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This stunning sequel to The Bookseller at the End of the World continues Ruth Shaw's story with more heartwarming tales from a woman who has lived a brave and fascinating life. The Bookseller at the End of the World described the first part of Ruth Shaw's tumultuous life, touching readers in powerful ways....

Good songs come from love. Great songs come from heartbreak. 'Tender as a ballad and pleasurable as a pop song' COCO MELLORS 'Clever and heart-wrenching and addictive' MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER 'An incredibly special book' BETH O'LEARY 'So relatable and enjoyable' GILLIAN MCALLISTER The first time Joe plays Percy one of...

‘Hilarious and heartbreaking’ MONICA ALI'Deeply funny and knowing' MEG WOLITZER'Witty, moving' ANN NAPOLITANO'Poignant, funny and brilliantly told' POSY SIMMONDSAn often hilarious, surprisingly moving portrait of a long-married couple, seen through the eyes of their wickedly observant daughter – for fans of A Man Called Ove and The Royal Tenenbaums.Miranda’s parents live in a dilapidated...

Shocking and darkly funny, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to the decisions that are shaping our world and the people who make them. Welcome to Facebook.Sarah Wynn-Williams, a young diplomat from New Zealand, pitched for her dream job. She saw Facebook's potential and knew it could change the world for...

A moving story about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination—from the bestselling author ofEveryone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and Interesting Facts About Space.Sigrid hates working at the Dollar Pal. Having always resisted the idea of “growing up” and...

Lost at sea . . . with your one-night stand 'Feels like a brand new version of romance . . . I drowned - happily - in this book' Jodi Picoult 'My book of the year, my book of the decade. The best romcom I have ever read' Gillian McAllister...

Maybe having a few enemies on the school run means you're doing something right… Florence knows all about failure. After a dismal end to her 2000s girlband career, she’s moping around West London, single, broke and unfulfilled. The only things she’s proud of are her increasingly elaborate nail art choices...

Longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction 'By normal, you mean like you? A slag with a saviour complex?' Nadia is an academic who's been disowned by her puritanical mother and dumped by her lover, Rosy. She decides to make a getaway, accepting a UN job in Iraq. Tasked with...
Summer Reading Guide

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An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties – successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake...

The debut book from the authors behind the global media sensation Shit You Should Care About. Shit You Should Care about was launched as a WordPress blog by three best friends in the back of a political science lecture. Today it's a global ecosystem of content - two podcasts, 3.5...

The New York Times bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and literary novel about a woman upending her life A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home,...

From the bestselling author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein The Blue sisters have always been exceptional – and exceptionally different.Avery, a strait-laced lawyer living in London, is the typical eldest daughter, though she’s hiding a secret that could undo her perfect life forever.Bonnie was a boxer but, following a devastating defeat,...

An adult novel from the iconic, much-beloved household brand, Jacqueline Wilson, revisiting Ellie, Magda and Nadine from the Girls series, now aged 40. If they think life's done surprising them - they'll have to think again… Being an adult isn’t quite what Ellie Allard dreamed it would be when she...

In Aue eight-year-old Arama was taken by his brother, Taukiri, to live with Kat and Stu at the farm in Kaikoura, setting in train the tragedy that unfolded. Arama's aunty Kat was at the centre of events, but silenced by abuse her voice was absent from the story. In Kataraina,...

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time...From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes a story...

The third novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, following four new customers in a cafe where customers can travel back in time.In northern Japan, overlooking the spectacular view Hakodate Port has to offer, Cafe Donna Donna has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than...

The million-copy bestselling series Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before we say goodbye, 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?The regulars at the magical Cafe Funiculi Funicula...

The million-copy bestselling seriesIn the fifth book in the sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the mysterious Tokyo café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests:- The father who could not allow his daughter to get married- A woman who...

'I couldn't put it down - a moving, heartbreaking (and repairing) family drama. The writing is gorgeous, transporting, powerful: this will be one of the big adult novels of the year' The Spinoff'In Amma, the past is never far away - it binds three generations of remarkable women, each juggling their own...

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This title is expected to ship end of April A portrait of the artist as a young woman in a Berlin that can't escape its history: an electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery'Kaleidoscopic, full of style and soul' Raven...

This title is expected to ship early May I support women’s rights, but more importantly I support women’s wrongs. Marnie Sellick is adrift when she lands a job at the coveted, mysterious beauty brand rytuał cosmetica. The enigmatic founder and CEO, Luna Peters, takes a liking to Marnie, and as...

Pre-order due to publish in June The new novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six An epic novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program and the extraordinary lengths we go to...

This is a pre-order due to ship in June #1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, who “captures the messy essence of being human” (The Washington Post), returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a...

Pre-order due to ship in June From the former prime minister of New Zealand, then the world’s youngest female head of government and just the second to give birth in office, comes a deeply personal memoir chronicling her extraordinary rise and offering inspiration to a new generation of leaders. What...

Pre-order due to publish in May In a sinisterly skewed version of England in 1979, thirteen-year-old triplets Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last remaining residents of a New Forest home, part of the government’s Sycamore Scheme. Each day the boys must take medicine to protect themselves from a mysterious...

Pre-order due to publish in March FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ADULTS AND ANIMALS'Her best yet – funny, gritty, delightfully feral and, as ever, painfully truthful' DOLLY ALDERTON‘An amazing writer’ MARGOT ROBBIE Slag. Noun. A promiscuous woman, of cheap or questionable character. Mostly derogatory. Sometimes affectionate. Once a...

Pre-order due to publish in May From internationally bestselling author John Boyne, a contemplative story about one man trying to move forward from the trauma of his youth to become a better father to his son. Being in limbo, 30,000 feet in the air, offers time to reflect and take...

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May, 1964. At a youth festival in East Berlin, an unlikely young couple fall in love. In the bright spring days, anything seems possible for them - it is only many years later, after her death, that Kaspar discovers the price his wife paid to get to him in West Berlin.
Shattered by grief, Kaspar sets off to uncover Birgit's secrets in the East. His search leads him to a rural community of neo-Nazis, and to a young girl who accepts him as her grandfather. Their worlds could not be more different - but he is determined to fight for her.

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A Little Life is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance.When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an...

This novel is about a woman called Martha. She knows there is something wrong with her but she doesn't know what it is. Her husband Patrick thinks she is fine. He says everyone has something, the thing is just to keep going. Martha told Patrick before they got married that...

Tara Westover and her family grew up preparing for the End of Days but, according to the government, she didn’t exist. She hadn’t been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she’d never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn’t...

Forced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown, Catherine Goggin finds herself pregnant and alone, in search of a new life at just sixteen. She knows she has no choice but to believe that the nun she entrusts her child to will find him a better life. Cyril Avery...

‘The modern world is too much for me. I feel like I’m George of the Jungle.’ —Greta 'At the moment, for personal reasons, I don't like reading things about people being in love with each other.' —Valdin Valdin is still in love with his ex-boyfriend Xabi, who used to...

For Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazes. The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home. The microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the Museum of Natural History. The walled city...

When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed house party, getting drunk, getting dumped, realising...
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Our BBB x Taus Mugs are the perfect way to subtly (smugly) flaunt your love for books over your morning coffee. Here for a limited time, not a long time. Taus presents a unique interpretation of the classic diner style coffee cup. Clean lines, good balance and just the right...

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Why Indian spirituality holds the key to a life of true fulfilment – the new book from the multi-million-copy bestselling authors of Ikigai How can I find purpose in my life? In Hindu philosophy, there are four goals that all human beings strive for: virtue, prosperity, love and freedom. If you...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!From the New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling look at the life of the legendary former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and lovers over a thirty-year period―as well...

Winner of the 2023 Gifkins Prize, A House Built on Sand is the vivid and gripping story of a mother-daughter relationship and the secrets that threaten to shatter their world Maxine has been losing things lately. Her car in the shopping centre carpark. Important work files-and her job as a...

The warm and winning story of opening a modern bookstore where there were none, Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller recounts Nadia Wassef’s troubles and triumphs as a founder and manager of Cairo-based DiwanThe streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled...
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