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A touching testament to the power of letter writing and connecting with strangers, for fans of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop and What You're Looking For is in the Library. Hyoyoung feels trapped in her small hometown after her dreams of becoming a filmmaker have been dashed, and so when a friend...

When Andy Fleming turns up in the newsroom of the New York Chronicle to learn the business Nick Russo is determined to dislike him. Nick has worked his way from a rough Brooklyn neighbourhood to reporter the hard way. Andy is heir to a publishing fortune: he can’t type, he loses his keys and has never done a day’s work in his life…and one day he’ll be Nick’s boss. Except, Nick keeps rescuing Andy: showing him the ropes, tracking down his keys, freeing his tie when it gets stuck in the filing cabinets. Opposites in every way, an unlikely friendship soon turns into feelings neither want to deny.

She is a beautiful, affluent, self-involved and mildly neurotic London socialite. He is Britain's most photographed bad-boy who broke her heart. Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballentine are meant to be, and everyone knows it. She dates other people to keep him at bay; he sleeps with other girls to get back at her for it. But at the end of their every sad endeavour to get over one another, it's still each other they crawl back to. But now their dysfunction is catching up with them, pulling at their seams and fraying the world they've built; a world where neither has ever let the other go completely.

Three young people from vastly different backgrounds – Armando from Mozambique, Lolita from India and East German national Theo – are drawn together in a small Baltic city in 1989, just as the DDR begins to collapse around them.

Brought to you by Penguin. Winner: New Writer of the Year - Specsavers National Book Awards 2012 When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or...

Brought to you by Penguin. three boyz drive & dream of an impossible night on an endless street. . . a white bimmer hurtles down manchester’s curry mile, carrying three brown boys in pursuit of a wild night out, oi oi oi! there’s IMMY (23) – nursing mad heartbreak but tryna get over it by...

*READ BETH O'LEARY'S BRAND NEW UNMISSABLE ROMANCE, THE NAME GAME, OUT NOW * Eileen is sick of being 79. Leena's tired of life in her twenties. Maybe it's time they swapped places... When overachiever Leena Cotton is ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work...

'RaMell Ross's transcendentally moving and frightening film' (Guardian, New York Film Festival) now a major motion picture and shortlisted for a Golden Globe. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020 Winner of the Library of Congress...

The Socs and the Greasers are rival gangs from the opposite sides of town. The Socs’ idea of a good time is cruising around in their flash cars and beating up long-haired Greasers like Ponyboy. Ponyboy knows what to expect and that he can count on his older brothers and other friends—until one night when someone takes things too far. Ponyboy may seem tough, but on the inside he is running scared.

Bloomsbury presents By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah, read by Connie MGadzah and Denver Isaac. By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 'One scarcely dares breathe while reading it for fear of breaking the enchantment' The Times ‘Gurnah is a master...

A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN TIME, VOX, AND VULTURE 'Batty and brilliant' THE TIMES 'Truly original . . . deeply weird, deeply funny and deeply felt' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Very strange and very funny' GUARDIAN 'Audaciously imagined. Slyly executed. Surprisingly tender. Deliciously weird' RACHEL YODER...

हिस्ट्री की किताबों में खोया रहने वाला मैं न जाने कब कैमरों से खेलने लगा और इनके प्रति दीवानेपन को ही अपना पैशन बना लिया। इस बीच ब्यूटीफुल तृप्ति ने मेरे जीवन में आकर मुझे अहसास दिलाया कि मुझे उसकी जरूरत है, पर ज़िन्दगी अगर इतनी आसान होती, तो वह ज़िन्दगी न होती, यह अहसास दिलाने के लिए मिताली मेरे सामने आकर खड़ी हो गई।

Joanie’s marriage is on the rocks - her husband Tom has been sleeping at his brother’s place, her eldest is off to uni, and her job is about to be made redundant. In an attempt save the family unit, Joanie and Tom agree to give ‘nesting’ a try, taking it in turns to live in the family home, without the other. But what seems like an ideal solution quickly descends into a domestic nightmare - squabbles over toilet roll, runaway children, and walking in on your partner with someone new…

Brought to you by Penguin. SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now. Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on...

Brought to you by Penguin. You always told me that writing is life itself. After many years abroad, Hatoko reluctantly returns to Kamakura to take over the stationery store left to her by her late grandmother. As the custodian of the store, she also inherits the profession of public scribe, a...

Khadijah and Rebecca planned to be the black and brown Golden Girls, until Rebecca stormed out of Khadijah and Jamie’s wedding, vowing that she “couldn’t do this anymore.” The “it” in question was their friendship. Khadijah deserved that dismissal, but she was devoted to fixing...

Amanda Keeler is a bestselling novelist, famed for her martini-soaked parties. It's a glamorous life, paid for in full by marriage to a tedious, teeth-grinding newspaper tycoon. When a meek friend from her provincial past arrives in Manhattan, Amanda plots to use her as cover for an affair-until...

Four years ago, Nora Ashby walked out of her own wedding ten minutes before the ceremony. She hasn't spoken to the groom since.Now her best friend, Maeve, is dying. Her last wish is to be married at Bellwether House—the same coastal Maine inn where Nora ran. And the best man is the boy Nora...

Ich bin Anna, und ich habe mein halbes Leben damit verbracht zu zögern. Zwei Jahre habe ich Samu angehimmelt – bis er eines Tages verschwand. Also haben meine beste Freundin Julie und ich eine Liste für mich geschrieben: einen Fremden küssen, vor versammelter Mannschaft allein tanzen, lieber einmal mehr Ja sagen. Julie – Träumerin, Künstlerin und erbarmungslos ehrlich – lässt keine Ausrede gelten. Valentin, ein Rich Kid mit Herz, unterstützt mich, wo immer er kann.

The BRAND NEW uplifting, hilarious read from the BESTSELLING author of The Woman Who Got Her Spark Back, Fiona Gibson! Perfect for fans of Marian Keyes and Milly Johnson. Andie has spent her whole life saying yes. Yes to keeping the peace. Yes to putting everyone else first. The only time she...