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When Aleisha discovers a crumpled reading list tucked into a tattered library book, it sparks an extraordinary journey. From timeless stories of love and friendship to an epic journey across the Pacific Ocean with a boy and a tiger in a boat, the list opens a gateway to new and wonderful worlds - just when Aleisha needs an escape from her troubles at home. And when widower Mukesh arrives at the library, desperate to connect with his bookworm granddaughter, Aleisha introduces him to the magic of the reading list.

‘Gritty, compelling storytelling’ Daily Mail ‘Dark, tense, action-packed, and so, so clever … I couldn’t stop until the very last page. Outstanding’ Andrea Mara, number one Sunday Times bestselling author of No One Saw a Thing ‘Another absolute cracker. Gruesome and gritty' Liz...

From the Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of First Love, The Palm House is a sharply observed, slyly funny novel of enduring friendships and small mercies. 'This goes straight onto my list of favourite modern novels’ – The Times 'One of our finest novelists of constrained fury: nobody...

It's been eight months since Sandra lost her beloved husband, and she knows something has to change. Her son wants her to sell up her home and move into a retirement apartment, close to him. But she doesn't feel ready for that yet. Then she bumps into her old friend Patti, heading off to get her first tattoo. Patti explains she's beaten cancer and now she's ready to make every second count… And – sitting down for a cuppa and a slice of cake – the women land on the perfect idea – a bucket list!

For 30-somethings Lindy, Ailbhe and Roe, the move to the new hyper-polished, luxury housing development, Monteray Valley, feels like slow death by Netflix, neighbourhood Whatsapp groups and Saturday nights in. Potential for exciting possibilities seem to be withering faster than you can say 'postnatal dryness' as their lives are consumed by other halves, domestic drudgery and obligations. Compiling a snag list to send to their builder sees the new friends contemplating their own personal snag lists and inspires a business idea that will change the course of all their lives.

They took their wedding vows. Now they're taking lives. Rose Cromwell, is a mother of two, grandmother to four and has just celebrated her thirty-fifth wedding anniversary to husband Mike. An ordinary, enviable marriage... until the night that Rose wakes up to see Mike stabbed to death in their...

They took their wedding vows. Now they're taking lives. Rose Cromwell, is a mother of two, grandmother to four and has just celebrated her thirty-fifth wedding anniversary to husband Mike. An ordinary, enviable marriage... until the night that Rose wakes up to see Mike stabbed to death in their...

A dazzling novel in stories from a master of the form that follows the Royal family across generations of obsession, betrayal, and reinvention. For fans of Mary Gaitskill and Lauren Groff. In postwar Paris, a boy is seduced by his mysterious nanny into the world of adult secrets. In 1950s New...

Inspired by the Nipsey Hussle mixtape, Mailbox Money, this collection of twelve interconnected short stories explores what it means to chase more than money; to chase a name, a future, a reason to keep running. Each story draws from a track off the mixtape, pulling its emotion and message into the lives of characters hustling on the corners of New York streets, plotting their next move, or standing under stage lights they once only dreamed of.