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The residents of Garrett Island are part of a ground-breaking experiment. For a month, their cars will be replaced by self-driving vehicles – voice-controlled, comfortable and safe. Single mum Sandra is prepping for the huge media event, and she’s ready for a driverless future. Widowed after her husband fell asleep at the wheel, she’s relieved that her kids may never need to drive themselves. But as the day gets underway, disaster strikes. A journalist vanishes, possibly murdered. And before long, it’s clear something is very wrong.

Bloomsbury presents Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum, read by Rosa Escoda. Every Day I Read, a new work from Hwang Bo-reum for book-lovers, available now INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER * NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER INDIE NEXT PICK * Debutiful Most Anticipated Book of 2024 *...

Absorbing, lyrical, vivid and compulsively readable - The Heart is a Star is beautiful storytelling from a talented new writer. A novel for fans of Holly Ringland, Jacqueline Maley, Hannah Richell. Layla Byrnes is exhausted. She's juggling a demanding job as an anaesthetist, a disintegrating...

Love is in the heir in this royally good rom com – narrated by Kathryn Drysdale, also known as Madame Delacroix in Bridgerton. From her bedroom in the Tower of London, twenty-six-year-old Maggie has always dreamed of her own fairy-tale ending. Yet this is twenty-first century London, so...

What do you do when The One is also the one who broke your heart? Self-proclaimed hot mess Scout Myers is determined to prove she’s finally got her act together. Raised by grandparents who saw her as her wayward mother’s wayward daughter, Scout’s used to being written off. So when the...

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Sayon Hughes, a young Black man from Bristol, dreams of a world far removed from the one in which he was raised. Far removed from the torn slips outside the bookie's, the burnt spoons and the crooked solutions his community embraces; most of all, removed from the Christianity of his uncaring parents and the prejudice of law-makers.

An online rivalry between mums and non-mums spills dangerously into the real world 'I devoured it, loved it and totally escaped into it ... Fun and topical' Marian Keyes 'Super addictive, cleverly plotted and ridiculously relatable ... the characters begin to feel like your new best friends' 9...

In 1942 London, Nancy Mitford is worried about more than air raids and German spies. Still recovering from a devastating loss, the once sparkling Bright Young Thing is estranged from her husband, her allowance has been cut, and she’s given up her writing career. On top of this, her five...

How can you write other people's stories, when you won't admit the truth of your own? A critically acclaimed, absorbing, moving, ruefully tender, witty and wise novel of marriage, motherhood and the paths we navigate through both, for fans of Ann Patchett and Anne Tyler. 'I loved The Truth About...

Miranda is such a big-hearted, generous writer, full of warmth and love” Jenny Colgan * * * Two lonely people. One note in the window. And what happens when they reach out… Lachlan Wallace is stuck at home after a car accident stalled his army career. With months of physiotherapy still to...

Meet Madam Jeong Geum-nam, affectionately known as the Hyehwa-dong Grandma, a self-proclaimed "cool senior" and the owner of the beloved Manna Dosirak. Her dosirak lunchboxes are the best in town but there's something else that makes her restaurant special: the little notes she wraps in silver...

When Tara Silverthorne catches her husband with donuts in places donuts should never be, her twenty-year marriage implodes faster than a botched soufflé. Fleeing her suburban life for a trendy Richmond apartment, forty-two-year-old Tara thinks the hardest part of starting over will be learning to parallel park. She’s wrong. Landing a job at a high-end shoe company introduces her to torturous designer heels and her charming French boss, who’s still nursing a decades-old crush.

SHORT-LISTED FOR THE 2026 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE LONG-LISTED FOR THE 2026 BOOKER PRIZE One of Vulture's Most Anticipated Books of 2026 "Missouri Williams writes with a gothic angularity that puts her in a category of one. She swims in deep waters and surfaces now as a major writer for our age.”...

A quiet neighbourhood of London is about to be shattered. Normally little happens in these mixed streets of families, retirees, podcasters and gossips. A little group create a community garden. An ageing journalist writes nature columns. A left-wing Scotsman longs for the glory days when he...

A Most-Anticipated Novel of 2025 - DAZED, Irish Times, RTÉ 'Hilarious and gut-wrenching' - Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller Sometimes friends hold you together. Sometimes they’re why you’re falling apart. Maggie, Harley and Róise are friends on the brink: of triumph...

The Girl Who Reads on the Métro is the French phenomenon by Christine Féret-Fleury ready to charm book-lovers everywhere, for fans of The Little Paris Bookshop and The Elegance of the Hedgehog. When Juliette takes the métro to her loathed office job each morning, her only escape is in books...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, winner of the Goldsmiths Prize, The Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. 'A beautiful, vigorous and achingly melancholy hymn to the common man that is as unexpected as it is daring' John Banville, Guardian A noir...

Nightshift is a story of obsession set in London’s liminal world of nightshift workers. When twenty-three-year-old Meggie meets distant and enigmatic Sabine, she recognizes in her the person she would like to be. Giving up her daytime existence, her reliable boyfriend, and the trappings of a...

'Sunshine in book form' – Daily Mail 'A joyfully escapist celebration of friendship and freedom' – Mail on Sunday 'Delightful, heartwarming . . . An especially welcome reminder of the bright spots even in dark times' – NPR Paras is a spirited young racehorse living in a stable in the...