When Georgie's boss-turned-lover, Nico, offers her a high-stakes job in Canada, she wants to say no. But burdened by debt and swayed by Nico's promises that the gig will be quick and lucrative, Georgie feels she has no choice - even though it means leaving...
Robin Edmund Blake is halfway through his life. Born in 1986 as Halley's Comet crossed our skies, he is destined to go out with it when it returns in 2061. Until then he can't die. He has proof. And until then, he can account for every day and every pound and...
Pompous, vain and a self-professed charmer, George Brewster moves from one unfulfilling journalism job to the next, one empty relationship to another, his faithful wife and daughter ever the afterthought. THE WELL DRESSED EXPLORER is the story of a man of his...
There are three things Jennifer 'Jinx' Sullivan promised herself she would never do: 1. Eat fast food. 2. Go on a coach trip. 3. Die without exacting revenge on the people who ruined her life. She's about to let herself down on the first two, but she can still...
Karly Lane's page-turning, absolutely delightful 25th rural romance from this bestselling author with over 600,000 books sold. Lottie Fairchild has two loves: history and, well, history. She's fascinated by the legends of love and curses handed down through...
Accidentally buying a Sicilian villa for just one euro is not the great Eat, Pray, Love game changer that Brian Chapman hopes it would be. Instead, tumbledown buildings, a shortage of plumbers, and resentful locals make Brian's drunken whim look like the...
A fresh and darkly funny debut novel about blurred online identities and striving for success (or just security) in a rigged system. Perfect for anyone who's ever enjoyed a good scammer story. I was active and agile. I was a champion. I was a witch. I was a...
A woman's midlife reinvention and a beach village of eccentric Aussies collide with stupendous results in this witty, razor-sharp and immensely enjoyable debut from author Catherine Greer. Audrey Sweetman wakes up one morning next to her husband, excited for...
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,...
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian community in Baltimore. Funny and touching, Behind You Is the Sea brings us into the homes and lives of three main Palestinian immigrants families - the Baladis, the Salamehs,...
"Most people don't even notice them - three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it's just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows...
Summer is in full swing when Daisy drives back into Wynmouth in her almost-clapped-out car, having left both her most recent job and the man her parents thought she was going to marry. Coming home could be just what she needs to move her life on. At Wynbrook...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a widowed woman in possession of a large Georgian home in Bath, but with no money to buy tea or toilet paper, needs a solution, and one quickly. And for 70-year-old Marion Gaynor, the solution is a house share....
When Agnes Agistini receives a phone call from Theo, her brother-in-law informing her that her estranged, abusive husband Oscar has died in an accident, she feels nothing but relief. But that relief is short-lived as Oscar's vengeance from an early grave...
When Charlotte Daly wins a scholarship to the prestigious St Thomass school, her mother Ali - who has struggled to bring Charlotte up as a single mum - is so proud. She hopes this opportunity will mean a better life for her clever, brilliant daughter. Ali...
"Ryan and Lillian Bright are deeply in love, recently married, and now parents to a baby girl, Georgette. But Lillian has a son she hasn't told Ryan about, and Ryan has an alcohol addiction he hasn't told Lillian about, so Georgette comes of age watching their...
Winner of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for fiction at the 2023 Oakham New Zealand Book Awards. A dazzling portrayal of humanity and the natural world that perfectly balances violence and humor Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Marnie, and...
Something's not right in Hunters Ridge... Ebony Blakely has her life nearly exactly where she wants it. She's a country vet with a successful business in Hunters Ridge, a town that she loves, and has a close group of friends. The only thing missing is romance....
A breathless, riveting novel about a young woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder who rejects the stability and approval found in a traditionally 'normal' life for a career in stand-up comedy, from the bestselling author of Still Alice and Inside the O'Briens....
In 1990, Vijay and Indu leave India for Australia, seeking a better life for their family. But the move isn't easy on anyone. Not gentle Indu who becomes disconnected from her family and her life; nor the ambitious Vijay, who finds himself unmoored in a...
"Welcome to Green River. Five families on an annual camping trip, a mothers' group of 14 years, children starting to look like adults, a father with his own mysterious agenda. He Would Never is the audiobook you'll be talking about this season, a story about...
One step closer to finding her way home... As a new decade begins, hopeless romantic and big dreamer Ellen is finally moving on from her hometown. In Galway she takes a job in a bookshop, and somewhere between the dusty bookshelves and the quiet afternoons, a...
Dorset, 1965. Twenty-five-year-old aspiring artist Marilyn longs to escape to London, but her family relies on her wages from the hotel on the cliff. Then one day Marilyn meets Bruno, an intriguing Italian, and the two fall madly in love. When he leaves for...
As City Girl, Devlin Delaney's iconic gym and spa prepares to mark a big anniversary, her best friends, Caroline and Maggie are looking forward to a fabulous party where they can all put their problems behind them and celebrate. Devlin's past has returned to...
There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed... On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of...
An engrossing and provocative exploration of privilege, hypocrisy and justice by the bestselling author of The Cane. Leah has a good life. She lives on The Drove, an inner-city cul-de-sac, with her husband Moses and their two children. She and her neighbours -...
Mackenzie Henry is happy enough with her life in the small town of Summerfield. She loves her work as a saddler, the bushland surrounding her home, and the feeling of safety her beloved grandfather brings her. She doesn't want anything-or anybody-else. So when...
It's after a night in Cardiff's loudest gay bar that Toni first lays eyes on Gav, a retired Welsh boxer, and his boyfriend Karol, an aspiring Polish photographer. The trio soon fall into an intimate, ambiguous love triangle. After a tragic event at a beach in...
A tender, heartwarming novel of unlikely friendships and second chances, perfect for fans of Monica McInerney and Maeve Binchy. Vivian Molloy hardly expected to retire early from teaching, but for her husband, Dave, she'd do anything. But when Dave abandons...
A story about intergenerational friendship between women, coercive relationships and power, and the endless possibilities new connections can bring. Fleeing Melbourne for a village in the Yorkshire Dales had felt right. Sanctuary, I'd thought. But nowhere is...
"Sara is 25. She has never used a tampon without having a panic attack. She starts dating Miles. For three months, they don't touch. Miles respects her boundaries, though he longs for them to melt away. Sara desires Miles, but she knows her body, or rather she...
The millennium has changed but have the Hekes? Where are they now, Beth, Jake and what of their other children? Son Abe who has rejected violence but violence finds him. Polly, as beautiful as her sister Grace, who committed suicide; is that a Heke running...
"Gerard is 12. He hates his name, but loves flying round the streets of Glasgow on his bike, or mucking about with his gang, the Broncos. He's a bright kid, but trouble seems to follow him. No one really knows what it's like at home for Gerard; he's used to...
"They raised me. Nurtured me. And lied about everything. Sadie's childhood has always been shrouded in mystery. But there are three things she knows. She was raised by two aunts. She never knew her parents. She is convinced she was stolen. Cristy Ward, podcast...
"1928. In British-ruled India, headstrong Sita longs to choose her own path, but her only destiny is a good marriage. After a chance meeting with a Crown Prince leads to a match, her family's status seems secured and she moves into the palace, where peacocks...
"Berlin, 1933. The night skies are burning bright with huge bonfires of banned books. The Nazi party is swelling in number, Berlin is no longer a safe place for young Freya. She can only watch on, horrified, as her beloved city falls to fascism - and the...
"Yuriko leads a quiet, orderly life as a piano teacher. It's New Year's Eve and her grown-up son Izumi comes to visit. Yuriko makes him his favourite meal: omelette and hayashi rice. Together, they look like a normal family. But Yuriko has a secret. Many years...
An unexpected letter from her mother threatens to pull Clove back to a life she's left behind, in this thrilling book from an explosive new talent. Clove has spent the past few years meticulously crafting a family life that looks nothing like the one she grew...
Welcome to the hectic world of beauty and business in this highly relatable novel following a talented hair stylist turned entrepreneur juggling family dramas, workplace near-catastrophes and relationship crises. Things will calm down soon... right? Hair...
Dot is a pensioner who lives her days alone. Max is a young offender doing community service. But a chance meeting in their local park will change everything for this unlikely pair. They soon find they share a wicked sense of humour and a penchant for petty...
The almost daughter is almost normal, because she knows how to know and also not know. She knows and does not know, for instance, about the barracks by the athletics field, and about the lonely woman she visits each week. She knows - almost - about ghosts, and...
Cana, Massachusetts, 1730. To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family stand as godly pillars of their small-town community, drawing Christians from across the New World into their fold. One such Christian, physician Arthur Lyman,...
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...
Literary icon Julia Alvarez, the international bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies, returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling that will be an instant classic. Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The Cemetery...
Newlywed Rosie has grown disenchanted with NYC. Inspired by Instagram ads, she starts thirsting for a rural life upstate one full of beauty and simplicity. Willing to do anything for Rosie's happiness, her tech-bro husband, Jordan, acquiesces to her vision for...
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2024. Are we more like a coffee bean, a carrot or an egg? What happens to us when we are boiled in the trials and tribulations of life? Jessica Miller is fascinated by the somewhat perplexing tendency of humans to end their own...
Centred on three generations of a family of rail workers and a laid-off factory worker staging a high-altitude sit-in, Mater 2-10 vividly depicts the lives of ordinary working Koreans, starting from the Japanese colonial era, continuing through Liberation, and...
WINNER OF THE 2023 FOGARTY AWARD Meg's life is woven into the fabric of St. Stephens. It's a tapestry made of two precious children, a hidden truth, and a husband whose ideas of a perfect wife do not match her own. When Meg puts her foot down on a third kid,...
Can a love from her past be rekindled and help Erin heal her broken heart? From one of Australia's most popular rural romance authors comes this compelling novel about love, memory and courage. When Erin Macalister leaves the city to take care of her beloved...
Ilene, a working class mother, is struggling to survive and desperate to reconnect with her children, Jack and Lonnie, in the aftermath of a near fatal tragedy. But her children vanish, setting off a chain reaction within the community. Suspended detective...
Where did she come from? And how far will she go? Five years ago, Kate's partner, Max, abandoned her for his pregnant lover. The affair has long since crumbled, but Kate has become fixated with Vee, her replacement. In a bid to find out what compelled Max to...
A highly original work told by Hortense Cezanne, the wife of the celebrated artist, as she witnesses an author in 2020 write a book about her life. Paris, 2020. A writer is confined to her hotel room during the early days of the pandemic, struggling to finish...
The Liquid Eye of a Moon. A Nigerian Catcher in the Rye by a major new literary talent. Fifteen-year-old Dimkpa dreams of the day his father will be made village head. He will return to school and maybe even go on to university; his mother will no longer have...
Six candidates. One job. A killer prepared to murder their way to the top. Salford, 1983. Lorraine Quick is a single mum, a member of a band going nowhere fast and Personnel Officer at Salford's grim Memorial Hospital. A new General Manager position is being...
When it comes to families, is anyone a reliable witness? Cherry Magraw can never forget the date her mother and brother were killed the night of her ninth birthday. When her father was jailed for their murders, she lost everyone she loved. Twenty years later,...
The cold of Siberia meets the chill of betrayal. In a world where loyalty is fleeting and alliances are temporary, John Milton is on a mission that will bring him face-to-face with enemies old and new. When his friend, Alex Hicks, finds himself pursued by...
It was a peace offering, I knew that you don't appear on someone's doorstep uninvited, saying Alright unless you want to make amends. It's been six years since Rosa last saw her brother. Six years since they last spoke. Six years since they last fought. Six...
It was indisputably love at first sight. But Victoria Lyndon was merely the teenaged daughter of a vicar... while Robert Kemble was the dashing young earl of Macclesfield. Surely what their meddlesome fathers insisted must have been true-that he was a reckless...
1998. Ontario has been hit by a days-long, life-endangering ice storm, and on Regis University campus, with classes cancelled, the students are partying. In the midst of it all, eighteen-year-old Ros's roommate Megan goes missing. As a panicked search ensues,...
A remote west Texas town where family can be made by blood or by choice. Rancher Staten Kirkland, the last descendant of Ransom Canyon's founding father, is rugged and practical to the last. No one knows that when his troubling memories threaten to overwhelm...
A gripping, haunting work about the reverberations of a serial killer's crimes in the lives of everyday people. In 1998, an apparently ordinary Australian man is arrested and charged with a series of brutal murders. The news shocks the nation, bringing both...
A small group of family and friends head to a beautiful, secluded location in the mountains of Mallorca for the wedding of Alex and Maddie. The Finca Incantata is a magical place-a castle with a cobbled courtyard, a deep, cold, fresh-water pool and a high...
Six-year-old Gracie Lynn is perpetually curious and bighearted. Convinced she knows how to save her beloved grandfather John from the 'worm' that is eating his brain - a metaphor her mother once used to explain John's dementia and sundown syndrome - Gracie...
A luminous novel from the New York Times bestselling author of City on Fire, plunging us deep into the lives of a teenage girl and her father as they navigate love, grief, addiction, redemption and connection.When 13-year-old Jolie Aspern drops her phone onto...
The most electrifying debut novel of 2024- Almost Famous meets Slaughterhouse-Five. Big Time is set in a not-too-distant future Australia, where the eastern states have become the world's newest autocracy - a place where pop music is propaganda, science is the...
On a working holiday in the country, away from commitments and other people's expectations, will Gemma find love and a new way of life? Smart and reliable, Gemma Northcote has always done what's expected of her. So it's not surprising that after uni she defers...
When Esther wakes with a breathing tube down her throat, she has no idea where she is or how she got there. In terrible physical condition, Esther is tended to by Grace, the only other person in the building. In the half-consciousness of her recovery, Esther...
A brilliant debut reaching from the picturesque South Coast of NSW to the cloisters of Cambridge, following two young women's lives as they become entwined in ways neither could have expected. Exploring motherhood, class, social justice, love and identity, it...
Listen deeply now, if you remember how and why. On a hot October afternoon, a girl walks barefoot out of the Wimmera desert, near the small town of Gatyekarr. She finds sanctuary with Beth, a regenerative farmer and collector of seeds, devoted to bringing her...
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. The future of law enforcement has arrived, courtesy of private health contractor Janus Justice. Their ground-breaking Offender Treatment Programme has been hailed as the most effective way of tackling crime yet....
Every second of Anuri's life has been documented on social media. Now, it's time to take back control. Anuri's stepmother, Ophelia, is the ultimate 'mumfluencer'. Throughout Anuri's childhood, she catalogued every minute, milestone and carefully curated family...
At seventeen, Maeve is naively single-minded about pursuing a life in the theatre. After a rigorous audition process, she secures a position at one of the most competitive drama schools in the country. Leaving behind the security of her childhood home in...
Sometimes you must shine a light on the dark places to see what was always there. Nancy won't be coming home. And there it is: that pip of a moment. That instant. That fraction of a second. That weightless stillness at the very top of a balls bounce, between...
Winter 1953. Beneath a pitch-black Leningrad sky, two bodies lie near the towering statue of Lenin outside the Finland Station. 'Nothing sinister, here, just a simple hit and run,' an officer in the MGB secret police assures militia detective Revol Rossel. Now...
Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Nearly a century later, it stands in ruins: an isolated boardinghouse for eclectic misfits, seeking solely to disappear into the mansions dark corridors. Except for Sana. Unlike the others,...
Philip Jackson Tom Palmer and Alison Steadman star in this BBC Radio sitcom set in the fictional Yorkshire seaside town of Flamford. 'Enjoyably bonkers' Irish Mail on Sunday. Welcome to Flamford the town sanity forgot... Edgy sharp-tongued City burn-out Andy...
Brought to you by Penguin. A mischievous and genre-spanning story collection from legendary film director Pedro Almodovar. The Last Dream brings together for the first time twelve unpublished stories from Almodovar's personal archive written between the late...
A bumper collection of accessible classics from the perennially popular BBC Radio 4 series. This diverse wide-ranging anthology features readings of 10 of the greatest books in the English language taken from the BBC's Book at Bedtime and performed by a...
Brought to you by Penguin. When Funke's mother dies in a tragic accident in Lagos she's sent to live with her maternal family in England. Traumatised by grief and against a backdrop of condescension and mild neglect conformist Funke strives to fit in...
Brought to you by Penguin. What does it mean to love and be loved? It is the 1980s and Finn and Keely are growing up in the North East of England. Keely is a fighter. Even in the face of loss she strives to seek connection but finds that she's not always...
Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music and throw dirty dishes down the well. One night, driving along the deserted track...
Sybylla Melvyn is well known to the tens of thousands who have read her first work, MY BRILLIANT CAREER. In this sequel, however, the REAL Sybylla emerges - a little older now, catapulted from bush obscurity to overnight fame. The publication of her novel has...
Recently-widowed father of one Will is desperate for a sign. Since his beloved wife Helen passed, Will and six-year-old Amy are just about keeping the show on the road, but he'd do anything to have Helen near him again. Connie's much-missed mum was everything...
On her sixteenth birthday, Layla Scott uncovered an unimaginably cruel secret, and over the years tried too many times to stop the hurt. Now her sister is in the last place Layla wants her to be, remembering someone Layla wants to forget, and dangerously close...
Welcome to Tenderness! A quaint seaside town in Kitakyushu, Mojiko is full of hidden delights. And one unexpected treasure is the 24/7 convenience store, Tenderness. At first glance, it's a store like any other. Sure, it's a bit odd that the handsome manager...
Ann is a reluctant Vicar's wife. She tries her best but her husband only has eyes for God, her son is asking questions she struggles to answer, and it is all too easy to displease the congregation. It may only be a matter of time before she makes the headlines...
Emmie Brown has always known she was adopted. Nellie Brown sacrificed everything to make their life together comfortable and, while not the most demonstrative or warm woman, Emmie never doubted her devotion. But, when Emmie finds a stash of letters and a...
A surprise arrival. Working with the Whistlestop River air ambulance is Nadia's whole world. She adores her job and the team - they're family. But when a baby is abandoned on the steps of the base, Nadia is forced to confront events from her past she'd rather...
Always on the periphery, looking on, young Frankie Howe was never quite sure enough of herself to take centre stage - after all, life had already judged her harshly. Now old, Frankie finds it easier to forget the life that came before. Then Damian, a young...
The streets of London have been home to many great detectives since the days of Sherlock Holmes and Watson, with some of the best authors in the genre taking to the short story form to pit their sleuths against crimes ranging from murders on the Tube to heists...
1920s England. Emmeline Lucas - Lucia to her friends - reigns supreme as the social queen of the village of Riseholme. With her large-hearted husband Peppino, and her devoted companion Georgie (who dedicates his hours to needlework, water-colours, and piano...
At 66, Paula Spencer - mother, grandmother, widow, addict, survivor - is finally living her life. A job at the dry cleaners she enjoys, a man - Joe - with whom she shares what she wants, friends who see her for who she is, and four grown children, now with...
It's that week between Christmas and New Year, and sisters Kate and Selena, and their friend Paisley, are meeting for an all-girls mini-break - no men allowed. But Affie, Carlos and Joseph have a similar idea, involving a sports channel, plenty of beer, and...
When Evie's father falls desperately ill, she finally returns to the family home on Orkney and the wild landscape she left as a teenager, swearing never to return. Not everyone is happy at her arrival, particularly her estranged sister Liv, their relationship...
Holderness, 1988. Elizabeth Foster has lived in Tillington all her life. She knows everything about the local community... Everything except why another family, the Reedbarrows, now live in her ancestral home, Foster's Mill. When Christopher, a man from 'down...
1936. Brought up in Cornwall by her grandparents, Aster thinks often of her parents, who were taken from her at a tragically early age. The only thing she has to remember her mother by is her Flower Book, a journal of pressed flowers that charts Violet's life...
Ever since the death of their father twenty years before, beautiful thirty-two-year-old Anna has acted as her younger sister Becky's support, playing the peacemaker in her stormy relationship with their mother, and counselling her through the traumas of a life...
'We're celebrating life,' Rose said. 'Life, every single minute of it. Tell me, girls - is there ever anything better to celebrate than that?' Five years after seventy-something Tess jetted off to Paris with her best friends, Jen, Rose, Della and Pam - the...
When Fiona's husband ups and leaves on the same day her only son goes away to college, she suddenly finds herself the wrong side of forty and feeling very alone. Fortunately, there's a distraction of mammoth proportions swimming in the River Thames. Determined...
All she wanted was a lovely family Christmas with perfect turkey and luxury crackers. Instead, daughter Sara announces she's getting divorced... and where is the fizz? And son, John and perfect wife Vanessa announce they are leaving for New York... and are the...
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