Fiction: general and literary

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BLACK CAKE COMES A GRIPPING TALE OF LOVE, FAMILY, AND THE SEARCH FOR A NEW BEGINNING.

I may be the lawyer, but she's the one judging me .

Queer love story meets true crime thriller in the dream factory of 1970s cinema, from the award-winning, bestselling author.

'Brilliant, life-affirming, perfect escapism.

** The #1 eBook bestseller!

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025AN IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK'A warm, funny gem of a novel'LAURA HACKETT, THE TIMES'Masterful .

A kaleidoscopic, epic novel about a lovestruck radio operator who discovers a secret society In 1975, a black child is mysteriously born to white parents.

Description A tragicomedy: Charlie Cheddar suffers from sensual deprivation.

The Hill of Evil Counsel is a fusion of history and imaginative narrative, re-creating the twilight world of Jerusalem during the fading days of the British Mandate.

A group of students head into a war zone, armed only with 'the power of theatre' in the first novel from the Emmy award-winning creator of Succession and Peep Show.

When Robert Peabody, the new vicar, moved into the village of Bumpstaple, the villagers were naturally agog.

When Sophie Brinkmann meets Hector Guzman, she knows everything that she needs to: he s handsome, he s charming and he makes her happy.

There are ninety-nine names for God in the Koran, is it possible that there is a secret one-hundredth name?

In 'Any Girl Can Be A Candykiss Girl!

This 2 in 1 edition features The Spanish Bride and The Convenient Marriage - two of Georgette Heyer's hugely popular Regency novels.

Fred 'Bogus' Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness.

Set on the eve of World War II in a resort on the east coast of England, The Rich House follows the love affairs of six young people and their intertwined adorations.

Touching and wonderfully funny, In Custody is woven around the yearnings and calamities of a small-town scholar in the north of India.

TRANSLATED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT CHANDLERMoscow in the 1930s is a symbol of Soviet paradise; a fairy-tale capital where, in Stalin's words, 'life has become better, life has become merrier"e;.

'To say that Babs is my closest friend is rather like saying that Einstein was good at sums.

Discover Tim Parks darkly funny and deeply prescient Booker prize-shortlisted novel about the European experience.

The instant Sunday Times bestseller'A painfully optimistic book that does the favour of making you laugh as it breaks your heart' Kenneth Branagh'A tender, elegant novel about the beauty and importance of friendship.

On her uncle Jacob's death Johanna discovers a mysterious box of photographs amongst his belongings.

A darkly powerful and blackly funny expos of the horrors of life as a junior doctor, from the BAFTA award-winning creator of Bodyguard and Line of Duty and co-creator of the graphic novel Sleeper 'Funny, readable, galling, painful and terrifying in all the right places' GuardianInside every hospital exists a world no outsider is allowed to see: a storm of malpractice, corruption, sex, drink and drop-dead exhaustion.

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It is the summer of 1965.

In 1968, in a remote part of Canada, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once.

As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself as 'a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes' - an identity that will cling to him for a lifetime.

THE ISLAND IS DIVIDED, BUT ONE MAN'S LOVE WILL NEVER BE COMPROMISED.

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L.

At the once-splendid Imperial Hotel, chef Gabriel Lightfoot is trying to run a tight kitchen.

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It's a hot, crowded train.

Bertram was not a believer in luck or superstitions.

C follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who - as his name suggests - surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him.

1903, and Captain Lalande Biran, overseeing a garrison on the banks of the Congo, has an ambition: to amass a fortune and return to the literary caf s of Paris.

THE GLOBAL CULT CLASSICAn epic story of ghosts, obsession and betrayal spanning five lives and one thousand years of history.

Four collections of some of Ruth Rendell's greatest original crime thrillers.

Summer, 1952.

What beauties the book contains!

Tender and bittersweet, these stories by Truman Capote, the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's,are a captivating tribute to the Christmas season'We set about choosing a tree.

In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments, ill-fated holiday romances, office trysts, schoolgirl crushes, tentative courtships, rampant infidelity, tender devotion and terrifying madness.

Beckford's Gothic novel Vathek, an Arabian tale, was originally written in French when the author was twenty-one.

Perhaps the strangest - and most strikingly modern - work to survive from the ancient world, The Satyricon relates the hilarious mock epic adventures of the impotent Encolpius, and his struggle to regain virility.

Winner of the Nero Gold Prize a heartbreaking and unforgettable story of family secrets that everyone is talking about this summer I ll be thinking about it for ever Barbara Kingsolver A gorgeously written story a must-read Jennie Godfrey I was caught up from the first page and completely taken aback by this story.

'Full of warmth' #1 Sunday Times Bestseller Katie FfordeA blast from her past.

THE PERFECT GIFT for fans of Roald Dahl.

PERFECT for fans of Roald Dahl.

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As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy and a young woman married to a soldier at the front.