Fiction

If old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour. Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy against the backdrop of national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of Midnight's Children, a magical musician is unhappily married to a multibillionaire. In an English college, an undead academic can&a

Momentous parties have long provided dramatic scenes in fiction, from Natasha's first ball in War and Peace to Lizzie meeting Darcy in Pride and Prejudice to J. Edgar Hoover consorting with Truman Capote in Don DeLillo's 'The Black and White Ball'.

Revelry can be revealing of character, as in Jay Gatsby's extravagant bash in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

Award-winning writer Ben Okri, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Famished Road, curates this one-volume overview of classic stories of Africa, past and present. This collection includes a pantheon of greats from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Chinua Achebe, Doris
Lessing, Nadine Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie and

Keiko has never really fitted in. At school and university people find her odd and her family worries she'll never be normal. To appease them, Keiko takes a job at a newly opened convenience store. Here, she finds peace and purpose in the simple, daily tasks and routine interactions.

The beloved multi-million copy bestselling Japanese classic about finding one's place in the world

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Academy Award-winning anime master Hayao Miyazaki's favourite childhood book and the inspiration behind the Studio Ghibli film

'In How Do You Live?, Copper, our hero, and his uncle are our guides in science, i

A rich collection of fairy tales in which magic exists, hope wins and every woman's heart is alive with courage!

Experience the "literary phenomenon" (New York Times) as never seen before with this stunning Twilight Saga hardcover boxed set, featuring exclusive wraparound box art, jacket designs, and stained edges.

Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, The Twilight Saga by #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephenie Meyer captures the struggle between defying

From No.1 New York Times bestselling author Brynne Weaver comes a wickedly delicious new series where dark romantic comedy meets thrilling suspense - and where falling in love can be a killer.

Welcome to Alkhalend, Jewel of the Waters, capital of Usmai, greatest of the Successor States, inheritor to the necromantic dominion that was the Moeribandi Empire and tomorrow's frontline in the Palleseen's relentless march to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world.

Loret is fresh off the boat, and just in time.

As Cohort-Invigilator of Correct App

High renaissance politics, black vengeance and dragon magic, Navola is a towering fantasy landmark from the award-winning author of The Windup Girl.

A Christmas murder mystery. Includes a Cluefinder where you can check the clues you spotted - and missed - as well as puzzles to solve alongside the characters. Perfect for fans of Janice Hallett, Alexandra Benedict and Alex Pavesi.

In the cult classic novel Bunny, Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracised and then seduced by a clique of her saccharine sweet, rich girl cohort (who call one another ‘Bunny’). An invitation to the Bunnies’ Smut Salon leads Samantha down a dark rabbit hole (pun intended) into the violently surreal

A high-concept, speculative and uplifting story about a woman who travels back in time only to discover that the true magic of life lies in the courage to embrace the future.

THE BREATHTAKING RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB SELECTION, SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ABOUT MOTHERHOOD AND OBSESSION . . .

'S. A. Cosby's novels always hit the grand slam of crime fiction' MICHAEL CONNELLY 'American crime fiction has found its future and his name is S.A. Cosby' DENNIS LEHANE 'A pulsating saga of family secrets and double and triple-crossing' THE TIMES, THE BEST THRILLERS OF 2025 A son returning home. A dangerous debt. Secrets about to ignite . . . and a family consumed by flames. Roman Carruther

A breathtaking exploration of memory and what it means to be human, Recursion is the follow-up novel to the smash-hit thriller, Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch. What if someone could rewrite your entire life? `My son has been erased.' Those are the last words the woman tells Barry Sutton before she leaps from the Manhattan rooftop. Deeply unnerved, Barry begins to investigate her death only t

DISCOVER THE CULT HIT THAT BECAME A WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON

The Dregs Edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller Six of Crows features new cover art, black stained edges and updated maps.

A standalone from the world of the global bestselling fantasy phenomenon THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE.

Emotionally profound and fiendishly funny, Will There Ever Be Another You is the hugely anticipated new novel from Patricia Lockwood - a miraculous meditation on illness and madness by the 'voice of a generation'

Celia discovers her talent for magic on the day her beloved oldest brother Argent leaves home. Furious at being left behind, she lashes out, not realising her childish, angry words will suddenly become imbued with the power of prophecy, dooming him to a life without love.

While Argent wanders the world, forced to seek only fame and glory instead of the love and belonging he truly des