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From the Booker Prize longlisted author of The Wall, comes his first novel in eight years. What if the year's most talked about TV show was all about your marriage? Kate, thirty years into her marriage, has a seemingly idyllic metropolitan, North London life. Phoebe, a young screenwriter, is the...

In Look At You, a young woman grows up between Trinidad, England, and Ireland, shaped by a divided family and the shifting worlds around her. Through a series of vivid, intimate moments, she begins to understand who she is — and where she belongs — in a world full of contradictions, cruelty, tenderness, and unexpected beauty. Told with striking clarity and emotional precision, this is a novel of memory and the people who leave their mark on us.

The hilarious novel from the bestselling author of How to Kill Men and Get Away With It and The Murder After the Night Before 'I was rooting for Kitty even as she killed more men (oops!). Funny and twisty in the best of ways' Tasha Coryell *********************************************** My name...

In Summit Falls, silence isn’t just a habit. It’s survival. When a young woman’s death is quietly closed as an accident, most of the town accepts the explanation without question. They always do. The sheriff signs the report. The town doctor confirms the cause. Life moves on. But reporter Elle Jensen sees something others refuse to see. A detail that doesn’t fit. A wound no one wants to explain. A story buried beneath years of carefully protected secrets. As Elle begins asking questions, the walls around her begin to close in. Doors stop opening. Phone calls go unanswered.

Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have changed – no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a woman. People certainly recognise him, albeit as a flawless impersonator who refuses to break character. The unthinkable, the inevitable happens, and the ranting Hitler goes viral, becomes a YouTube star, gets his own T.V. show, and people begin to listen.

Sleigh bells ring. Snow is glistening. A body's in the trunk – did you kill him? Ella Chambers didn’t kill Liam Montgomery. If she had, she wouldn’t have done it outside his family’s mansion during their Christmas party. She wouldn’t have loaded his body into the trunk of her car. And...

One night, Molly Clarke walked away from her life. Or at least, that's the story. The car abandoned miles from home. The note found at a nearby hotel. The shattered family that couldn't be put back together. It happens all the time. Women disappear, desperate to leave their lives behind and...

Snap up your perfect summer treat from the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author and 'queen of feel-good fiction'! 'Like a little blast of sunshine - uplifting, heartwarming and supremely feelgood' SOPHIE KINSELLA 'Gripping and incredibly comforting'MARIAN KEYES The trouble with secrets is that you...

'Do you ever just read a story and know that you could happily exist in the world on page? Well Look Up, Handsome is the world that I think I would love to live in. It’s cozy and quaint and cutesy and very demure!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NetGalley Reviewer 'Cozy, queer, and Christmas-y, Look Up...

Don’t miss the next Cristy Ward thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Susan Lewis! A dead husband. A missing wife. Will they find her in time? Romy Kaplan has vanished from her home. Or has she? When Romy begins posting on her social media accounts asking everyone to stop looking for her, the...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Never Look Back by Lesley Pearse, read by Holli Dempsey. One good deed takes her into another world . . . Sixteen-year-old Matilda is a poor Covent Garden flower girl until the day she saves the life of Tabitha, a minister's daughter. Welcomed into...

He saved her. Now he owns her. Exhausted new mother Lucy is rushing her baby to the hospital. Distracted by her sick child, she loses control of the car and hits Roger, her elderly neighbor. Terrified of being sent to prison and separated from her infant son, she makes a split-second decision...

A vengeful divorcée lures her husband’s mistress into a trap in a riveting psychological thriller about deception, manipulation, and the dark side of relationships by a USA Today bestselling author. Bonjour, Miss Berry. I follow you… Ensconced in a fabulous apartment overlooking the Eiffel...

Solve the mystery with the Secret Seven - everyone's favourite detective club! These timeless stories are perfect for young fans of mystery, adventure or detective series. In book fourteen, Scamper the spaniel discovers an unwanted visitor, then he protects the Secret Seven as they spy on a...

Can life be like a made-for-TV Christmas movie? Mally Allister prides herself on being nice and predictable, just like the trope-filled festive films she turns to for comfort every winter. But when she faces the prospect of spending Christmas alone in her London flat, Mally is sent on a writing...

Brought to you by Penguin. It looked like it was Game Over for the Rossmeister General. I was staring down the barrel of the big four-oh! And what did I have to show for it? I was an out-of-work rugby coach who was soon to be divorced. My old dear was sliding away in a nursing home in a certain...

In a near future, the air pollution is so bad that everyone wears gas masks. The infant mortality rate is soaring, and birth defects, new diseases, and physical ailments of all kinds abound. The water is undrinkable - unless you're poor and have no choice. Large corporations fighting over profits from gas masks, drinking water, and clean food tower over an ineffectual, corrupt government.

The nail-biting, heart-pounding thriller from the author of TOP 20 BESTSELLER Three Sisters O J Mullen. Perfect for fans of Harlan Coben, K. L. Slater and Lisa Jewell. When the body is found on an Edinburgh street, a chain reaction begins that will destroy lives. Gavin and Jess Sterling have it...

“Relentlessly fun to read.”—Dave Eggers A collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut...

From bestselling author and host of HBO's Real Time, Bill Maher's new book of political riffs serves up a savagely funny set of rules for preserving sanity in an insane world. A follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The New Rules, The New New Rules delivers a series of hilarious...