 
 
'Deserves a place alongside Kerouac, Steinbeck and Wolfe as the very best of the genre' OBSERVER 
 
'An absolute beauty of a book. As soon as I finished it, I wanted to read it again' TANA FRENCH 
 
'Welcome to the enormous pleasure that is The Lincoln Highway . . . in which the miles fly by and the pages turn fast' ANN PATCHETT 
 
In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett returns home to his younger brother Billy after serving fifteen months in a juvenile facility for involuntary manslaughter. They are getting ready to leave their old life behind and head out to sunny California. 
 
But they're not alone. Two runaways from the youth work farm, Duchess and Wolly, have followed Emmett all the way to Nebraska with a plan of their own, one that will take the four of them on an unexpected and fateful journey in the opposite direction - to New York City. 
 
'Already feels like an American coming of age classic' RED 
 
'The best novel I've read in years' CHRIS CLEAVE 
 
'Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth' THE NEW YORK TIMES

The Lincoln Highway

A New York Times Number One Bestseller

Lauren Groff

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 
AN OBAMA'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 
 
'Gorgeous, sensual, addictive' SARA COLLINS 
'Brightly lit' NAOMI ALDERMAN 
 
Born from a long line of female warriors and crusaders, yet too coarse for courtly life, Marie de France is cast from the royal court and sent to Angleterre to take up her new duty as the prioress of an impoverished abbey. 
 
Lauren Groff's modern masterpiece is about the establishment of a female utopia. 
 
'A propulsive, captivating read' BRIT BENNETT 
'Fascinating, beguiling, vivid' MARIAN KEYES 
'A dazzlingly clever tale' THE TIMES 
'A thrillingly vivid, adventurous story about women and power that will blow readers' minds. Left me gasping' EMMA DONOGHUE

Matrix

John Boyne

'The funniest book I've read in ages. Savage but compelling' Ian Rankin 
'A fearless romp with big laughs along the way' Graham Norton 
'Funny, rumbustious, unstinting and wonderfully Hogarthian' The Observer 
'His relish is infectious' Times 
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What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept. 
 
The Cleverley family live a gilded life, little realising how precarious their privilege is, just one tweet away from disaster. George, the patriarch, is a stalwart of television interviewing, a 'national treasure' (his words), his wife Beverley, a celebrated novelist (although not as celebrated as she would like), and their children, Nelson, Elizabeth, Achilles, various degrees of catastrophe waiting to happen. 
 
Together they will go on a journey of discovery through the Hogarthian jungle of the modern living where past presumptions count for nothing and carefully curated reputations can be destroyed in an instant. Along the way they will learn how volatile, how outraged, how unforgiving the world can be when you step from the proscribed path. 
 
Powered by John Boyne's characteristic humour and razor-sharp observation, The Echo Chamber is a satiric helter skelter, a dizzying downward spiral of action and consequence, poised somewhere between farce, absurdity and oblivion. To err is maybe to be human but to really foul things up you only need a phone. 
 
'Sharp, funny, and beautifully written, but it's also a brilliant reflection on the landscape we now live in' Sunday Times bestselling author, Joanna Cannon

The Echo Chamber

Natasha Brown

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'Diamond-sharp, timely and urgent' Observer, Best Debuts of 2021 
 
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'I'm full of the hope, on reading it, that this is the kind of book that doesn't just mark the moment things change, but also makes that change possible' Ali Smith 
 
'Exquisite, daring, utterly captivating. A stunning new writer' Bernardine Evaristo 
 
Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Step out into a world of Go Home vans. Go to Oxbridge, get an education, start a career. Do all the right things. Buy a flat. Buy art. Buy a sort of happiness. But above all, keep your head down. Keep quiet. And keep going. 
 
The narrator of Assembly is a Black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend's family estate, set deep in the English countryside. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can't escape the question: is it time to take it all apart? 
 
'One of the most talked-about debuts of the year . . . You'll read it in one sitting' Sunday Times Style 
 
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'This marvel of a novel manages to say all there is to say about Britain today' Sabrina Mahfouz

Assembly

The critically acclaimed debut novel

Elizabeth Strout

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 
THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 
 
The Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker-longlisted, bestselling author returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that can erupt and bewilder us at any point in life 
 
Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband - and longtime, on-again-off-again friend and confidante. Recalling their college years, the birth of their daughters, the painful dissolution of their marriage, and the lives they built with other people, Strout weaves a portrait, stunning in its subtlety, of a tender, complex, decades-long partnership. 
 
Oh William! captures the joy and sorrow of watching children grow up and start families of their own; of discovering family secrets, late in life, that alter everything we think we know about those closest to us; and the way people live and love, against all odds. At the heart of this story is the unforgettable, indomitable voice of Lucy Barton, who once again offers a profound, lasting reflection on the mystery of existence. 'This is the way of life,' Lucy says. 'The many things we do not know until it is too late.' 
 
'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own' Hilary Mantel 
 
'A terrific writer' Zadie Smith 
 
'She gets better with each book' Maggie O'Farrell 
 
'One of America's finest writers' Sunday Times 
 
'This is meticulously observed writing, full of probing psychological insight. Lucy Barton is one of literature's immortal characters-brittle, damaged, unravelling, vulnerable and, most of all, ordinary-like us all' Booker Prize Judges 
 
Elizabeth Strout's new novel Tell Me Everything is available now!

Oh William!

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