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One of The Observer (London)'s Best Debut Novels of 2026 A story of class and coming-of-age as a group of best friends investigates the allegations against their teacher. It’s the mid-nineties, and in the small, shitty coastal town of Vincent, Australia, four Nirvana-obsessed fourteen-year-old...

Still grieving the death of her mother, 29-year-old Akiko is single and lives in self-imposed isolation in Tokyo. Then one evening, she unexpectedly runs into Kento, her first love from school. Kento now leads a reclusive life as a hikikomori, only venturing out at night.

“Darkly addictive with a blistering pace and puzzle-box structure” —Katy Hays, New York Times bestselling author of The Cloisters A page-turning suspense debut about a woman infamous for escaping a cult as a teenager, who finds her future threatened when dangerous secrets come back to...

Liora word groot op 'n volstruisplaas in Algerië. Van kleins af bring sy tyd deur in haar tante se pluimery, 'n magiese omgewing waar volstruisvere omskep word in kostuums. Maar onrus bou op in Algerië, en eindelik word sy en haar familie gedwing om landuit te vlug. Ná jare in Parys kom Liora in die Klein-Karoo aan, op soek na haar oom Moshe. Haar lewe word opnuut omgedop, en weer, nes in haar jeug, lê daar 'n grens voor haar wat sy moet oor.

★喜多川泰先生デビュー20周年記念『手紙屋 愛蔵版』が愛蔵版で登場！★愛蔵版出版によせて、2万字を超える新作エッセイ「『学ぶこと・働くこと』の本当の意味」を特別収録。

It's 1983 Dundee, Scotland. Smart lonely and raging with grief, Ella is done trying to fit in. Caught up in the post-punk scene and on the verge of going off the rails, she is packed off to St Cecilia's, a convent boarding school to keep her out of harm's way. But when her new classmates claim to have been visited by the Virgin Mary, Ella is drawn into a far darker world of chaos.

In Saint-Pierre—where banners rise above stone keeps and villagers toil—17-year-old Etienne learns that loyalty is everything under the stern Lord Bertrand.

Nel 1983 Andrev ha sette anni e non ha mai conosciuto il padre biologico. A parte qualche amico e l'affetto materno, il mondo di Andrev è quello marginale di una madre che vive tra i resti dell'anticonformismo degli anni Settanta. E una relazione violenta dopo l'altra. Per Andrev, un «padre» dopo l'altro. Con una gioia narrativa che vira nel fiabesco senza cancellare il nucleo doloroso della storia, oggi Andrev Walden rifà suo l'umorismo disarmante e la crudezza innocente del bambino di allora.

Der mittlerweile sechzehnjährige Billy Wheatley hat alle Gedanken an kindische Detektivarbeit aufgegeben und sich stattdessen seiner aufstrebenden wissenschaftlichen Karriere verschrieben. Er ergattert einen begehrten Platz auf einem Forschungsschiff, das hundert Meilen vor der australischen Küste Weiße Haie untersucht. Doch als er sogar hier draußen Hinweise auf ein Verbrechen findet, kann er nicht anders, als Nachforschungen anzustellen. Das einzige Problem: In diesen von Haien bevölkerten Gewässern hat er sich schnell mehr aufgehalst, als er bewältigen kann.

In den sechziger und siebziger Jahren wurde von Frauen am Land wenig erwartet, außer: stillhalten, sich fügen, bleiben. Nicht so Anna. Sie will hinaus – aus der Enge, der Armut, der Gewalt. In Wien stellt sie sich einem Verlag vor und wird mehr als nur Mitarbeiterin: Sie wird Teil der Literaturszene, Geliebte des Verlagsleiters und bald selbst Autorin. Ein Roman über Außenseitertum, Selbstermächtigung und die zärtliche Rebellion einer Frau, die über sich hinauswächst.

She’s a fearless racer with a point to prove. He’s her number one enemy on the grid. Now their careers depend on convincing the world of their love, but can they put aside their past to save their future?

Susan Bliss is torn between two lives. Her husband Alcott has decided only one will be remembered. 'A beautiful portrait of a woman living a double life' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 'Sharp, emotionally astute' OBSERVER 'Beautifully written' DAILY MAIL 'An absorbing story of love, loss and the price of...

Brought to you by Penguin. Embark on a magical journey in this wistful, Ghibli-esque fantasy from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Water Moon – perfect for fans of Spirited Away, Dallergut Dream Department Store and The Starless Sea. Raya is a lost soul, going through the motions of life...

Jimmy Winslow hat zwei Mütter. Honor, die ihn aufgezogen hat, schickt ihn als Studenten von New Hampshire nach Wien, wo er Vater werden soll. Das Wien der Sechzigerjahre ist ein Ort voller Geheimnisse und Versuchungen, und Jimmy springt kopfüber hinein und ist dabei immer auch auf der Suche nach seiner leiblichen Mutter Esther Nacht. Was er erlebt, ist eine spektakuläre Achterbahnfahrt, wie sie nur das Leben in John Irvings Büchern schreiben kann – voller großer Gefühle, unglaublicher Wendungen und Figuren, die uns nicht mehr loslassen.

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER Half His Age is a highly anticipated, funny, sad, thrilling novel about sex, class, desire, and power – and the (often misguided) lengths we’ll go to to get what we want, from Jennette McCurdy, the three-million copy bestselling author of I'm Glad My Mom Died...

Radically open-minded, formidably strong, and unusually clear-eyed about herself and others, Evelyn Bednarz has always been a misfit. She’s easily bored, unsuited to life at school, asks odd questions about faith and time, and sees through conventions others take for granted. Seeking to be true to herself, she hitchhikes across the American West taking odd jobs. In distant Tibet, another life unfolds as remote from Evelyn’s as can be: the life of a boy named Tsering, raised as a Buddhist monk in the mountains of Tibet, who eventually becomes a high lama.

The human “oddities” in the Museum of the Strange are less wondrous than the gawking rubes had been promised. But Alida is something else. The real thing. Traveling Depression-era America from carnival midways to speakeasies, Alida is resigned to an exploited and lonely life on the road as the museum’s golden ticket. Until she’s rescued by two compassionate strangers. Franklin and Loretta Fairchild see in Alida a gifted and uncannily well-read girl in need of a loving touch and a family. With the openhearted couple and their three precociously imaginative children, Alida finds it.

For Moon Boy, adulthood is coming no matter what. Even if he spends most nights drinking forties in the cemetery with his band, even if he drops out of community college to pursue multiple women for different reasons, and even if he can still see the ghost house rise from the quarry at midnight, he can’t stop the inevitable. When his sister goes missing on opening night at Kip Creeker’s Trail of Terror, Moon Boy’s already overcomplicated life takes a frightening turn, and his grasp on reality starts to slip.

The Secret Sewing Society is a sweeping, heartbreaking tale about a devastating family mystery, a doomed love affair, and generations of women coming together against the odds. Fans of Evie Woods, Fiona Valpy and The Keeper of Happy Endings will be utterly swept away.

For fans of Philippa Gregory and Allison Pataki, Butterfly Games is Kelly Scarborough’s debut biographical historical fiction novel about a young Swedish countess whose youthful love affair with the heir to her country’s throne has profound personal and political repercussions. In some games, winning means losing everything that matters. In the opulent world of the Swedish royal court, Jacquette Gyldenstolpe walks a dangerous tightrope between romance and political intrigue.