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

Al Ewing

Al Franken

Al Gore

Al Holloway

Al Murray's alter ego, The Pub Landlord, is one of the most recognizable and successful comic creations of the past twenty years, and Murray, who has won numerous awards and accolades, continues to fill arenas and theatres around the world. 
 
He is also the author of many successful books including Watching War Films with My Dad and Command, a sharply entertaining analysis of the key allied military leaders in the Second World War. He is well known for co-hosting the hugely popular Second World War history podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk with fellow bestselling military author James Holland. 
 
Arnhem: Black Tuesday is his first history book about a single campaign.

Al Murray

Al Murray is a Perrier Award-winning comic, TV personality and, as 'The Pub Landlord', the author of the bestselling The Pub Landlord's Book of British Common Sense and Think Yourself British. Most recently, he has taken on the leadership of the Free United Kingdom Party (FUKP).

Actor and director Al Pacino is a unique and enduring figure in the world of American stage and film. He grew up in New York City’s South Bronx, attended the School of Performing Art, and studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio with Charles Laughton and the Actors Studio with mentor Lee Strasberg. 
 
 
He has been nominated for the Academy Award nine times, for movies including The Godfather, Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, The Godfather Part II, and The Irishman, and won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1992 for Scent of a Woman. He has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award nineteen times, and won four, and has been nominated for three Tonys and won two. 
 
 
Pacino has been awarded the Kennedy Center Honor, the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award, the National Merit of Arts from President Obama, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement in Motion Pictures.

Al Pacino

Al Pittampalli

Al Rodin is a writer and illustrator from London. He studied children's book illustration at Cambridge School of Art and received the 2019 Sebastian Walker Prize. Al enjoys working with a wide variety of materials including acrylic, watercolour and collage. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries around Europe and Asia, and he was selected for lllustrators' Exhibition at the Bologna Children's Book Fair in 2019. Little Echo is his first book.

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Elle Everhart

A round-the-world trip with the guy you ghosted? What could possibly go wrong... 
 
When Dylan Coughlan impulsively rings into a radio competition, she never expects to win. But now she's about to travel around the world. The catch? Her travel partner is a random contact from her phone. And of course it had to be Jack 'the Posho', the man she accidentally ghosted. 
 
But in order to get a promotion, Dylan has to create a hit column documenting her travels...and her love life. 
 
Dylan's willing to do anything, even if it means embellishing her budding relationship. But as the column's popularity grows, so does the bond between Dylan and Jack. 
 
Will Dylan finally let her heart take flight or will she and Jack come down to Earth with a bump?

Wanderlust

the perfect laugh out loud enemies to lovers rom com

Jessica Joyce

Noelle Shepard is grieving the loss of her beloved grandmother when she discovers decades-old photos and letters that hint to a forbidden love in her gram's past. Needing to know the full story, she creates a TikTok video appealing for information - and it goes viral. 
 
Through her video, she manages to track down her grandmother's secret love, Paul, who offers to take her on the honeymoon road-trip he and Gram planned but never got to go on. 
 
Noelle jumps at the chance to make this one last connection with her grandmother. There's just one problem - Paul's grandson is Noelle's frustratingly handsome high-school rival Theo. And Theo has to come, too. 
 
It's only two weeks. Surely Noelle can survive that long? But with one car between them - and often only one bed - it doesn't take long for things to heat up...

You, With a View

A hilarious and steamy enemies-to-lovers road-trip romcom

L. J. Shen

Francesca Rossi is the beautiful daughter to a powerful Chicago mafia family. Her life has always been comfortable and safe. Now, betrothed to her childhood friend Angelo Bandini, she expects her future to be the same. 
 
Until Wolf Keaton sets his eyes on her. 
 
Ruthless and ambitious Wolfe is the sworn enemy of the Rossi's and will stop at nothing to destroy their lives. 
 
Until he meets Francesca and his life changes forever. But can a newfound love overpower a decades-old hate?

The Kiss Thief

The steamy enemies-to-lovers romance and TikTok sensation

After Hallie lands in hot water with the tabloids again, her father issues an ultimatum: be cut off from the family fortune or agree to a live-in bodyguard. 
 
Not one to have the credit card cut up again, Hallie reluctantly agrees. 
 
Enter sexy, brooding Ransom Lockwood . . . 
 
He is cold and rude but after spending time with Hallie, something begins to light up inside him. 
 
Neither believe the other can change- but as they get to know each other it becomes clear that Hallie isn't the only one in need of protecting and that romance can blossom in the most unlikely of places.

Thorne Princess

The addictive grumpy sunshine romance and TikTok sensation

E L James

The follow-up to the No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller The Mister, a passionate and thrilling love story from E L James, author of the phenomenal bestselling Fifty Shades Trilogies. 
 
Alessia regards her husband through heavy-lidded eyes. 
You'll have to fight for him. Her mother's words from their call this morning ring through her head. And fight, she will. Using every available weapon she has. 
She loves him. She knows this. She wants him. 
And she wants him to want her. 
 
What happens once the glass slipper fits...? 
 
Maxim Trevelyan, reluctant Earl of Trevethick, has pursued the woman he loves to the wilds of Albania. Having fought for and won her, he now has to wed her, at the sharp end of a shotgun. 
 
But can a reformed rake like Maxim ever make a good husband - or will his own notorious reputation and the scandalous secrets of his aristocratic family destroy his new-found happiness? 
 
Alessia Demachi has defied and outwitted kidnappers and traffickers, and won the heart of the man she loves, but can she make this marriage work? Confronted by Maxim's lurid past, his forbidding family, and the looks and whispers of London's elite, will she ever be seen as Maxim's countess - or will she always be his former cleaner? 
 
From the majestic mountains of Albania, through the rural idyll of the English countryside, to the shady glamour of contemporary London, The Missus is a spellbinding journey of love, longing, acceptance and redemption. 
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Readers can't stop talking about The Missus . . . 
***** 'I’m tickled pink to not only have found my favourite book in The Missus but also as it currently stands, my top read of this year. Without a shadow of a doubt.' 
***** 'I loved the first book so much that I was scared of starting this one in case it didn't live up to my expectations. But it did!' 
***** 'Once again I devoured an E L James book. I just didn’t want to put it down.' 
***** 'I could not put it down!! Love the characters and the reality of story. Both books kept me enthralled.' 
***** 'I can't give any less than 5 stars'

The Missus

a passionate and thrilling love story by the global bestselling author of the Fifty Shades trilogy

Kristan Higgins

A kid walks into your bookstore and... guess what? He's your son. The one you put up for adoption eighteen years ago. The one you never told anyone about. Surprise! 
 
And a huge surprise it is. 
 
It's a huge surprise to his adoptive mother, Monica, who thought she had a close relationship with Matthew, her nearly adult son. Until he secretly arranged a vacation to Cape Cod so he could meet his birth mother... without a word to her. 
 
It's also a surprise to Harlow, the woman who secretly placed him for adoption so many years ago. She has built a quiet life, running a bookstore with her grandfather, and is happily single... though she can't help gravitating toward Grady Byrne, an old friend who has moved back to town, three-year-old daughter in tow, and no wife in the picture. 
 
When Matthew walks into Harlow's store, she faints. Monica panics. And all their assumptions about what being a parent really means explode... 
 
This summer will be full of more surprises as both their families are redefined...and as both women learn that for them, there's no limit to a mother's love.

A Little Ray of Sunshine

A beautiful and romantic novel guaranteed to make you laugh and cry, from the bestselling author of TikTok sensation Pack up the Moon

Laura Jane Williams

'An impossibly fun romance with an all-too relatable message, Lovestruck is the perfect escapist treat from one of the best romance writers out there' Lindsey Kelk 
 
This isn't one love story. It's two. 
 
Becca Calloway is calling it: she's ready for Mr Right, and she's ready now. 
 
She even goes as far as to hold a manifestation ceremony for him - and when she receives a text from her ex five minutes later, she knows it's a sign. 
 
The problem is, she doesn't know which way it's pointing... 
 
Should Becca reply and reignite things with her old flame Mike? Or delete and block, moving forward with the new man in her life? 
 
Becca has one choice, with two ways this could go. And in Lovestruck, you're about to see them both... 
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PRAISE FOR LAURA JANE WILLIAMS 
 
'Laura Jane Williams combines sharp, relatable wit and bold, joyful sincerity' Dolly Alderton 
 
'A fresh, smart, modern rom com. It had me totally gripped!' Beth O'Leary 
 
'An absolute delight!' Emily Henry 
 
'Perceptive, funny and ultimately hopeful - the perfect tonic' Sophie Cousens 
 
'I can't remember the last time a book made me forget I had a phone. Pure escapist fiction!' Stacey Halls

Lovestruck

Jo Thomas

'Full of love and warmth, tears and laughter, another gorgeous book from Jo Thomas' Katie Fforde 
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A dream home 
Beca Valentino is ready to escape the city. When she sees the perfect house for sale in her hometown, it seems like fate. Is this her chance to build the foster family she dreams of, on the beautiful Pembrokeshire coast? 
 
A big mistake? 
Returning home isn't as easy as she thought, however. Her family's beloved ice cream café is gone - turned into a soulless wine bar by her hateful ex-boyfriend. Reconnecting with her oldest friend, fisherman Griff, isn't straightforward either. And when, instead of the children she expected to take in, two wary teenage boys appear on her doorstep, Beca fears she's made a terrible mistake. 
 
A recipe for change 
But an old family recipe book is just the inspiration she needs. Soon, with a little help from friends old and new, Beca is selling mouth-watering homemade gelato from a pop-up café on the beach. 
 
Then disaster strikes. Will the Valentino family legacy be lost forever? Or can Beca create a new recipe for happiness?

Summer at the Ice Cream Café

Emma Straub

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 
'Will make you laugh, cry, and call the people you love. Exceptional' EMILY HENRY 
 
'Nostalgic, wise, funny, and filled with love' GABRIELLE ZEVIN 
'Her most emotionally resonant work yet' VOGUE 
'Has the makings of a dreamy, witty, contemporary classic' EVENING STANDARD 
'I just finished and I'm crying at its message and its honestly and its utter beauty' JODI PICOULT 
'A tender, witty David Nicholls-esque tale of familial love' i 
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About to turn forty, Alice feels stuck: She works at the school she attended. Her boyfriend isn't the man of her dreams. And her beloved father Leonard is dying. 
 
But after one too many drinks, she wakes up in her childhood home to find forty-year-old Leonard celebrating her sixteenth birthday. 
 
Now Alice gets to relive this one day in 1996, over and over. When the slightest change will impact the rest of her life. 
 
Can she fix her life and save her father? 
 
Or will her good intentions only cause harm to those she loves most? 
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With her celebrated humour, insight, and heart, Emma Straub cleverly turns all the traditional time travel tropes on their head and delivers a different kind of love story - about the lifelong, reverberating relationship between a parent and child. 
 
'A tender tale of time travel. Straub strips back the layers to reveal what's important' STYLIST, 'BOOK OF THE WEEK' 
 
 
'An excellent time-travelling novel about adolescence and second chances from the always brilliant Emma Straub' METRO 
 
'Clever, complex and really rather lovely' BEST 
 
'Magical, heart-warming and insightful . . . Warm, wryly funny and melancholic' DAILY EXPRESS 
 
'This time-travelling take on a hypothetical return to 1996 and the protagonist's 16th birthday will be enough to remind you to cherish what you have' ELLE 
 
'Full of deftly managed plot twists, it's both fun and poignant' MAIL ON SUNDAY 
 
'Literary sunshine' New York Times on All Adults Here 
 
'A gorgeous and witty storyteller' Liane Moriarty 
 
'Deliciously warm and nostalgic' Gillian McAllister, bestselling author of Wrong Place Wrong Time 
 
 'A master of the domestic ensemble drama' Time

This Time Tomorrow

The tender and witty new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of All Adults Here

Bridget Morrissey

Nestled into the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains, Camp Carl Cove provides the exact escape recently divorced Garland Moore always dreamed of, until she runs into Mason - the man she had a premonition about after one brief meeting years ago. No matter how she tries to run, the universe appears determined to bring love back into Garland's life. She even ends up rooming with Mason's sister Stevie, a vibrant former park ranger who is as charming as she is competitive. The more time Garland spends with Stevie, the more the signs confuse her. The stars are aligning in a way Garland never could have predicted...

That Summer Feeling

The perfect swoon-worthy summer romance

Monica Murphy

Weston Fontaine is the hottest senior at Lancaster Prep. 
 
He could have any girl on campus, except for one. 
 
Me. 
 
I'm a Lancaster, meaning I'm basically untouchable-or so I thought. My family own the school which I have to endure before I can return to what I love most: ballet. 
 
West doesn't make my time here easy. He's arrogant. Crude. Insufferable. Yet he's the only boy I've ever let touch me... 
 
You see, West and I? We share a secret. In Paris, I revealed parts of myself to him I've never shown anyone else. And he did the same. 
 
So what happens when you helplessly fall for the one person you know is bad for you?

I’ll Always Be With You

The Frosts are a typical American family. Barb and John, married almost fifty years, are testy and bored with each other... who could blame them after all this time? At least they have their daughters-- Barb's favorite, the perfect, brilliant Juliet; and John's darling, the free-spirited Sadie. The girls themselves couldn't be more different, but at least they got along, more or less. It was fine. It was enough. 
 
Until the day John had a stroke, and their house of cards came tumbling down. 
 
Now Sadie has to put her career as a teacher and struggling artist in New York on hold to come back and care for her beloved dad - and face the love of her life, whose heart she broke, and who broke hers. Now Juliet has to wonder if people will notice that despite her perfect career as a successful architect, her perfect marriage to a charming Brit, and her two perfect daughters, she's spending an increasing amount of time in the closet having panic attacks. 
 
And now Barb and John will finally have to face what's been going on in their marriage all along.

Always the Last to Know

A heartbreaking and uplifting story from the bestselling author of TikTok sensation Pack up the Moon

Emerson, Georgia, and Marley have been best friends ever since they met at a weight-loss camp as teens. When Emerson tragically passes away, she leaves one final wish for her best friends: to conquer the fears they still carry as adults. 
 
For each of them, that means something different. For Marley, it's coming to terms with the survivor's guilt she's carried around since her twin sister's death, which has left her blind to the real chance for romance in her life. For Georgia, it's about learning to stop trying to live up to her mother's and brother's ridiculous standards, and learning to accept the love her ex-husband has tried to give her. 
 
But as Marley and Georgia grow stronger, the real meaning of Emerson's dying wish becomes truly clear: more than anything, she wanted her friends to love themselves. 
 
A novel of compassion and insight, Good Luck With That tells the story of two women who learn to embrace themselves just the way they are.

Good Luck with That

A heartfelt and emotional story from the bestselling author of TikTok sensation Pack up the Moon

Emma London never thought she had anything in common with her grandmother Genevieve. The regal old woman came from wealthy New England stock, but that didn't protect her from life's cruelest blows: the disappearance of her young son, followed by the premature death of her husband. Genevieve rose from those ashes of grief and built a fashion empire that was respected the world over, even when it meant neglecting her other son. 
 
When Emma's own mother died, her father abandoned her on his mother's doorstep. Genevieve took Emma in and reluctantly raised her - until Emma got pregnant her senior year of high school. Genevieve kicked her out with nothing but the clothes on her back. 
 
Now Emma has built a wonderful life for herself and her teenage daughter, Riley. So what is she to do when Genevieve does the one thing Emma never expected of her and, after not speaking to her for nearly two decades, calls and asks for help?

Life and Other Inconveniences

Lillie Silva knew life as an empty nester would be hard after her only child left for college, but when her husband abruptly dumps her for another woman just as her son leaves, her world comes crashing down. Besides the fact that this announcement is a complete surprise (to say the least), what shocks Lillie most is that she isn't heartbroken. She's furious. 
 
Lillie has loved her life on Cape Cod, but as a mother, wife, and nurse-midwife, she's used to caring for other people . . . not taking care of herself. Now, alone for the first time in her life, she finds herself going a little rogue. Is it over the top to crash her ex-husband's wedding dressed like the angel of death? Sure! Should she release a skunk into his perfect new home? Probably not! But it beats staying home and moping. 
 
She finds an unexpected ally in her glamorous sister, with whom she's had a tense relationship all these years. And an unexpected babysitter in, of all people, Ben Hallowell, the driver in a car accident that nearly killed Lillie twenty years ago. And then there's Ophelia, her ex-husband's oddly lost niece, who could really use a friend. 
 
It's the end of Lillie's life as she knew it. But sometimes the perfect next chapter surprises you . . . out of the clear blue sky.

Out of the Clear Blue Sky

A funny and surprising story from the bestselling author of TikTok sensation Pack up the Moon

Nell Frizzell

'Electrifyingly good...sharply comic and perfectly poignant' Daisy Buchanan, author of Insatiable 
 
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Everyone is moving on... and then, there's Hanna 
 
By thirty, Hanna expected to have it all (or at least some of it) 
 
· A fulfilling and successful career 
 
· A healthy, long-term relationship, maybe even an engagement ring 
 
· A house (or at least a flat) of her own 
 
But in reality, she's back at square one... 
 
· Single after breaking up with someone she's not sure ever loved her 
 
· Flooded with wedding invitations and pregnancy scan pictures from friends 
 
· Unable to afford to live on her own and forced to move in with her father who is also single and dating 
 
Everyone moves at different paces, but Hanna's life is in reverse. With the pressure to keep up and her dad's insufferable musings on Tinder, will she be able to figure out what she really wants?

Square One

A brilliantly bold and sharply funny debut from the author of The Panic Years

India Knight

Marooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for greater things. She longs for love, but how will she ever find it? She can't even get a signal on her mobile phone. Linda's strict, former rock-star father terrifies any potential suitors away, while her bohemian mother, wafting around in silver jewellery, answers Linda's urgent questions about love with upsettingly vivid allusions to animal husbandry. 
 
When Linda eventually moves to London, she doesn't want to marry 'a man who looks like a pudding', as her good and dull sister Louisa has done, and marries the flashy, handsome son of a UKIP peer instead. But love, and her new life in London, are not quite what she expected . . .

Darling

A razor-sharp, gloriously funny retelling of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love

Paige Toon

'Heartwarming and heartbreaking' Giovanna Fletcher 
'Deep, emotional and powerful' Milly Johnson 
'It swept me away' Beth O'Leary 
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An instant Sunday Times bestseller. 
 
Neither of them expected to fall in love. But sometimes life has other plans. 
 
When Wren realises her fiancé is in love with someone else, she thinks her heart will never recover. 
 
On the other side of the world, Anders lost his wife four years ago and is still struggling to move on. 
 
Wren hopes that spending the summer with her dad and step-family on their farm in Indiana will help her to heal. There, amid the cornfields and fireflies, she and Anders cross paths and their worlds are turned upside-down again. 
 
But Wren does not know that Anders is harbouring a secret, and if he acts on any feelings he has for Wren it will have serious fall-out for everyone. 
 
Walking away would hurt Wren more than she can imagine. But, knowing the truth, how can she possibly stay? 
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'This is a book that will have you swooning, crying, and turning the pages late into the night' Sophie Cousens 
 
'Beautifully written. So immersive and with such depth of emotion' Jill Mansell 
 
'This is going to be totally massive, because it has everything: family, love, secrets, sexy descriptions of brooding, hot men. . . just sublime' Laura Jane Williams 
 
'A moving, remarkably romantic and emotional novel written by one of the only writers who can make me cry! Paige Toon continues to weave the most beautiful, deep stories, and Only Love Can Hurt Like This is her at her absolute best!' Lia Louis 
 
'A word-perfect deep dive into the highs and lows of love' Heidi Swain 
 
'Paige Toon is a genius and I highly recommend this gorgeous book' Lucy Vine 
 
'A heart-wrenching story. . . I feel bereft to have finished it' Ali Harris 
 
'Heart-wrenching and beautiful with a seismic plot twist' Zoë Folbigg 
 
'Emotional, angsty, and utterly romantic. . .This story will have you wiping away tears one moment, and smiling dreamily the next' Mia Sheridan 
 
'The author is known for writing gutwrenching novels, and hits the mark again with this wonderful tale' The Sun 
 
&lsquo;A hot man with dark secrets, a sparky heroine, a gorgeous setting and slow-burn emotional fire. Whew. *Fans self*' Natasha Poliszczuk 
 
'Compulsively page-turning, wildly romantic and beautifully heartbreaking. I stayed up all night and inhaled it in one big gulp. A totally brilliant read - I couldn't love it more' Emily Stone 
 
'What a beautiful, lovely tearjerker of a book. This story will stay with me for a long time. . .' Lizzy Dent 
 
'Toon urges us to risk everything, to never play it safe when it comes to the heart, and to know that caring is always, always, worth the cost' Caroline Leavitt 
 
'Paige Toon's writing is emotional and riveting. Even while her novel was breaking my heart into tiny pieces, I could not put it down' Jill Santopolo 
 
'Heartbreaking, gorgeous and unforgettable [...] Only Paige can write like this!' Dani Atkins 
 
'This book is a delicious, slow burn love story that hit me in parts of my heart I didn't even know I had' Annabel Monaghan 
 
 
Instant Sunday Times bestseller, April 2023

Only Love Can Hurt Like This

Caroline Khoury

Is it ever too late to rewrite the past? 
 
When Lina and Ash were at school, they buried a time capsule containing letters about their hopes and dreams, and predictions for each other's futures. 
 
Twenty years later, their realities couldn't be further from what they'd expected. And as for Lina and Ash? They're not in each other's lives anymore. 
 
When a reunion brings Lina and Ash back together, they agree to give the dreams they walked away from another chance and embark on a trip that could change everything. 
 
And if they can overcome what happened in the past, then maybe the end of their love story was really just the beginning... 
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YOU NEVER KNOW WHERE LOVE MIGHT TAKE YOU WITH CAROLINE KHOURY 
 
Praise for Caroline Khoury: 
 
'I couldn't turn the pages of ALWAYS YOU fast enough: achingly romantic and full of twists and turns, it's everything a romance should be. Just gorgeous!' Laura Jane Williams 
 
'A complicated love story with lots of unforeseen twists and moments between the characters. I always love it when you can envisage how a story is going to end but the journey of bringing them together is an adventure' Elle Cook 
 
'Always You is a beautiful celebration of love and friendship; a rollercoaster ride filled with family secrets, peppered with scrumptious sounding food' Emma Cowell 
 
'A beautiful, romantic story that will whisk you away with gorgeous characters. A book full of love!' Olivia Beirne 
 
'A gorgeous second chance love story, beautifully written and full of heart' Sophie Cousens 
 
'A beautiful, sweeping, intelligent love story' Zoë Folbigg 
 
'I adored this second-chance love story about secrets, dreams and long-buried emotions. Richly evocative, layered with intrigue and wonderfully romantic' Holly Miller 
 
'A sweeping love story taking me from Cyprus to Mumbai to LA, with each setting so perfectly realised that I felt as though I was right there with them' Lorraine Brown 
 
'Caroline takes you on such a moving, deeply-felt journey ... I cried several times!' Emma Hughes

Always You

A heartwarming, emotional and wonderfully romantic love story

India Holton

When rumours circulate that a group of dastardly pirates plan to assassinate the Queen, Alice is immediately assigned to the case. 
However she won't be working alone. 
Enter Daniel Bixby. Unflappable master spy and Alice's greatest rival. 
Together they must assume the identity of husband and wife in order to infiltrate a perilous pirate party. 
Alice is determined to remain professional. This is work after all. But when an attraction starts to grow there may be more at stake than just the throne . . .

The Secret Service of Tea and Treason

The spellbinding fantasy romance for fans of Bridgerton

Chloe Liese

'A stunning mix of hilarious tropes, swoony romance and lovable, relatable characters. A must read for every romance lover!' Ali Hazelwood, author of The Love Hypothesis 
 
Brace yourself for longing, laughter, and a swoony slow-burn in this brothers best friend sports romance about scoring the love of your life when you least expect to. 
 
Ziggy 
I'm the youngest player on the National Soccer team, the baby of my family, and thoroughly sick of being underestimated, so I've decided to take matters into my own hands . . . 
 
My brother's teammate and best friend Seb needs to save his reputation. I want to give mine an edge. So I propose a fake friendship with real benefits: spending time in the public eye, my good-girl image and his bad-boy notoriety rubbing off on each other. But will it be as easy as I think to keep him in the (fake) friend zone? 
 
Sebastian 
My hockey career and sponsorships are in jeopardy, so when Ziggy Bergman proposes a public "friendship" to rehab my image, it's an offer that even a self-respecting reprobate like myself can't refuse. 
 
It's simple: fake a friendship with Ziggy, fix my reputation, and get back to hockey - the one and only thing I love . . . until I find myself falling for the last person I should be: my best friend's sister. 
 
Praise for Chloe Liese: 
 
'I could curl up in Liese's writing for days, I love it so' Helen Hoang, author of The Kiss Quotient 
 
'Absolute romantic perfection' Christina Lauren, author of The Unhoneymooners

If Only You

Jojo Moyes

Nell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris. She has never even been on a weekend away with her boyfriend. Everyone knows she is just not the adventurous type. 
 
But when her boyfriend doesn't turn up for their romantic mini-break, Nell has the chance to prove everyone wrong. 
 
Alone in Paris, Nell meets the mysterious moped-riding Fabien and his group of carefree friends. Could this turn out to be the most adventurous weekend of her life?

Paris For One

Quick Reads

Rachel Joyce

*Companion edition to the major film written by Rachel Joyce, award-winning author of the internationally bestselling book, directed by Hettie Macdonald (Normal People) and starring Oscar-winner Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton 
 
*Contains exclusive new behind-the-scenes insights and colour photographs 
 
Harold is an ordinary man who has passed through life, living on the side lines, until he goes to post a letter one day...and just keeps walking. 
 
This edition includes stills from the film; also exclusive material about adapting novel to book by Rachel Joyce; Rachel Joyce in conversation with the producers; insights from the producer about the challenges of making the movie and a full credit list. 
 
'The odyssey of a simple man, original, subtle and touching.' Claire Tomalin 
 
'From the moment I met Harold Fry, I didn't want to leave him. Impossible to put down.' Erica Wagner, The Times

The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry

The film tie-in edition to the major motion picture

Joshua Park never expected to be a widower at the age of thirty. Given his solitary job, small circle of friends and family, and the social awkwardness he's always suffered from, he has no idea how to negotiate this new, unwanted phase of life. 
 
But Lauren, his wife, had a plan to keep him moving forward. A plan hidden in the letters she leaves him, giving him a task for every month in the year after her death. 
 
It's a journey that will take Joshua from his first outing as a widower to buy groceries... to an attempted dinner party that becomes a comic disaster... to finding a new best friend while weeping in the dressing room of a clothing store. As his grief makes room for new friendships and experiences, Joshua learns Lauren's most valuable lesson: the path to happiness doesn't follow a straight line. 
 
Funny, sometimes heart-wrenching, and always uplifting, this novel from bestselling author Kristan Higgins illuminates how life's greatest joys are often hiding in plain sight.

Pack Up the Moon

TikTok made me buy it: a heart-wrenching and uplifting story from the bestselling author

Poorna Bell

'It is a joy to read a debut that has such heart, humour, and pathos' Taylor Jenkins Reid 
'The book of the summer' Stylist 
'A witty, thought-provoking read' Woman and Home 
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When Bel Kumar leaves for work in the morning, the last thing she expects is wake up in hospital later that day - with her ex from four years ago by her bedside. 
 
It turns out that: 
 
1) She's had a near-death accident outside work 
2) She urgently needs to replace her ex with another next of kin on her HR form 
 
But who can Bel turn to in a crisis? She's never been good at asking for help, but she knows she needs to reconnect with the most important people from her past. 
 
Within days she's navigating complex family history, old school friendships and romantic encounters - with consequences she never could have predicted. 
 
Perhaps the worst day of Bel's life will turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to her . . . 
___________________________________________ 
 
'An instant rom-com classic' Lindsey Kelk 
 
'Switching between the past and present, In Case of Emergency is a novel of self-realisation and the freeing power of defying both familial and societal expectations. It's simply impossible not to root for Bel' CultureFly 
 
'Fans of Dolly Alderton's Ghosts and Emma Jane Unsworth's Adults will adore IN CASE OF EMERGENCY. This book reminds us all that no matter how capable we might be, we're nothing if not properly connected to those around us. A remarkable and thought-provoking debut!' Laura Jane Williams 
 
'A gorgeous read full of warmth, humour and relatable moments that make you realise you're less alone in the world. The perfect book to curl up with this summer. I adored it' Salma El-Wardany 
 
'Funny and clever with a ton of swagger' Stacey Duguid 
 
'I inhaled this book. You really root for Poorna's characters. They're both relatable and relevant' Natasha Devon 
 
'We loved this warm and thoughtful read' Sun on Sunday 
 
'Journalist Bell writes with panache about a young woman finding herself... and finding what matters' Daily Mail 
 
'This smart and incisive debut novel explores the pressures placed on women and reflects the full intricacies, joys and nuance of life as a British South Asian woman in the UK today' Stylist 
 
'Bel is wonderfully flawed and relatable, and this is a witty, thought-provoking read. Great 90's references too' Woman Magazine 
 
'There's a moment in which the author describes the first sparks of love, a feeling so small yet unstoppable, with such aching delicacy it took my breath away' Ranvir Singh 
 
'In Case of Emergency explored some intricacies of growing up British Indian and the way Bel and her sister have taken radically different paths in life' Better Words

In Case of Emergency

A feel good, funny and uplifting book that is impossible to put down

Alicia Thompson

PhD candidate Phoebe Walsh has always been obsessed with true crime. She's even analysing the genre in her dissertation - if she can manage to finish writing it. It's hard to find the time while she spends the summer in Florida, cleaning out her childhood home, dealing with her obnoxiously good-natured younger brother, and grappling with the complicated feelings of mourning a father she hadn't had a relationship with for years. 
 
It doesn't help that she's low-key convinced that her new neighbour, Sam Dennings, is a serial killer (he may dress business casual by day, but at night he's clearly up to something). But it's not long before Phoebe realises that Sam might be something much scarier - a genuinely nice guy who can pierce her armour to reach her vulnerable heart.

Love in the Time of Serial Killers

Lynn Painter

The feel-good, hilarious and swoon-worthy new book from the author of MR WRONG NUMBER 
 
'I was obsessed with Hallie and Jack right from the start' 5* READER REVIEW 
 
'Lynn Painter never fails to make the best romcoms and this was no different! This had EVERYTHING - fake dating, only one bed, jealous love interest - I loved every SECOND!' 5* READER REVIEW 
 
'I already know this is going to be one of my favourites of the year . . . Just perfection. I want to read this book again already' 5* READER REVIEW 
__________ 
 
After yet another disastrous date, Hallie Piper decides it's time to grow up. 
 
She gets a new apartment, a new haircut, and a new wardrobe. But when she logs into an app to find new love, she matches with none other than Jack: the guy the wrong kind of sparks had flown with just weeks earlier. 
 
Agreeing that they are absolutely not interested in each other, Jack and Hallie realise that they're each other's perfect wing-person - and join forces in their searches for The One. They even place a wager on who can find romance first. 
 
But when they agree to be fake dates for a wedding, all bets are off. 
 
Because as they pretend to be a couple, they struggle to remember why dating for real was a bad idea to begin with . . . 
__________ 
 
Readers are head-over-heels for THE LOVE WAGER . . . 
 
'I had an absolute blast reading this book! I was consistently laughing out loud . . . This book is fun and entertaining and I didn't want to put it down' 5* READER REVIEW 
 
'I LOVED this book! Read this if you love: fake dating, bookish/Jane Austen inspired banter, heroes who fall first, flirty texts, dual POV' 5* READER REVIEW 
 
'There is something about Lynn Painters writing that is so addictive and you can't help but fly through her books because you just don't want to put the book down' 5* READER REVIEW 
 
'Beautifully written, it was heartfelt and a little bit emotional. The friends-to-lovers and fake dating was amazing. Hallie and Jack were hilarious, I was actually laughing out loud' 5* READER REVIEW 
 
'An adorable, perfect read that I would happily fall in love with again and again and again' 5* READER REVIEW 
 
'This was funny and sweet and such an absolute joy to read' 5* READER REVIEW 
 
'This book had me hooked from start to end' 5* READER REVIEW 
 
Praise for Lynn Painter 
 
'The most sidesplittingly funny, sexual tension-filled book I've read in a long, long time. I dare you not to fall in love!' ALI HAZELWOOD, author of THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS 
 
 'Smart, sexy, and downright hilarious. Mr Wrong Number is an absolutely pitch-perfect romantic comedy' CHRISTINA LAUREN, author of THE UNHONEYMOONERS

The Love Wager

Clare Pooley

Every day at 8:05, Iona Iverson boards the train to go to work. As a seasoned commuter, she knows there are rules that everyone should follow: 
 
· You must have a job to go to 
· Don't consume hot food 
· Always pack for any eventuality 
· You must never speak to strangers on the train 
 
Iona sees the same group of people each day - ones she makes assumptions about, gives nicknames to, but never ever talks to. 
 
But then, one morning, Smart-but-Sexist-Surbiton chokes on a grape right in front of Iona. Suspiciously-Nice-New Malden steps up to help and saves his life, and this one event sparks a chain reaction. 
 
With nothing in common but their commute, an eclectic group of people learn that their assumptions about each other don't match reality. But when Iona's life begins to fall apart, will her new friends be there when she needs them most?

The People on Platform 5

Liane Moriarty

From the bestselling author behind the addictive, EMMY and GOLDEN GLOBE-winning HBO sensation BIG LITTLE LIES comes a cocktail of family, friendship, and the fear of what could have been . . . 
 
'Perfect summer read' REESE WITHERSPOON 
______________ 
 
Six responsible adults. One day that changes everything. 
 
'This is a story which begins with a barbecue in the suburbs . . .' 
 
In just one evening, a lifelong friendship will be in tatters, a marriage on the rocks and an innocent bystander dead. 
 
In just one evening, six lives will change for ever. 
______________ 
 
'Filled with so many twists and turns. Keeps you guessing until the very end. Perfect summer read' Reese Witherspoon 
 
'You must clear a reading slot for this novel . . . Truly Madly Guilty is as brilliantly accomplished as it is dark, twisty and compulsive. No wonder Reese Witherspoon is such a huge Moriarty fan' Heat 
 
'Straight-from-life characters, knife-sharp insight and almost unbearable suspense will have you racing through it' Good Housekeeping 
 
'A riveting drama packed with suspense and secrets' Woman &amp; Home

Truly Madly Guilty

From the bestselling author of Big Little Lies, now an award winning TV series

Lizzie Damilola Blackburn

Yinka wants to find love. Her mum wants to find it for her. 
 
She also has too many aunties who frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, a preference for chicken and chips over traditional Nigerian food, and a bum she's sure is far too small as a result. Oh, and the fact that she's a thirty-one-year-old South-Londoner who doesn't believe in sex before marriage is a bit of an obstacle too... 
 
When her cousin gets engaged, Yinka commences 'Operation Find A Date for Rachel's Wedding'. Armed with a totally flawless, incredibly specific plan, will Yinka find herself a huzband? 
 
What if the thing she really needs to find is herself?

Yinka, Where is Your Huzband?

‘A big hearted story about friendship, family and love’ Beth O’Leary

The adventures of wise-cracking middle school student Greg Heffley who must somehow survive the scariest time of anyone's life: middle school. The hilarious and internationally bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Diddly Squat

Dino Dad

Dino Racers

Dinosaur Train

The Discworld is undoubtedly Sir Terry Pratchett's most famous creation. A universe teeming with dwarves, trolls, witches, and social and cultural issues that parallel those in our own world, all wrapped up in Pratchett's inimitable comic delivery. This iconic series will make you laugh, then make you think.

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