The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location by her mysterious boss, Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle is the job. Evie isn’t privy to Mr. Smith’s real identity, but she knows this job isn’t like the others. Ryan has gotten under he
Danny's family live in a large house close to the school where his father is headmaster. So when he and Philip are invited to work after school with inspiring, artistic teacher Mr. Miller, Danny believes he has found somewhere he can shine.
Until Danny's world tilts: his father loses his job, and their house.
The Silent Patient meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in this elegant and twisty debut thriller.
When does the acting stop - and the deception begin?
Famous film star Lila Crayne is America's Sweetheart: she's generous and kind, gorgeous and magnetic. A golden girl. She and her fiance, visionary filmmaker Kurt Royall, have settled into a stunnin
Discover the brand-new novel from the multi-million-copy bestselling author: a tense family drama set in the Italian lakes perfect for fans of Ann Patchett and Maggie O'Farrell.
'Rachel Joyce is a masterful storyteller.' - Sarah Winman, Sunday Times bestselling author of Still Life
'Joyce is a fearless explorer of emotional landscape.' -
The lives of four sisters begin to unravel when one of them disappears, in this thought-provoking, sharply comic Irish novel
'Women can be heroes, too'. When twenty-year-old nursing student, Frances "Frankie" McGrath, hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on California's idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a d
In ‘Humans Are Doomed To Go Extinct’, an article in Scientific American published in November 2021, veteran Nature editor Dr Henry Gee predicted that Homo sapiens is on a rapid one-way ride to extinction. The article provoked media coverage and comment around the world. In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, Gee expands the themes of his much-discussed article to book length,
*WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2024*
A gripping reconstruction of the daring escape to freedom of hundreds of East Germans in the summer of 1989 - and how it led to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
'Exhilarating' Observer
'Intensely moving' Sunday Times
'Engrossing and dramatic' William Boyd
In this compulsive collection of twelve witty stories, Sittenfeld shows why she’s as beloved for her short fiction as she is for her novels, as she conjures up characters so real that they seem like old friends. In ‘The Patron Saints of Middle Age,’ a woman visits two friends she hasn’t seen since her divorce. In ‘A for Alone,’ a married artist embarks on a p
'A simmering, splendid novel' Jennifer Saint
There's something devilish going on in the village of Penhelyg. Will the shadow key unlock its secrets?
After a grave mistake, Henry Talbot has been forced to take a position as a village doctor in remote Wales where he can't speak the language and belief in myth and magic is rife. When Henry discovers his predeces
Sister. Rival. Protector. The spellbinding story of a forgotten daughter and a forgotten goddess.
Quiet and reserved, Clemmie is happy in the background. Although her parents may overlook her talents, her ability to read hieroglyphs makes her invaluable at the Egyptian relic parties which have made her father the toast of Victorian society.
But at one such party, th
'If Anne Tyler isn't the best writer in the world, who is?' BBC R4 WOMAN'S HOUR
'Read her for the eccentric characters, the pitch-perfect dialogue, the humour and the tiny ordinary moments so exquisitely described they bring tears to your eyes' LIANE MORIARTY, DAILY MAIL
An instant classic about love, marriage and second chances from t