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From the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Offshore’ comes this unusual romance between the poet Novalis and his fiancée Sophie, newly introduced by Candia McWilliam. The year is 1794 and Fritz, passionate, idealistic and brilliant, is seeking his father’s permission to announce his...

You’re looking over your shoulder, thinking someone’s watching. You’re checking the doors are locked, spooked by a noise. You’re running through the woods, convinced you’re being followed. You’re being stalked. And they won’t stop until you’re theirs. 

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. Hardborough becomes a battleground. Florence has tried to change the way things have always been done, and as a result, she has to take on not...

*The Sunday Times bestseller* *DISCOVER YOUR NEXT ESCAPE WITH THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR* ‘A tear-those-pages thriller’ ABIGAIL DEAN ‘Secrets galore’ DAILY MAIL ‘Atmospheric, haunting, and beautifully written’ GILLIAN McALLISTER ‘Queen of the destination thriller’ CLAIRE...

Why do you need a brain instruction manual? You know what good leadership looks like. You've learned the models, tools, and techniques. And yet, under pressure, everything slips: conversations derail, tension builds, people resist. You fall back into old patterns, even when you know better. Why?...

Take flight to save the secret city in the sky, in the heart-stopping finale to the soaring Starminster trilogy. London Overhead, the secret city hidden in the stars, is the only place where Astrid has ever felt at home. But when the enchantments protecting it mysteriously start to glitch, the...

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FEATURED ON BBC’S BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB Penelope Fitzgerald’s Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames, with an introduction from Alan Hollinghurst. On Battersea Reach, a mixed bag of the...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Everything You Ever Wanted written by Luiza Sauma, read by Stephanie Racine. You wake up. You go to work. You don't go outside for twelve hours at a time. You have strategy meetings about how to use hashtags. After work you order expensive drink after...

"A remarkable novel: chilling, compelling, contained..." The Times "...warrants a permanent place in the growing canon of World War Two literature." Clare McHugh, BBC Culture It is Christmas Eve 1932, and the Kluger family are celebrating at home. Their only daughter Lexa is excited about her...

Welcome to Kensington Grove, the safest place to call home... Jodie Madison can't think of a better place for a fresh start than the exclusive, gated community of The Grove. But from the moment she passes through the wrought iron gates, she starts to suspect she's made a mistake. Despite her vow...

Longlisted for the American Library in Paris book award 2026 A glorious fusion of history and art, A Vast Horizon tells the story of Pablo Picasso and his free-spirited friends, including Lee Miller and Man Ray, in the tumultuous years around the Second World War. ‘Excellent and revealing...

Bloomsbury presents For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain by Victoria MacKenzie, read by Charlie Norfolk and Stephanie Racine. An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives of women – by a major new talent 'Miraculously conjured...

Our fears and compulsions often feel like part of our deepest selves—yet they're bound up in the currents of the world around us. This thrilling compendium of 99 phobias and manias, rare and familiar, delves into the obsessions that shape us all. Award-winning author Kate Summerscale takes us from the Middle Ages to the present day, using rich and riveting case studies to trace the links between the private and the public, the personal and the political.

‘Her voice is absolutely, beguilingly conversational … Intelligent, allusive, iconoclastic, captivatingly intense … This is the news from the domestic frontline: personal, unique, unexpurgated, without propaganda, as it unfolded and was experienced … Splendid’ William Boyd, Guardian...

Shortlisted for Foyles Book of the Year 2024 Take flight on this beautifully-written, epic and soaring new adventure, perfect for fans of Abi Elphinstone, Aisling Fowler, A. F. Steadman and Pari Thompson. Astrid has lived in the rhubarb shed her whole life. The outside world is dangerous, Mama...

Two little girls walked to their deaths and nobody noticed… A gripping new thriller featuring the brilliantly complex psychologist Dr Jessie Flynn, who struggles with a dark past. Two bodies on the beach. One killer out for revenge. Two years ago, a young girl was murdered while playing on the...

Perfect for fans of Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Being Good, Tom Gates, and Charlie Changes into a Chicken, Scarlet Saves the Multiverse is the unbelievably funny, exciting, and action-packed sequel to Scarlet: Defender of the Universe – a middle-grade Guardians of the Galaxy. Wanna see a...

Six months have passed since Jessica's encounter with the mysterious serial-killing coven of witches and the death of her mentor, Erne. Her nightmares about her mother and the witchcraft that undid her have only gotten worse, but she's doing what she can to stay focused. Her homicide squad, now under new leadership, has been given a murder case and a new series of disappearances to investigate. A young woman's corpse has washed up on an icy beach, and two famous Instagram influencers have gone missing at the same time.

Return to the secret city in the sky, in the second soaring adventure in the thrilling Starminster trilogy. Astrid has her wings at last. But unlike all her Starminster classmates, she can’t get them to work, no matter how hard she tries. Soon, the formidable new headmistress issues a warning...

I Am My Brand is a toolkit for personal brand success. Featuring dynamic female brand builders from around the world, the book is a woven tapestry of personal brand advice with storytelling and support that offers a practical guide for female entrepreneurs, freelancers and executives. I Am My Brand explores the techniques used by different women across cultures to build their personal brand, as well as the challenges they faced and their paths to overcoming them. Focused on the skills needed to succeed, their stories – coupled with the author's expertise...