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A spellbinding story of separation, longing, recovery and survival as a family makes a new home in the aftermath of tragedy.On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomas and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The...

Rafi and Todd are two polar opposites at an elite high school where they bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game. It sets them up for life- Rafi will get lost in literature, while Todd's work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.Elsewhere, Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming p...

After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night cleaner shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. Ever since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat over thirty years ago keeping busy has helped her cope.One night she meets Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living a...

84 Charing Cross Road meets A Man Called Ove in this heartwarming, witty story about the life of an extraordinary woman, told through her letters.In her letters to family and friends we come to know the life of Sybil Van Antwerp- stubborn, cantankerous, opinionated, always steadfast in her belief in...

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Sorrow and Bliss comes an achingly tender, poignant, funny and bittersweet story of love, loneliness and finding connection in the most unlikely of places.Sophie Pattison is such a lovely person. Warm, kind, amazingly positive. She works as a freelance s...

'My name is Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive..'Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle - and her followers are sick with envy. Her charming farmhouse on her working ranch is artfully cluttered, her husband is a handsome cowboy, her homemade sourdough boules are each more beautifu...

John Summers moved to Greytoan and began to look closely at the less-celebrated aspects of local life – our club rooms, freezing works, night trains, hotel pubs, landfills – and what he discovered is something of deep significance. It was a story about his own life, but mostly about a place and...

When Alice was fifteen, her father killed Mia Heywood in their lakefront cottage before vanishing into the trees.At least that's what the locals think happened.More than a decade later, Alice has lost her job as a journalist, she's going through an expensive divorce and she desperately needs to sell...

A quiet English villageA shocking murderAn unlikely detective.Nobody liked Colonel Protheroe.So when he's found dead in the vicarage study, there's no absence of suspects in the seemingly peaceful village of St Mary Mead.In fact, Jane Marple can think of at least seven.As gossip abounds in the parlo...

A priest's death leads to sinister goings on in an old country pub.To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning?Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman's head? Or was it when the pri...

Two women. An extraordinary power. An explosive bond.In a time of revolution, their fates will lie in the turn of a card.It is the early days of the French Revolution and, on the streets of Paris, terror reigns.Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand is a young woman with an extraordinary power - through her...

It's time for a new season of The Real West Wing, and viewers are looking forward to watching the President run for his third term, recently cleared by the Supreme Court. There may or may not be a new weeping sickness sweeping the nation, and an unlikely hero is recruited to join the President's cam...

Longlisted for the 2026 Booker PrizeFrom the Booker Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo comes a vivid, moving novel following a young man returning to his Hebridean island home, a portrait of a father's expectations and a son's desiresOut of money and...

1956. Queen Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe are the two most famous women on the planet. Their lives are worlds apart. But what if a momentous summer brought them closer than anyone ever knew?1956. Elizabeth II is an elegant young mother and wife who has embraced her patriotic duty despite never exp...

Revenge me. For I am murdered.Odette and Cecilia are young women, living between their grand homes in Hampstead and the imposing, ancient Herne House in Suffolk. Though Odette's artist mother Lydia keeps a tight grasp on her, she and her beloved Cecilia are mostly left free to roam, to learn and to...

A chilling feminist horror tale in which a troubled young woman exacts revenge on male customers at her plant shop, using their remains as fertilizer, for fans of CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN and MY SISTER THE SERIAL KILLER.Bad men make excellent fertilizer.The cult Korean psychological horror tale of re...

'The is an engrossing and tender portrait of a small town under pressure. Stark and elemental - at the heart of the novel is a sort of quiet yearning and a longing for love and for completion that makes Neil Tully's novel so brilliant and intriguing' - Colm Toibin"The lad is a bit like a stray dog...

After being unceremoniously let go from her job, Annie is willing to do anything to stay in New York - including taking another position for which she is wildly unqualified. The problem? Her new boss, Connor, knows that Annie is only pretending to know what she's doing and charming though she may be...

Ingrid Dahl is a cheerful, twenty-nine-year-old librarian living in the cosy mountain town of Ridgetop. She and her boyfriend since college, Cory, have never discussed marriage; they're perfectly happy with the way things are. But when Ingrid's sister announces her engagement to a woman she's only b...

84 Charing Cross Road meets A Man Called Ove in this heart-warming, witty story about the life of an extraordinary woman, told through her letters.In her letters to family and friends we come to know the life of Sybil Van Antwerp- stubborn, cantankerous, opinionated, always steadfast in her belief i...

Longlisted for the 2026 Booker PrizeThe stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo. Oprah's Book Club Book of the Month.'John of John has the emotional range and sense of sympathy of his earlier books, but this book is special, i...

"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart."After crash-landing in the Sahara Desert, a pilot encounters a little prince who is visiting Earth from his own planet. Their strange and moving meeting illuminates for the aviator many of life's univers...

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Life of Pi comes a modern and imaginative retelling of the epic Trojan War.'Stunningly imagined' Kirkus Reviews'The past is never done with- always the song continues.'Harlow Donne has sacrificed his life to the study of the Classical world. So when he is...

Internationally bestselling and prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout’s new novel tells the story of a chance incident in a man's life — a poignant meditation on loneliness, friendship, and free will in a capsizing world.Artie Dam is a man with a secret. He spends his days teaching history to hi...