Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.

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J M Coetzee

After his piano recital in Barcelona, Witold Walczykiewicz – white-haired virtuoso, controversial interpreter of Chopin – becomes infatuated with Beatriz, his designated companion at dinner. Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, is at first unmoved. But as the stranger’s letters, music, and poetry flood into her home, a dream of love begins that surprises them both.

The Pole and Other Stories

Irvine Welsh

Rebecca Navarro, best-selling authoress of Regency romances, suffers a paralysing stroke. Assisted by her nurse, Rebecca plans her revenge on her unfaithful husband. But will Freddy Royle, hospital trustee, celebrity and necrophiliac, thwart those plans? Dave Thornton, soccer thug, has lost his heart to flawed beauty Samantha Worthington. Together they go in search of the man who marketed the drug that crippled her - in order to cripple him. Lloyd from Leith has a transfiguring passion for the unhappily married Heather. Together they explore the true nature of house music and chemical romance. Will their ardour fizzle and die in the grim backstreets of Edinburgh, or will it ignite and blaze like a thousand suns?

Ecstasy

Three Tales of Chemical Romance

Pauline Delabroy-Allard

An intoxicating and evocative novel about the all-consuming love affair between two women in Paris and the ruin it leaves in its wake. 
 
'Captivating...intense...seductive' Guardian 
 
A thirty-something teacher drifts through her life in Paris, raising a daughter on her own, lonely in spite of a new boyfriend. Then one night, at a friend's tepid New Year's Eve party, Sarah enters the scene like a tornado. A talented young violinist, she is loud, vivacious, appealingly unkempt in a world where everyone seems preoccupied with being 'just so'. It is the beginning of an intense relationship, tender and violent, that will upend both women's lives. 
 
A literary sensation in France, All About Sarah perfectly captures the pull of a desire so strong that it blinds us to everything else. 
 
'All About Sarah moves impressively from the chaos and noise of love, to silence and solitude, like a spun coin settling' Observer

All About Sarah

Jennifer Close

Ever feel like everyone but you has their life under control? 
 
Isabella, Mary and Lauren feel like everyone they know has a plan, a good job, and a nice boyfriend. 
 
Isabella, on the other hand, thinks she might hate her own boyfriend, Mary is working so hard she's hoping to get hit by a car just so she can have some time off work and Lauren is dating a man who can't spell her first name. 
 
All three of them have been friends since college, and now - more than ever - they need each other, as they struggle through those thrilling, bewildering, what-on-earth-am-I-doing years when everyone else is getting married and they're just getting drunk.

Girls in White Dresses

Linea Maja Ernst

Five friends from university; seven summer days in a lakeside cabin in Denmark. A chance to swim, sunbathe, flirt, read and recreate the magic of their youth. 
 
At least that’s what Sylvia had hoped. But then her friends arrive with real jobs, kids and partners. Worse, Esben (her decades-long crush) and Karen announce their plan to get married at the end of the week. As desire and anxiety swirl, and the wedding day approaches, will the group achieve their arcadian dreams or will everything come tumbling down?

Waist Deep

Susan Hill

After just a year of close, loving marriage, Ruth has been widowed. Her beloved husband, Ben, has been killed in a tragic accident and Ruth is left, suddenly and totally bereft. 
 
Unable to share her sorrow and grief with Ben's family, who are dealing with their pain in their own way, Ruth becomes increasingly isolated, burying herself in her cottage in the countryside as the seasons change around her. Only Ben's young brother Jo, is able to reach out beyond his own grief, to offer Ruth the compassion which might reclaim her from her own devastating unhappiness. 
 
The result is a moving, lyrical exploration of love and loss, of grief and mourning, from a masterful writer.

In the Springtime of the Year

Janet Davey

Two men meet by chance in the taxi queue outside Paddington station one January night. Richard is in his mid-forties, apparently happily married, with two children. Abe is young, and casually manipulative. The men share a taxi and, on impulse, Richard invites Abe into his home- an action that sends ripples not only through his own life and that of his wife, but also through the fragile existence of Abe's younger sister, Kirsty, who is herself unsure of the best way to settle down...

The Taxi Queue

Josie Lloyd

Emlyn Rees

She can't read his mind. He can't read hers. But you can read both. The iconic '90s rom-com from the number-one bestselling authors. 
 
Dating in the 90s sucks. Men are from Mars, women are from Venus and no one is getting a call after the first date. 
 
Meet Jack: twenty-seven-year old commitment-phobe and serious partier. He tried love – it didn’t work out. So why bother, when being single is this much fun? Right? 
 
Meet Amy: while she’s stuck in dead-end temp jobs, her friends are settling down and her mother is despairing of her. It’s time to sort things out and make a change. 
 
Now find out what happens when they meet each other. They don’t want the same things, they’re caught up in the whirlwind of distractions offered by 1990s London and they can only communicate by landline – do they have a chance? 
 
*Josie and Emlyn's brilliant new time-travel rom-com You & Me and You & Me and You & Me is available to pre-order now.* 
 
‘Their characters live and breathe’ Sunday Times 
 
‘Endearing and addictive’ Heat 
 
‘Brilliantly written and wittily observed’ Daily Express

Come Together

Layne Fargo

To the world, they were a scandal. To each other, an obsession. 
 
The epic love story that reimagines the tempestuous romance of Wuthering Heights in the sparkling, savage world of elite figure skating. 
 
‘Perfect if you’re a fan of Daisy Jones and the Six’ Cosmopolitan 
‘Brilliant… will keep you guessing until its very last page’ Jodi Picoult 
'A delight - I was completely hooked' Sophie Cousens 
‘A must-read’ Sarah Michelle Gellar 
 
 
***** READERS ARE OBSESSED WITH THE FAVOURITES***** 
‘A true gold medal 5-star book’ 
‘Forever changed me’ 
‘Completely captivating’ 
‘Spectacular drama’ 
‘My book of 2025 – already’ 
‘Get ready to be obsessed’ 
 
The whole world was obsessed with Kat and Heath. 
 
Childhood sweethearts turned Olympic champions, they captivated fans with their scorching chemistry, rebellious style and rollercoaster relationship – on and off the ice. 
 
Until that fateful day. As the world watched, the unthinkable happened. 
 
Everyone saw it. 
 
Nobody knows the truth. 
 
But that’s about to change. 
 
NOW INCLUDES A BONUS STORY TOLD FROM HEATH'S PERSPECTIVE

The Favourites

Allen Bratton

*2025 Lammy Award Finalist* 
 
'One of the most exciting new novels' FINANCIAL TIMES 
 
'Very funny... Its deeply felt pages flew by' GUARDIAN 
 
'Sexy, compassionate, uncommonly imaginative: I've never read anything quite like it' Oisín McKenna, author of Evenings and Weekends 
 
London, 2014. Hal Lancaster – twenty-two, gay, Catholic, chops lines of cocaine with his myWaitrose card – is the reluctant heir of his father Henry, the sixteenth Duke of Lancaster. Henry is half tyrant, half martyr, with an investment in his eldest son that has grown into an obsession. While Hal floats between internships and drinking sessions, Henry keeps him in check with passive-aggression, religious guilt, and a cruelty that Hal sometimes confuses for tenderness. 
 
When a grouse shooting accident – funny in retrospect – makes a romance out of Hal’s rivalry with fumblingly leftist family friend Harry Percy, Hal finds that he wants, for the first time, a life of his own. But his father Henry is an Englishman: he will not let his son escape tradition. To save himself, Hal must reckon not only with grief and shame but with the wounds of his family's past. 
 
'Deeply enjoyable' Julia Armfield, author of Our Wives Under the Sea 
 
'Thrillingly imaginative' Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time

Henry Henry

Helen Fielding

‘Bridget is a creation of comic genius’ NICK HORNBY 
 
8.45 P.M. Realise there have been so many times in my life when have fantasised about going to a scan with Mark or Daniel: just not both at the same time. 
 
Before motherhood, before marriage, BRIDGET JONES, with biological clock ticking very, very loudly, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at the eleventh hour.Her joyful pregnancy is dominated, however, by a crucial but terribly awkward question – who is the father? Mark Darcy: honourable, decent, notable human rights lawyer? Or Daniel Cleaver: charming, witty, notable fuckwit?

Bridget Jones’s Baby

The Diaries

Xiaolu Guo

'A fragmentary meditation on the nature of love' Guardian 
 
A Chinese woman comes to post-Brexit London to start over - just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch. 
 
 Isolated and lonely in a Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners, she meets a landscape architect and the two begin to build their future together. 
 
Playing with language and the cultural differences that our narrator encounters as she settles into her new life, the lovers must navigate their differences and their romance, whether on their unmoored houseboat or in a cramped apartment in east London. Suffused with a wonderful sense of humour, this intimate novel asks what it means to make a home and a family in a new land.

A Lover's Discourse

Margaret Forster

Georgy is young, gregarious and fun - she is also large, self-confessedly ugly and desperate for love. Georgy bears her fate bravely as she alternates between playing the fool and humbling herself before Meredith, her pretty, callous flatmate, although when James, middle-aged socialite and self-imposed 'Uncle', asks Georgy to become his mistress, she is tempted to accept. Then Meredith announces that she is pregnant and Jos, the expectant father, decides he is in love with Georgy...

Georgy Girl

Ailsa McFarlane

'Holds you captive like a blues song' Olivia Sudjic 
 
In San Padua you can never get the ocean out of your brain. 
 
Anne Marie's husband Cal left her on their first anniversary. Two years later and she is still adrift, living a precarious life of shift work and shared apartments. 
 
When he shows up on the doorstep, clearly in trouble, she reluctantly agrees to a drink. But later that night a gun goes off in an alley near the shore and the young couple flee together, crammed into a beat-up car with their broken past, desperate to fill their lives on this long stretch of road under hot skies. 
 
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PRAISE FOR HIGHWAY BLUE 
'Poignant, moving and cinematic' An Yu 
'Beautiful' Observer 
'Unforgettable' Elaine Feeney 
'Gripping' Stylist

Highway Blue

Nico Walker

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM APPLE TV+ STARRING TOM HOLLAND 
 
Cleveland, Ohio, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and ecstasy and fall hard and fast in love. But soon Emily has to move home to Elba, New York, and he flunks out of school and joins the army. 
 
Desperate to keep their relationship alive, they marry before he ships out to Iraq. But as an army medic, he is unprepared for the grisly reality that awaits him. His fellow soldiers smoke; they huff computer duster; they take painkillers; they watch porn. And many of them die. He and Emily try to make their long-distance marriage work, but when he returns from Iraq, his PTSD is profound, and the drugs on the street have changed. The opioid crisis is beginning to swallow up the Midwest. 
 
Soon he is hooked on heroin, and so is Emily. They attempt a normal life, but with their money drying up, he turns to the one thing he thinks he could be really good at - robbing banks. 
 
Hammered out on a prison typewriter, Cherry marks the arrival of a raw, bleakly hilarious, and surprisingly poignant voice straight from the dark heart of America.

Cherry

Now a Major Film Starring Tom Holland

A.L. Kennedy

A.L. Kennedy's fifth collection of short stories show us exactly what becomes of the broken-hearted. Her characters are perfectly ordinary people - whose marriages founder; who sit on their own in a cinema watching a film with no soundtrack; who risk sex in a hotel with an anonymous stranger or who order a luxurious meal as their lives fall apart - but the stories she weaves around them are truly remarkable. 
 
She reveals the sadness, violence, hurt and terror, but also the redemption and the love - and she does so with enormous human compassion and leaps of black humour. 
 
From the winner of the Costa Book Award for Day.

What Becomes

Jenny Turner

Supposing one day at the office, you simply forgot why you were there. Would anybody notice? Would anybody care? 
 
When Lorna comes to work one morning at the offices of a buzzing newspaper and a colleague offers to bring her a sandwich, all seems as it should be. Emails, boyfriends and sparkling parties follow. But Lorna has had a brainstorm. She can't remember what she does, where she came from and where she's supposed to go next... 
 
An acid yet poetic comedy set in the booming London of the 1990s, The Brainstorm is a startlingly funny and incisive novel about office life, friendships, ambition and love that will leave you wondering about the inner lives of your own colleagues.

The Brainstorm

Anna Gavalda

Camille is doing her best to disappear. She barely eats, works at night as a cleaner and lives in a tiny attic room. Downstairs in a beautiful, ornate apartment, lives Philibert Marquet de la Durbellière, a shy, erudite, upper-class man with an unlikely flatmate in the shape of the foul-mouthed but talented chef, Franck. One freezing evening Philibert overcomes his excruciating reitcence to rescue Camille, unconscious, from her garret and bring her into his home. 
 
As she recovers Camille learns more about Philibert; about Franck and his guilt for his beloved but fragile grandmother Paulette, who is all he has left in the world; and about herself. And slowly, this curious quartet of misfits all discover the importance of food, friendship and love.

Hunting and Gathering

Ross Raisin

Tom has always known exactly the person he is going to be. A successful footballer. A man others look up to. Now, though, the bright future he imagined for himself is threatened. 
 
The Premier League academy of his boyhood has let him go. At nineteen, Tom finds himself playing for a tiny club in a town he has never heard of. But as he navigates his isolation and his desperate need for recognition, a sudden and thrilling encounter offers him the promise of an escape, and Tom is forced to question whether he can reconcile his supressed desires with his dreams of success. 
 
Leah, the captain’s wife, has almost forgotten the dreams she once held, for her career, her marriage. Moving again, as her husband is transferred from club to club, she is lost, disillusioned with where life has taken her. 
 
A Natural delves into the heart of a professional football club: the pressure, the loneliness, the threat of scandal, the fragility of the body and the struggle, on and off the pitch, with conforming to the person that everybody else expects you to be.

A Natural

Erica Jong

The modern classic that changed the way we thought about sex 
 
‘Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same’ - Anonymous (a woman) 
 
Compulsive daydreamer Isadora Wing has come to a crossroads. Five years of marriage have made her itchy – itchy for men, and itchy for solitude. 
 
Ditching her second husband during a work conference in Vienna she decides to cut and run, criss-crossing her way across Europe in search of the perfect no-strings-attached tryst – and she won’t let a little thing like a fear of flying get in her way. 
 
Witty, fearless and exuberant, Fear of Flying remains as sensational today as when it was first published.

Fear of Flying

William Brandt

Frederick Case is a 42-year-old New Zealand film-maker failing in London. He's separated from his wife, Sophie Carlisle, an actress who has run off with super-stud actor Matt Chalmers, her co-star in the smash hit movie Shag City - the first mainstream film ever to depict an erect penis being sucked. To make matters worse Sophie is pregnant. 
 
When Frederick is invited to fly out to the film world's party of the year on the remote Pacific island of Makulalanana, knowing that Sophie and Matt will be there, he hires 'Miss Melissa', a hooker, to play the part of his gorgeous new girlfriend. On meeting Sophie again, Frederick is convinced that the baby must be his. He pays Melissa to seduce Matt...

The Book Of The Film Of The Story Of My Life

Peter Høeg

The woman is Madelene, rich, beautiful and alcoholic; the ape, intelligent and illegally imported to London by Madelene's husband Burden. Burden has plans, so does Madelene, and so, as it happens, does the ape. This most controversial of Høeg's novels takes us from Society London, across its roof-tops to a forest idyll, to make for a fable at once hilarious and thought-provoking.

The Woman And The Ape

Allison Pearson

'A bible for the working mother' OPRAH WINFREY 
'It may change your life' OBSERVER 
'I can't think of a woman who wouldn't want this book' INDIA KNIGHT 
 
The twentieth anniversary edition of Allison Pearson's first novel that became a global sensation, now with a new introduction from the author. 
 
 Meet Kate Reddy, hedge-fund manager, wife and mother of two. Always time-poor, Kate must monitor nine currencies in five time zones but also keep in step with the Teletubbies. Factor in a manipulative nanny, piggish colleagues, a long-suffering husband, her quietly aghast in-laws, two needy children and an email lover, and you have a woman juggling so many things that some day something's going to hit the ground. And that something might just be Kate. 
 
 In an uproariously funny and achingly sad novel, Allison Pearson brilliantly dramatises the dilemma of working motherhood at the start of the twenty-first century. 
 
 'The definitive social comedy of working motherhood' WASHINGTON POST

I Don't Know How She Does It

Holly Gramazio

**READER FAVOURITE IN THE FIRST-EVER GOOD HOUSEKEEPING GOOD BOOKS COLLECTION** 
**SOON TO BE A MAJOR APPLE TV SERIES** 
 
‘Properly laugh-out-loud funny, this was one of the most original novels I’ve read in years’ RED, *Books of the Year* 
‘A witty, ingenious debut novel… An enormously entertaining story that is both silly and sophisticated’ SUNDAY TIMES, *Books of the Year* 
 
What if you could change husbands as easily as a lightbulb? 
 
One night Lauren finds a strange man in her flat who claims to be her husband. All the evidence – from photos to electricity bills – suggests he’s right. And then another one appears. Lauren’s attic, she slowly realises, is creating an endless supply of husbands for her. There’s: 
 
The one who’s too hot (there must be a catch). 
The one who pretends to play music on her toes. 
The one who can calm her unruly thoughts with a single touch. 
 
But when you can change husbands as easily as changing a lightbulb, how do you know whether the one you have now is the good-enough one, or the wrong one, or the best one? And how long should you keep trying to find out? 
 
'Huge fun' KATE ATKINSON 
'A wonderful, wonderful novel' JENNIE GODFREY 
'The most fun I've had reading in the longest time' MARIAN KEYES 
'A time-bending gem' GABRIELLE ZEVIN 
 
THE NO 1 KINDLE BESTSELLER 
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 
BEST SUMMER READ IN THE GUARDIAN, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, RED & DAILY MAIL 
RUNNER-UP IN THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT BOOK PRIZE 
 
***READERS LOVE THE HUSBANDS!!**** 
‘This book was INCREDIBLE! So inventive, funny and different’ 
‘I clapped out loud and cried’ 
‘I adored this book. Fast-paced and funny with heart’ 
‘Incredibly vivid, completely original’ 
'So many husbands so many personalities so much confusion so much fun!

The Husbands

Yasmina Khadra

'Darling, this is Younes. Yesterday he was my nephew, today he is our son'. 
 
Younes' life is changed forever when his poverty-stricken parents surrender him to the care of his more affluent uncle. Re-named Jonas, he grows up in a colourful colonial Algerian town, and forges a unique friendship with a group of boys, an enduring bond that nothing - not even the Algerian Revolt - will shake. He meets Emilie - a beautiful, beguiling girl who captures the hearts of all who see her - and an epic love story is set in motion. 
 
Time and again Jonas is forced to to choose between two worlds: Algerian or European; past or present; love or loyalty, and finally decide if he will surrender to fate or take control of his own destiny at last. 
 
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER.

What the Day Owes the Night

Louis de Bernières

A beautiful and unlikely love story about what unites us from the bestselling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. 
 
Chris is in his forties: bored, lonely, trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. 
 He's a stranger to the 1970s youth culture of London, a stranger to himself on the night he invites a prostitute into his car. 
 Roza has recently moved to London from eastern Europe. She's in her twenties, but has already lived a life filled with danger, misadventure, romance, and tragedy. And though she's not a prostitute, when she's propositioned by Chris, she gets into his car anyway. 
 
Over the next few months Roza tells Chris the stories of her past. She's a fast-talking Scheherazade, saving her own life by telling it to Chris. And he takes in her tales as if they were oxygen in an otherwise airless world. But is Roza telling the truth? Does it even matter? 
 
 'Sublimely funny and moving’ Independent

A Partisan's Daughter

Katarina Bivald

A Richard &amp; Judy Book Club Pick 
 
New York Times Bestseller 
 
Sara has never left Sweden but at the age of 28 she decides it’s time. She cashes in her savings, packs a suitcase full of books and sets off for Broken Wheel, Iowa, a town where she knows nobody. 
 
Sara quickly realises that Broken Wheel is in desperate need of some adventure, a dose of self-help and perhaps a little romance, too. In short, this is a town in need of a bookshop. 
 
With a little help from the locals, Sara sets up Broken Wheel’s first bookstore. The shop might be a little quirky but then again, so is Sara. And as Broken Wheel’s story begins to take shape, there are some surprises in store for Sara too… 
 
'The perfect summer read' Stylist

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

Joe Stretch

Life in Manchester is sexy and stinking. Hold your breath. Justin wants a sex life, not a sex death. Rebecca has breasts but doesn't understand them. She needs to talk to Dostoevsky about erections, hairy armpits and firing squads. Life is difficult. Steve wants cash so he can enjoy his trendy body. He wants Carly too, but she just wants a never-ending orgasm. Johnny wants to be touched and, if possible, he'd like to seem happy. Colin wants to know why tits make his fists clench. 
 
This is their story. They try their best. They drag their feet through the fashions, the foul, the famous and the drunk of twenty-first century Britain. They're looking for happiness. What they find is friction.

Friction

Ian McEwan

'A web of spying, subterfuge, deceit and betrayal... Acute, witty...winningly cunning' Sunday Times 
 
The year is 1972, the Cold War is far from over and Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being groomed for MI5. Sent on Operation Sweet Tooth - a highly secret undercover mission - she meets Tom Haley, a promising young writer. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? And who is inventing whom? To answer these questions, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage - trust no one.

Sweet Tooth

Kerry Hudson

From the prize-winning author of Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma 
 
Winner of the Prix Femina Etranger 
 
 
London, in the frayed heat of summer. Alena is shoplifting shoes when Dave catches her in the act and so begins an unlikely relationship between two people with little in common and everything to lose. 
 
 
But the past is a dark place. And both of them have secrets they’ve no idea how to live with – or leave behind. Yet still they find themselves fighting with all they’ve got for a future together. But is love enough? 
 
 
'Accomplished... Beautiful... Heart-wrenching' Independent on Sunday 
 
Shortlisted for the Prix Femina Prize

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