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I looked at the streets of Yagoona through eyes stinging with melted Maybelline liquid liner. Yagoona looked back at me, the wannabe hipster who dreamed of moving to a share house in the inner west, and cackled. Funny Ethnics catapults readers into the sprawling city-within-a-city that is...

From the high-rises of Canary Wharf to the turquoise pools of Miami, Sugar, Baby is an intoxicating, darkly funny debut novel about beauty and greed, desire and delusion, from an extraordinary new voice in fiction. Agnes Green is turning 21 and her life is heading nowhere. Still living at home...

Twilight Sleep, a gothic satire of Jazz Age New York, was an instant best-seller when it was released in 1927. Quintessential Edith Wharton, it is stylish and sharp, at turns scathing, hilarious and melodramatic, but also deeply and surprisingly human. In a modernist twist, the story is told by three distinct narrators—19-year-old Nona Manford, her unflappable socialite mother Pauline, and Nona’s father and Pauline’s second husband, divorce lawyer Dexter Manford. All are trying to save the marriage of Nona’s half-brother, Jim Wyant, and his wife Lita.

It's the turn of the millennium and, landing in London with nothing but her CD collection and demo tape, Orla Quinn moves into a squalid Kilburn house with her best mate and a band called Shiva. Orla wants to make music, but juggling two jobs and partying every night isn't helping. Back in Ireland her parents' marriage has crumbled, she's not speaking to her father, and her mother and sister are drinking too much.

Alice is a working hard to provide for her daughter, Mollie. But it's a challenge juggling her job alongside her duties as a single Mum in Leeds: a city she barely knows. Her neighbours keep to themselves and as much as she longs for a friend to rely on, she knows that things don't work out that way. Bill has lived on Leodis Street for eighty years. It's where he was born, began his married life and eventually cared for his wife in her final days. Since Sally's death, Bill's home is a place of solitude, his talisman against an unrecognisable world.

Brought to you by Penguin. Seamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima are running out of time to decide on their futures, in the new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of Real Life. In a university town, a circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection while they try to work...

‘An engaging portrait of an indomitable woman at the heart of Golden Age Hollywood’ Gill Paul, bestselling author of The Manhattan Girls ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I was hooked from the first page… it had what I was looking for in the Golden Age of Hollywood’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐...

'A loveable heroine and a swoonworthy hero - yes please!' Sandy Barker Mercy Alexander doesn’t believe in love, let alone love at first sight. There’s one sure fire way of steering clear of heartbreak, and that’s not to get your heart involved in the first place. So what is that irritating...

A laugh-out-loud, feel-good romantic comedy from bestseller Carmen Reid 🛍️Every book in the Annie Valentine Series can be read as a standalone🛍️ The opponents: mothers vs. daughters The battle scene: a boutique changing room Fashion-guru Annie’s well-dressed world is falling apart...

The gripping new revenge thriller from the bestselling author of The Scam! Secrets can't stay hidden forever... After six years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Sebastian Carter is out and determined to get answers about who set him up. He knows it’s someone close to him and Sebastian...

'A gritty powerful story. A must read for fans of gangland crime' - Bestselling author Kerry Kaya Tony Lambrianu might look like he's sitting pretty, but when you're the kingpin of a gangland empire you have to keep your guard up at all times. Deceit and betrayal lurk around every corner. With...

The thrilling second instalment in the gripping Hollywood series from multi-million copy bestselling author Shari Low and TV's Ross King. They’ve made it to the top but someone is determined to make them pay... At a glittering after-party on the night of the Academy Awards, author Mirren...

A gritty, heartwrenching historical saga from the TOP TEN bestselling author Lindsey Hutchinson When 12 year-old Jared Johnson’s little sister dies, just hours after his mother breathes her last after wasting away so her children could eat, he knows he is on own. Desperate to avoid the...

1985. Uprooted from her home in Bangladesh, 18-year-old Nazneen is sent to London for an arranged marriage with a much older man. Her new life is strange and bewildering - the busy streets and crowded tower blocks of the East End are a world away from the rural village she grew up in, and she struggles to adapt to living with her self-important husband, Chanu. Back in Bangladesh, Nazneen's sister Hasina has eloped with the man she loves, and been disowned by her family.

Forty years ago, the name Rachel McMahon was synonymous with evil. After killing four men in the most brutal of ways, the world rejoiced as she was locked up. Now Rachel has done her time, repented for her crimes, and is ready to live a quiet life back in Scotland under a new name.

Kichukkhan by Humayun Ahmed is another popular book about the train journey. This story starts on a train and also ends on the train.

Leo sta per lasciare la sua città, Taranto, e gli amici di sempre per giocarsi la carta dell'Accademia a Modena. È un duro ed è un ribelle, per cui saprà tener testa alla violenza che permea le giornate da cadetto, ma quella vita non fa per lui. Tenterà di strappare una laurea in Giurisprudenza a Bari e poi di lavorare a Milano, sempre alla ricerca della sua sfuggente vocazione, ovunque capace di sodalizzare con i più deboli, con coloro che vivono ai margini per imposizione o per scelta.

Emily has worked hard to be the chic city girl she always dreamed of being. She's definitely not still thinking about Andy, her last boyfriend who ghosted her completely out of the blue. She's got her eyes on the new guy at work. He's much better suited to her new image. When a séance goes haywire, Andy barges back into her life, switching off lights, moving through furniture and moaning about his untimely death. He didn't ghost her, he died...and he's a bit miffed she's trying to move on. And if Emily is going to stop Andy's ghost ruining her love life, she's got to get rid of him.

'You'll be lucky if you read a more engaging novel this year' The Times Thriller of the Month April 2023 'Small Mercies is thought-provoking, engaging, enraging, and can't-put-it-down entertainment' Stephen King 'A jaw-dropping thriller... a resonant, unflinching story written by a novelist who...

An order is issued. A population may not meet, or touch or speak to each other. They stay inside, and the reality of a few streets in a capital city emerges. An underground river is discovered; an urban grove of pomeloes emerges. The imagination reaches out, and makes sense of the world. By the sea, two men walk into a future of uncertain violence. There is time now to see the human dramas within a hundred yards; to wait for the weather to change; to understand that what lies underneath this part of the city are seasonally wet pastures and woodlands.