Aidan Potts

Aidan Smith

Aidan Storey

Aidan Trimble is the Chief Instructor to the Federation of Shotokan Karate and a former British, European and World Karate Champion, winning the world title in Tokyo - the home of Karate. Aidan has trained with some of the world's leading teachers of 'traditional' and 'sport' karate and is now an award-winning instructor and teacher who is in demand throughout the world. He can be contacted via www.fsk-karate.com.

Aidan Trimble

Aiden Aslin is a British-born resident of Ukraine. Living in Mykolaiv with his fiancé, he joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018 and was called to the frontline ahead of the Russian invasion in February 2022. He was one of over a thousand soldiers who surrendered after the month-long siege at the Mariupol steelworks, whereupon he was singled out for his British passport. His surrender, captivity, treatment and subsequent release received global media attention.

Aiden Aslin

Aiko Bethea is the founder of RARE Coaching &amp; Consulting, a leadership development company that helps aspiring leaders successfully navigate the workplace with more impactful approaches to leadership. She has worked with Fortune 100 companies, research &amp; academic institutes, and global non-profit organisations. Bethea is also Senior Leadership Consultant for the Brené Brown Education &amp; Research Group and was named by Forbes as a leading anti-racism educator. Bethea was a contributing writer in the New York Times bestselling anthology You Are Your Best Thing (2021). Anchored, Aligned, Accountable is her first book.

Aiko Bethea

Ailie Busby

Ailsa McFarlane was born in 1997 in Seattle, Washington, and grew up in Snowdonia in the United Kingdom. After leaving school, she studied veterinary science before dropping out to travel the United States and Europe by road. Highway Blue is her first novel.

Ailsa McFarlane

Aimee Bender is the author of the novels The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, a New York Times bestseller, and An Invisible Sign of My Own; and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Willful Creatures and The Color Master. Her work has been widely anthologised and has been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.

Aimee Bender

Aimé Césaire (1913-2008) was a Martinican poet and politician who played a leading role in the struggle to liberate the French colonies of Africa and the Caribbean. Renowned for co-founding the Négritude movement, Césaire was a pioneer in surrealist poetry. His achievements as a writer were recognised worldwide with awards including the International Nâzim Hikmet Poetry Award, the Laporte Prize, the Viareggio-Versilia Prize for Literature, and the Grand Prix National de Poésie; in 2002, he was made Commander of the Order of Merit of Cote d'Ivoire. His works include the plays A Tempest (1969) and A Season in the Congo (1966), the searing political essay Discourse on Colonialism (1956), and the long poem Return to My Native Land (1950), dubbed "nothing less than the greatest lyrical monument of this time" (Andre Breton).

Aimé Césaire

Aingeala Flannery

Aingelda Ardizzone

Ainsley Harriott is nothing short of a cookery legend; a pioneer in quick and easy home cooking, he has hosted some of the UK's most popular culinary series. His love of food and people, together with his natural curiosity and accessible recipes, make him a much-loved British TV personality. Recent popular ITV shows include Ainsley's Caribbean Kitchen, Ainsley Mediterranean Cookbook, Ainsley's Food We Love and now Ainsley's Good Mood Food.

Ainsley Harriott

Air Fryer UK

Aishling Morgan

Aisling Bea

Aisling Fitzsimons

Aislinn Hunter is the author of a novel, Stay; a collection of stories, What's Left Us; and two collections of poetry, Into the Early Hours and The Possible Past. The World Before Us is her first book of fiction in twelve years. After travelling to London and Edinburgh over the past few years to study for a PhD, Aislinn Hunter now lives and teaches in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Aislinn Hunter

Aiste Gazdar

Ajahn Sumedho

Ajay Chowdhury, the inaugural winner of the Harvill Secker-Bloody Scotland prize, is a tech entrepreneur and theatre director. His children’s book – Ayesha and the Firefish, was published in 2016 and adapted into a musical which premiered in San Francisco. 
 
 
The Waiter (Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month), was published in 2021, and is the first in his critically-acclaimed crime series about Detective Kamil Rahman, an ex-policeman from Kolkata who has moved to Brick Lane in London. It is being adapted for television by Moonage Pictures.The Cook (Guardian Top Crime Books of the Year) was published in May 2022 to excellent reviews and deals with the issue of homelessness. The third book in the series – The Detective (Sunday Times Top Crime Books of the Year) – is about government surveillance and AI. The Spy (Longlisted Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing), the fourth book, sees Kamil infiltrate a terrorist cell. The Shadow (A Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month) is the latest book in the series.

Ajay Chowdhury

Ajaz Ahmed is the CEO of AKQA, the ideas and innovation company he founded aged 21. AKQA today employs over 1,500 people in 15 offices around the world. In 2014 AKQA won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Innovation. Ajaz co-authored Velocity: The Seven New Laws for a World Gone Digital. For essays and thoughts visit http://www.akqa.com/ajaz.

Ajaz Ahmed

Akasha Moon is a professional Tarot reader, medium and vocational healer. Under her other pen name Kala Trobe, she has published Invoke the Goddess and Invoke the Gods with Llewellyn. She's passionate about her subject and believes that, although it can bring about some serious benefits, magic can be a lot of fun.

Akasha Moon

Akiyuki Nosaka (1930-2015) was a novelist, singer, lyricist and former member of the House of Councillors in Japan. Born in Kamakura, Kanagawa, his memories of living through the Second World War – including the loss of his adoptive father in the 1945 Kobe bombings – served as the inspiration for his most famous short stories. In 1967, he won the Naoki Prize for Grave of the Fireflies and American Hijiki, both based on the Japanese experience of the War. Nosaka also wrote erotic fiction, including The Pornographers (1963), and in later life he continued his career as a newspaper and TV journalist, as well as a politician and chanson singer.

Akiyuki Nosaka

Dr Akong Tulku Rinpoche was an experienced meditation master of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He was co-founder of the Samye Ling Tibetan Centre and supervised many other centres in Europe, Africa and Asia. He formed several humanitarian organisations for the aid of refugees, the distressed and the poor and was advisor to a large number of people, including therapists in the UK and Europe. He died in 2013.

Akong Tulku Rinpoche

Akshi Singh is an associate editor at Parapraxis and deputy editor at Critical Quarterly, and is the editor of a special collection of Critical Quarterly presenting new writing on Marion Milner. She collaborates regularly with the Derek Jarman lab, and writes for the London Review of Books. Singh moved to the UK from India to study for a PhD in psychoanalysis and literature with Jacqueline Rose. She is currently training to be a psychoanalyst at the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research.

Akshi Singh

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Al Franken

Al Gore

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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez has been one of the literary giants of the past century; his body of work is an undisputed cultural landmark and a touchstone for countless readers and writers alike. 
 
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a true classic, a timelessly fascinating and intricately patterned work of fiction and a joyful, irrepressible celebration of humanity. This iconic work is the perfect celebration of Marquez's extraordinary impact on the modern world and his phenomenal literary achievements.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Marian Keyes

Meet Anna Walsh. 
 
Lying in her parents' Good Front Room, covered in bandages, Anna dreams of leaving Dublin and returning to her beloved New York. 
 
To her home. To her job. And most of all to her husband Aidan. 
 
Unfortunately, her family have other ideas. She's staying put. And Aidan? He's refusing to even take her calls. 
 
The last thing Anna wants is to think about how she ended up in this mess. But with nothing else to do, she's forced to ask herself why she's thousands of miles from the life she loves. 
 
Where did it all go wrong? And can she fix it, before it's too late?

Anybody Out There

British Book Awards Author of the Year 2022

Sophie Mackintosh

Audacious and mesmerising, Cursed Bread is a darkly erotic tale of a town gripped by madness, envy like poison in the blood, and desire that burns and consumes. 
 
Elodie is the baker's wife: plain and unremarkable but desperate to escape her dull, small-town life. One day a charismatic new couple appear in the neighbourhood and Elodie quickly falls under their spell. All summer long she stalks them through the shining streets: inviting herself into their home, eavesdropping on their conversations, longing to possess them. 
 
Meanwhile, beneath the tranquil surface of daily life, strange things are happening. The animals expire in the fields, ghosts are sighted after dark, the local children grow erratic and violent. A dark intoxication is spreading through the town, and when Elodie finally understands her role in it, it will be too late to stop.

Cursed Bread

Longlisted for the Women’s Prize

L.C. North

"I'm a prisoner. I'm not allowed to leave. There is someone watching me every minute of the day." 
 
Media superstar Melanie Lange has disappeared. 
 
Her father, billionaire business tycoon Sir Peter Lange, says she is a danger to herself and has been admitted to a private mental health clinic. 
 
Her ex-husband, Finn, and best friend, Nell, say she has been kidnapped. They are deeply concerned for her safety. 
 
The media will say whichever gets them the most views - no matter what the cost. 
 
But whose side are you on? And where is Melanie? 
 
Told via interviews, transcripts and diary entries, The Ugly Truth is a shocking and addictive thriller about fame, power and the truth behind the headlines.

The Ugly Truth

Fran Littlewood

**A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK!****THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'Littlewood writes with ferocity and compassion. Read it and weep (then cheer)' THE TIMES'I just adored this . . . An unforgettable read' LIANE MORIARTY'Compelling, funny and poignant. I devoured it' PAULA HAWKINS'A rip-roaring, empowering story. Glorious' DAILY EXPRESS'An absolute gut punch of a book' RED________Is this the best worst day of her life?Once, Grace Adams was poised for great things. Now, she barely attracts a second glance as she strides down the street carrying her daughter's sixteenth birthday cake.But behind the scenes, Grace's life is in freefall. Her husband is divorcing her. Her daughter has banned her from her birthday party. And Grace has just abandoned her car in bumper-to-bumper traffic.Because Grace Adams has finally had enough. She's sick of being overlooked and underappreciated, and she's particularly tired of being polite. She's about to set off on a journey to rediscover who she is, and confront the secret that has torn her family apart.What is that secret? You're about to find out . . . 
 
New York Times bestseller, September 2023 
Jenna's Book Club Pick, September 2023

Amazing Grace Adams

Anne Youngson

'An extraordinary new writer' NINA STIBBE 
 
Six short stories full of colourful suspects and complicated motives by the winner of the Paul Torday Memorial prize for debut authors over sixty - perfect for fans of grisly mysteries set in the English countryside 
 
The village cleaning lady who holds everyone's house-keys opens a boot to find some unexpected baggage; a vengeful dinner party host serves more than just a roast to her six guests; hairdresser chat is not just idle gossip as an old man with a history gets a trim; driven to distraction by his new young wife, a man resorts to two grisly acts, in a gripping re-imagining of a famous Irish ballad. 
 
Ripping away the polite façade of small communities, these stories reveal the roiling emotions and frustration that can lead seemingly ordinary people to do bad things. Rich in compassion, pathos and humour, Anne Youngson offers us her dark take on human foibles, pettiness and rivalry in this sparkling, unputdownable collection.

The Six Who Came to Dinner

Stories by Costa Award Shortlisted author of MEET ME AT THE MUSEUM

Makoto Shinkai

Naruki Nagakawa

The uplifting Japanese bestseller 
 
THE PERFECT GIFT FOR CAT LOVERS 
 
'Compassionate and touching' DAILY MAIL 
 
'Totally beguiling' OBSERVER 
 
Perfect fans of The Travelling Cat Chronicles and Convenience Store Woman 
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On the outskirts of Tokyo, local cats weave their way through the lives and homes of their owners as they navigate difficult times. 
 
- A cat named Chobi sends silent messages of courage to a young woman, willing her to end a faltering relationship 
- A gifted artist fatally misunderstands her boss's enthusiasm for her paintings 
- A manga fan shuts herself away after the death of her friend, while her cat Cookie hatches a plan to persuade her outside 
- A woman who has dedicated her life to a distant husband learns a lesson in independence from her cat 
 
Against the urban backdrop of humming trains and private woes, SHE AND HER CAT explores the gentle magic of the everyday. 
 
Populated by both the friendly and the feral, it reveals - with heartstopping clarity and warmth - how even in our darkest moments, community and connection may lead us to a happier place. 
 
***Includes four fabulous illustrations*** 
 
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'A beautiful, uplifting novel. As mesmerizing as it is strange' SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE 
'Goes to show how cats will save us all' Nick Bradley, author of The Cat and the City 
'A gem, written with deep insight and finely attuned to the ways of cats and their humans. An absolute delight' HAZEL PRIOR author of Call of the Penguins

She and her Cat

Sylvain Neuvel

Discover history's biggest secret . . . 
 
For millennia an unbroken line of alien mothers and daughters have secretly been shepherding human technology towards the stars. 
 
Twelve-year-old Aster is the last of this line. 
But the loss of her mother in early life means she knows nothing of her alien heritage - believing she is just an ordinary young girl. 
 
Not only is she about to discover how wrong she is - but she'll also learn she's not the only alien on Earth: others are here to stop her. 
 
Yet with revelation comes recovery. 
Now Aster has a purpose. 
Her life, the future of her species 
and that of all life on Earth is at stake. 
 
She's history's biggest secret. 
But can she save the future? 
 
'Alt-history with a difference' GUARDIAN 
 
'There's real cleverness at work here' THE TIMES

For the First Time, Again

Leonora Brito

Leonora Brito was a writer of exceptional stories. In Dat's Love, she soaks up the sights, sounds and colours of Cardiff to boldly explore race and history. 
 
With each electric story, Brito introduces a unique cast of characters, vibrantly elevating their everyday lives. From 59-year-old Dorothy taking up nude modelling to black aristocrat Dido Elizabeth Belle, from the assassination of JFK to what's going down at the Blue Bayou, Brito blends the surreal and the mundane to redress history and immerse the reader in a vibrantly painted world. 
 
Containing an unusual exactness and sense of place, Brito's stories are unique in Welsh fiction in presenting an insider's perspective on a black Welsh history only alluded to by other writers. Full of wry humour and startling originality, this collection features some of Brito's most acclaimed work.

Dat's Love

Catherine Newman

Discover the powerful Richard & Judy Book Club pick 
 
'Gorgeously tender and so deeply loving' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS, bestselling author of Fundamentally 
 
'Nora-Ephron-style wit...comforting, so funny, moving... one of my favourite books ever' MARIAN KEYES 
 
'Newman writes loss and laughter in equally brilliant amounts.' BONNIE GARMUS 
 
'Dazzling, heart-wrenching, snorty-hilarious... An utter joy to read' RACHEL JOYCE 
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Who knows you better than your best friend? Who knows your secrets, your fears, your desires, your strange imperfect self? 
 
Edi and Ash have been best friends for over forty years. Since childhood they have seen each other through life's milestones: stealing vodka from their parents, REM concerts, marriages, infertility, children. As Ash notes, 'Edi's memory is like the back-up hard drive for mine.' 
 
So when Edi is diagnosed with cancer, Ash's world reshapes around the rhythms of Edi's care, from making watermelon ice cubes and music therapy to snack smuggling and impromptu excursions into the frozen winter night. 
 
Because life is about squeezing the joy out of every moment and building a powerhouse of memories, about learning when to hold on, and when to let go. 
 
Deeply moving yet laugh-out-loud funny, We All Want Impossible Things is a jubilant celebration of life and friendship at its imperfect, radiant, and irreverent best. 
 
To read more by CATHERINE NEWMAN, discover the NYT bestseller, SANDWICH, and her new novel WRECK: 'Beautiful, funny, wry, relatable and uplifting… I LOVE her work' Marian Keyes 
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Praise for We All Want Impossible Things: 
 
'A beautiful, candid and uplifting testament to female friendship that will make you laugh and cry' WOMAN & HOME 
 
'This tale of love and friendship is a tender, funny, life-affirming joy' MARIE CLAIRE, 'Best Books of 2023' 
 
'Devastatingly funny ... handled with compassion and courage in elegant prose lightened by honest humour' MAIL ON SUNDAY 
 
'A treat' THE SUNDAY TIMES 
 
Remarkable ... A whip-smart, funny, beautifully observed and exquisitely characterised novel' OBSERVER 
 
'Utterly life-affirming and joyful' RED 
 
'One of the best novels on friendship I've ever read' AJ PEARCE 
 
'An absolute masterpiece in characterisation... utterly beautiful.' JOANNA CANNON

We All Want Impossible Things

Sebastian Faulks

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 
 
'Ambitious and beautifully crafted' THE TIMES 
'Faulks writes with great emotional authority' SUNDAY TIMES 
 
Amidst the letters of the alphabet, a life reveals itself. Flashing backwards and forwards through time, we meet Pietro Russell. As a photographer in Sri Lanka, a schoolboy in Fulham and even before he was born to his wounded English father and young Italian mother. The extraordinary moments of Pietro's life are navigated with unique imagination, giving the reader a chance to view a life from a new and moving vantage point. 
 
A Fool's Alphabet is a novel of true invention from a master storyteller that sees life in all of its compelling, poignant glory.

A Fool's Alphabet

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 
 
'Vivid . . . engagingly lucid and disarmingly funny' GUARDIAN 
'Beautifully done . . . witty and poignant' THE TIMES 
'Brilliant' OBSERVER 
 
Welcome to Mike Engleby's world. Deep in the hallowed halls of an esteemed English university, Mike is one of the only working-class boys, amongst the privileged masses. He's also different, starkly so, but able to observe it all. But observation soon tips into obsession when his fixation, fellow student Jennifer, goes missing. What has Mike Engleby overlooked? 
 
A cult classic and an exemplar of the campus novel, Engleby is a beguiling portrait of an outsider, told in an unforgettable voice. 
 
'Remarkable . . . intensely exhilarating' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 
'A tour-de-force . . . a great novel' DAILY MAIL 
'Compelling, disturbing and significant' SCOTSMAN

Engleby

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 
 
'Compelling . . . Faulks has become an international sensation' GUARDIAN 
'Performs like an elegant melody' OBSERVER 
'Tense and affecting . . . A modern epic' SPECTATOR 
 
Life at the British Embassy in Washington in 1959 is awash with parties, martinis, jazz, and for Mary van der Linden, the kind of happiness she has always dreamt of. With her diplomat husband Charlie busy and the children off at boarding school, she feels listless until news reporter Frank Renzo enters their lives. And when Frank and Mary begin a torrid affair, their passion will force an impossible decision. 
 
Set between Washington, New York and Moscow, On Green Dolphin Street, is a masterful exploration of Cold War chaos, and devastating love.

On Green Dolphin Street

Barney Norris

'Lyrical' Daily Mail 
'Beautiful' Spectator 
'Skilled' Financial Times 
'Vulnerable' Guardian 
'Deft' Independent 
'Profound' Observer 
 
'The beginning of summer. Perhaps it crosses my mind even now while I wait for news of Amy that something is coming towards us. Like sighting the first slow swell of a wave.' 
 
Years ago, in an almost accidental moment of heroism, Ed saved Amy from drowning. Now, in his thirties, he finds himself adrift. He's been living in London for years - some of them good - but he's stuck in a relationship he can't move forward, has a job that just pays the bills, and can't shake the sense that life should mean more than this. Perhaps all Ed needs is a moment to pause. To exhale and start anew. And when he meets Amy again by chance, it seems that happiness might not be so far out of reach. But then tragedy overtakes him, and Ed must decide whether to let history and duty define his life, or whether he should push against the tide and write his own story. 
 
Filled with hope and characteristic warmth, Undercurrent is a moving and intimate portrait of love, of life and why we choose to share ours with the people we do.

Undercurrent

The heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful novel about finding yourself, from the Times bestselling author of Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain

Conner Habib

LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD 
'Dripping with menace ... brilliantly written ... compelling, shocking and beautiful' Liz Nugent 
'Brilliant ... highly recommended' Sunday Times 
 
An unsettling and emotional riveting thriller about fathers and sons, revenge and forgiveness and ghosts from our past. A book not to read alone in the dark... 
 
When single father Todd Nasca is spotted on the beach by an old enemy - his high school bully Jack Gates - he is prepared for a tense encounter. But Jack, who hasn't seen Todd in fifteen years, is radiant, and overjoyed to have run into him. Jack suggests a meal to catch up. And by the way, Jack wonders, could he spend the night? 
 
Caught off guard by this chance interaction, Todd finds himself unable to escape Jack's charismatic and insistent presence in his home. One night turns into days; and as Jack begins to deepen his relationship with Todd's son, fear starts to set in. What is Jack up to? 
 
What follows is a fast-paced story of obsession and violence, showing that love and hate can be intertwined until the very last breath... 
 
'Habib's debut novel is a bleak, dark adrenaline rush' Clive Barker

Hawk Mountain

A highly suspenseful and unsettling literary thriller

Kalani Pickhart

Winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award 
Best Book of the Year - New York Public Library, Cosmopolitan, Independent Book Review 
 
'Pickhart's story is powerful, boldly imaginative, rich in history and feeling, charged with events that have occurred since it was written - and which summon up the same force of the history that compelled an American author to write about this "foreign land".' The Times 
 
2014 Kyiv, Ukraine. The city is poised on a knife-edge as tensions mount around a corrupt government's increasing ties to Russia. As protests erupt across the city, the fates of four individuals come together. Katya is a Ukrainian-American doctor stationed at a makeshift medical clinic treating wounded protesters; Misha is an engineer originally from Pripyat, near Chernobyl, grieving the death of his wife; Slava is a fiery young activist whose past hardships steel her determination; Aleksandr Ivanovich, a former KGB agent, climbs atop a burned-out bus at Independence Square and plays the piano. 
 
In this dazzling, inventive debut novel - set during the 'Revolution of Dignity' - Kalani Pickhart weaves together a rich tapestry of voices to create a moving story about beauty, love and survival during tumultuous times.

I Will Die in a Foreign Land

Joanna Quinn

This is the story of an old English manor house by the sea, with crumbling chimneys, draping ivy and a library full of dusty hardbacks. It's the story of the three children who grow up there, and the adventures they create for themselves while the grown-ups entertain endless party guests: the worlds they imagine from books they aren't supposed to read, and the lessons they learn from eavesdropping through oak-panelled doors. 
 
This is the story of a whale that washes up on a beach, whose bones are claimed by a twelve-year-old girl with big ambitions and an even bigger imagination. An unwanted orphan who grows into an unmarriageable young woman, chafing under the confines of her traditional upbringing and fiercely determined to do things differently. 
 
But as the children grow to adulthood, another story has been unfolding in the wings. And when the war finally takes centre stage, they find themselves cast, unrehearsed, into roles they never expected to play. 
 
They raised themselves on stories. Now it's time for them to write their own...

The Whalebone Theatre

Susannah Dickey

The lives of a bereaved young woman and her neighbour who is consumed by her affair with a married man entwine in this dark, compelling and compassionate coming-of age novel. 
 
'A poignant, deft portrayal of love, obsession and grief' STYLIST 
 
'Susannah Dickey is a phenomenal talent and I loved this novel.' ELIZABETH DAY 
 
'I loved Common Decency . . . such a propulsive joy to read too.' MEGAN NOLAN 
 
 
FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF TENNIS LESSONS 
 
 
In an apartment building in Belfast, two women wrestle with the sorrows and spectres of love and loss. 
 
Since her mother's death, Lily has withdrawn from the world, trapped between grief and anger. She has to break out of this damaging cycle - but how? 
 
Upstairs, Siobhán is consumed by her affair with a married man. Her days revolve around his sporadic texts and rare visits. She barely notices the strange girl who lives below and dawdles in the foyer. 
 
But Lily is keeping a close eye on her neighbour, whose life seems so much better and more fulfilling than her own. When resentment evolves into something darker and more urgent, she decides to teach Siobhán a lesson... 
 
 
'Sharp as tacks, extremely funny and deeply moving. This novel is very good company.' JAN CARSON

Common Decency

A dark, intimate novel of love, grief and obsession

Jack Sheffield

Change is in the air for Jack Sheffield and the Ragley village school. 
 
It's 1987, and after a decade as head teacher at Ragley-on-the-Forest School, Jack Sheffield is looking to the future. He and his wife are expecting a new baby, the school is preparing for the introduction of the new National Curriculum, and the coming year promises a whole host of other surprises. Whether it's combing the church for an escaped pet mouse or dealing with the obnoxious new school governor, life in the village is always entertaining. 
 
So when Jack is offered an opportunity that could change everything, he knows he has a difficult decision to make. Endings are never easy, but perhaps the thrill of a new beginning is exactly what Jack needs... 
 
Hilarious, nostalgic and heart-warming in equal measure, Last Day of School is the final novel in the much-loved Teacher series. 
 
 
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Praise for Jack Sheffield: 
 
'Wry observation and heartwarming humour in equal measure.' Alan Titchmarsh 
 
'Overflowing with amusing anecdotes.' Daily Express 
 
'Amusing adventures at the North Yorkshire village school.' Choice 
 
'Jack Sheffield's in a class of his own.' York Press

Last Day of School

John Boyne

Gretel Fernsby is a quiet woman leading a quiet life. She doesn't talk about her escape from Germany seventy years ago or the dark post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn't talk about her father, the commandant of one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps. 
 
But when a young family moves into the apartment below her, Gretel can't help but befriend their little boy, Henry, though his presence brings back painful memories. One night, she witnesses a violent argument between his parents, which threatens to disturb her hard-won peace. 
 
For the second time in her life, Gretel is given the chance to save a young boy. To do so would allay her guilt, grief and remorse, but it will also force her to reveal her true identity. Will she make a different choice this time, whatever the cost to herself?

All The Broken Places

The Sequel to The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas

Annie Kirby

FOR FANS OF SARAH MOSS, EMMA STONEX AND MAGGIE O'FARRELL 
'A bold, magical story' JO BROWNING WROE, Sunday Times bestselling author of A Terrible Kindness 
'A majestic work of the imagination . . . I woke up thinking about it' ROSIE ANDREWS, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Leviathan 
'An atmospheric tale, shot through with folklore. The writing shimmers' KATE SAWYER, Costa shortlisted author of The Stranding___ 
 
THE ISLANDERS SAY IT'S CURSED. BUT THAT'S ONLY ONE SIDE OF THE STORY . . . 
 
They say the Hollow Sea is cursed. A wild expanse separating the remote islands of St Hía, not even the locals brave its treacherous waters. 
But new arrival Scottie feels a pull she can't ignore. Because behind the curse is the legend of Thordis: a woman whose story feels eerily familiar. No one knows what became of her, but Scottie believes Thordis's fate may answer questions about her own past. 
Despite the islanders' warnings, Scottie sets out to discover the truth. But as she dares to cross the Hollow Sea, will its secrets give her the answers she needs? 
Or will the past drag her under?____ 
 
'A heart-rending atmospheric novel of finding what makes one whole' Melissa Fu, author of Peach Blossom Spring 
'Mesmerising' Good Housekeeping 
'A poetic tale' Prima

The Hollow Sea

The unforgettable and mesmerising debut inspired by mythology

Julie Otsuka

"Up there," she says, "I'm just another little old lady. But down here, at the pool, I'm myself." 
 
For the people who swim there each day, the local pool is a haven of unexpected kinship and private solace. For Alice, her daily laps have become the ritual that gives her life meaning, even though she may not remember the combination to her locker or where she put her towel. 
 
But one day, a crack appears deep beneath the surface of the water, and then another, and then another. The pool must close for repairs, and with that Alice is plunged into dislocation and chaos. 
 
Away from the steady routines of her swimming, she is engulfed by difficult memories of her own past. And as her sense of home, and of herself, slip further out of her grasp, her daughter must navigate the newly fractured landscape of their relationship.

The Swimmers

Taylor Jenkins Reid

From the bestselling author of MALIBU RISING, DAISY JONES & THE SIX and THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO 
 
'It made me cry twice, and when I finished reading, I had to sit for a minute with the hole it left in my chest . . . just order it' 
EMILY HENRY 
 
'A crowd-pleaser. Taylor Jenkins Reid captures all the sweat, rivalry and glamour of elite sport' 
THE TIMES 
 
'Jenkins Reid has written yet another page turner . . . [it] will have you hooked' 
INDEPENDENT 
 
Carrie Soto is the greatest player the world has ever seen. 
 
But six years after her last match, she watches a young British tennis player steal her world record - and Carrie knows she has to go back and reclaim her rightful place at the top. Even if the world doesn't believe in her. Even if it almost breaks her. 
 
This is a story about the cost of greatness and the burden of fame. 
 
The fight for a place in history is about to begin . . . 
 
'It artfully combines the heady glamour of elite sport with questions about what happens when we find ourselves winning professionally, but losing personally' 
STYLIST 
 
'One of my favourite authors ever . . . I don't think I've ever felt so strongly about an author' 
FEARNE COTTON 
 
'A portrait of female ambition in all its raw and divine glory, Carrie Soto will stay with you long after the last page is turned' 
ERIN KELLY 
 
 
Taylor Jenkins-Reid, Sunday Times bestseller, April 2023

Carrie Soto Is Back

Bea Setton

When Daphne Ferber arrives in Berlin for a fresh start in a thrilling new city, the last thing she expects is to run into more drama than she left behind. 
 
Of course, she knew she'd need to do the usual: make friends, acquire lovers, grapple with German and a whole new way of life. She even expected the long nights gorging alone on family-sized jars of Nutella, and the pitfalls of online dating in another language. The paranoia, the second-guessing of her every choice, the covert behaviours? Probably come with the territory. 
 
But one night, something strange, dangerous and entirely unexpected intervenes, and life in bohemian Kreuzberg suddenly doesn't seem so cool. Just how much trouble is Daphne in, and who - or what - is out to get her?

Berlin

The dazzling, darkly funny debut that surprises at every turn

Isabel Kaplan

You are young, ambitious, college-educated and a feminist. Your new job is in television. 
 
To climb the ranks, you do whatever it takes: 
- Pull all-nighters 
- Lean on your powerful mother's contacts 
- Stay in shape at cult-like fitness classes 
- Secretly wear your boss's fitbit to improve his stepcount - and his temper 
 
You know the rules of this world. When someone senior tells you how pretty you look, you smile and thank him - and make a mental note never to wear that dress alone with him again. 
 
When whispers start to circle that your office might have 'a bit of a rape problem,' and your close friend confesses her own unsettling encounter, you know there is plenty to gain from staying silent, and all too much to lose through speaking out. 
 
And of course, you know your own boss is one of the good guys . . . don't you? 
 
With blisteringly sharp prose and a darkly humorous voice, Not Safe For Work is an unflinching exploration of the grey area between empowerment and complicity, and a searing, unforgettable portrait of what success costs in a patriarchal world.

Not Safe For Work

A Novel

'Magnificent - deeply moving' Sunday Times 
'Engrossing, moving, and unforgettable' The Times 
 
In the heat of the French summer of 1910, young Englishman Stephen Wraysford arrives in Amiens to stay with the Azaire family. But soon a secret passion emerges that threatens to destroy the household. Six years later, Stephen finds himself on the Western Front with civilization itself in the balance. And in a maze of tunnels under the trenches he will fight for everything he has known and loved. 
 
An epic of love, death and redemption, Birdsong has moved millions of readers all over the world to become a contemporary classic.

Birdsong

Donal Ryan

Discover the emotional, bestselling novel about four generations of women and the stories that bind them, from the Booker longlisted author Of Strange Flowers. 
 
'One of the finest novelists writing today... a haunting, exquisite masterpiece.' RACHEL JOYCE 
 
'Endlessly surprising and incredibly moving' DAVID NICHOLLS 
 
'Beautiful, compassionate ... Donal Ryan at his inimitable best.' MAGGIE O'FARRELL 
 
___________ 
 
The Aylward women are mad about each other, but you wouldn't always think it. 
 
You'd have to know them - in spite of what neighbours might say about raised voices and dramatic scenes - to know that that their house is a place of peace, filled with love, a refuge from the sadness and cruelty of the world. 
 
The head of the family, Nana, is a woman who has buried two sons and whose life has been the family farm. 
 
Her daughter-in-law, Eileen, is estranged from her own parents, having 'shamed' them and given birth to Saoirse. 
 
And then there's Saoirse herself, eavesdropping on lives she cannot comprehend. 
 
It is only when they must battle for the inheritance of Dirt Island - a narrow strip of land adjacent to Eileen's childhood home - that they truly understand the roots that bind their lives together. 
 
_________ 
 
'The prose drips like honey off a spoon' SUNDAY TIMES 
 
'Beautifully poised, sad, poetic and human....I loved every single line.' IAN RANKIN 
 
'A generous mosaic of a novel about the staying power of love and pride and history and family' COLUM McCANN 
 
'His paragraphs are unnoticeably beautiful, his heart always on show' ANNE ENRIGHT 
 
'A life-enhancing talent' SEBASTIAN BARRY 
 
'I would struggle to think of any other Irish author working today who writes with as much compassion as Donal Ryan' LOUISE O'NEILL

The Queen of Dirt Island

Georges Simenon

A bus stops on the road to Montluçon, and there two strangers meet: Tati, a steely widow, who runs the farm her late husband left behind, and Jean, an odd, quiet man with nowhere to go. There is between them an affinity and Jean agrees to lodge with Tati, and help with the farm as he can. In the still and heat of the summer, they labour together and, inevitably, begin their affair. But nothing is at it seems, and as affections strain and stray, their relationship hurtles toward a disturbing doom . . . 
 
First published in 1942 at the same time as Albert Camus' The Outsider, this is Simenon's existentialist masterpiece - a powerful exploration of desire and death, of the barbarous edge that encircles the human soul.

The Widow Couderc

Rachel Joyce

Ten years ago, Harold Fry set off on his epic journey on foot to save a friend. But the story doesn't end there. 
Now his wife, Maureen, has her own pilgrimage to make. 
 
Maureen Fry has settled into the quiet life she now shares with her husband Harold after his iconic walk across England. Now, ten years later, an unexpected message from the North disturbs her equilibrium again, and this time it is Maureen's turn to make her own journey. 
 
But Maureen is not like Harold. She struggles to bond with strangers, and the landscape she crosses has changed radically. She has little sense of what she'll find at the end of the road. All she knows is that she must get there. 
 
Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North is a deeply felt, lyrical novel, full of warmth and kindness. Short, exquisite, powerful: it is about love, loss, and how we come to terms with the past in order to understand ourselves and our lives a little better.

Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North

From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

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