Fiction

Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia's body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping t

'The training levels have concluded. Now the games may truly begin.'

In Tulli's second novel, set in a mythical fourth partition of Poland, the world is unreal yet strangely familiar.

Chevillard asks luminous and very funny questions about who we are, where we come from, and where we might be going.

Written in the shadow of the Yugoslav wars, yet never eclipsed by them, Mama Leone is a delightful cycle of interconnected stories by one of Central Europe´s most dazzling contemporary storytellers. Miljenko Jergovic leads us from a bittersweet world of precocious childhood wonder and hilarious invention, where the seduction of a well-told lie is worth more than a thousand prosaic truths, out into

Firefly is a dream-like evocation of pre-war Cuba, replete with hurricanes, mystical cults and slave-markets. The story is the coming-of-age of a precocious and exuberant boy with an oversized head and underdeveloped sense of direction, who views the world as a threatening conspiracy. Told in breathless and lyrical prose, the novel is a loving rendition of a long-lost home, a m

Ready to Burst follows the lives of two young men and their individual attempts to make sense of the deeply troubled society surrounding them. An informed critique of the “brain drain” prompted by the Duvalier dictatorship, Ready to Burst is, in Frankétienne´s words, a portrait of “the extreme bitterness of doom in the face of the blind machinery of power.” Widely recognized

Part visceral dream-memoir, part fictive journey through a hallucinatory Bucharest, Mircea Cărtărescu´s Blinding was one of the most widely heralded literary sensations in contemporary Romania, and a bestseller from the day of its release. Riddled with hidden passageways, mesmerizing tapestries, and whispering butterflies, Blinding takes us on a mystical trip into the

The Penguin English Library Edition of Mansfield Park by Jane Austen'We have all been more or less to blame ... every one of us, excepting Fanny'Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally.

* SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE * "[A] book for people who love books, who recognize a story well-told for what it is, and for the power it contains." —The Globe and Mail An irresistible novel about second chances and finding room for all the books—and all the love—that transform our lives. A.J. Fikry's life is not at all what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his b

From the creators of Raiders, Daniel Freedman and and CROM, comes an original dark fantasy graphic novel of epic adventure and magic. Bianca, teenage apprentice to an infamous arcane blacksmith, is forced to flee her homeland and seek out Atlas, a fabled land of light ruled by “the clean god.” She is joined by a mysterious guardian spirit known only as the “BirdKing”. Together they will have to o

TUGGED ALONG BY FAMILY TIES Rudeus brings Zanoba back to Ranoa Kingdom to plan the Man-God´s future downfall when a letter arrives from the Holy Kingdom of Millis—Cliff´s grandfather is urging him home. Though he suspects another Man-God plot is afoot, Rudeus is soon distracted by a missive from his own matriarchal relatives and races off to the capital of Millis. A storm of clashing motive

The fourth and final novel in Brandon Sanderson's unstoppable, New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling series, which began with Skyward!

THE MILLION COPY #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR IS BACK

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'As stunning as it is unsettling. A contemporary gothic masterpiece' KATY HAYS

'A beautiful and haunting examination of toxic friendships' HEATHER DARWENT

'Darkly glamorous'Guardian

A DAILY MAIL BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2025

Practical Magic meets Gilmore Girls - a gorgeous autumnal, cosy read

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'Magical and grounding at the same time, otherworldly and natural. I absolutely treasured it from beginning to end.' Cecilia Ahern, Sunday Times Number One bes

Dragons are extinct. Witches are outcast. Magic is dying. But human lust for power is immortal.

Ten years after the publication of Annihilation, the surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer's blockbuster Southern Reach Trilogy.

The first installment in Neal Stephensons three-part Bomb Light cycle, Polostan follows the early life of the enigmatic Dawn Rae Bjornberg.

The New York Times bestseller and basis for the Tony Award-winning hit musical, soon to be a major motion picture starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.