Narrative theme: Identity / belonging

A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING READER FAVOURITE'Funny, poignant, smart and wonderfully, achingly real' SARAH WATERS'Rambunctiously funny' THE TIMES, Book of the Year'I can't think of another author who can make me ricochet so quickly from painful empathy to helpless laughter' ERIN KELLYWho do you choose when the cracks begin to show?

One takeaway dinner.

'A solid gold treat from top to tail.

It's never too late for second chances.

Acclaimed author of The Anthropologists Aysegl Savas's acute and tender first collection explores the distances we keep, and those we try to close, in the age of connectivity.

Step into Starling House, if you dare .

'Verdwenen' is een Nederlandse roman geschreven door Melati van Java.

Every town has its secrets.

How far would you go to fit in?

Aanklacht tegen een leven in armoede.

Nog voordat ze debuteerde als romancière, publiceerde Carry van Bruggen deze bundel met 9 naturalistische verhalen.

'This is an important, powerful contemporary YA that you won't regret reading'- BuzzfeedWhen your country doesn't want you there, how do you know where you belong?

'A wonderful edge of your seat thriller that will have you guessing all the way to the end.

ELVENBANE: THE PROPHECY IS ABOUT TO BE FULFILLEDThere will come a child.

A sensational YA science fiction debut.

From the bestselling author of 'Eats Shoots & Leaves', a wonderfully funny collection of twelve monologues.

'Brown Girls flows like a late night FM-radio dedication to the crew, the block, and the mission.

Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's collection of stories is about memory: the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others.

One street, ten doors, who's the killer?

"e;Erst viel spater hatte sie begriffen, dass der ungebrochene Wille das Kostbarste ist, was der Mensch besitzt.

Wind der Veranderung: Der Fall einer aristokratischen Familie im Indien der 50er JahreIndien, 1950: Trotz des fruhen Todes seiner Mutter wachst der junge Krishna glucklich mit seinen vier Geschwistern im Haus seiner wohlhabenden Gro eltern in Madras auf.

Wann ist es Zeit, einen geliebten Menschen loszulassen?

A sweeping dual-timeline novel from the bestselling author of The Girl from Bletchley Park.

*Winner of the Irish Popular Fiction Book of the Year 2014*A thoughtful, captivating and ultimately uplifting novel from this uniquely talented authorDon't miss In a Thousand Different Ways in paperback in July, and Into the Storm in August!

Freya North reunites her popular McCabe girls - sisters Cat, Fen and Pip - in this sexy and funny novel.

You both said it.

Fran's done with looking for long-term love.

The darkly funny debut from the award-winning actor, writer, and creator of The Righteous Gemstones.

Legends never die, dude. I'll tell your story...

There are many sides to Danny McBride: he’s starred as the iconic character Jesse Gemstone in the cult classic TV series The Righteous Gemstones, a show he also wrote and created—just as he did with Vice Principals and Eastbound & Down before that*.* He’s produced horror films like Halloween and starred in comedy classics like Hot Rod and Pineapple Express as well as sci-fi hits like Alien: Covenant. And ever since he was young, he’s been writing short fiction.

An amateur magician gets in way over his head with a deadly stunt in a local mall. A washed-up sitcom actor takes revenge on the coyote who killed his dog. Two young runaways decide to part ways, but not before embarking on one last big adventure.

Hilarious, razor sharp, unexpectedly emotional, and full of wild twists and turns, the stories in Thrilling Tales of Modern Men are like nothing else. And yet, they have one thing in common—they each probe the fragile masculinity that’s become inherent to modern American culture. In this audacious and unforgettable debut collection, McBride redefines the tale of the modern man.

'From the first chapter, I was hooked' ?

'Just when you think you've figured the plot out - a huge twist hits.

The laugh-out-loud, heartfelt and relatable new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Unmumsy Mum and Stepping Up.

The New Novel from the author of Lie With MeDoomed youth, simmering desire and 100-proof nostalgia is what Besson does - and he does it very well .

Now a festive feelgood movie starring Charlie Brooks available on all good streaming platforms for Christmas 2025!

'I urge you to read Bad Habit' PEDRO ALMODOVAR'Had me hooked from the first page .

A razor-sharp exploration of intimacy, non-monogamous desire, and motherhood'A grieving woman opens her marriage after the death of her mother.

Lose yourself in the tender, sexy, utterly real second chance love story, which shows love in all its complexity - chosen as a Reese's Book Club Pick and an instant New York Times bestseller.

An impeccable rendering of modern queer life, Hard Place is a closely-held mirror to the tenderness and brutality of what it means to be young, gay and trying today in all its unflinching, and sometimes unflattering, glory.

'A Finnish masterpiece of autofiction.

A profoundly original, ambitious and globally minded writer Rebecca Tam s, Guardian'A writer of serious intellectual depth' Jay BernardFor over half a century, Jay Wright s poetry has been celebrated for its alertness to the multiplicity of human experience and identity.

'A truly great millennial novel' New York Times Book Review newsletter'A big, beautiful novel about what friendship means as we get older' LitHub 'A big-hearted and daring novel from one of our finest creative and critical minds' Jonathan Escoffery, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of If I Survive You 'A powerfully intimate portrait of female friendship' Kimberly King Parsons, author of We Were the Universe *****As undergrads, Gregg, Reba, Hillary, Bella, and Carson formed the kind of rare bond that university brochures promise - friendship that lasts a lifetime.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERBlockbuster bestseller Rebecca Ross returns to the world of international sensation Divine Rivals with her most epic story yet.

WINNER OF THE #MERKY BOOKS NEW WRITERS PRIZE; A NEW NORTHERN MASTERPIECE.

A mother and son, estranged for many years, reckon at last with the secret that has kept them apart in this highly anticipated novel by one of the most talented American writers of his generationPeter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated, spending his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional detached hook-ups.

The brilliant and beautiful new book from the author of Small Joys.

'The funniest and smartest novel I've read in a while' ZADIE SMITH'Black Bag made me laugh aloud dozens and dozens of times.

A hypnotic and haunting story of longing and survival, losing yourself and finding your family'Daisy Johnson's best novel.

'An absolute riot of a read' THE SCOTSMAN'A gleeful state-of-the-nation dystopia' DAILY MAILA high NRG, whip-smart look at the state of modern Britain through the eyes of a disparate band of rave rebels, from the author of the acclaimed, bestselling debut The Young Team and one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.

Following his Forward-prize shortlisted Rotten Days in Late Summer, Ralf Webb's breathtaking second poetry collection summons the West Country of his youth, a place where the real and the magical, folklore and modernity, life and death, collide Ralf Webb is an ethnographer of the present.

A laugh-out-loud romcom about female rage, public shame and learning to take your own advice, from the bestselling author of Book Boyfriend and Seven Exes.

'Intelligent, darkly humorous and brilliantly written' STANLEY TUCCI'This is Elizabeth Day's writing at its finest' DOLLY ALDERTON'A tantalising portrait of privilege and power' THE TIMESIn this compulsive story of betrayal, old bonds and buried scandals, one British establishment family comes face to face with the consequences of privilege and the true cost of power.