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A comic romance set in the snowy north, from one of Japan’s most revered novelists. Available in English for the first time. Unimpressed by her marriage prospects, 20-year-old Natsuko Matsuura decides to pack it in and enter a convent. But en route to an abbey in the far north of Japan, she...

A dazzlingly inventive new novel from the bestselling author of In Memoriam: Arthurian legend cracked open. Princess Isode is happy with life in medieval Ireland. Her hair is as shiny as thread of pure gold, every knight she heals with her medicinal powers falls madly in love with her, and she...

The Wedding People meets Beth O'Leary! Maggie May has a lot going for her. A house in Cornwall. A fiancé. A sister. Unfortunately, her fiancé is sleeping with her sister. In her kitchen. Over her table. Ben Jones has his own problems. A lot of them. And a very questionable plan to fix them...

You are cordially invited to die... Former serial killer Carol Quinn is about to get out of prison (again) in time to attend the wedding of two fellow retirees on a remote island off the Suffolk coast. When the bride's horrendous ex-husband is found murdered hours before the ceremony, however...

Fresh off a sentence for a murder she didn't commit (this time), retired serial killer Carol Quinn investigates a murder in the likeliest of places...a wedding. Things are unexpectedly lively for the residents of Sheldon Oaks retirement home. Carol's been wrongfully convicted and is back in...

Succession meets The Talented Mr. Ripley in this sharp and stylish satire of modern power about an aristocratic family and the fantastically wealthy American couple they befriend in troubled times. The Gators are a sufficiently ancient English family who love their dogs more than their children...

The complete series 27 of the popular impressions show, plus two Specials The popular topical comedy show is back with another helping of political vituperation, media mauling and celebrity savaging. So sit back and treat your ears to a bumper helping of superb satirical impressions from the...

Ever wondered if one choice, one weekend and one person can change everything? Writer Tess has always been accused of being overly romantic by her best friend Carys. And when they meet cheerful stranger Spencer and his more reserved wingman Ryan on the sleeper train to a wedding, Carys is all-in...

“I love Fiona Warnick's writing.” —Sheila Heti From the author of the “hilarious” (Time) and “charming” (The New York Times) novel The Skunks comes the humorous and relatable chronicle of a young woman’s obsessive and romantically unrequited crush, in which the sex scenes are...

A Nabokovian mystery about the ultimate literary scandal, in which the son of a world-famous author is faced with the Hamlet-like dilemma of whether or not to publish his father’s final, unfinished work, which he had promised to destroy upon the author’s death, evoking the Nabokov of Lolita...

Her awful boss has been murdered and everyone in the office is a suspect in this bright, witty, chaotic, and all-too-relatable mystery. Julia wants her boss dead. We’ve all been there. Who hasn’t spent hours daydreaming about the ways their egotistical, bullying, sexist, controlling boss...

A sweat-slicked, painfully funny novel about obsession, ambition and a woman’s doomed attempt to run from herself. A woman walks into a gym and lies to get a job. The gym is a palace of possibility. Here she can transform. Become unrecognizable. No more presentations or promotions or emails...

A charismatic relationship influencer is exposed as a master manipulator—bringing together all the women he's lied to and strung along—in this razor-sharp debut that interrogates intimacy, power, and the stories we tell to appear perfect. Dion Watkins is a relationship podcaster and...

Wenn man nach zehn Jahren Ehe von seinem Mann per Telefon verlassen wird, dann ist das ein Schock. Zum Glück sind Schwester und Freundinnen gleich zur Stelle und verordnen der viel reisenden Verlagsvertreterin Christine als Erstes den Umzug nach Hamburg. Dort angekommen, geht's dann richtig los – und allmählich begreift Christine, dass das Leben als 40-jährige Singlefrau gar nicht so schlecht ist! Ein beschwingter, Mut machender Frauenroman über einen Neuanfang, bei dem viel mehr herauskommt als nur die Bewältigung einer unfreiwilligen Lebenskrise.

“Yan’s storytelling has a luminous, irrepressible quality.”—NPR The brilliant and highly resonant new novel from one of China’s most influential and important contemporary writers, exploring a son, father, and mother all consumed by the desire for success, even at the cost of one...

Margo’s Got Money Troubles gets a thrilling gothic twist in this delightful, darkly funny debut novel set in a castle in the Scottish Highlands. When Emma Propeller’s unreliable and narcissistic husband, James, fails to return home to her and their new baby from a business trip, she fears...

The brand new hilarious instalment in the Pie & Mash Detective series, perfect for fans of Richard Thorogood, Janice Hallett and Richard Osman. A murder mystery weekend is meant to be fiction. At Spencer Hall, it’s about to become very real . . . When the actor playing the Butler disappears...

Told with razor-sharp wit and an unfiltered, hypnotic voice, Clean Houses follows Sol. She is a progressive young woman obsessed with cleanliness who, upon becoming pregnant, hires two housekeepers to help her at home. Although having cleaners should, in theory, make Sol's life easier, it...

Chuck Palahniuk’s first foray into science fiction, following a young man searching through old sci-fi pulp magazines for clues to find the father who disappeared into space years ago. On Earth, a young man named Grunt is searching for his father, a writer who has seemingly vanished off the...

Brought to you by Penguin. When Davis Kennedy interviews at a mysterious new startup called Paradox Inc., he’s startled to find the venue is in the past. Silicon Valley’s emerging “temporal engineering” sector has just cracked time travel, and companies are racing to exploit it for...