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Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since…
'The Sun always has ways to reach us.' From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She…
WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARFrances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant.
Elio believes he has left behind his first love - but as an affair with an older man intensifies, his thoughts turn to the past and to Oliver. Oliver, a college professor, husband and father, is preparing to leave New York. The imminent trip stirs up…
William Golding's Lord of the Flies is a dystopian classic: 'exciting, relevant and thought-provoking' (Stephen King). When a group of schoolboys are stranded on a desert island, what could go wrong?'One of my favorite books - I read it every couple…
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2018 WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS INTERNATIONAL AUTHOR OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE Connell…
They had little idea how fast and how wide those simple words would spread, the controversy it would cause, and only the vaguest idea of how far back the history went. Following the international success of his memoir White Bicycles, Boyd set out to…
'A stunning novel.' Graham Norton** Order Andrew O'Hagan's new novel, the Sunday Times bestselling Caledonian Road, now ** Winner of the Christopher Isherwood PrizeShortlisted for the Portico PrizeA Guardian, Spectator, Sunday Times, Financial Times…
OLD GOD'S TIME (MARCH 2023), SEBASTIAN BARRY'S STUNNING NEW NOVEL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOWWinner of the 2016 Costa Book of the YearWinner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017Winner of the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2017Longlisted…
Rome, 1964. As 13 year old Andre stands at the foot of the gangway to the ship, his mother fusses over their luggage - 32 suitcases, trunks and tea chests that contain their world. The ship will refuel and return to Alexandria, the home where they have…
From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace.May 2021. London.Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity intellectual - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled…
OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES OF APPLE TREE YARD SOLD'Psychologically acute. Terrific.' Daily Mail'A page-turning read. Kept me reading well past bedtime!' VAL McDERMID 'Pacey and propulsive.' Guardian'A rare combination of elegance and unbelievable tension…
Why is a heart not heart-shaped?Will I ever understand crypto-currency?What am I doing when I apricate?Is Everything Getting Worse?Dip into A Year of Living Curiously and you'll discover the answers. Spend just three minutes a day with this clever companion…
Triple-Oscar-winning, world-renowned animator - and author of the seminal book The Animator's Survival Kit - Richard Williams' legendary career in the world of animation is brought to the page here for the first time. Written with his wife and collaborator,…
In 1894, across space, this earth was being watched by envious eyes, and plans were being drawn up for an attack. What seems to be a meteorite falls to earth, but from the debris, unfolds terrifying alien life... A young man called Leon records his observations…
Help! There are zombie animals in the garden! Dave and Skipper think this is the work of some dreaded green cookies. (Eat them at your peril.)But a cookie's a cookie, and Dave can't resist taking a peck. Now Skipper is in quite the flap! Is Dave about…
AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOWFrom the multi-million copy bestselling author Demon Copperhead: a true story of female-led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 - now available for the first time in the UK. '[Kingsolver] means to save us…
'A one-of-a-kind storyteller.' OBSERVER'Completely immersive.' NATASHA BROWN'Essential and startling.' COLIN BARRETT'Compelling and poignant.' GLAMOUR'Deeply mesmeric.' MICHAEL MAGEEIt was a peace offering, I knew thatyou don't appear on someone's doorstep…
'The first book that reached out of the pages and seized me by the throat.'STEPHEN KING'Beautifully imagined, it immerses you in the heat of the tropics with its detail and palette and feels so poignant and relevant. Phenomenal.' CHRIS MOULDBefore The…
Every day for over a decade, Orhan Pamuk has written and drawn in his notebooks. Translated into English for the first time, these stunning snapshots of his life and creative process are a wonderful accompaniment to his bestselling works of fiction.…
Praise for the series:'Thrilling, highly imaginative and action-packed.' Louie Stowell, author of Loki'A page-turning adventure.' A. F. Steadman, author of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief'Full of danger and excitement.' LoveReading4Kids, Debut of the Month'Will…
It's a city with a mysterious magnetism, where things seem to be cocooned in a beautiful, illusive haze - Where everybody lives in a dream.These hauntingly beautiful stories explore the lives of six women who, in confronting formative or traumatic moments…
**AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW**FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR'There is a warmth and a humanity in Aciman's prose that enraptures with its slow, easy embrace.' FINANCIAL TIMES'Aciman's evocation of emotional subtlety and time passing is wonderful.'…
'Innovative and original.' Colm Tóibín'Unforgettable.' Alejandro Zambra'A punk novel with prose as mysterious as it is beautiful.' Nicole Flattery 'Pol Guasch must be one of the best young writers working today.' Catherine LaceyThe arrival of a blistering…
It seems so odd to me now, how one can be so unsettled by the improbable. When we know that our entire existence is founded on freak occurrences and improbable coincidences. That we wouldn't be here at all if it weren't for these curious twists of fate.The…
Tara Selter is searching for a way back into time. A year has passed, but Tara still wakes up to the same newspapers, and the same blank faces when she explains that she has seen this all before. Until one morning, she boards a train and finds herself…
Prince unravels the mysteries behind the life of a true musical genius. Through years of research and interviews with ex-Revolution members such as Wendy and Lisa, this is an account of a pop maverick whose experiments with rock, funk, techno and jazz…
Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it's also a weapon, an agent of displacement and exploitation, the currency of kleptocrats and oligarchs. Property is a vivid, far-reaching analysis of our concept of…
** Available for pre-order now ** Visceral, speculative body horror from the author of BOY PARTS and PENANCE - the first collection from a major voice in British fictionA teenager longs for perfect skin. A scientist tends to fragile alien flora. A young…
An entirely original and much needed authentic perspective from a teenager coming to terms with her disability as she's coming of age. Ven has her future all planned out. Her dance group is going places and so is she .. . Then she collapses.On stage.…