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Brought to you by Penguin. ***WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019*** RECIPIENT OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER This is Britain as you've never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the...

USA TODAY BESTSELLER · SOUTHERN INDIE BESTSELLER · A BRENDA NOVAK BOOK GROUP PICK · GLOSS BOOK CLUB PICK · THE GIRLFRIEND BOOK CLUB PICK · A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 (SheReads) · Margaret never really meant to start a book club . . . or a feminist revolution, for that matter in this...

A perfect next listen for fans of Abbi Waxman and Katherine Center, Can't Take It Back is a fast-paced and relatable debut telling the interconnected stories of four women over the course of a kindergarten school year. Huddled on their favorite park bench in a quiet Seattle suburb, Holly, Avery, Zoe, and Sasha might look like they've got it all figured out - but there’s more to their stories than meets the eye.

Countless readers fell in love with Talking at Night. Now, discover People in Love: a love triangle that will split your heart in two. A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING MOST ANTICIPATED NOVEL OF 2026 One bright blue day, on a bench by the river, Nora’s partner Robin proposes. It is unexpected; they’d...

A “lustrous debut”* and a sundrenched and dewy snapshot of modern girl culture set in the blaze of one suburban Midwest summer “Feldman brings an Austenian attentiveness to the foibles of suburban adolescence. . . . The pleasure of Girl’s Girl is that it reveals the invisible jealousies...

Audio Book Performed by Academy Award Winner Marcia Gay Harden From the author of the national bestseller Women’s Hotel, the irresistible and wildly entertaining story of one woman contending with age and friendship—a narrative that reads like an homage to Nora Ephron’s Heartburn...

Some stories don't end. They wait to be found… Book editor Lucy Thomas has just inherited her grandmother’s windswept Cornish home, and with it, a library bathed in sunlight, a spiral staircase that leads to secrets, and a battered box filled with unfinished stories… To honour her...

Startlingly honest and unsentimental, Television for Women explores the realities of life postpartum, the demands children make on women’s identities and relationships—and the desperate lengths someone might go to in order to reclaim the person she once was.

At forty-five, Michelle has a great life: a husband who loves her, two children on the fast track to success, a beautiful home in the rolling hills of Virginia, and three of the best friends a girl could ever want. But with the sudden death of Michelle’s husband of twenty-five years, her life turns upside down. Forced to sell their forever home and at odds with her children, Michelle faces a bleak future. Until an unexpected inheritance starts her on a path paved with bright possibilities.

When our story begins, Julia Child is an eager but inexperienced codebreaker longing to prove herself in the male-dominated world of intelligence, and Josephine Baker is, well, Josephine Baker—a world-famous entertainer who is now leading a double life as a spy for the French Resistance. When a golden opportunity arises to infiltrate a high-stakes Nazi gala in Vichy France, Julia must put aside her by-the-book mentality to assist her unorthodox new partner.

Brought to you by Penguin. From Booker-shortlisted author Elif Shafak, comes a powerful tale of faith, love and friendship set across Istanbul and Oxford Shirin, Peri and Mona, they were the most unlikely of friends. They were the Sinner, the Believer and the Confused. On a spring evening in...

Brought to you by Penguin Flo is sick of Tokyo. Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation work has dried up and she's in a relationship that's run its course. That's until she stumbles upon a mysterious book left by a fellow passenger on the Tokyo Subway. From...

When love will not let you find a way out The last time Daksh met Aanchal, it was at a wedding in Dubai. A brief spark and then both of them move on. It’s not necessary to be together even if you love each other to the moon and back, right? Wrong. Not being with the one you love means that...

En novembre 2017, trente ans après avoir quitté le club de lecture de la bibliothèque municipale de Rosemère, huit femmes au tournant de la soixantaine se retrouvent par le biais de Facebook et reprennent les activités du cercle. À la suite de ces retrouvailles, elles se penchent sur des livres portant sur la psychologie positive, qui seront la bougie d'allumage pour amener des conversations et des réflexions autour de leurs vies, de leurs accomplissements, de leurs échecs, de leurs désirs, et surtout pour apporter des changements à leur existence.

Connie MacAdair è una donna piuttosto insolita. Così almeno la considerano molte delle persone con cui ha a che fare. Lavora come matematica presso una prestigiosa università inglese, in un ambiente, si sa, quasi interamente popolato da uomini, e i suoi capelli, rossi come il fuoco, non la aiutano certo a passare inosservata. Tra i suoi colleghi c'è Luke Beith, la persona più singolare che abbia mai conosciuto, un genio dei numeri affascinante e allo stesso tempo sfuggente, verso cui sente un'inspiegabile attrazione.

Three women, from coast to coast and in between, open their mailboxes to the same intriguing invitation. Although leading entirely different lives, each has found herself at a similar, jarring crossroads. Right when these women thought they’d be comfortably settling into middle age, their carefully curated futures have turned out to be dead ends.

L’été se pointe et il est enfin temps pour Julianne, Hanaé, Serena et Agathe d’amorcer leur saison de balle-molle. Depuis quelques années, ces femmes dans la trentaine se retrouvent, un soir par semaine, pour échanger quelques confidences sur leur vie amoureuse entre deux retraits au bâton ! En ce début de saison, le président de l’association leur réserve une surprise de taille : il doit former une équipe mixte pour un tout nouveau projet pilote national…

Carla ha vent'anni e sogna la libertà. Odia l'amore da cui scappa per non esserne dipendente, odia la mancanza d'amore che la fa sentire sola e la costringe alla continua ricerca di altro, ma soprattutto odia la sua famiglia: collusa con la malavita, l'ha privata dell'amor proprio e dell'affetto di suo fratello Claudio, l'unico sentimento in grado di farla sentire completa. Giunta a Roma da un piccolo paesino del Salento, disillusa ma affamata di vita, Carla cerca sé stessa nella stravagante umanità che incontra.

Three very different women are recruited to the mysterious Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla has the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses - but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, working to translate decoded enemy secrets. Self-made Mab masters the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and the poverty of her East-End London upbringing. And shy local girl Beth is the outsider who trains as one of the Park’s few female cryptanalysts.

An army veteran with a career as a beat cop behind her, security guard Addie Finch is tough—on the outside. Internally, she’s in crisis mode. She’s lonely, introverted, struggling through AA, estranged from her son, and, at sixty-two years old, questioning her role as a protector. She also has a soft spot for the underdog that’s about to change her life.