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Original plays and dramatisations from the award-winning novelist and playwright, plus bonus documentary Viewing the Century: Michael Frayn A renowned playwright, novelist, journalist, memoirist and translator, Michael Frayn has had a varied and prolific literary career spannning over seven...

A hard science-fiction novel featuring an assassin-for-hire, a witchdoctor, and an astronomer, this fast-paced thriller is perfect for fans of Arrival. When a non-communicative alien spacecraft suddenly appears in the sky, global powers are thrown into turmoil. But for Tope, a principled...

Demon Copperhead meets Les Choristes in this tender coming-of-age story, told through the intersecting lives of a group of troubled boys in a home for ‘delinquent’ young men in the American south in the 1980s LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION 2026 FIRST NOVEL PRIZE “I don’t know...

Four neo-classical tragedies from the renowned French dramatist, with star-studded casts including Timothy West, Prunella Scales and Geraldine McEwan Jean-Baptiste Racine stands with Molière and Corneille as one of the three premier dramatists of 17th-century France. A foundational figure in...

A classic mystery from Japan’s Queen of Crime, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Murder at Mount Fuji At an elegant hotel on a stormy night, travelling businessman Kohei Daigo meets a shadowy yet captivating woman, Fumiko. Their faces obscured in the darkness, they pass the hours by...

Thomas Mann's later short stories published between 1925 and 1953 explore his abiding interest in human nature and his surroundings. Disorder and Early Sorrow and Mario and the Magician originate from Mann's own experiences: domestic life at the height of inflation under the early Weimar...

Brought to you by Penguin. THE NEXT GRIPPING MYSTERY FROM 'NEXT-GEN NORDIC STAR' (LA TIMES) AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, RAGNAR JONASSON As snow blankets Reykjavík and Christmas approaches, young detective Helgi is looking forward to a quiet holiday - until those plans are torn away in...

'Very thin indeed is the curtain between us and the unknown' The short stories of H. G. Wells are about many things, but they are nearly always about contact between the extraordinary and the everyday. There are few mighty statesmen or square-jawed heroes in his writing―it's a junior teaching...

Bloomsbury presents O Now! by Niall Williams, read by Dermot Crowley, with an Afterword narrated by the author. From novelist Niall Williams, bestselling author of Time of the Child and This Is Happiness, a new story set in the small Irish town of Faha, exploring love, loss, and the "why" of...

Isabel Cañas's The Hacienda meets V. Castro's The Haunting of Alejandra in this split timeline gothic horror novel set in a remote lighthouse on the edge of Uruguay, following one woman's escape from an abusive marriage . . . and into a haunting. Delmira Torres knows fleeing to Brazil is the...

The hardest part of love is moving on . . . It's been a year since Ellie Kendall's husband, Jamie, was killed in an accident, but she's still grieving. In fact, she finds herself talking to him regularly. At the urging of Jamie's successful actor father, Tony, Ellie moves to London's glamorous...

For fans of Pam Jenoff and Genevieve Graham, a novel based on the true story of a daring all-female aviation bombing unit called the Night Witches, who inspired fear in German soldiers throughout WWII 1941: As the Nazis flatten her country, Maria Raskova, a record-breaking Russian flight...

From a Booker Prize-longlisted author, a novel in which a woman tries to overcome her abusive past and find her estranged sister in a deeply moving and darkly humorous quest for redemption Foul-mouthed, scrappy, and self-destructive, Steffie is her own worst enemy. Sustained by her sardonic...

"You may devour this work in one sitting, but you'll be thinking about it for a long, long time."—Vaishnavi Patel, New York Times bestselling author of Kaikeyi "Exquisitely wrenching [and] as elegantly constructed as a finger trap...A triumph." —Shelley Parker-Chan, bestselling author of She...

Harry Crews’s savagely funny and gritty portrait of discipline, obsession, control, and power Shereel Dupont, formerly the secretary Dorothy Turnipseed, trains rigorously at the behest of her boss turned personal trainer Russell (“Muscle”) Morgan, sculpting her body into taut muscles and...

Classic short stories by a beloved virtuoso of language, craft, and madness from the American South “His writing was anarchic and wonderfully funny. He sounded like what you’d get if you stirred three heaping teaspoons of Thomas Pynchon and Terry Southern into a jar of Eudora Welty...

The lives of three heroic women collide in the wake of Boston’s 1942 Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in this inspiring and uplifting novel from the author of Grace of the Empire State. 1942: Alice, an aspiring wife and mother, is hiding a happy secret and decides an evening at the Cocoanut Grove...

The internationally bestselling author of the beloved Morisaki Bookshop series welcomes us back to the Torunka Café, down a narrow side street in the Tokyo neighborhood of Yakata, run by its stern-seeming owner, Tachibana, and his teenage daughter Shizuku. Stopping in for a cup of coffee or a...

An elderly bookseller improbably keeps his shop open in Palestine, telling a foreign correspondent the ways in which literature has provided him with refuge and inspiration. “An essential novel to remind us that those in Gaza continue to read, they continue to exist.” -David Diop, author of...

A BRAND NEW, captivating WW2 timeslip novel of hidden family secrets, love and resilience. Perfect for fans of Eve Chase, Kate Morton and Fiona Valpy. A forgotten puppet. A long-buried secret. A story waiting to be told. London, 2016. When Christa discovers an exquisitely carved puppet hidden in...