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A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • A searingly original debut about two sisters and their flight from genocide—which takes them from Hollywood to Paris to San Francisco´s Cannery Row—each haunted along the way by the ghosts of their murdered friends, who are not yet done telling their stories “Gripping and spellbinding...Unforgettable.”—Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half &bu

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING PAUL MESCAL AND JOSH O´CONNOR WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE SPOTLIGHT AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION & THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION AN ALA NOTABLE BOOK • ONE OF NPR´s “BOOKS WE LOVE” • ONE OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE´S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2024 • BEST SHORT FICTION, KIRKUS REVIEWS “Polyphonic

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the co-author of Mad Honey comes an “inspiring” (Elle) novel about two women, centuries apart—one of whom is the real author of Shakespeare´s plays—who are both forced to hide behind another name. “You´ll fall in love with Emilia Bassano, the unforgettable heroine based on a real woman that Picoult brings vividly to life in her bri

In this elegant gothic horror tale set in post-revolutionary Russia, two formerly aristocratic sisters race to uncover their family´s long-buried secrets in a house haunted by a past dangerous—and deadly—to remember. It is the summer of 1921, and a group of Bolsheviks have taken over Irina and Lili Goliteva´s ancestral home in Moscow, a stately mansion fa

In this Southern gothic horror debut, a young Black woman abandons her life in 1960s Chicago for a position with a mysterious family in New Orleans, only to discover the dark truth: they´re under a curse, and they think she can break it. In the fall of 1962, twenty-seven-year-old Jemma Barker is desperate to escape her life in Chicago—and the spirits she has always been able to see. When sh

Beautiful, intoxicating and full of suspense, The Knowing is a story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution and how women survive and weaponize trauma.

An epic journey of love, hope and self-invention, travelling from pre-revolutionary Paris to a champagne vineyard in Tasmania.

From the fungus-webbed House of Usher to the maddening, fungus-like wallpaper of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic tale of madness, and Ray Bradbury's account of insidious mushroom dispersal via the US postal system, weird fiction has harboured a thriving culture of fungal horrors throughout the past two centuries. With stories of mycological possession alongside dark, pulpy science fiction mo

This smart new paperback edition contains the fully-reset text of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour. It features a beautifully decorated text and includes as a bonus the complete version of Tolkien’s acclaimed lecture on Sir Gawain. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an

'A groundbreaking work of Afrofuturism before the term was even coined' Guardian
'A lush, exciting, inspiring read' Sarah Waters

The night hides many things . . .

Louisiana, 1850. A young girl escapes slavery and is taken in by two mysterious women. Rumoured to be witches, the pair travel only at night, dress in men's clothing and se

A beautiful hardback edition of the great Italian classic, a story of opulence and decay in the Sicilian countryside.

In the spring of 1860, Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince of Salina, still rules over thousands of acres and hundreds of people, including his own numerous family, in mingled splendour and squalor. Then comes Garibaldi's landing in Sicily and the Prince must deci

World War One, and as shells fall in Northern France, a Canadian nurse searches for her brother believed dead in the trenches.

January 1918. Laura Iven has been discharged from her nurse duties and sent back to Halifax, Canada. Now home, she receives word of her brother's death on the fields of Passchendaele. Believing he is still alive, and determined to find him, Laur

It is said a legend is just a beautiful lie... In the second half of the first millennium, the legends say that London disappeared for over four hundred years. We know almost nothing about what happened during that time. But if we could shine a light on the city's ruined walls, we would be in for a shock. The Romans are long forgotten. It is now King Scarabold who rules what little remains of

'Entertaining and moving...I came to love these four women as though they were my sisters' TRACY CHEVALIER

'I ADORED it. What a fantastic read. My book of the year' JILL MANSELL

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They knew they were changing history.
They didn't know they would change each other.

Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1000-year history, t

Moby-Dick reimagined from the perspective of a cross-dressed female sailor

'Brilliantly written... ambitious, brave, strange' Philip Hoare
'One of the most valuable writers in the world' Deborah Levy

1843. Ishmaelle is born in a small village on the stormy Kent coast where she grows up swimming with dolphins. After her parents and infant sister di

'Karen Russell is one in a million' New York Times

From the Pulitzer shortlisted author, an astounding novel about magic, memory and land set America's Dust Bowl.

Visit The Antidote of Uz - a prairie witch who can keep your memories safe. Speak into her emerald-green earhorn, and your secrets, your shames, your private joys, will leave your mind

THE BESTSELLING SENSATION BASED ON A TRUE STORY OF COURAGEOUS MARTHA BALLARD

In the cold of night, she tends to the women.
In the light of day, she delivers them justice.

'Lawhon works storytelling magic with a real-life heroine' People Magazine

'The narrator of Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River is an