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A story of falling out of love for fans of Monica Heisey and Dolly Alderton 'A thoughtful and tender take on the concept of "home"' Pandora Sykes 'There's a snap and crackle in Saunders's dialogue' The Times 'Saunders makes funny and heartbreaking seem effortless' Red 'Heart-warmingly relatable'...

There's nothing quite like family. Except family on holiday . . . When Cal loses his beloved wife Nikki, and his teenage step-daughter Zoe moves out to live with her father, his whole world falls apart. But life works in mysterious ways. And when a prestigious university wants to pay tribute to...

From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Swing Time, White Teeth and On Beauty Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith, read by Ben Barnes. 'A pleasure from the first page to the last' Evening Standard 'A glorious concoction by our...

Brought to you by Penguin. **THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** Is this the best worst day of her life? Once, Grace Adams was poised for great things. Now, she barely attracts a second glance as she strides down the street carrying her daughter's sixteenth birthday cake. But behind the scenes...

Summer 1999: Sawyer is striving to make it in New York. Between her assistant job in publishing and her upcoming wedding, it feels like the perfect life could fall into place at any moment. There is only one problem: Sawyer's fiancé has been working longer hours . . . with an all-too-close...

WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is...

This is a story of a London you won’t find in any guidebooks. This is a story about what it’s like to exist in the moment, about boys too eager to become men, growing up in the hidden war zones of big cities - and the girls trying to make it their own way. This is a story of reputations made and lost, of violence and vengeance - and never counting the cost. This is a story of concrete towers and blank-eyed windows, of endless nights in police stations and prison cells, of brotherhood and betrayal.

Crush Hour: A Musical presents a series of heart-warming and hilarious chance encounters via London’s transport links, in the run up to Christmas.

'Snort-out-loud funny, warm and moving' Lizzie Damilola Blackburn 'You're going to laugh, you're going to get angry, you're going to gasp, you're going to probably cry a lil too' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐  'An impossible-to-put-down romance for our times' Frances Mensah Williams In this...

On this journey through the labyrinthine streets and hidden corners of one of the world's most fascinating cities, everybody is searching for something, and maybe searching in the wrong places. Elements of the fantastical and the surreal abound, as they tend to do in the early predawn hours of the morning, yet the settings, the human stories, and each character's search are all as real as can be.

The final episode in the trilogy that began with the million-copy bestseller MAN AND BOY Ten years on from MAN AND BOY, it is crunch time for Harry… Life is good for Harry Silver. He has a beautiful wife, three wonderful children and a great job as producer of the cult radio show, A Clip Round...

A collection of short stories set in and around Rome from Jhumpa Lahiri, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies. 'Stimulating, elengant, distinctive and thought-provoking' – Sunday Times In these short stories Jhumpa Lahiri sets her gaze on the eternally beautiful city of...

Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2021 WINNER OF DEBUT OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2022 WINNER OF BAD FORM BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD NO.1 BESTSELLER IN THE TIMES SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE AND THE...

Brought to you by Penguin. On the last train home you expect to find standing space only, drunk people singing, the overpowering smell of McDonalds... You never expect to find love. When Abbie and Tom cross paths traveling home after a night out, their eyes meet across a crowded carriage and...

A gripping domestic psychological thriller, full of shocking family secrets, perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell and C.L. Taylor! 'Kept me up all night reading' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 'Had me guessing until the end' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 'So many twists and turns that I didn't know...

Housewife Nancy never dreamed that she’d end up in Vickers steelworks factory, but when husband Bert is called up to serve, she needs to put food on the table for her two young children. Betty’s sweetheart, William, has joined the RAF Reserves, so she can’t sit around and do nothing - even if it means giving up her ambitions to study law at night school. Young Patty is relishing the excitement the war brings. But this shop-girl is going to have to grow up quickly, especially now she’s undertaking such back-breaking and dangerous work in the factory.

Cleanness revisits and expands the world of Garth Greenwell’s beloved debut, What Belongs to You, declared ‘an instant classic’ by the New York Times Book Review. In exacting, elegant prose, Greenwell transcribes the strange dialects of desire, cementing his stature as one of our most...

Brought to you by Penguin. London, 1990. Zivoin is newly arrived in a strange country. The dependable oldest son, he works all hours of the day and night, sending every penny he can save back to his family. On the news, he watches his homeland, Yugoslavia, slowly fracturing. Thousands of miles...

Chris Wright has one shot at his dream. After years of late nights and countless revisions, an agent finally takes notice of Chris’s novel—but with one catch: he has a tight deadline to deliver a major rewrite. With bills stacking up and no extra time to pick up more shifts, Chris feels like he's barely holding his life together. Then, fate throws him a curveball in the form of Mia.

A trio of novels by the renowned author, dramatised for BBC Radio Guyanese writer E. R. Braithwaite is probably best known for his semi-autobiograpical, internationally bestselling novel To Sir with Love, which was adapted as an award-winning film starring Sidney Poitier. Collected here are...