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‘Horrendously good’ SELF ESTEEM ‘The funniest book I’ve read for a long time’ DAVID NICHOLLS ‘Utterly ruthless’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘Addictive … I loved it!’ RUFI THORPE ‘Twistedly funny’ VINCENZO LATRONICO ‘Razor-sharp … impossible to put down’ JACK EDWARDS LONGLISTED...

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...

“This is such a love story to cities & people & heartbreaks, death & loss. It's not at all corny, it's smart. But I just finished it & it made me cry.” — Eileen Myles "Signals the arrival of a novelist sure to resonate with young people who endeavor to make intimate connections." —The...

In Silicon Valley, everyone is building a future. Eli is trying to survive tonight. By day, Eli goes to class, studies accounting, and works to create a better life for himself and his younger brother. By night, he sleeps in his car.No one knows. Eli has built his life around a strict set of...

Vom Mut, das eigene Leben nicht den anderen zu überlassen. Geschichten von Frauen, die zweifeln, träumen, sich in den falschen Menschen verlieben, sich entlieben, die das Leben umarmen, auch wenn es manchmal ruppig ist. Frauen mit Sehnsucht, Humor, Scham, Mut, Eigensinn – und gelegentlich...

From the author of My Phantoms and First Love, a droll and quietly evocative novel about work, friendship, family, and the path—so often muddled—toward finding one’s place in life. In The Palm House, Laura’s long friendship with Edmund Putnam is tested when he resigns from Sequence...

'A once-in-a-lifetime read' Emily Henry 'One of the best love stories I have ever read' Beth O'Leary 'A page-turning, heart-pounding modern love story' Rosie Walsh ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– This rivalry...

The brand new, utterly gripping gangland thriller from bestseller Heather Atkinson. You’ll never forget The Bloody MacGregors. The Bloody MacGregors are caught in the crossfire and the streets of Glasgow are about to burn. Virgil MacGregor and his fiercely loyal brothers thought working as...

What comes between a fashion icon’s perfect image and her genuine self? The perfect stranger—in a sharp and witty novel about identity, performance, and what it takes to make a true connection. One million people follow Stella Lerner’s every move. And now the buzzy fashion designer is...

A struggling musician travels to Los Angeles with his band to pursue a potentially life-changing opportunity. In the summer of 1977, Tom Hargrove loves his girlfriend Patty, The Grateful Dead, and playing bass with his band, The Hermits. Living in Newark, New Jersey, the lights of New York City...

Brought to you by Penguin. A BBC, Financial Times and Cosmopolitan What to Read in 2024 pick Set in a New York apartment building, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive novel with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of neighbours has been secretly written by a...

Nat, a middle-aged queer mother of two, feigns normalcy as she worries about her taciturn, loner son locked in his room. Her friend Maddy, a failed actress and fellow parent, frets over her missed opportunities and considers leaving her marriage. Next door, Ilya, a young construction worker, struggles to renovate a fixer-upper, but a buried stream threatens to flood the basement. An old woman eyes the street through the gap in her curtains. A lonely man wanders.

‘Another perfect page-turner’ The Times ‘A triumph from the master thriller writer’ The Sun In this twisty thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author, a man desperately tries to track down his father in witness protection before his enemies can get to him. Your dad’s not a good...

Two lonely people. One note in the window. And what happens when they reach out.... Lachlan Wallace is stuck at home after a car accident stalled his army career. With months of physiotherapy still to endure and only his rescue dog and cat for company, he’s taken to gazing out of the window, watching the world spin on without him. And then he notices a vase of flowers on the windowsill of the apartment opposite his. Drawn to their hope and colour, he decides to reach out and sticks a message in his window.... 

Otty has just landed her dream job. She's about to join the writing team of one of the most respected showrunners in TV. And then the night before her first day, she's evicted from her flat. Joe has been working with Russell for years. He's the best writer on his team, but lately something has been off. He's trying to get his mojo back, but when his flatmate moves out without warning he has other things to worry about.

The new novel from the author of The Corrections. Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul – the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbour who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and...

The knife slashed one way across her mouth, then the other, silencing her words. The last thought she had as the knife plunged down was that at least it would all be over soon... When Jennie Killingbeck goes missing while driving back to Albuquerque, Detective Alyssa Wyatt and the squad quickly...

BRAND NEW from the bestselling author of The Watchmaker of Dachau comes a powerful novel about love, heartbreak, and the stories we tell ourselves. Perfect for fans of Kristin Hannah, Fiona Valpy and All the Light We Cannot See. It takes courage to tell your story… Kraków, 1994. When an...

"A Desertion" is a short story published in 1900 about a young woman who is suspected by others in the neighborhood of indiscretion that might trouble her father.

Bloomsbury presents The Last Apartment in Istanbul by Defne Suman, read by John Moraitis. I was writing to her, so that she would know me not as this old person whose joints creaked when he rose from a chair, but as the real Pericles: the man who dreamt, deceived, envied, loved… Pericles...