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‘Broke me apart and also healed me at the same time!!!😭✨ … Beautiful … Heartwarming … Adorable … Made me feel warm and cozy … Touched my heart' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🌸🌸🌸🌸 As the last petal falls, the final page is turned… Welcome to The Cherry Blossom Bookshop, a haven...

'IT MOVED ME DEEPLY' LIV LITTLE 'DEEPLY POIGNANT' HARPERS BAZAAR 'GORGEOUS' RAVEN LEILANI THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF CLEOPATRA AND FRANKENSTEIN 'It will make you laugh, cry deeply, and want to call your siblings’ Cosmopolitan 'Even better than Cleopatra and...

In this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, Satoshi Yagisawa paints a poignant and thoughtful portrait of life, love, and how much books and bookstores mean to the people who love them. Set again in the beloved Japanese...

Old Michael Snowdon returns to London with an inheritance that he determines should go towards helping the poor—but goodness and charity are not to play a part here. Everyone has an agenda, and scheming spreads through the story like a disease. Gissing’s own experience of London as an outsider in a vast city that both fascinated and appalled him gave him the tools and the drive to create a visceral sense of place. Life is unremittingly grim for just about everyone, from the weak and well-intentioned Jane to the coarse, cunning Clem Peckover and her feckless rival Pennyloaf Candy.

Una vieja factoría de la calle del Planeta, en el corazón de Gràcia, alberga un coworking con una singular fauna: Uwe es el hijo único de un industrial alemán que le ha dado "un año de gracia" para vivir la bohemia antes de hacerse cargo del negocio familiar. Maurici no para de diseñar nuevos e inverosímiles negocios que siempre están «a punto» de procurarle éxito. Vilma es una fotógrafa de misteriosos hábitos, como dormir dentro del coworking o desaparecer en una playa secreta. Gus es nómada digital y trabaja como lanzador de cursos online, acompañado de un ejército de figuras de Star Wars.

A laugh-out-loud opposites attract romance from rom com superstar Laura Carter A Hotshot Manhattan Attorney. Drew Harrington knows exactly who he is—a legal shark with a love ‘em and leave ‘em attitude that works just fine in his cutthroat world. He’s on the cusp of being named a partner...

Stefan Zweig was born on the 28th November 1881 in Vienna, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and into a wealthy Jewish family with interests in banking and textiles. Zweig first published in 1900 and two decades later was a popular and highly regarded author in many parts of the world, although not in England. He was also the librettist with Richard Strauss of two operas and a keen collector of autographed musical manuscripts. His collection of over two hundred pieces was later donated to the British Library.

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...

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...

Sister Maria-Fiore dei Fiori Montagna, who is suffering from an acute identity crisis, wants to know more about her own past, and after doing a DNA test, she discovers that she has a relative she didn't know about. But her newfound family causes a bit of a rift between her and her flatmate, Antonia Collie. Bertie's dream of moving to the promised land – the Dear Green Place – comes crashing down as he learns that he is to move to the far northeast – Peterhead, near Aberdeen, leaving poor Ranald Braveheart Macpherson a little heartbroken and lost.

BERLIN 2019. A young writer is brutally attacked in her home and left for dead. For her sister Nina Bergmann, it's the beginning of a nightmare that will threaten to destroy her marriage, her job and ultimately her life. As she sets out to unravel the truth about what really happened to her...

A collection of thirty short stories that move along the edges of the existential and the social, the tender and the ironic. Set against the backdrop of Greece , and drawing deeply from its unique spirit and contradictions, each story reveals a subtle fracture in the surface of daily life, where a person confronts themselves, the systems that enclose them, and the illusions they invent just to endure. These are finely tuned explorations of the human psyche —part microscope, part mirror— unveiling the quiet absurdities we all share .

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026 From the Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of First Love, The Palm House is a sharply observed, slyly funny novel of enduring friendships and small mercies. ‘This goes straight onto my list of favourite modern novels’ – The Times ‘One of our finest...

A brilliantly funny, relatable romance set in Ireland from BESTSELLER Clodagh Murphy.☘️💛 Perfect for fans of Mhairi McFarlane, Beth O’Leary and Sophie Cousens. Two former almost-somethings. One very messy reunion. Could this finally be their time? As teenagers, Ella and Roly were an...

Sam und Daisy sind seit der Uni beste Freundinnen. Als sie sich kennenlernten, war Daisy noch ein wildes, von Fleetwood Mac besessenes Mädchen, das aus den Yorkshire Moors stammte, während Sam ihre Freizeit mit Shoppingtouren und Ausgehen in Liverpool verbrachte. Als sie sich auf einer Holzbank im Garten ihres Lieblingslokals an Sams Hochzeitstag aneinander lehnen, ahnen sie nicht, dass sich ihre Wege kurz darauf zum ersten Mal trennen werden.

Everything happens for a reason . . . Joachim von Hartmann is born into a wealthy Argentine banking family and spends his early years in Buenos Aires. Blonde-haired and blue-eyed, he has inherited the looks of his German ancestors, while his twin brother Javier could not be more different...

Sophie and Andrew are looking for relief from the daily grind – so when a friend puts them in touch with newlyweds looking to swap houses for the summer, they have their solution. The swap works an unexpected magic for Sophie, who begins to find a sense of happiness. But soon the intertwining...

When teenagers Jamal Deng and Aisha Saforo are shot dead on the edge of a notorious estate, DS Chris Ashcroft knows why he’s been assigned the case—and he doesn’t like it one bit. Refusing to write the murders off as gang violence, Ashcroft insists on digging deeper—something doesn’t add up.

His artistic ambitions crumbling as fast as his marriage, Sam careens through Europe seeking inspiration in the great Michelangelo who, for all his success, struggled to complete what was to be his magnum opus. Sam teams up with an intriguing Italian woman who opens his eyes to the deeper meaning of the Tomb: how Michelangelo’s grand ambitions got continually derailed. The result? A profound “midlife crisis.”

Life can change in the blink of an eye. That's a truth Andy Slater learns as a young man in 1982, taking the Chicago "L" to work every morning. Andy's life is laid out before him: a good job, marriage to his female college sweetheart, and the white picket fence existence he believes in. But when he sees Carlos Castillo for the first time, Carlos’ dark eyes and Latin appeal mesmerize him. Flash forward to present day. Andy is comfortable but alone, and has never forgotten the powerful pull of Carlos’ gaze on the "L" train. He vows to find him once more, hoping for a second chance.