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The million-copy bestselling series. Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s touching Before Your Memory Fades, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last...

The million-copy bestselling series. Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s heartwarming Tales from the Cafe, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?...

‘We’ve all done this. We know what it feels like. We can write it down.’ A beautiful, razor-sharp debut by Sarah Handyside, Instructions for Heartbreak is a life-affirming novel about female friendship, self-love and how to survive a broken heart. What if heartbreak came with a manual? It...

An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American prose Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a...

Three perfect strangers who help each other to believe in love again Holly's husband died, and she’s lonely. She needs to do something to save herself, quickly. Next thing she knows she’s interviewing for a voluntary cooking job, surprised to be ambushed by a scruffy man who looks like he...

'I enjoyed it SO much!' MARIAN KEYES 'With glorious characters and a dreamy setting, I couldn't have loved this book more' THE SUN, ***** 5 STARS Back to the city of dreams . . . Jess Bright, single mum and journalist, feels her life has stalled. So when she's offered a writing job in Paris for...

Can a modern woman take lessons in love from Shakespeare? Book Lovers meets 10 Things I Hate About You in this sparkling romantic comedy from beloved Aussie author Jessica Dettmann. 'Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more. Men were deceivers ever ...' Since she was sixteen, Willa's curious...

In this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satire— a gender-flipped reboot of the iconic 1970’s film “Taxi Driver”—a ride share driver is barely holding it together on the hunt for love, dignity and financial security . . . until she decides she's done waiting. “A ferocious new...

'Evelyn went to the third drawer down in her dresser. It was her drawer of things past ... she had an item from each of her previous lives. Evelyn was good at reinventing herself, becoming who she was going to be next, but she still kept one thing from each life. Never two.' For Evelyn, mornings...

Here are twelve magnificent short stories from acclaimed author John Cheever, read by an incredible cast of celebrity narrators, as well as Cheever himself. As Cheever writes in his preface, ""These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still...

Eine Liebeserklärung an die Welt der Bücher – mit Booktalk, Wortgefechten und großen Gefühlen Josie Klein und Ryan Lawson betreiben Buchläden in derselben Bostoner Straße – sie mit ernster Literatur, er mit unterhaltenden Liebesromanen. Als der neue Besitzer beide Läden fusionieren...

Elegant, intimate, nuanced and electric, Iris is alive to the powers of language and literature, probing desire, connection and the self with singular style and flair. When Iris and Bowen meet at an artists’ residency, the connection is immediate. Both are married to other people, but their...

Er ist reich, er ist bekannt - und er hat eine geheime Leidenschaft, die ihn alles kosten kann... Scott Kerrington hat mächtigen Ärger am Hals. Der Deal, mit dem er seinen Konzern retten will, steht vorm Platzen und der Aufsichtsrat droht mit Konsequenzen. Um Druck abzulassen nimmt Scott sich gern eine Frau mit ins Schlafzimmer oder eine Gitarre zur Hand – nach fünf Whiskys ausnahmsweise auf der Bühne einer Bar.

Caught between two dangerous men – one from her past, one who could change her future. From a childhood in care to a brutal, controlling marriage, Millie Cooper's life has been shaped by fear and survival. When her husband, Levi, dies in a car crash, she’s finally free – but freedom comes...

Torn between the life she knows and the family she never expected. Millie Kelly's world is turned upside down when she discovers she’s the daughter of travellers – namely the notorious Duke and Connie Lee and belonging comes at a price even if she’s ready to accept it or not. When a...

The BRAND NEW explosive, gritty gangland thriller from BESTSELLER Carol Hellier, perfect for fans of Martina Cole and Kerry Kaya.'A cracking read with a brilliant Peaky Blinders vibe!' Reader Review Some legacies aren’t inherited. They’re taken. Patrick O’Leary learned one lesson from the...

This collection of stories explores the hidden, sentient lives of discarded objects in a fictional city. The narrative is set in the “Residual World", a subterranean reality where waste and debris possess memories, emotions, and a shared history. Through personified characters like Barnaby and...

When everything she’s fought for begins to fall apart, how far will she go to hold it together? “Heavy is the head that wears the crown” – and Millie Ward is about to learn just how true that is. With her husband Paul’s loyalty in doubt, the life she’s rebuilt begins to fracture. One...

IT STARTS HERE. THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY. AN UNFORGETTABLE INVESTIGATOR. Discover the gripping new contemporary crime thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Laura Shepherd-Robinson. The ultimate locked-room mystery perfect for fans of Robert Galbraith and Kate Atkinson. The Tower of...

From the author of Glass Bottle Season comes a gritty new coming-of-age novel that examines what happens when one man’s desperate journey to become a New York Writer leaves him more “tortured” than “artist.” Sidewalk Dance is an American masterpiece of the artist as a deluded self-saboteur. Haunted by his brother’s tragic death in the War in Afghanistan and unable to process this trauma, Fisher shuns his elitist pedigree by abruptly quitting Yale Law School, changing his name to Fish, and moving to New York City. Once there, he sets about reinventing himself as a doomed playwright.