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From 1960s Italy to present-day Ireland, Ripeness is the story of a family secret that rips a teenage girl's world apart, only for her to discover its true meaning decades later. From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Summerwater, Sarah Moss. 'Moss makes every moment count' - The Sunday...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026 A GUARDIAN ‘BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2026’ OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK TIME MUST-READ BOOK WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE ‘Majumdar...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and … hope’ OCEAN VUONG ‘Beautiful, brilliant’ R. F. KUANG ‘Dazzling’ OBSERVER ‘Will shatter your heart’ GLAMOUR ‘Powerful’ SUNDAY TIMES An extraordinary story of the journey of one...

A Reese's Book Club pick and a 2026 Audie Awards finalist for Audiobook of the Year! This program features multicast narration. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR 2025 An ENTHRALLING new novel from the NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author of Migrations and...

An airplane plunges into an icy river and the world witnesses the dramatic rescue. Then, life after the Miracle on the Hudson landing puts three families on another crash course...with their own fragile humanity.

Bloomsbury Presents Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa, read by Suzanne Toren. With more than a million copies sold worldwide, a modern classic of Palestinian literature from “a major writer of our time” (Alice Walker). “Timeless in its truth.”—Fattima Bhutto “Powerful and...

#1 New York Times Bestseller OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK “Extraordinary.”—Stephen King “This book is not simply the great American novel; it’s the great novel of las Americas. It’s the great world novel! This is the international story of our times. Masterful.”—Sandra Cisneros...

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Stone Sky Gold Mountain comes the story of an Irish-Chinese family over four generations in Australia. ‘They said you were a murdering bushranger.’ It’s the winter of 2049 and Daniel is elderly and long isolated. Soon after yet another...

Nothing can mend a broken heart quite like family. Sherry has struggled all her life to understand who she is, where she comes from, and, most important, why her mother slapped her cheek one summer afternoon. The incident has haunted Sherry, and it causes her to dig into her family's past. Like many family histories, it is fractured and stubbornly reluctant to reveal its secrets. But Sherry is determined to know the full story. In a few days' time, her extended family will gather for a reunion, and Sherry sets off across the country with her mother, Dumpling, to join them.

Three women are tied together by blood, love and family secrets. Potent, poetic, powerful, told with deep love, and spanning from the Great Migration through the civil unrest of the ‘60s to the cultural shift of the early 2000s, Denene Millner’s beautifully wrought novel is a hymn to Black motherhood, exploring three women’s intimate struggle with generational trauma and healing.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE ‘Dazzling’ GUARDIAN ‘Blistering’ THE TIMES 'A delight' DIANA EVANS ‘Fiction written at the highest level’ ANN PATCHETT 'Hilarious, revelatory' MARLON JAMES An electrifying, hilarious and deeply moving tragicomic debut novel following a Jamaican...

In post-Cultural Revolution China, in the fading village of Freshwind, the fates of two households are shifting. The Bais, once the most powerful family in the region, have fallen from status. Their beautiful daughter, Snow Bai, an embodiment of tradition, pursues a career in a vanishing art form. The Xias, enthusiastic members of the Party, are on the rise. Their favorite son, Wind Xia, is a citified politician whose marriage to Snow Bai could unite the two families. But in a village casting about for a new road to prosperity, fortunes can change.

Flucht aus dem Iran und der Kampf um Identität und Anerkennung Seit 1979, mit dem Sturz des Schahs, sind die Töchter der hochgestellten iranischen Familie Valiat im amerikanischen Exil. Nur ihre Mutter, die noch immer Heimat, Tradition und Stolz verkörpert, blieb damals in Iran. Als bei dem...

Unser Deutschlandmärchen ist eine Familiengeschichte in vielen Stimmen. Frauen mehrerer Generationen und der in Almanya geborene Sohn erinnern sich in poetischen, oft mythischen, kräftigen Bildern und in Monologen, Dialogen, Träumen, Gebeten, Chören. Dinçer Güçyeter erzählt vom Schicksal türkischer Griechen, von archaischer Verwurzelung in anatolischem Leben und von der Herausforderung, als Gastarbeiterin und als deren Nachkomme in Deutschland ein neues Leben zu beginnen.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Blazing...Visceral" (Los Angeles Times) · "Exceptional" (Newsweek) · "Bold...Heartfelt" (New York Times Book Review) · "Thought-provoking and thrilling" (GMA) · "Suspenseful and poignant" (Scientific American)· "Gripping" (The Sydney Morning Herald) From...

Schweigen ist Silber, Reden ist Gold - der gefeierte Regisseur Sönke Wortmann legt seinen ersten Roman vor. Franz-Josef Klenke arbeitet als Redenschreiber für den Außenminister Hans Behring und begleitet ihn regelmäßig auf seinen Auslandsreisen. Er tut alles, um den integren Mann gut dastehen zu lassen, wozu auch gehört, dass man in Reden zwar nicht unbedingt die Unwahrheit sagt, aber manche Wahrheit auch nicht ausspricht. Doch ausgerechnet Klenke, ein Mann des Worts, liebt Maria, die nicht sprechen kann. Und das sorgt immer wieder für Probleme.

'Captivating …There's a breadth of humanity in An Unsafe Haven which is very moving. I loved the sense of Lebanon and of what is unique and precious about the Arab world' Helen Dunmore Hannah has deep roots in her hometown of Beirut, where she lives with her American husband, Peter. Just when...

Brought to you by Penguin. Faced with the prospect of having to repeat a year in school, twelve-year-old Milan tells his parents the first lie he can think of: his bad grades are due to the genocide in Rwanda, his mother's homeland. In reality, he knows little about Rwanda or his mother's past...

Eine Lebensgeschichte von enormer Wucht. Said Al-Wahid hat seinen Reisepass überall dabei, auch wenn er in Berlin-Neukölln nur in den Supermarkt geht. Als er eines Tages die Nachricht erhält, seine Mutter liege im Sterben, reist er zum ersten Mal seit Jahren in das Land seiner Herkunft. Je näher er seiner in Bagdad verbliebenen Familie kommt, desto tiefer gehen die Erinnerungen zurück, an die Jahre des Ankommens in Deutschland, an die monatelange Flucht und schließlich an die Kindheit im Irak. Welche Erinnerungen fehlen, welche sind erfunden und welche verfälscht? Said weiß es nicht.