Bound in an unwanted marriage, Freya spends her days gutting fish but dreams of becoming a warrior. And of putting an axe in her boorish husband’s back. Freya’s dreams abruptly become reality when her husband betrays her to the region’s jarl, landing her in a fight to the death against his son, Bjorn. To survive, Freya is forced to reveal her deepest secret: She possesses a dr
From the award-winning author of Flux comes a dazzling novel about love, family, and the art of sushi that asks: What if you could return to the point of a fateful choice, wiser than before, and find the courage to forge a new path?
A coma can change a man, but the world Jack Jr. awakens to is one he barely recognizes. His advertising job is history, his Manhattan apartment is gone, and the love
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Would you rewrite your destiny if it meant losing a part of your past?
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On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it.
Most will see only a cosy ramen restaurant. And just the chosen ones - those who are lost - will find a place to pawn their life choices and deepest regrets.
This is the story of three women - one an orphan and refugee who finds a place in the studio of a famous French artist, the other a wife and mother who has stood by her husband for nearly forty years. The third is his daughter, caught in the crossfire between her mother and a father she adores.
Amelie is first drawn to Henri Matisse as a way of escaping the conventional life expected
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When Nate Cartwright loses everything, his only option is to return to his family's empty summer cabin. But he discovers a group of unlikely protectors shielding a girl with extraordinary abilities - and dangerous enemies.
Moving and uplifting, The Restaurant of Lost Recipes features more heartwarming tales from Kyoto's Kamogawa Food Detectives as they recreate favourite dishes from their customers' pasts.
Cyrus Shams has always been lost. He's grown up tangled in the mysteries of his past - an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields, a haunting work of art by an exiled painter, and his mother, whose plane was shot down over the Persian Gulf when he was just a baby. Now, newly sober and maybe in love, he's headed for an encounter that will transform everything he thought he knew. Ca
You may know how this story is going to end, but you'll never guess what happens... A darkly comic novel about two old friends, a lifelong (toxic) friendship, and the very fine line between love and hate.
All she wanted was to be a good wife, but now her past is about to blow her life apart. A gritty urban thriller, perfect for fans of Kimberley Chambers and Manadsue Heller, from bestseller Jacqui Rose, co-author of Martina Cole's Loyalty.
A new feminist horror set in a maternity home in the 1970s, from Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group
This cosy fantasy features a disastrous wedding, a royal coup, sapphic adventure and plenty of tea - perfect for fans of Travis Baldree's Legends & Lattes. Welcome to the third instalment of the Sunday Times bestselling Tomes & Tea series.
The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he flees to nearby Jackson's Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father who recently returned to town. So begins a dangerous and transcendent journey along the
The Hidden Dead call and there's no rest for the living. . . This is the fourth installment in the hilarious Accidental Medium series featuring Tanz, who with the help of the dead, has become an unwilling crime-solver.
A spellbinding and spicy Norse fantasy of a war between gods from No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken. Perfect for fans of Neon Gods by Katee Robert and The Cruel Prince by Holly Black.